1 mpt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.64 of 2010 Shri Babaso Pandurang Patil ... Applicant versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent ... Mr.S.A.Rajeshirke for the applicant. Mr.Y.S.Shinde APP for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATED : 14th January 2010 P.C. 1. Heard. 2. The applicant seeks bail in connection with an offence registered against him under C.R.No.18 of 2009 at Shirala police station, Dist. Sangli for an offence punishable u/s.307, 32, 504 and 34 of the IPC. 3. The prosecution case in short is that one Gorak P. Patil and the applicant assaulted Pandit Ganpati Patil, First Informant with sickle used for the assault. Statement of Mr.Vishwas Shamrao Chaugule was recorded on 3rd June 2009 (copy at page 72). He is a shopkeeper from whom the sickle is alleged to have been purchased. He identified the 2 sickle which was shown to him as having been purchased from his shop. The sickle was recovered in pursuance of a discovery made by the applicant u/s.27 of the Evidence Act, under a panchnama dated 4th June 2009. The sickle which was identified by the shopkeeper Vishwas Shamrao Chaugule shown and identified by him on 3rd June 2009 i.e. a day earlier than its discovery. Prima facie, therefore, there is inconsistency in the evidence. The applicant is in jail since June 2009. Considering the present pendency, there is no prospect of the trial being commenced and completed in the near future. In my view, applicant is entitled to a bail. Hence, I pass the following order:­ O R D E R Applicant be released on bail on his furnishing personal bond of Rs.30,000/­ with one or two sureties to make up an aggregate amount of Rs.30,000/­ subject to the condition that the applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence, shall not threaten any of the prosecution witness and shall report to the concerned police station once every month between 1st and 5th of the British Calendar month. In the event of breach of any of the conditions, bail shall stand cancelled forthwith. (D.G. KARNIK,J.) 3