1 BA-1625.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.1625 OF 2011 {For Bail} Shrishail Suresh Mendse .... Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri P.R. Arjunwadkar for the Applicant. Ms S.D. Shinde, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: OCTOBER 19, 2011 P.C: 1. This is an application for bail by the victim's brother who is alleged to have murdered the victim by strangulating her because she was having illicit intimacy with co-accused Babasaheb Devkate. According to the prosecution story, on 16-7-2010 the victim and the applicant were seen together in an autorickshaw. The applicant is alleged to have taken the victim to the field of Babasaheb with whom the victim was having illicit relations and strangulated her and then thrown her dead body in a well in the field of the said Babasaheb. Babasaheb seems to have noticed the 2 BA-1625.11 dead body on 17-7-2010. In order to avoid being implicated, he claims to have taken out the dead body with the help of Chandrakant Shivappa Honmane, who is also a co-accused, and thrown the dead body in another well in the field of Balasaheb Pandre. The dead body was found on 19-7-2010 in the well of the said Balasaheb. The inquest panchnama and the notes of the post-mortem examination do not show that the dead body was highly decomposed, though decomposition had possibly set in. The police have not taken care to ascertain the approximate time when the victim could be said to have died. The evidence against the applicant, apart from being seen together with the victim on 16-7-2010, is discovery of footwear of the victim allegedly at the instance of the applicant from the field of Babasaheb, the co-accused. 2. Considering the nature of the evidence collected, since the investigation is complete and charge-sheet has been filed, the applicant is unlikely to tamper the evidence or be unavailable for trial. 3. In view of the above, the applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.162 of 2010 of 3 BA-1625.11 Taluka Police Station, District Solapur on his furnishing P.R. Bonds in the sum of `25,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to `25,000/-. 4. The application accordingly stands disposed. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)