1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 322 OF 2010 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 76 OF 2008 Vikas Ramesh Jadhav ...Applicant vs. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. ...Respondents Mr.Chetan Akerkar for the Applicant. Mrs.R.V. Newton, APP for the State. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATED : APRIL 6, 2010 P.C. :- 1 Heard Counsel for the applicant and APP for the State. 2 The applicant has been convicted for the offence punishable under Section 307 of the IPC and sentenced to suffer RI for seven years. 3 Counsel for the applicant submits that he 2 has already undergone three and half years of the sentence awarded by the Sessions court. 4 The record indicates that his application for bail was rejected on merits for at least two occasions and on two occasions, his application was allowed to be withdrawn. Be that as it may, the fact remains that the applicant has undergone 50% of the sentence awarded by the Sessions court and since the appeal is not likely to be heard immediately in the near future, the applicant deserves to be released on bail. 5 The applicant be released on bail on execution of P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.5000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. The applicant, however, shall attend the concerned police station once in a month. 6 Application is disposed of. (V.M. KANADE, J.)