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2011 Supreme(Bom) 168

2011 ALL MR (CRI.) 1768
High Court of Judicature at Bombay
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE J.H. BHATIA
Ramdas Sakharam Pawar
Versus
The State of Maharashtra through the Public Prosecutor & Another
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.19 OF 2009
Decided on : 14-02-2011

Advocates Appeared:
For the Applicant:A.P. Mundargi, Senior Counsel i/b J.M. Puranik, Advocate.
For the Respondents:R1, Smt R.V. Newton, APP, R2, Shirish Gupte, Senior Counsel a/w Prakash Naik i/b Subodh Desai, Advocates.

Headnote:Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 - Section 439-Bail-Cancellation of-Murder case-Accused brutally murdered deceased-Evidence of eye-witness as to manner of assault by accused corroborated with post-mortem report-Specific role attributed to accused in FIR also corroborated with evidence of eye-witness-Bail granted to accused cancelled.-Court have already stated facts of the case as disclosed in the FIR and the police statement of eye-witness Dattatraya Patil. The post-mortem report provides corroboration to the statement of Dattatraya Patil. The Additional Sessions Judge, having considered that material, had rejected the application on 3.5.2008, but on the basis of the same material, on 10.7.2008 he granted the bail holding that no role was attributed to the accused No. 2. That shows the perversity in the approach of the Additional Sessions Judge while granting bail. The bail was granted not on merits but arbitrarily, ignoring earlier order and observation made therein. The manner in which Santosh Pawar was brutally murdered. There may be reasonable apprehension that if the accused No. 2 is granted bail, he may cause danger to the life of eye-witnesses also. The trial Court should have considered the seriousness and the gravity of the offence while considering the bail application filed by Accused No. 2 second time. However, the trial Court ignored the material facts, Court not convinced with the contention of the counsel for the accused that it will not be proper to cancel the bail at this stage when the trial is likely to commence shortly. In Court’s considered opinion, this is the appropriate stage when the accused should be in jail and not on bail. As the charges are likely to be framed shortly and within the short period the trial will commence naturally the accused persons may flex their muscles and try to coerce and pressurise the witnesses at the stage of trial. Therefore, in Court’s considered opinion, there are exceptional circumstances and cogent reasons to cancel the bail granted to accused No. 2.

Judgment :-

1. Heard the Learned Counsel for the parties. The Learned APP supports the Application for cancellation of bail.

2. This Application is filed by the First informant and cousin of the deceased Santosh Pawar for cancellation of bail granted to Respondent No.2-Raju Patil, who is Accused No.2 in Crime No.50 of 2007 registered at Kulgaon police station under Sections 302, 307, 324, 147, 148, 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code, 427 and Section 4, 27(B) of the Arms Act. 3. According to the Applicant, on 30-10-2007 one Bandu Chairate of Talegaon called deceased Santosh Pawar to see particular piece of land. Accordingly on that day after 3.00 p.m. the Applicant-Ramdas Pawar, his cousin Santosh Pawar and Dattatray Pawar went to Badlapur and met one Bhalchandra Bangur. Said Bhalchandra Bangur asked the first informant and others to go to Boradpada, where his brother was present to show the land. Accordingly they left Badalapur to go to Boradpada. On the way near the Badlapur Railway Station, Bandu Chairate also joined them and they all proceeded towards Boradpada by a car. At Boradpada, Bandu Chairate left their company saying that he was busy somewhere else. At about 5.15 p.m. these persons were at the distance of 1 ½ km from Sabarigaon. At that place one silver colour Tata Sumo MH-05-G-1915 came there and gave a dash to the side of the car of the first informant. From that Tata Sumo car, Accused No.1 Balaram Patil came down and began to assault Santosh Pawar, who was on steering of his car and also dragged him out of car and assaulted on his neck and abdomen with knief. When Ramdas tried to rescue he was also assaulted by a companion of Balaram Patil with some weapons, due to which first informant Ramdas collapsed on the ground. He had seen Accused No.2 Raju also coming out from the said car and rushing towards him. Santosh Pawar died on the spot because of several injuries. First informant Ramdas was taken to hospital where his statement was recorded. In the FIR, he had specifically stated that Accused No.1 Balaram Patil, Accused No.2 Raju Patil, Accused No.3 Bandu Chairate and 5 or 6 other persons got down from the car and as per pre¬plan they had killed Santosh Pawar and injured his companions. The statement of Dattatray Pawar was also recorded by police on 1-11-2007. He gave the above details and also stated that he himself also was beaten and injured. He has specifically stated that in the said incident Accused No.2 Raju Patil had stabbed on the abdomen and caused injury on neck of Santosh Pawar with a Gupti. During the investigation Accused No.1 Balaram Patil and Accused No.2 Raju Patil, Accused No.3 Bandu Chairate and some other Accused were arrested. Postmortem report of the deceased Santosh Pawar reveals that Santosh Pawar had suffered as many as 13 injuries, out of which 9 injuries were deep penetrating or stab wounds on different parts of body including abdomen and neck. Small intestine was also cut.

4. After investigation, charge sheet was filed by the police and the case was committed to court of Sessions. Accused No.2 Raju Patil i.e. Respondent No.2 filed bail application Exhibit-4 before the Sessions Court. He had taken a plea of alibi alleging that on the day and time of alleged incident he was in shiv temple and was performing pooja. In support of this application Accused No.2 also filed affidavit of some persons. That application was rejected by the Learned First Additional Sessions Judge (Shri Y.G.Dhongade) by the order dated 3-5-2008. He observed thus -“from perusal of the FIR it is crystal clear that name of the applicant accused is appearing in the FIR disclosing the actual role in the alleged incident. I also perused the statement of eye witness Dattatraya Pawar who had been accompanied with the companion and the deceased and was present at the time of incident and he has disclosed the role of the present applicant that the Accused had committed active part in the said commission of offence”. After referrin











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