2025:BHC-AS:46519-DB

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 730 OF 2019

Santosh Balaram Kharkar Age :- Adult, Occu : Tailor

R/o. PutubaichaPada,

Taluka :Alibag, Dist:- Raigad. … Appellant

V/s.

The State of Maharashtra Revdanda Police Station,

Alibag, Dist.Raigad. … Respondent

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Mr. Aditya Bapat for Appellant Appointed by Legal Aid Committee.

Mr. Shreekant V. Gavand, A.P.P. for Respondent-State.

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CORAM : A. S. GADKARI AND

RANJITSINHA RAJA BHONSALE, JJ.

DATE : 10^th September, 2025.

JUDGMENT. : (Per : A.S. Gadkari, J.)

1) Appellant has impugned Judgment and Order dated 11^th January, 2019, passed by the learned Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge-1, Raigad- Alibag, in Sessions Case No.98 of 2016, convicting him under Sections 302 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’) and sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to further suffer rigorous imprisonment for 6

months.

1.1) By the same Judgment, the Appellant is acquitted for the offence punishable under Section 504 of the IPC.

2) Heard Mr.Bapat, learn