BA-1380-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD BAIL APPLICATION NO. 1380 OF 2026 Purushottam Namdeo More … Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra, Through the Police Inspector, Sakri Police Station, Dist. Dhule. … Respondent ….. Dr. Anagha N. Pedgaonkar, Advocate for the Applicant (Through Legal Aid). Mrs. Ashlesha S. Deshmukh, APP for Respondent-State. ..... CORAM : ABHAY S. WAGHWASE, J. Reserved on : 30.07.2026 Pronounced on : 31.07.2026 ORDER :- 1. Applicant seeks grant of regular bail on account of his arrest in Crime No.39 of 2023 registered at Sakri Police Station, District Dhule for offences punishable under Sections 302, 504, 309, 498-A, 323 read with Section 34 of Indian Penal Code. 2. Bail is urged on the ground that, there is false implication. That applicant was arrested on 11.02.2023 and since then, i.e. since almost three and half years, he is behind the bars. That, in fact, present application is first bail application after chargesheet. That, informant 2026:BHC-AUG:32272 BA-1380-2026 -2- is the very daughter of applicant and deceased. The incident happened on account of sudden provocation. Knife is already recovered from the spot. Therefore no recovery is to be made at applicant’s instance. Learned counsel pointed out that, in the postmortem report there is injury to the abdomen and going by the nature of injury, there is possibility of use of hard and blunt object, but here, no such article was put to use and therefore she questions the very cause of death. Lastly she submitted that, chargesheet is filed in June 2023. For above reasons, bail is urged for. 3. Learned APP pointed out that, applicant is involved in a serious offence like murder of his wife. That, including informant, there are other direct eye witnesses. Now, charge is already framed on 01.02.2025, three witnesses are already examined and as trial has commenced, and there being only 22 witnesses, there is possibility of trial coming to an end in coming months. 4. Perused the FIR dated 05.02.2023 which is at the instance of very daughter of the applicant. She has reported that, there used to be quarrels between her parents, due to which her mother was staying with three daughter at Gawliwada in a rented room and her father was residing separately, but he was troubling them. She reported that BA-1380-2026 -3- on 05.02.2023, around 07.00 p.m., her father followed them to the rented room and while informant and her sisters were waiting on the front veranda/porch, they heard shouts of their mother and they saw father assaulting mother by means of sharp knife. On above report, crime has been registered. 5. Postmortem report shows that, cause of death is due to hemorrhagic shock due to poly-trauma. Informant seems to be eye witness and she has lodged report against her own father i.e. present applicant. 6. Now learned APP made a statement that trial has commenced and three witnesses are already examined. Consequently, when trial has commenced, this Court is not inclined to grant bail, more particularly in view of apprehension expressed by prosecution about misuse of liberty to tamper witnesses who are very daughters of deceased and applicant. Consequently, I proceed to pass the following order: ORDER The application is rejected. [ABHAY S. WAGHWASE, J.] vre