SANTOSH PRALHAD WAGHMARE vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

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904.BA.180.2024.doc HARSHADA H. SAWANT (P.A.) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION BAIL APPLICATION NO.180 OF 2024 Santosh Pralhad Waghmare .. Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra .. Respondent ....................  Mr. Veerdhawal Deshmukh, Advocate for Applicant.  Mr. Sukanta A. Karmakar, APP for Respondent – The State of Maharashtra.  Mr. Balasaheb Gavhane, PSI, Hill Line Police Station (Mobile No.9821242646). ................... CORAM : MILIND N. JADHAV, J. DATE : FEBRUARY 07, 2025 ORAL JUDGEMENT.: 1. Heard Mr. Deshmukh, learned Advocate for Applicant and Mr. Karmakar, learned APP for Respondent – The State of Maharashtra. 2. This is an Application under Section 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) seeking Bail in connection with C.R. No.76 of 2017 registered with Hill Line Police Station for offences punishable under Sections 302 and 201 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’) and 37(1), 135 of Bombay Police Act, 1951. 3. Applicant is arrested on 26.03.2017. Bail Applications filed by Applicant previously have been rejected. Initially Applicant has filed Bail Application through jail to Court which has remained 1 of 19 904.BA.180.2024.doc pending on the docket of this Court for past one year. Subsequently, since said Bail Application was not heard, Applicant has appointed Mr. Deshmukh to represent and espouse his cause in place of appointed Advocate. 4. There is one message which I want to send across to the appointed Advocates in such matters. Once they are appointed in such matters, it is the duty of appointed Advocates through legal aid, to move the Court and apprise the Court of the Application especially in such long incarceration cases of Accused – under-trial in jail. It is the duty of