Dilip Namdev Ghevade v. The State Of Maharashtra

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION INTERIM APPLICATION NO.4366 OF 2025 IN APPEAL NO.1160 OF 2025 Dilip Namdev Ghevade ... Applicant V/s.

The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Mr. Priyal Sarda a/w. Adv. Seema Dighe for the Applicant. Smt. Madhavi H. Mhatre, for the Respondent-State. CORAM : A. S. GADKARI AND KAMAL KHATA, JJ.

DATE : 5th May 2026 P.C.:- 1) This is an Application for suspension of sentence and releasing the Applicant on bail during the pendency of Appeal. 1.1) The Applicant is convicted under Section 302 and 307 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and is sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, KhedRajgurunagar, Pune, by its Judgment and Order dated 30th September, 2025 in Sessions Case No. 76 of 2016.

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2) The Nominal Roll of the Applicant duly signed by the Deputy Superintendent of Prisons, Yerwada Central Prison, Pune, indicates that, as of today, the Applicant has undergone more than 10 years of imprisonment at pre-trial and post conviction stage.

3) In view of the observations made by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Saudan Singh Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh, reported in 2022 SCC OnLine SC 697 and Suleman Vs. The State of Uttar Pradesh, in Miscellaneous Application No. 764 of 2022, dated 15th September 2022, as the Applicant has already undergone about 10 years of actual imprisonment and there is no chance of hearing his substantive Appeal in the near future, the substantive sentence imposed upon the Applicant can be suspended and he can be released on bail.

4) Hence, the following Order :- i) During the pendency of Appeal, preferred by the Applicant, the substantive sentence imposed upon the Applicant vide Judgment and Order dated 30th September, 2025, passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Khed-Rajgurunagar, Pune, in Sessions Case No. 76 of 2016, is suspended and the Applicant be released on bail on his furnishing PR bond of Rs. 50,000/- with one or two local sureties in the like amount. ii) After his release from jail, the Applicant shall attend the Manchar Police Station, Pune, on every first Monday of each month between 11.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. initially for a period of one year and 2/3

thereafter on every first Monday between 11.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. of every third calender month i.e. four times in a year till the disposal of Appeal. 5) Application is allowed in the aforesaid terms. (KAMAL KHATA, J.) (A.S. GADKARI, J.) 3/3