informant and others went there. The dead body was taken out. It was found that, the dead body was tied to two cement poles with nylon rope and wire. The dead body was in a highly decomposed state. The postmortem report was conducted on the dead body. It showed that there was fracture of parietal bone and the cause of death was mentioned as “Evidence of head injury, however the opinion was reserved for accessory examination report”. The fact remained that, the dead body had suffered skull fracture. The prosecution case is that, the brother of deceased Rashid wanted to sell deceased's land to one Bhairu More through another co-accused Javed. All the three are accused in this case. The present applicant and one Sunil More assisted these three accused in committing murder of the deceased with iron rod. After committing his murder, the dead body was tied to two cement poles which were brought from a poultry farm of one Indulkar and it was thrown in the pond. The investigation was completed. The charge-sheet was filed u/sec. 302, 201, 120 (B) r/w 34 of I.P.C. As mentioned earlier, the applicant was arrested on 29/03/2018 and since then he is in jail. The DNA samples of the dead body was compared with those of the mother of the deceased. The