1 ABA-498.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.498 OF 2011 Sherazad Jehangir Rabadi .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri A.H.H. Ponda for the Applicant. Ms M.M. Deshmukh, APP, for the State. Shri Dipak Bajirao Gujar, PI, Goregaon Police Station, Mumbai, present. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: JULY 22, 2011 P.C: 1. This is an application for anticipatory bail by the applicant whose friend Jagdish Champaklal Godiwala had a long affair with the victim. The victim was forced into committing suicide by the said Godiwala, who refused to marry her because he was already married and had children. The applicant is alleged to have told the victim that if the victim could not commit suicide, he would kill her. This is mentioned by the victim in her suicide note. It is not known as to what investigation is to be carried out by having the applicant in custody in these 2 ABA-498.11 circumstances. The learned APP has a very strong objection to the application being granted and submits that even Jagdish Godiwala was not admitted to anticipatory bail but had been subjected to arrest and then was released on bail. All this had happened long ago in April 2011 and since then the investigation must have made substantial progress since the applicant is not shown to be absconding and must have been interrogated by the police on a number of occasion. In view of this, there is absolutely no substance in the contention of the learned APP that custodial interrogation of the applicant is necessary. Therefore, in the event of the applicant's arrest in C.R. No.64 of 2011 of Goregaon Police Station, Mumbai, the applicant be released on bail on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.50,000/- on the condition that the applicant shall report before the I.O. at the police station concerned on 26-7-2011 at 10:00 a.m. for interrogation and thereafter as and when required by the I.O.. The applicant shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him/her from disclosing such facts to the Court or to 3 ABA-498.11 any police officer and he shall not leave the country without the prior permission of the trial Court. 2. This order shall remain in force till the trial is over with the only stipulation that if charge-sheeted, the applicant may furnish fresh bond before the trial Court in view of the Judgment of the Supreme Court, dated 2-12-2010, delivered in Criminal Appeal No.2271 of 2010, arising out of SLP (Cri.) No. 7615 of 2009 {Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.}. 3. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)