1 CAG-5071.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.5071 OF 2010 Dilip Balkrishna Patil .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri Uday Warunjikar for the Applicant. Ms P.P. Shinde, APP, for the State. WITH CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.5073 OF 2010 Vijaya Vasant Shinde .... Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri Harihar Bhave i/b Bhave & Co. for the Applicant. Ms G.P. Mulekar, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: NOVEMBER 18, 2010 P.C: The applicants in these two applications are fair price shop owners who had shown bogus ration card holders and obtained kerosene in their names and diverted it 2 CAG-5071.10 elsewhere. The applicants and some other similarly placed ration card holders are accordingly alleged to have caused diversion of kerosene to the tune of Rs.37,02,720/-. The licences of the applicants have been suspended. The applicants have also been slapped with penalty which they have challenged. The learned counsel for both the applicants submitted that the applicants would co-operate in the investigation and produce all the relevant record which may be necessary for the purpose of investigation. In view of this and given the nature of the allegations made after the inspection by the department concerned, the applicants' custody for the purpose of investigation may not be necessary. Therefore, in the event of their arrest the applicants be released on bail in C.R. No.145 of 2010 of Islampur Police Station, Taluka Islampur, District Sangli on their furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.1,00,000/- each with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.1,00,000/- per person on the condition that the applicants shall report at the police concerned initially on 24-11-2010 at 10:00 a.m. and thereafter as and when required by the I.O.. The applicants shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or 3 CAG-5071.10 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 any police officer and they shall not leave the country without the prior permission of the trial Court. This order shall remain in force till the charge-sheet is filed. The applications accordingly stand disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)