1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRI.APPLICATION NO. 2176 OF 2009 Shri Rahul Bharat Kale and anr .. Applicant Vs State of Maharashtra .. Respondent Mr. Ujwal R Agandsurve, Advocate for the Applicants. Mrs. S.D.Shinde, APP, for the Respondent. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATE : 23/06/2009 PC: 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants and learned APP for the respondent. 2. The applicants are seeking bail in C.R.No.180 of 2007 of Vairag Police Station. The said crime has been registered against the applicants and eight others for having allegedly committed an offence punishable under sections 395 read with 34 of IPC. 3. I have perused the statement of Gopichand Wadhawani, the complainant in the present case. He has stated in detail as to how the offence was committed by all the accused. He has T 2 specifically named the present applicants and has stated the role allegedly played by them. Mrs Shinde, learned APP, pointed out that both the applicants were absconding for almost eight months after the incident. Keeping that in view and considering the role attributed and allegedly played by the applicants, I am not inclined to enlarge them on bail at this stage. The application is rejected. However, it is open to the applicant to file fresh application for bail if the trial does not begin within eight months from today. While passing this order I shall not be understood to have expressed any opinion on merits of the case and the trial Court shall deal with the case uninfluenced by the observations made in this order. Application is disposed of. (D. B. Bhosale, J.) 3