1 abs FARAD CONTINUATION IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 579 OF 2010 1. Ramchandra Vasudev Patil 2. Prabhakar Govind Bhoir 3. Ramesh Lakhama Vaze 4. Daevendra Narayan Bhoir 5. Manohar Balkrishna Kini 6. Savita Rajendra Wyada 7. Prakash Purushottam Bhoir 8. Pravind Arjun Gharat 9. Balkrishna Bhaskar Patil 10.Manohar Nana Patil 11.Madhukar Janardhan Mankar 12.Deepak Chintaman Bhoir 13.Hitesh Ramchandra Patil 14.Makrand Harishchandra Gharat 15.Jagruti Ashok Vaze .. Applicants V/s The State of Maharashtra .. Respondent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Court's or Judge's Orders Coram, appearances, Court's Orders or directions and Registrar's Orders Mr. A.P. Mundargi, Senior Advocate with Mr. S.V. Kotwal i/b Mr. Ashish Sawant for the applicants. 2 Mr. A.S. Gadkari, A.P.P. for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATE : 11TH FEBRUARY 2010 P.C. : 1. By this application, the applicants seek pre-arrest bail in connection with C.R. No. I-275 of 2009 registered at Virar Police Station, District Thane, for an alleged offence punishable under sections 420, 464, 465, 466, 471 read with 34 of the I.P.C. 2. On 17th October 2009, Mr. Avinash Gajanan Patil, a member of Vasai Co-operative Credit Society Ltd. (for short “the Society”) filed an F.I.R. alleging that the applicants, who are the members of the managing committee of the Society, did not submit any bond within 15 days of their assuming office on 31st January 2006. It is further alleged that the applicants purchased the stamp papers only on 8th and 17th December 2008 for preparation of the necessary bonds. It is alleged that the stamp papers were 3 purchased for the purpose of preparing false bond by ante-dating them. No ante-dated bond has been submitted to the Registrar and no forged (ante-dated) document has ever been used. In my view, the applicants can be granted pre-arrest bail. ORDER In the event the applicants or any of them are arrested in connection with C.R. No. I-275 of 2009 registered at Virar Police Station, District Thane, they shall be released on bail on executing a personal bond of Rs.5,000/- with one common surety of the like amount. (D.G. KARNIK, J.)