1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Dist.: MUMBAI CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.844 OF 2008 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 476 OF 2006 AND CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 681 FO 2006 Mr. Taraq Sayed and Mr. S.S. Bhandari for the Appellants Mr. P.S. Hingorani, Additional Public Prosecutor, for the State. CORAM: B ILAL NAZKI and S.A. BOBDE, JJ. Date 24-7-2008 P.C.:- This application has been moved by the Public Prosecutor, seeking stay of our judgment pronounced yesterday, acquitting the appellants in Appeals No. 476 and 681 of 2006. 2. It is apprehended that the appellants, who are nationals of a foreign country, may flee this country 2 immediately after they are released; and if an appeal is filed before the Hon'ble Supreme Court, it may not be possible to get the appellants to face the appeal before the Supreme Court. The apprehension of the applicants may be well-founded. The learned Public Prosecutor has not been able to show us any provision in any criminal law or any judgment or any precedent to suggest that this Court can stay a judgment acquitting the accused in a crime. On the one hand, this Court was sure about the fact that the prosecution had not proved the case against the appellants. On the other hand, we cannot continue their detention, as, in our view, that will amount to wrongful confinement. For these reasons, the application is dismissed. BILAL NAZKI, J. S.A. BOBDE, J.