1 Criminal Application No.755/2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.755 OF 2011 Bibhishan Mahadeo Gaikwad & ors. ... APPLICANTS VERSUS The State of Maharashtra ... RESPONDENT ..... Shri U.B. Bondar, Advocate for applicants Shri K.S. Patil, A.P.P. for respondent ..... CORAM : K.U. CHANDIWAL, J. DATE : 15th March, 2011 PER COURT : 1. Heard. The applicants Bibhishan Mahadeo Gaikwad, Vilas Bhikaji Sable and Laxman Vithoba Gaikwad seek release on bail in Crime No.I-157/2010, registered at Karjat Police Station, involving offence under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code and other several offences including infraction of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Section 7 of the Protection of Civil Rights Act. The F.I.R. of Abhimanyu illustrate, in all 61 persons have allegedly barged near vicinity where the complainant and his family, owing commotion, came to the village or near the village Babhulgaon at road and found group of these 61 2 Criminal Application No.755/2011 persons. Few of them were armed with lethal weapons. The accused Bibhishan was alleged to be possessing axe, accused Laxman an iron rod, accused Vilas a scythe. It is alleged that, these accused/ applicants and their associates, in a unlawful assembly, assaulted the group of complainant brutally. 2. The accused/ applicants are in custody from 6.9.2010. Other accused are already released on bail. Charge sheet is filed. It is informed, 37 accused are yet absconding. Injured was admitted at hospital. Babu names the accused. The events illustrate, 15 persons were injured. A named lady was stripped. 3. In spite of all these odds, considering the duration of fetters, the accused/ applicants have undergone and nothing is to be elicited from the accused/ applicants, least chances of absconding, bail application is considered. Care can be taken to protect interest of the rival group. Hence order : O R D E R 4. The accused/ applicants Bibhishan Mahadeo Gaikwad, Vilas Bhikaji Sable and Laxman Vithoba Gaikwad be released on bail on executing P.R. bond and a surety in the sum of Rs.15,000/- 3 Criminal Application No.755/2011 (Rupees fifteen thousand) each. After their release, till further order, accused/ applicants shall stay at City Karjat and shall inform their changed address to the investigator with contact number. The accused/ applicants shall not influence, coerce, intimidate the aggrieved party. Application allowed to the extent as above. K.U. CHANDIWAL JUDGE fmp/cri755.11