* 1 * Cri.Appln­3966/2010 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLCATION NO. 3966 OF 2010 Mr. Ahmed Dastagir Mulla .........Applicant V/S. The State of Maharashtra ...........Respondent ******* Mr. Umesh Mankapure, Advocate for the Applicant. Mrs. P.H. Kantharia, APP for State­respondent. CORAM : SMT. R.P. SONDURBALDOTA, J. SEPTEMBER 14, 2010. P.C. :­ 1. The applicant apprehends his arrest in C.R. No.96 of 2010 registered with Vita Police Station, Sangli for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 199, 200, 193(2) read with Section 34 Indian Penal Code. The applicant is accused no.5 in the complaint. He had made similar application to the Sessions Court, Sangli which was rejected by the order dated 23rd August, 2010. 2. The complaint relates to forgery of a sale deed allegedly executed on 11th December, 2008 by one Kisan Dnyandeo Pawar in respect of agricultural land. Kisan Pawar had died 10 years prior to * 2 * Cri.Appln­3966/2010 the sale deed i.e. on 27th August, 1998. The accused persons include the purchasers, Talathi of the village and witnesses to the document. Forgery was for the purpose of cheating the complainant and other owners. At the time of registration of the document, one Sachin Dhanwade had posed as Kisan Dnyandeo Pawar and the document came to be registered. The applicant herein has signed the document as a witness. The signature of the applicant as a witness on the document would mean that the applicant personally knew the parties to the transaction and hence witnessed the transaction between them. The learned counsel for the applicant, submits that, he had put his signature on the document as a witness at the instance of accused no.1 who had mislead him into believing that Sachin Dhanwade was infact Kisan Dnyandeo Pawar. This would be a matter of evidence and it cannot be gone into at the stage of application for anticipatory bail. The facts alleged in the complaint are gross. This court is not inclined to exercise it’s special and discretionary powers of grant of anticipatory bail. Hence, the Criminal Application is rejected. [SMT. R.P. SONDURBALDOTA, J]