1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. Criminal Application No. 90 of 2010 Saikrishna and anr v. State of Maharashtra and anr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Court's or Judge's Orders. Ms Sirpurkar, Adv for applicant Coram : A.P. Bhangale, J Dated : 17th January 2010 1. The present application is presented at residence. Learned counsel for applicants prays for urgent hearing. Leave granted. Heard learned counsel for applicants. 2. Applicant no. 1 is working as Branch Manager, State Bank of India, Kanhan, Nagpur and the applicant no. 2 is the father of applicant no.1. The applicants are apprehending arrest in Crime No. 544 of 2009 under Section 498A of IPC and under Dowry Prohibition Act, registered at Women’s Police Station, Hyderabad. 3. Applicants want to move competent Sessions Court at Hyderabad at the earliest point of time. However, they apprehend their arrest even before they are able to approach the concerned Sessions Court at Hyderabad and therefore pray for transit pre-arrest bail in order to enable them to move Sessions 2 Court at Hyderabad. 4. Looking to the nature of offence and urgency pleaded by learned counsel for applicants, in my opinion, it would be in the fitness of things to protect the applicants for certain reasonable period till the time they are able to approach the concerned Sessions Court and seek for anticipatory bail or with appropriate application as is advised to them in law. Hence, the order. 5. In the result, in the event of their arrest by the Women’s Police Station, Hyderabad for the offence punishable under Section 498A read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Penal Code in Crime No. 544/09, applicants be released on interim/transitory anticipatory bail upon their furnishing PR Bond in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- each with cash surety in the like amount. Even if this transitory bail is not actually availed of by the applicants, they will still approach the concerned Police Station before filing application for anticipatory bail before the Sessions Court concerned with advance copy of application sought to be filed by them to the concerned Police Station as also the learned Public Prosecutor. Application stands disposed of accordingly. Private secretary to attest copy of this order and issue the same to the counsel for applicants. Copy of this order shall also be accompanied by true copy of application presented before me (duly attested). Present order shall remain in force only till the end of office hours of 18.1.2010 or till the time the Sessions Court concerned passes appropriate orders, whichever 3 is earlier. Judge. Hsj