1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 688 OF 2010 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 514 OF 2010 (Dipak Sheshrao Mapari .v. State of Maharashtra) Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram appearances, Court's orders or directions Court's or Judge's Orders and Registrar's orders. Shri A.S. Mardikar, Advocate for the applicant. Shri J.B. Jaiswal, APP for the respondent/State. CORAM : PRASANNA B. VARALE, J. 13TH OCTOBER, 2010. Heard. By way of present application, the applicant seeks stay of conviction. Learned Counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant/appellant is a lawyer by profession and if the stay to conviction is not granted, the applicant will not be in a position to prosecute his profession as a lawyer in view of the provisions of Advocate’s Act. He further places reliance on the judgment of the Apex Court in the case of Navjot Singh Sidhu .v. State of Punjab and another (reported in 2007 (2) SCC 574). Learned Counsel for the applicant submits that this Court suspended the substantive sentence and released the applicant/appellant on bail, vide order dated 03rd September, 2010. Considering the submissions of the learned Counsel for the applicant and in view of the aforesaid judgment of the Apex Court, the application is allowed in terms of its prayer clause (i) and disposed of as such. JUDGE *rrg.