1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 571 OF 2009 1. Datta Narayan Rane 2. Ramesh @ Tamma Vithal Jadhav ....Applicants. V/s The State of Maharashtra ..... Respondents. ----- Mr. S.A. Ingawale for the applicants. Mr. Rajesh More, APP for the State. ------ CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATE : 16th February, 2009 P.C:- 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the applicants and the learned APP for the State. 2. Applicants have been arrested in connection with the offence punishable under sections 376, 504, 506 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. It is alleged that the applicant No.1 had forcibly committed rape on the prosecutrix from 2000 to 2008. In the complaint, it is alleged that the prosecutrix belonged to schedule caste and the applicants belonged to upper caste and that the applicant No.1 used to call the prosecutrix to his room through his servant and, thereafter, he used to forcibly rape her. It is submitted that this false complaint has been filed against the applicants since the applicant No.1 had filed PIL in this Court and certain orders were passed by this 2 Court and, thereafter, initially, complaint was filed under section 420 by one person in which the applicant No.1 was granted anticipatory bail by this Court and, thereafter, the present complaint has been filed. 3. Looking at the nature of allegations which are made it is obvious that these allegations are very vague. There is gross delay in filing this complaint and, secondly, these allegations are levelled against the applicants after the PIL was filed by applicant No.1 and certain orders were passed against the people belonging to schedule caste, schedule tribe and backward communities. Applicants are in jail since last three months. Continued detention of the applicants, therefore, in my view, is not necessary. 4. Applicants, therefore, be released on bail in C.R. No.70 of 2008 in the sum of Rs 5000/- each with one or two sureties in the like amount. They shall report to the concerned Police Station once in two months. 5. Application is disposed of. (V.M. KANADE, J.)