1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR. CRIMINAL APPLICATION (ABA) NO.12/2011 (Vitthal Shreepat Rangari and two others .vrs. 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 Mr. N.B. Jawade, Advocate for applicants, Mr. A.S. Sonare, APP for non-applicant. .......... CORAM : P.D. KODE, J DATED : FEBRUARY 02, 2011 Heard. For the detailed reasons recorded in order dated 18.1.2011, ad-interim direction u/s 438 of Cr.P.C. was issued in favour of the applicants. While issuing the said direction, certain conditions were imposed to see that the progress of the investigation is not hampered. Notice of the said order and application was served upon the prosecution. In pursuance to the same, the reply tendered by the prosecution is taken on record. The careful perusal of the said reply also does not reveal any worthy reason requiring the variation of the direction earlier given. Needless to add reply does not disclose that the applicants were residing in a room in which the 2 deceased had hang herself and on the contrary same speaks of the applicants residing at different places i.e. applicant nos.1 and 2 in the other house and the applicant no.3 at Malegaon. In view of the same, considering the case of the applicants in light of the ratio given in a decision in the case of Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre .vrs. State of Maharashtra and others, 2010 (12) Scale 691 and more particularly guidelines given in paragraph 122 to 125 of the said decision, ad-interim direction given deserves to be confirmed and the same stands confirmed with the modification that now the applicants shall attend the investigating officer only as and when called for the purposes of investigation and rest of the conditions remain unmodified. The application stands disposed of. In view of disposal of Criminal Application (ABA) No.12/2011, Criminal Application (APPP) No. 43/2011 also stands disposed of. JUDGE Gulande