1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR. Criminal Application No. 1385 of 2009 Rakesh v. State of Maharashtra -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Court's or Judge's Orders. Mr V.S. Sirpurkar, Adv Mr D.B. Patel, APP for State Coram : A.P. Bhangale, J Dated : 22nd July 2009 1. Heard Mr V.S. Sirpurkar, learned counsel for applicant and Mr D.B. Patel, learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for State. By this application, applicant prays for anticipatory bail, apprehending his arrest in Crime No. 34/2008 registered with Police Station, City Kotwali, Akola for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 408, 468, 201 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. Applicant was granted interim anticipatory bail by this Court vide order dated 10th April 2008. 2. Learned APP states that applicant did not attend the Police Station and instead, managed to obtain his attendance fraudulantly from Head Constable Amarnath Mishra and LPC Shobha. He submits that appropriate departmental action has been initiated against those erring police officials. On the other hand, Mr Sirpurkar submits that applicant was attending the Police Station regularly; he was made to sit for hours together 2 and was allowed to go. Applicant has filed pursis dated 24.6.2009 and has furnished details of his attendance. Learned counsel for applicant undertakes that in future applicant shall attend directly before the Investigating Officer. 3. Looking to the nature of offence, it is obvious that evidence in such cases is documentary in nature. Moreover, co-accused in the crime viz. Nandlal Virwani and Sudhir Kurhekar have been granted bail by this Court in Criminal Applications No. 1071 of 2008 and 973 of 2008 by order dated 11.11.2008. Present application is pending since 9th April 2008 and, as aforesaid, applicant has already been granted interim anticipatory bail. Hence, interim anticipatory bail deserves to be confirmed. 4. In the result, interim anticipatory bail order dated 10th April 2008 granted in favour of the applicant is hereby confirmed. Applicant is directed to attend before Investigating Officer for the purposes of investigation as and when required, till charge-sheet is filed. He shall not endeavour to influence any of the prosecution witnesses. Applicant shall leave his permanent address as also telephone/cell phone number (if any) with the Investigating Officer and shall communicate change in address, if any, in future. With these observations, application stands disposed of. Hamdast granted. Judge. hsj