1 APPLN 499, 500, 501 OF 2010 vks IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.499 OF 2010 IN CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4695 OF 2009 WITH CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.500 OF 2010 IN CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4386 OF 2009 WITH CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.501 OF 2010 IN CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4387 OF 2009 Hanumandas Mayaram Jakhotia and ors .. Applicants -versus The State of Maharashtra and anr .. Respondents. Mr. R.S. Apte, Senior Counsel with Mr. Rahul Kulkarni, for the Applicants. Mrs. S. D.Shinde, APP for the Respondent State. Mrs. Sunanda Kumbhat, for respondent No.2 CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: 23rd February, 2011 P.C. 1. Learned counsel for the parties state that the applications for return of property are pending before the learned lower Court. Those applications cannot be taken up for hearing by the Courts below because of order dated 21st June,2010 in Criminal Application Nos 4385 of 2009, 4386 of 2009, 4387 of 2009 and 4695 of 2009, passed by this Court, 2 APPLN 499, 500, 501 OF 2010 granting interim stay to the Criminal Cases pending before trial Court. If those applications which are pending before learned trial Court are decided, the present applications would become infructuous. In view of this, it is clarified that the Courts below may proceed to hear and decide the applications for return of property on its own merits and the order dated 21st June, 2010, granting interim stay by this Court to the Criminal Cases shall not come in the way of deciding those applications. The learned trial Court shall decide those applications under Section 452 of the Criminal Procedure Code as expeditiously as possible and preferably within a period of one month. With this clarification, the present Criminal Application Nos 499 of 2010, 500 of 2010 and 501 of 2010 are disposed of. 2. Criminal Revision Application Nos. 4386, 4387 and 4395 of 2010, will remain pending before this Court. (R. C. CHAVAN, J.)