IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY VP H CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION No. 357 OF 2009 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 359 OF 2003 Mahendra @ Baggad Patiraj Yadav ... Applicant Vs The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Mr. A. M. Sarogi, for the Applicant. Mrs. P. H. Kantharia, APP for the Respondent. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI, AND F. M. REIS, JJ. DATED: APRIL 1, 2009. P.C.: ---- 1. This bail application has been filed on the ground that the prisoner who is undergoing life imprisonment has suffered a paralytic stroke (paraperea). Yesterday this case was directed to be taken up today so as to enable the Public Prosecutor to appraise this Court about the health status of the petitioner. 2. The learned Public Prosecutor has submitted on instructions that the petitioner is not well. However, at present he is being treated in J.J. Hospital at Bombay; previously he was being treated in the Hospital at Kolhapur. In this view of the - 2 - matter, we grant 4 weeks bail to the petitioner, subject to his furnishing of bail bond in the sum of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties each. The bond may be taken by the concerned officer from the petitioner in the hospital itself, as he may not be in a position to move. If the furnishing and scrutiny of bonds and bail takes some time, the respondents may shift the petitioner from J.J. Hospital to any other hospital of his choice, provided he and his relatives are prepared to pay the hospital bill. With these directions, the petition is disposed of. Sd/- Sd/- [ F. M. REIS, J.] [ BILAL NAZKI, J.]