- 1 - IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 2446/2010 Bhausaheb Mahadev Ransing, age 36 yrs., occu.business, r/o Dadegaon Tq.Ashti Dist.Beed. ...Applicant.. Versus The State of Maharashtra. ...Respondent... ..... Smt.Sadhana S. Jadhav, Advocate for applicant. Shri S.G. Nandedkar, APP for respondent. ..... CORAM: A.V. POTDAR, J. DATE: 07.07.2010 PER COURT: - 2 - 1] By the present application, the applicant has approached for being released on regular bail in Crime No.206/2008 registered in Pathardi Police Station for the alleged offence u/s 409, 201 of the I.P.C., in which he came to be arrested on 12.12.2009. In the said crime, it appears that after completion of investigation, charge-sheet was filed in the Court of J.M.F.C., Pathardi, on 11.3.2010 and the case was numbered as RTC No.51/2010. 2] Heard counsel for the applicant and the learned A.P.P. for the State. 3] It is not under dispute that at the material time, the applicant was working as Gram Sevak and holding the additional charge of village Mohta during the period 17.4.2004 to 29.3.2007. The alleged charge is of the mis-appropriation of the public funds. All the documents were collected and seized by the investigating officer, which were in the custody of the applicant. The offences alleged are to be tried by the Court of a Magistrate. As the case is based on documents, there shall not be any chance of tampering of any evidence at the hands of present applicant, but considering the severity of the charges alleged against the applicant, the applicant is being released on bail on furnishing heavy surety. Considering large pendency of the criminal trials pending in the Courts of Magistrates, it is not desirable that the applicant be detained for uncertain period as under-trial prisoner. Hence, the following order. - 3 - 4] Application is allowed. The applicant be enlarged on bail on furnishing solvent surety in the sum of Rs.25,000/- and on executing P.R. Bond in the like amount. After release on bail, during pendency of the criminal trial, the applicant shall not leave his native place or jurisdiction of the criminal Court in which trial is pending, without prior permission from the concerned investigating officer or the criminal Court concerned. Application stands disposed of. (A.V. Potdar, J.) ndk/cr771016