1 APPLN3376OF10.sxw vks IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 3376OF 2010 Mr. Pradeep Hassanand Khatri .. Applicant -versus State of Maharashtra .. Respondent. Mr. Dnyaneshwar Deshmukh, for the Applicant. Mr P.S. Hingorani, APP for the State. CORAM: A. R. JOSHI, J. DATED: 2nd AUGUST 2010 P.C. 1. Heard rival submissions for sometime on this application for anticipatory bail. 2. The applicant is apprehending his arrest in CRA No. I-311 of 2010 registered with Mahatma Phule Police Station, District: Thane for the offences u/s 420, 406, 467, 468, 471 r/w 34 of Indian penal Code. 3. Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation has contracted out the job of collection of octroi from vehicles entering in the jurisdiction of said corporation. The said contract was given to one company of which present applicant is the employee. during the 2 APPLN3376OF10.sxw relevant period of noticing fraud, present accused was night shift in-charge working with the said company and was responsible for collection of octroi from different vehicles. 4. The allegations against the applicant are that he in association with other co-accused, one of them is still absconding and two are already arrested and after their substantial custody released on bail, indulged in a design by which fake octroi receipts having monogram and also the name of 'Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation', were printed and used for collection of octroi. Apparently such collected amounts were not deposited in the company’s account and as such it was revealed by the day shift in-charge as to issuance of fake octroi receipts. Certain amounts amounting to Rs.60,000/- and odd were obtained by the applicant and his associates. This fraud came to light when the first informant day shift in-charge of the said company came across with one blank octroi receipt in the drawer and he gave it to incharge of the company and as such enquiry was made and noticing fraud, complaint was lodged with the police. 5. Considering role assigned to the present applicant and considering it is a matter of collection of octroi by the employee of the company, without it being deposited in the company's account and which was subsequently not credited to the account of Municipal Corporation, it would not be in the fitness of the situation 3 APPLN3376OF10.sxw to grant discretionary relief of anticipatory bail. hence order. ORDER. Criminal Application stands rejected. ( A. R. JOSHI, J.)