1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 4052 OF 2009 Nazareth Joseph Pereira Miss Stella Joseph Pereira........Applicants versus The State of Maharashtra ........Respondent. Mr. Sanjeev P. Kadam adv. for the Applicant. Mr. H.J. Dedhia APP for the Respondent. CORAM: A. P. DESHPANDE, J. DATED : 06th October, 2009. P.C.: 1. After hearing the learned counsel for the applicants for sometime, he does no press the application for applicant no.1 Nazareth Joseph Pereira, however presses the application to the extent it relates to applicant no.2 Miss. Stella Joseph Pereira. In that view of the matter the application of the applicant no.1 Nazareth Joseph Pereira stands rejected as not pressed. 2. Acording to the prosecution, the owner of the property was one Chapsy Mistry and after his demise, on the basis of forged documents, the property came to be mutated in the name of certain members of Pereira family including the present applicants. An offence came to be registered vide C.R. No. 219/06. Thereafter investigation 2 has been transferred to the Economic Offence Wing and registered the offence punishable under sections 465, 467, 468, 471, 120-B, 420 IPC vide C.R. No. 68/06 against the present applicants. The learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant no.2 is a woman aged about 65 years and is house wife, not really involved in the alleged commission of the offence. It is submitted that the applicant no.2 is in custody since 3-8-2009 and a prayer for bail is made merely on the ground that she is a woman. The learned APP on instructions from investigating officer makes a statement that all the relevant documents are already recovered from the concerned office and hence there is no need for custodial detention of the applicant no.2 henceforth. In that view of the matter the applicant no.2 deserves to be released on bail. In the result I pass the following order. 3. The applicant no.2 Miss Stella Joseph Pereira shall be released on bail on executing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs. 25,000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount, The applicant no.2 shall attend the police station as and when so directed by the investigating officer. 4. Deposit of cash bail for a period of four weeks is permitted within which time the applicant no.2 shall arrange to furnish surety. (A. P. DESHPANDE, J.)