IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRI.APPLICATION NO. 4340 OF 2008 CRI.APPLICATION NO. 4340 OF 2008 CRI.APPLICATION NO. 4340 OF 2008 Bharat Popat Karche, .. Applicant Vs State of Maharashtra .. Respondent Mr Ganesh Karmalkar, for the applicant. Mr Y.S.Shinde, APP, for the respondent. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE,J. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE,J. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE,J. DATE : 18/12/2008 DATE : 18/12/2008 DATE : 18/12/2008 PC: PC: PC: 1. Heard Mr.Karmalkar, learned counsel for the applicant and Mr.Shinde, learned APP, for the State. 2. The applicant is seeking bail in C.R.No.83 of 2007 of Natepute police station. The said crime has been registered against the applicant and two others for having allegedly committed an offence punishable under sections 363, 366(A), 376 and 506 read with 34 of IPC. 3. It is the prosecution case that the applicant kidnapped the prosecutrix-Meerabai, who is hardly 14 years old from Natepute and brought her to New Mumbai and there married to her on 4.11.2007 and then committed rape on her. I have perused the complaint and the statement of the prosecutrix. It appears that they both left Natepute on 3.11.2007 and reached at Nerul, New Mumbai and there they stayed with one of the relatives of the applicant. On 4.11.2007 they got married in the temple. In the intervening night of 4.11.07 and 5.11.07 they had sex. Thereafter, they came back to village Natepute where they came to know about the complaint lodged by her father and hence she herself approached the police station, perhaps, with the applicant. The investigation is complete and the chargesheet has also been filed. The applicant is hardly 20 years and is behind bar almost for one year. Keeping that in view and considering overall facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to grant this application for bail on conditions. Hence, the following order. . The applicant to be released on bail in the sum of RPS.25,000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount, subject to condition that he shall not enter the jurisdiction of Natepute police station, except as and when called, till conclusion of the trial. He shall furnish his address to the concerned police station where he proposes to stay during this period within a period of two weeks from the date of his release. He shall report to the nearest police station from the place of his residence on every Saturday between 7 and 8 pm till conclusion of the trial. . While passing this order I shall not be understood to have expressed any opinion on merits of the case and the trial Court shall deal with the case without being influenced by the observations made in this order. . The application is disposed of. (D.B.Bhosale,J.)