1 ABA-55.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.55 OF 2011 Bhaurao Dhondu Pawar .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondents Shri Kunal Cheema for the Applicant. Ms A.A. Mane, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: JANUARY 21, 2011 P.C: 1. This is an application for anticipatory bail by a Senior Clerk who was assisting the Project Officer in disbursing juice machines. Twenty-nine juice machines were purchased at the cost of Rs.10,905/- per machine and defalcation of Rs.2,30,965/- is alleged. The learned counsel for the applicant states that the applicant was merely a Senior Clerk and had no complicity in the matter. He also points out that three Clerks have been admitted to bail by this Court. He submits, on instructions received by him from his client on mobile phone, that his client is ready to deposit Rs. 1,00,000/- without prejudice to his rights 2 ABA-55.11 though he is not involved in any misappropriation. In view of this, there could be no question of the applicant s being subjected to custodial interrogation. 2. In view of the above, in the event of his arrest the applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.I-696 of 2010 of Sarkarwada Police Station, Nashik (now transferred to the Economic Offences Wing, Nasik) on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.30,000/- each with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.30,000/- on the condition that the applicant shall deposit with the trial Court a sum of Rs.1,00,000/- within two weeks from today. On such deposit being made, the learned trial Court shall invest the amount in fixed deposit in any nationalized bank and shall deal with the same at the end of the trial as per the result of the case. 3. The applicant shall report at the police station concerned on 24-1-2011 at 10:00 a.m. for interrogation and thereafter as and when required by the I.O.. The applicant shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to 3 ABA-55.11 dissuade him/her from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer and he shall not leave the country without the prior permission of the trial Court. 4. This order shall remain in force till the trial is over with the only stipulation that if charge-sheeted, the applicant may furnish fresh bond before the trial Court in view of the Judgment of the Supreme Court, dated 2-12-2010, delivered in Criminal Appeal No.2271 of 2010, arising out of SLP (Cri.) No. 7615 of 2009 {Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.}. 5. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)