1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 177 OF 2009 Shri Santosh Raghunath Dhavale and Ors. ..... Petitioners. V/s The State of Maharashtra ..... Respondent. ------ Mr. Balkrishna Joshi with Mr. Virag Pathe for the petitioners. Mr. S.R. Shinde, APP for the State. ------ CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATE : 22nd January, 2009 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the petitioners and the learned APP for the State. 2. By an order dated 14/1/2009, this Court has held that the application for anticipatory bail is maintainable in view of the judgment in the case of Ramchandra Goivndrao Watkar and another Vs. State of Maharashtra reported in 1995 (2) Mh.L.J. 669. I had directed the APP to find out the time at which the second complaint was registered against the present applicants. It is a common ground that the petitioners, initially, had filed complaint at 10.15 a.m. and, subsequently, a cross complaint was lodged. The learned APP, on instructions, states that the second complaint was lodged at 13.45 hours. It is obvious that, at that time, the petitioner No.1 was already admitted in the hospital at Akluj. Counsel for the petitioners has produced the medical 2 certificate which prima facie establishes this fact. Prima facie, therefore, in my view, the complainant in this case has filed a complaint as a counter- blast to the complaint filed by the present petitioners against her husband and others out of the political rivalry. Under these circumstances, the petitioners deserve to be granted anticipatory bail. 3. Petitioners, in the event of their arrest in connection with the offence punishable under sections 143, 147, 148, 149, 324, 354, 323, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and under section 3(1)(10), (11) and section 6 of the S.C. and S.T. Act and 7(1) D, 10 of P.C.R. Act, which is registered vide C.R. No.186 of 2008 at Tembhurni Police Station, District Solapur, be released on bail in the sum of Rs 5000/- each with one or two sureties in the like amount. Petitioners shall report to the said Police Station for three days from 27/1/2009 to 30/1/2009 between 11.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. and shall, thereafter, report to the said Police Station once in a week for a period of two months and, thereafter, once in a month till the filing of the charge- sheet. (V.M. KANADE, J.)