(-1-) 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 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.6640 OF 2005 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.6640 OF 2005 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.6640 OF 2005 IN IN IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 950 OF 2005 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 950 OF 2005 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 950 OF 2005 Bhanudas Manohar Mangade & Ors ...Applicants Versus The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent ..... Mr. V.V. Purwant, Advocate for Applicant Mr. V.B. Konde Deshmukh, A.P.P. for State. ..... CORAM: CORAM: CORAM: SMT. V.K. TAHILRAMANI, J. SMT. V.K. TAHILRAMANI, J. SMT. V.K. TAHILRAMANI, J. DATED: 18TH OCTOBER, 2005 DATED: 18TH OCTOBER, 2005 DATED: 18TH OCTOBER, 2005 P. C.:- P. C.:- P. C.:- 1. Heard both sides. 2. The applicants are seeking bail. The applicants have been convicted under Section 366 of I.P.C. and sentenced to R.I. for five years. 3. As far as the applicant No.1 is concerned, the applicant is granted liberty to file separate application for bail annexing the relevant documents. Thus, this application is being considered only in respect of the applicant Nos. 2 and 3. 4. It is the prosecution case that the applicant (-2-) No.1 took away P.W.1 Poonam with him in a jeep stating that they were to meet some persons. Thereafter, the applicant No.1 asked Poonam to marry him and if she refused he would commit suicide. On this threat, P.W.1 Poonam kept mum and accompanied him. It is further the case of the prosecution that at that time the applicant No.2 was driving the said jeep and the applicant No.3 was also present in the said jeep. Looking to the role played by the applicant Nos. 2 and 3, I am inclined to release them on bail. 5. Each of the applicant i.e. the applicant Nos.2 and 3, Vijay Adikrao Shendkar and Ashok Abasaheb Chavan, to be released on bail in the sum of Rs.20,000/- with one or two sureties to make up the said amount. 6. Application is disposed of. *****