IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 283 OF 2008 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 240 OF 2008. Subhash Bapusaheb Patankar ...... ......Applicant. V/s State of Maharashtra... ...... ....Respondent. Mr.Shirish Gupte, Sr.Adv. i/by Mr.Prakash Naik, Adv. For the applicant. Mrs.P.P.Shinde, APP For the respondent. CORAM: A.P.DESHPANDE, J. 24/3/08 PC: Appeal admitted. R & P be called for. The present applicant happens to be working as Deputy Education Officer, Education Department in the employment of Zilla Parishad, Kolhapur. The applicant has been convicted for the offence punishable under section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and sentenced to suffer RI for one year and to pay fine of Rs.5000/-, in default to suffer further RI for three months. The applicant has also been convicted for the offence punishable under section 13(1)(d) read with section 13(2) of the Act and sentenced to suffer RI for two years and pay fine of Rs.5000/-, in default to further undergo RI for three months. Substantive sentences are directed to run concurrently. The learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant was released on bail during 1 the trial and even after conviction he has been released on bail by the Sessions Judge. The submission is that the appeal preferred by the applicant is not likely to come up for final hearing before expiry of the period of sentence. In this view of the matter I direct that the applicant be released on bail on the same terms and conditions o which he was released during the trial on executing fresh bail bonds. Application stands disposed of. 24.3.08 2