1 CA-4065.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4065 OF 2010 Nitin Sadashiv Shinde .... Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri K.S. Patil for the Applicant. Shri J.P. Kharge, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: OCTOBER 29, 2010 P.C: 1. The applicant, who has been charge- sheeted for his alleged involvement in dacoity on a luxury bus, seeks bail. The applicant is not alleged to have participated in the actual dacoity. He was in the team which was following or keeping in touch with the luxury bus in a Scorpio Jeep. One Satish Dighe was also with the applicant in that jeep. It is alleged that the applicant distributed the spoils and prepared a chit showing the distribution. This chit has been recovered from the applicant. The applicant has also made a statement which led to the recovery of Rs.4,74,900/-. The distribution chit mentions that the applicant 2 CA-4065.10 had received only Rs.2,50,000/-. One of the notes of the denomination of Rs.500/- in the amount recovered bore a Swastik symbol. This recovery was made on 12-12-2009. In a statement recorded on 6-12-2009 one Deepakbhai Amrutbhai Patel had stated that the courier company had the practice of putting Swastik symbol on some of the bundles of the notes. Even so, for the present it may be presumed that the applicant was in receipt of the notes which had been taken away from the victims who were travelling in the luxury bus. It may also be taken for a while that the applicant had distributed the spoils. 2. The charge-sheet also does not show that there is any other role attributed to the applicant. The charge-sheet shows that accused No.3 Satish Dighe and accused No.9 Nitin Shinde kept in touch with the dacoits in the luxury bus by travelling in a Scorpio Jeep. Satish Dighe has been bailed out by an order passed by this Court in Criminal Application No.1443 of 2010. Both Dighe and the applicant have the same role except that the applicant, in addition, is alleged to have distributed the spoils and prepared a chit. That in itself cannot be a ground for denying bail on parity 3 CA-4065.10 to the applicant. The applicant be, therefore, released on bail in C.R. No.116 of 2009 of Borgaon Police Station, District Satara on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.10,000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. The applicant shall also not leave Taluka Haveli, District Pune during the pendency of the trial without the leave of the trial Court except for attending the trial. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)