1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRI.APPLICATION NO. 2059 OF 2009 Balu @ Jayprakash Shankarrao Naik .. Applicant Vs State of Maharashtra .. Respondent Mr. A.P. Mundargi, senior counsel i/by Mr. Hrishekesh Mundargi for the Applicant. Mrs.P.P.Shinde, APP, for the Respondent. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATE : 15/06/2009 PC: 1. Heard Mr Mundargi, learned senior counsel for the applicant and Mrs Shinde, learned APP for the respondents. 2. The applicant is seeking bail in C.R.No.I-9 of 2008 of Lasalgaon Police Station. The said crime has been registered against the applicant for having allegedly committed an offence punishable under sections 302, 143, 147,148 of IPC, sections 3 and 25 of Arms Act and section 135 of the Bombay Police Act. 3. Mr Mundargi, learned senior counsel for the applicant, at T 2 the outset, invited my attention to the order dated 3.4.2009 passed by this Court in Criminal Application No.1217 of 2009, by which one Pandharinath Thore has been released on bail and submitted that the present applicant is also entitled for bail on parity. He further submitted that as a matter of fact, the role attributed to the present applicant is much lesser than the role allegedly played by Pandharinath Thore. These submissions of Mr Mundargi, have not been disputed by the learned APP. It appears that, at the relevant time, the applicant had taken out a pistol from his pocket and at that time Pandharinath Thore took pistol from him and fired at a point range at Ramdas Karbari Darekhar There is no dispute that the applicant did not make use of the pistol. Keeping that in view and considering the order dated 3.4.2009 in Criminal Application No.1217 of 2009, I am inclined to enlarge the applicant on bail. Hence, the following order. The applicant-Balu @ Jayprakash Shankarrao Naik is directed to be enlarged on bail in the sum of Rs.5,000/- with one or two sureties to make up the said amount, subject to condition that the applicant shall not enter the jurisdiction of village Vinchur, Taluka Nephad, District-Nashik till conclusion of the trial and he shall report to the nearest police station 3 from the place of his residence on first Saturday of every month between 6 and 7 pm. The applicant shall inform his residential address to the concerned police station within a period of one week from the date of his release. While passing this order, I shall not be understood to have expressed any opinion on merits of the case and the trial Court shall deal with the case uninfluenced by the observations made in this order. Application is disposed of. (D. B. Bhosale, J.)