1 CA-5791.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.5791 OF 2010 Ramanlal G. Jain .... Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra & Anr. .... Respondents Shri N.C. Pantagani for the Applicant. Shri Y.M. Nakhawa, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: JANUARY 07, 2011 P.C: 1. This is an application for anticipatory bail by a jeweller to whose shop the thief led the police. The applicant was called to the police station with his books of account but did not go. The learned counsel for the applicant states that even according to the police the thief had stated that he had handed over the ornaments to the applicant about four- and-half months before the memorandum was recorded on 9-9-2010. Considering the time which has lapsed, no useful purpose would be served by subjecting the applicant to custodial interrogation. The learned counsel for the applicant states that without prejudice to his 2 CA-5791.10 rights, the applicant shall deposit with the trial Magistrate, within two weeks, a sum of Rs.1,17,000/- which, according to the learned APP, is the value of the ornaments which the thief is alleged to have given to the applicant. Upon deposit of this amount, the learned Magistrate shall invest the same in any interest earning fixed deposit in a nationalized bank and shall deal with that amount at the end of the trial as per the result of the case. 2. In view of this, in the event of his arrest the applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.153 of 2010 of Matunga Police Station, Mumbai on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.25,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.25,000/- on the condition that the applicant shall report at the police station concerned on 10-1-2011 at 10:00 a.m. with his books of account for interrogation and thereafter as and when required by the I.O.. The applicant shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him/her from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer and he shall 3 CA-5791.10 not leave the country without the prior permission of the trial Court. If the applicant does not make the deposit with the trial Magistrate within two weeks, this order shall stand revoked without reference to this Court. 3. This order shall remain in force till the trial is over with the only stipulation that if charge-sheeted, the applicant may furnish fresh bond before the trial Court in view of the Judgment of the Supreme Court, dated 2-12-2010, delivered in Criminal Appeal No.2271 of 2010, arising out of SLP (Cri.) No. 7615 of 2009 {Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.}. 4. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)