- 1 - IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 2993/2007 Ranjit Vaijnath Jadhav. ...Applicant.. Versus The State of Maharashtra & two others. ...Respondents... ..... Shri N.S. Ghanekar, Advocate for applicant (absent). Smt.A.V. Gondhalekar, APP for respondent nos.1 & 2. Respondent no.3, though served, is absent. ..... CORAM: P.V. HARDAS, J. DATE: 26.07.2010 PER COURT: - 2 - 1] By this application, the applicant prays that he may be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest in connection with Crime No.62/2007 registered by Pimpalner Police Station for offence punishable u/s 376, 504 of the Indian Penal Code and u/s 3(1)(xii) and 3(2)(v) of the S.C. & S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The learned Single Judge of this Court, by order dated 22.8.2007, granted ad interim bail to the applicant and directed that he be released in the event of his arrest in the said crime on furnishing bail bond in the sum of Rs. 20,000/- with one or more sureties in the like amount. 2] None appears on behalf of the applicant when this application is called out twice. Mrs.A.V. Gondhalekar, learned APP states, on instructions, that as no stay was granted by this Court, the investigation proceeded and ultimately a charge- sheet came to be filed. The case came to be committed to the Court of Sessions and was registered as Sessions Trial No.1/2008. In the said sessions trial, recording of the evidence is virtually completed. In that light of the matter, therefore, I confirm the interim order of bail granted by this Court and allow this application with no order as to costs. (P.V. Hardas, J.) ndk/cr267101