1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR. CRIMINAL APPLICATION (ABA) NO. 24/2011 (Abdul Tausif Abdul Arif .vs. State of Mah. Through PSO PS Akot, Dist. Akola ) with RIMINAL APPLICATION (ABA) NO. 25/2011 (Abdul Atif Abdul Arif .vs. State of Mah. Through PSO PS Akot, Dist. Akola ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders or directions Court's or Judge's orders. and Registrar's orders Mr. A.B. Mirza, Advocate for both the applicants. Mrs. B.P. Maldhure, APP for Respondent. .......... CORAM : P.D. KODE, J. DATED : FEBRUARY 10, 2011 Heard. The replies filed by the learned APP in respective applications are taken on record. By the common order passed on January 28, 2011, an ad- interim direction in terms of Section 438 of Cr.P.C. was passed in favour of the applicants in connection with Crime No. 164/2010 registered on 6.9.2010 with Police Station Akot for commission of offence under Sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 336 of IPC. While giving the said direction, certain conditions were imposed to ensure that the progress of the ongoing investigation is not hampered. The perusal of the replies filed by the 2 prosecution does not reveal any circumstance for varying/modifying or cancelling the direction given earlier. The same is apparent as no such case has been pleaded through the replies. The learned APP has also fairly stated that the applicants have abided the conditions imposed while issuing the ad-interim direction. Having regard to the same and considering the case of the applicants, the stage of the investigation and in the light of the guidelines given by the Apex Court in Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre .vs. State of Maharashtra and ors. reported in 2010 (12) SCALE 691 in paragraphs 122 to 125, the ad-interim direction given deserves to be confirmed and the same stands hereby confirmed with the modification that each of the applicant shall attend the said Police Station on every Monday in between 11 and 2 p.m. and as and when called by the Investigating Officer for the purposes of investigation until filing of the charge sheet. Rest of the conditions imposed by the ad-interim direction stand unmodified. Criminal Applications (ABA) No. 24 and 25 of 2011 stand disposed of. JUDGE halwai