IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 3361 OF 2009 Mehul Dilip Doshi ......... Applicant versus The State of Maharashtra ........Respondent. Mr. Dilip H. Shukla adv. for the Applicant Mr. H.J. Dedhia APP. for the Respondent/State. CORAM: A. P DESHPANDE, J. DATED : 13th August, 2009. P. C.: 1. The applicant is apprehending arrest in LAC. No. 1062/09 registered with Ghatkopar police station for offence punishable under section 135 of Indian Electricity Act and under section 379 of IPC registered against the applicant and his father. According to the prosecution, after dis-connection of the electric supply, the applicant and his father have illegally obtained direct supply of electricity from 11-5-2009 to 13-5-2009. According to the learned counsel for the applicant, electric meter stands in the name of his father and the applicant is not residing along with his father in the premises wherein the electric meter is fitted. The applicant’s father has been already granted anticipatory bail by the Sessions Court on 24-6-2009. It is re-iterated that in the concerned premises wherein the electric meter is fitted, the father of the applicant alone is residing and the applicant is not staying at the said place. In response to the same the learned APP has fairly submitted that it has been revealed in the investigation that the applicant is staying at some other place and is not residing in the premises wherein the electric meter is fitted. Thus prima facie the applicant does not appear to be guilty of the offence. In the result, I direct that in the event of arrest of the applicant in LAC No. 1062/09 registered with Ghatkopar Police station, for offence punishable under section 135 of Indian Electiricity Act and under section 379 of IPC, the applicant shall be released on bail on executing personal bond in the sum of Rs. 5000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. The applicant shall abide by the conditions stipulated under section 438(2) of Cr.p.C. Application is disposed of. (A. P. Deshpande, J.)