1 BA-1570-11.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Mhi CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO. 1570 OF 2011 IN C.R. NO. 609 OF 2010 Hasan @ Bunti Kamru Ansari ... Applicant/accused vs. The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Mr.Janardan Jha,Advocate, for the applicant. Mrs. P.P.Shinde,APP for the respondent - State. CORAM: J.H.BHATIA,J. DATE : 14th December, 2011. P.C. 1. The applicant seeks to be released on bail in Crime No.609 of 2010 for the offences under Sections 399 and 402 of IPC registered at Mira Road Police Station, District Thane. 2. According to prosecution, on 28.12.2010, Crime Detection Squad was on patrolling duty and they came to know that some persons were present near the water tank of Laxmi Park on Kankiya Road having prepared to commit dacoity. According to the prosecution, police team went to the sport and a police 2 BA-1570-11.sxw constable heard the present applicant speaking to the other accused about the plan to enter into a particular house to commit dacoity and thereafter three persons were arrested, while two persons escaped taking benefit of darkness. From the present applicant a kukri was recovered, from another accused a spanner and from third accused a packet containing chilli powder and a rope were recovered. The applicant is in jail for last about one year. Trial has not yet commenced. Even charge is not framed. According to prosecution, two more criminal cases of house-breaking and theft are registered against the present applicant at Mira Road Police Station. Both the cases appear to have been registered within a short time in the year 2009. The applicant is a young man aged about 20 years. Except the contention of the police that the accused had assembled there to commit dacoity, there is no other material. 3. Therefore, the applicant be released on his executing P.R. of Rs.15,000/- with a surety in the like amount on condition that he shall report at Mira Road Police Station on every Sunday between 4 to 6 p.m. till end of the trial. (J.H.BHATIA,J.)