1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD. Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court’s orders or directions Court’s or Judge’s orders. and Registrar’s orders. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.: 2607 OF 2009 Namdeo Sampat Patil Versus The State of Maharashtra *** Mrs. U. P. Kale-Wayal, Advocate i/b Mr. P. D. Kale, Advocate for the Applicant. Mr. P. M. Shinde, A.P.P. for the Respondent/ State. *** 1. Heard learned counsel and A.P.P. The accused, a peon, 56 years old, is taken in custody on 27th June, 2009, and was in P.C.R. up to 4th July, 2009. The accused allegedly has deceived the depositors and members of the bank, collected huge funds from them and misappropriated the same for his personal gains. There are at-least eight witnesses who have stated that the applicant used to take their signatures on documents under the pretext of revalidating their earlier loans, however, the accused/ applicant herein has by using those loan papers has availed loan without knowledge of such eight persons and ultimately those persons are duped and the bank is also estranged. The role attributed to the accused/ applicant is serious. Though he is a last man in heirarchy, a peon, but has blatantly misused the confidence reposed in him and activated for personal gains detrimental to the interest of the institution and also to the depositors or the account holders. The notice at Exhibit-C indicate atleast six instances of collecting the amount and not depositing 2 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD. Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court’s orders or directions Court’s or Judge’s orders. and Registrar’s orders. the same in the ledger. Investigation is going on. Charge sheet is yet to be filed. No merit. Application is rejected. [K. U. CHANDIWAL, J.] Dated:18/08/2009. ans/2607