1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 5179 OF 2009 Hasmukhbhai Rathod .... Applicant. V/s The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent. Mr. Satyavrat Joshi with Mr. Amol D. Joshi for the applicant. Mr. J.P. Kharge, APP for the State. CORAM: V. M. KANADE, J. DATE : 30TH NOVEMBER, 2009 P.C.:- 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the applicant and the learned APP for the State. 2. Applicant has been arrested in connection with the offence punishable under sections 376, 377, 506 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code which is registered at Mira Road Police Station vide C.R. No.201 of 2009. 3. Prosecution case is that the applicant is an astrologer. He influenced one Kishore Chauhan and, together, they committed rape on two minor daughters of Kishore Chauhan 2 almost for 8 years. A complaint has been lodged by both these two daughters against her father, mother and the present applicant. Mother of the prosecutrix has been released on bail. 4. I have perused the case papers, charge-sheet and statement of the prosecutrix. Taking into consideration seriousness and gravity of the offence and the statement of the prosecutrix, in my view, this is not a fit case for grant of bail. 5. Application for bail is rejected. (V.M. KANADE, J.)