1 Cri-260-11.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Mhi CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 260 OF 2011 Konakanchi Ramesh Vitthal ... Applicant vs. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. ... Respondents Mr. K.K.Mishra, Advocate, for the applicant. None for the respondent No.1. Mr. Lohit Shankar Shetty, respondent No.2 in person present in Court. CORAM: J.H.BHATIA,J. DATE : 15th April, 2011. P.C. 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the applicant. Perused the relevant papers, FIR and the correspondence between the parties and also heard the respondent No.2, who is present along with the concerned Police Officer. APP is absent. 2. Prosecution case is that the applicant represented himself to be the Senior Vice President (Market Research), Reliance Retail Limited, which was shown to be part of Reliance Industries Ltd. and he made an offer to book certain rooms with the hotel of the complainant on the rates. Nobody occupied the rooms. The complainant also could not give the said rooms to anybody else and 2 Cri-260-11.sxw thus he suffered huge loss. According to prosecution, the applicant has no connection with Reliance Industries and had only cheated him. The learned Counsel contends that he was not at all concerned with the bookings and he is falsely implicated in this case. In view of the contentions, the application stands disposed of with the following directions :- Subject to the applicant depositing an amount of Rs.1 lakh with this Court as security within one week and further condition that he shall appear before the concerned police for interrogation as and when required, police will not take coercive action against him till investigation is completed. In case after investigation charge sheet is required to be filed, he shall be given three days advance notice. In case the charge sheet is filed, amount of Rs.1 lakh which may be deposited before this Court shall be transferred to the trial Court and if need be, that amount may be used to pay the compensation to the complainant. Application stands disposed of accordingly. There shall be liberty to the applicant to file fresh petition after investigation is over. (J.H.BHATIA,J.)