1 CA-5384.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.5384 OF 2010 Sachin Vasudeo Shetty .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri V.V. Purwant for the Applicant. Ms Geeta P. Mulekar, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: DECEMBER 09, 2010 P.C: This is an application for anticipatory bail by a person who was refused anticipatory bail by the learned Sessions Judge because the allegation against the applicant was that he uttered caste-based abuses in respect of one Chandrashekhar Angade who belong to the Scheduled Caste community. These utterances were made on the fateful date at a sweetmeat shop in Thane. Shri Bhagwan Nivrutti Kamble, Asst. Commissioner of Police, Thane is present in the Court. He is the I.O.. The learned APP, on the instructions of Shri Kamble, states that though the I.O. tried his best, he could not locate any person who must have heard any such utterances made by the applicant. Therefore, the learned counsel for the applicant may be right in submitting that 2 CA-5384.10 it cannot be said that the applicant had indulged in hurling any caste-based abuses in public view. Therefore, since an offence punishable under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is, even according to the I.O., not made out, in the event of his arrest, the applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.I-446 of 2010 of Naupada Police Station, District Thane on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.25,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.25,000/- on the condition that the applicant shall report at the police station concerned on 13-12-2010 at 10:00 a.m. for interrogation and thereafter as and when required by the I.O.. The applicant shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him/her from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer and he shall not leave the country without the prior permission of the trial Court. This order shall remain in force till the charge-sheet is filed. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)