IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 257 OF 2008 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 213 OF 2008. Ashok Eknath Sondekar..... ...... ......Applicant. V/s State of Maharashtra. ... ...... .....Respondent. Mr.B.R. Patil i/by Mr.Ujwal R. Agandsurve, Adv. For the Applicant. Mrs.P.P.Shinde, APP For the respondent. CORAM: A.P.DESHPANDE, J. 14/3/08 PC: Appeal admitted. The applicant-accused has been convicted for the offence punishable under section 7 so also under section 13(1)(d) read with section 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act and sentenced to suffer RI for two years and to pay fine of Rs.3000/-, in default to suffer RI for fifteen days on both the counts. Both the sentences are to run concurrently. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant was released on bail during the trial and was also released on bail by the trial Court after conviction and he has not misused the liberty. It is stated that the fine amount has been paid. It is also submitted that the appeal is not likely to come up for final hearing 1 before the expiry of period of sentence. In the result I deem it appropriate to release the applicant on bail. Hence the applicant shall be released on bail on same terms and conditions on which he was released on bail during the trial but on executing fresh bail bonds. Application stands disposed of. 14.3.08 2