1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRI.APPLICATION NO.2944 OF 2009 Salman Ekbal Patel .. Applicant Vs State of Maharashtra .. Respondent Mr. A.S.Patel, Advocate for the Applicant. Mr. S.S.Pednekar, APP, for the Respondent. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATE : 09/07/2009 PC: 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned APP for the respondent. 2. The applicant is seeking anticipatory bail in C.R.No. I -162 of 2009 of Panvel City Police Station. The said crime has been registered against the applicant and one another for having allegedly committed an offence punishable under sections 326, 504 read with 34 of IPC. 3. Mr Patil, learned counsel for the applicant, at the outset, invited my attention to the order dated 11.5.2009 passed by the Sessions Court in Criminal Misc. Application No.310 of 2009, granting anticipatory bail to the co-accused, and submitted that T 2 the applicant is also entitled for anticipatory bail on the ground of parity. He submitted that there is absolutely no difference between the role attributed and allegedly played by the applicant and the role of the co-accused who has been enlarged on bail vide order dated 11.5.2009. I have perused the order passed by the Sessions Court. It shows that the age of the applicant, who was hardly 18 years, was taken into consideration by the learned Judge for granting him anticipatory bail. The age of the applicant is 21 years. There is no dispute that the role attributed to both is identical. Keeping that in view and considering the nature of allegations against the applicant, I am satisfied that custodial interrogation of the applicant is not necessary. Hence, the following order. In the event of arrest, the applicant to be released on bail in the sum of Rs.5,000/- with one or two sureties to make up the said amount, subject to the conditions incorporated in sub-section (2) of Section 438 of Cr.P.C. Further, the applicant is directed to report to the concerned police station every alternate day between 10 am and 12 noon till 23.7.2009 and thereafter on every alternate Saturday between 6 and 7 pm till filing of the charge sheet. While passing this order I shall not be understood to have expressed any opinion on merits of the case and the trial 3 Court shall deal with the case uninfluenced by the observations made in this order. Application is disposed of. (D. B. Bhosale, J.)