1 ABA-314.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.314 OF 2011 {For Anticipatory Bail} Raju Pundlik Deshpande .... Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri Anilkumar Patil for the Applicant. Ms Alpa T. Javeri, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: MAY 02, 2011 P.C: 1. This is an application for anticipatory bail by a person who is alleged to have purchased a building under construction and continued with the construction after obtaining the requisite sanction from the competent authority. Unfortunately, the building collapsed and two persons died under the building. The learned counsel for the applicant states that the applicant could not at all have been attributed with any intention or knowledge that any person would die in the building under construction. All the same, to show his bona fide his client would deposit 2 ABA-314.11 with the trial Court a sum of Rs.50,000/- per person, that is, Rs.1,00,000/- in all within a period of two weeks without prejudice to his rights to contest the claim in the competent Court. In view of this, since the building has already collapsed, the documents are already on record and the investigation is in progress, the applicant s being in custody for the purpose of investigation may not be necessary. Therefore, in the event of the applicant's arrest in C.R. No.I-130 of 2010 of NRI Police Station, Navi Mumbai, District Thane, the applicant be released on bail 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 deposit with the trial Court an amount of Rs.1,00,000/- within a period of two weeks, which amount the trial Court would invest in fixed deposit in any nationalized Bank and shall deal with the same at the end of the trial or at the application of the applicant transmit it to the Court competent to deal with the question of compensation payable to the victims. If the applicant fails to deposit the amount within the stipulated period, this order shall stand revoked without reference to the Court. The applicant shall report at the police 3 ABA-314.11 station concerned on 9-5-2011 at 11:00 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. 2. This order shall remain in force till the trial is over with the only stipulation that if charge-sheeted, the applicant may furnish fresh bond before the trial Court in view of the Judgment of the Supreme Court, dated 2-12-2010, delivered in Criminal Appeal No.2271 of 2010, arising out of SLP (Cri.) No. 7615 of 2009 {Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.}. 3. The application accordingly stands disposed of. 4. All concerned to act on the authenticated copy of this order. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)