1 sns IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MUMBAI APPELLATE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.689 OF 2011 Shrimant Pandurang Munde ...Applicant. v/s State of Maharashtra ...Respondent. Mr.P.K.Dhakephalkar i/by N.P.Shimpi, ,advs. For the Applicant. Mr.Y.M.Nakhwa, APP For the Respondent/State. CORAM : J.H. BHATIA,J. DATED : SEPTEMBER 5,2011. P.C. 1 Applicant seeks anticipatory bail in the crime no.105 of 2011 registered at Pangari police station on the basis of order passed by the learned Magistrate to investigate the case under Section 156(3) of the Cr.P.C. in the complaint lodged by one Mrs. Prafullata Shivdas Bugade. 2 According to the prosecution, one Aryarup Tourism and Club Resort Private Limited Company had induced large number of people to invest amounts with that company by giving promise of handsome returns. According to the complainant, the present applicant was working as an agent of the company. Applicant claims that he himself was one of the investors and victim of that company and he was the 2 first person, who had lodged a report with Barshi police station and it was registered as crime no.230 of 2010 on 13.11.2010 and after that several cases have been registered against the company. As per the report submitted by the learned APP, so far 17 cases have been registered against the said company at different police stations. Out of them 13 cases are registered in the Solapur District itself. It appears that among all those 17 cases, first in time was the F.I.R. registered on the basis of report lodged by the applicant himself. Later on, crime no. 298 of 2010 was registered at Walchandnagar police station on the report of one Rajendra P. Kadam. In that case , applicant was granted anticipatory bail by this Court. In view of the large number of cases registered, the investigation of those cases have been handed over to the State CID by the order dated 2.9.2011 passed by the Director General of the police. CID has yet to begin investigation of those cases and to find out role of different persons including the present applicant. 3 Taking into consideration the facts noted 3 above, in my opinion, application may be disposed off with the following directions: In case, the police/State CID find it necessary to arrest the present applicant in crime no.105 of 2011 registered at Pangari police station , the applicant shall be given 72 hours prior notice of the same. 4 Application stands disposed off accordingly. (J.H. BHATIA,J.)