( 1 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 4936 OF 2010 Ashish Onkarnath Arora APPLICANT VERSUS The State of Maharashtra & another RESPONDENTS .... Mr. R.N. Dhorde, advocate holding for Mr. S.B. Jadhav, advocate for the applicant. Mr. N.H. Borade, APP for the respondent/State. .... [CORAM : V.R. KINGAONKAR, J.] [DATE : 3rd December, 2010] PER COURT : 1. The application is for anticipatory bail. 2. It prima facie appears that informant Rajesh Gupta was duped when he had gone to Shirdi for pilgrimage on April 30th, 2009. He and his children were served juice and pedhas containing some intoxicants and after they were under the spell of intoxicants, driving licence, debit and credit cards, gold ornaments, cash, etc. valued Rs. 1,92,000/- were stolen away by a person who represented himself as Raju Sharma. From the description given by the complainant – Rajesh Gupta, the police suspected the applicant as a conman. The applicant ( 2 ) apprehends his arrest in connection with the crime registered for the offence punishable under section 328 and 379 read with section 34 of the I.P. Code. 3. It prima facie appears that there are some other similar crimes registered against the applicant and he is known for cheating the people by adopting similar modus- operandi. The learned Sessions Judge noticed that several criminal cases are pending against the applicant for identical nature of offences. It is, therefore, difficult to say that the applicant is not at all concerned with the alleged crime. For, the identity of the person who robbed the complainant is required to be verified and the description given by the complainant as semblance with the profile of the applicant. In this view of the matter, the application is dismissed. [ V.R. KINGAONKAR ] JUDGE NPJ/criapln4936-10