1 CA-5151.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.5151 OF 2010 Vinod Ramhari Khule .... Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri Subhash Jha i/b M/s. Law Global for the Applicant. Shri J.P. Kharge, APP, for the State. Shri Ganesh Gole for the First Informant. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: DECEMBER 22, 2010 P.C: This is an application for bail by a person who has been arrested in connection with crime No.I-149 of 2009, registered at Shivajinagar Police Station, Ambernath, District Thane, for the offences punishable under Sections 302, 307, 427, 149 and 120-B of the IPC. The allegation is that on the incidental day, the first informant was told by Mahendra Bhoir, Jitu Bhoir and Shailesh Kulkarni that they were called by Madhu Bhoir at the petrol pump of Rana Roy. According to Mahesh Nare, Samir Gosavi went inside the 2 CA-5151.10 office of Rana Roy where Madhu Bhoir, Mangesh Bhoir and Ganesh Bhoir were sitting in the office. They started abusing Samir. Bhalchandra Bhoir, Prakash Bhoir, Arun Bhoir, Pradip Dube, Jitu Bhoir, Shailesh Kulkarni and Mahendra Bhoir also entered the office and abused Samir. Ganesh Bhoir, Madhu Bhoir and Mahendra Bhoir caught Samir and then Bhalchandra Bhoir shot at Samir from his revolver. Mahesh managed to run away. This incident took place on 6-12-2009 and a report was made on the same day. Statements of various witnesses were recorded, including that of Shankar Sugappa Ignur-Yadav on 7-12-2009. In that statement, Shankar did not mention about the involvement of the present applicant Vinod Khule. Involvement of the present applicant was disclosed only in the supplementary statement of Shankar, recorded on 23-12-2009 and, that too, to the effect that the applicant was standing outside the petrol pump with a wooden stick and had caused damage to the car of deceased Samir. The learned APP as well as the learned counsel for the first informant could not point out any other statement of any other witness indicating the involvement of the applicant in the assault on Samir. The matter was adjourned on the last occasion to enable the prosecution to point out 3 CA-5151.10 whether any previous association of the present applicant with the assailants Bhoirs could be ascertained. There is nothing to show that the present applicant was in the past associated with the assailants. In view of this, given the nature of the involvement of the applicant, the applicant be released on bail in the afore- stated crime number on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs. 50,000/-. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)