1 mpt IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4002 of 2009 Shahjad Ali @ Salim Shahabuuddin Shah ... Applicant versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent ... Mr.R.S.Kawle for the applicant. Mr.K.V.Saste APP for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATED : 13th January 2010 P.C. 1. Heard. 2. By this application, applicant seeks bail in connection with C.R.No.I/102/2008 registered at NRI Sagari police station, Navi Mumbai. 3. The applicant was arrested in connection with an offence of the FIR lodged by the father of the minor girl Kavita. Kavita’s statement has also been recorded. She has stated in her statement that she voluntarily and of her own will left the house of her father and want to the applicant as she was in love with him. She has further stated that 2 they had physical relationship with her consent. Learned counsel for the applicant states that thereafter the applicant has also married Kavita. 4. It is true that prima facie Kavita was underage. However, on her own statement she had left the house of the father on her own and out of love for the applicant. The physical relations were also with the consent. In the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case, applicant can be granted bail. Hence, I pass the following order:- O R D E R Applicant be released on bail on his executing personal bond of Rs.15,000/- with two sureties in the like amount. (D.G. KARNIK,J.)