:1: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.582 OF 2005 Pravin Shivcharan Rohila Rajput ... Applicant versus The State of Maharashtra & ors. ... Respondents ... Mr. Subhash Jha, for the Applicant. Mr. V.B. Konde Deshmukh, A.P.P., for the Respondents. ... CORAM : A.M.KHANWILKAR,J. 4th February 2005 P.C.: . Heard Counsel for the parties. Learned A.P.P. states that even now instructions from all the concerned police stations have not been received. Having regard to the grievance made in the application that the Applicant is being shown as arrested in successive cases when he becomes due for release in the first case, in this peculiar sitaution, I see substance in the :2: apprehension expressed by the Applicant that he would be kept in custody for long period, even beyond the statutory period, by taking recourse to such modus operendi of the Police. In the circumstances, the petition can be disposed of by directing the Respondent State to give 72 hours’ notice to the Applicant before effecting his arrest in connection with any new case other than the one for which he is already in custody since 15th January 2005, so as to enable the Applicant to take recourse to remedy as may be permissible by law. Ordered accordingly. Petition disposed of on the above terms. . All concerned to act on the authenticated copy of this order. (A.M.KHANWILKAR,J.)