{1} IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 4101 OF 2009 Utkarsh s/o Pradip Ghodke, Age-21 years, Occ-Education R/o Devdaithan, Tq-Shrigonda, Dist-Ahmednagar APPLICANT VERSUS The State of Maharashtra Through Police Station Officer, Shrigonda police Station, Shrigonda Dist-Ahmednagar RESPONDENT ....... Mr.N.V.Gaware, Advocate for the applicant Mr.N.B.Patil, APP for the State ....... [CORAM : A.V.POTDAR, J.] DATE: 2nd December 2009 PER COURT: 1. By the present application, the applicant has prayed to release him on bail in connection with CR No.409/2009 registered with Shrigonda police station for an offence punishable u/s 363, 376, 506 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicant followed by the {2} submissions of the learned APP. 3. It appears that the offence was registered on 02.11.2009 with Shrigonda police station on the compliant of one Sushma Sasane. She has alleged that she is 21 years old and was abducted by the applicant under the pretext to marry her and taken up at various places, where she was sexually ravished by him. The applicant came to be arrested on 02.11.2009 itself. 4. Today, the parents of the applicant as well as the prosecutrix along with her parents are present in the Court. The parents of the applicant have come with the concrete proposal that the they are ready to accept the prosecutrix as their daughter in law. To the said proposal the parents of the prosecutrix are also agreeable. Statement is made by the parents of the applicant that within 8 days of release of the applicant on bail, they will see that the marriage of the applicant and prosecutrix would take place. This assurance is accepted as undertaking to the Court. In view of this undertaking and considering the social stigma, which may cause to the prosecutrix, without deciding this application on merits, however in view of the proposal given by the parents of the applicant and accepted by the prosecutrix and her parents, the application requires to be allowed. 5. In the result, the application is allowed. The applicant be released on bail on his furnishing solvent surety in the sum of {3} Rs.20,000/- and on executing PR bond in the like amount. The applicant to give attendance to Shrigonda police station on every alternate day till he marries the prosecutrix. 6. It is, however, clarified that this order is not passed on merits, but disposed of on the assurance given by the parents of the applicant to the Court. [A.V.POTDAR, J.] drp/criapln4101-09