- 1 - VPH IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION No. 87 OF 2008 Bharat V. Yedke Applicant vs. The State of Maharashtra Respondent Mr.Shaunak Mehta i/b Niranjan Munday, Advocate for the applicant. Mrs. M. M. Deshmukh, APP for the respondent. CORAM : D. G. KARNIK, J. DATE : MARCH 13, 2008. PC 1. Heard. 2. By this application, the applicant seeks relaxation of condition of deposit of passport with the court of session imposed by this Court while granting bail by an order dated 2nd November 2007. 3. The applicant has filed an affiavit stating that he had not ever applied for a passport and has never held any passport. Therefore, he is unable to comply with the condition. Notice of the application was issued to the Regional Passport Officer. Learned APP tenders copy of - 2 - the letter of the Regonal passport Officer Mumbai dated 13th March 2008 which confirms that no passport was issued by the Regional Passport Office, Mumbai to the applicant. The letter of the Passport Officer is taken on record and marked "X" for identification. 4. In view of the fact that the applicant does not hold any passport, the condition of deposit of passport imposed by this Court by order dated 2nd November 2007 passed in Crim. Appln. No.1163 of 2007 is substituted by the following condition- . In the event applicant ever applies for passport, he shall immediately inform the Session Judge and on receipt of the passport, he shall forthwith deposit the same in Session Court. Sd/- [ D. G. KARNIK, J.]