1 Cri-A-90-11.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Mhi CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 90 OF 2011 Shafiqual @ Khawish Abbu Tahis Shaikh ... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Smt. Anjali Patil,Advocate, for the applicant. Smt. P.P.Shinde, APP, for the respondent - State. CORAM: J.H.BHATIA,J. DATE : 22nd February, 2011. P.C. 1. Leave to amend. Amendment be effected immediately. 2. Heard. The applicant seeks to be released on bail in Crime No. 186/2010 registered at Jogeshwari Police Station under Sections 489-B, 489-C, 420 read with Section 34 of IPC 3. Prosecution case, in brief, is that one Sohel Rana Shahidali Mandal gave a fake currency note of Rs.1,000/- to the first informant Parshuram Pawar as he had to pay the amount of Rs.86/- being the price of goods purchased. The first informant found that the said note was counterfeit and therefore immediately he 2 Cri-A-90-11.sxw called the police. Said Sohel Rana was taken in custody and the said note was seized from him. Later on, the present applicant was arrested on suspicion and, according to the prosecution, the applicant admitted that he had given seven fake notes of Rs.1,000/- each to Sohel Rana. During search of his house, one fake note of denomination of Rs.1,000/- was recovered. Except the statement of the accused before the police that he had supplied the fake notes to Sohel Rana, there is no other material that he had distributed the notes. For possession of the counterfeit notes, prima facie offence under Section 489(C) of IPC is made out. That offence is bailable. 4. Therefore, the applicant be released on his executing P.R. of Rs. 10,000/- with a surety in like amount with condition that he shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence and shall also report at the Police Station on first Sunday of every month till end of trial. (J.H.BHATIA,J.)