sg 1 BA1103_11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO. 1103 OF 2011 Vikram @ Gabbar Ramjawari Bidlan ... Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Ms. Anjali Patil, Advocate for Applicant. Smt. P.P. Shinde, APP for the Respondent State. WITH CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO. 1602 OF 2011 Sandeep Hairram Biganiya ... Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent Shri Himanshu Shinde, Advocate for Applicant. Smt. P.P. Shinde, APP for the Respondent State. CORAM : J. H. BHATIA, J. DATE : 22nd NOVEMBER, 2011 P. C. : The applicants seek to be released on bail in Crime No.40/2011 registered with Pimpri Police Station Pune for the offence u/s 364(A), 387 IPC. 2. Prosecution case in brief is that, on 5.2.2011 at 6.00 p.m. one Jitendra Narendra Parmar, a boy aged about 8 years, left his house to attend tuition. However, he did not come back. At about midnight, his father Narendra received a call on his mobile No.9822075244 from a Mobile No. 919960152417, by which a person told him that if he wanted his son alive he sg 2 BA1103_11 should give 2 khoka, i.e. an amount of Rs. 2 crore. The boy was also made to speak on the mobile. After that a report was lodged and finally the said boy was found at Laxmeshwar Lodge in District Gadakh (Hubli) Karnataka. It was revealed that accused No.2 Salim Abubakr Shaikh had taken the boy to the said lodge and detained him there till 10.02.2011 when police reached there and took custody of the boy. The statement of the boy recorded by the police also reveals that he was kidnapped and taken to that room by Salim Abubakr Shaikh. As per the statement of the boy, accused Vikram also used to come to that room. Besides this, there is no material against him. According to prosecution, applicant Vikram was involved in two other criminal cases of theft and robbery. It is contended that a country made pistol and a chopper, axe etc. were recovered from Sandeep but there is no other material to connect him with the present case. 3. In view of the above, applicant Vikram @ Gabbar Ramjawari Bidlan be released on his executing P.R. of Rs.25,000/- with one solvent surety with condition that he shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence and shall also report at Pimpri Police Station on 1st and 3rd Saturday of every month till end of the trial. 4. Applicant Sandeep Hariram Bigania be released on his executing P.R. of Rs.5000/- with a surety in like amount. (J. H. BHATIA, J)