1 1 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDIATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDIATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDIATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO.854 OF 2004 WRIT PETITION NO.854 OF 2004 WRIT PETITION NO.854 OF 2004 Ankush Sriram Karawade .. Petitioner Vs. Janata Sahakari Bank Ltd. & Anr. .. Respondents. Mr.Anoop Sharma i/b Mr.S.M.Kazi for the petitioner. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE, J. DATED : 21ST FEBRUARY, 2005 DATED : 21ST FEBRUARY, 2005 DATED : 21ST FEBRUARY, 2005 P.C.: . Heard Mr.Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioner. 2. This petition is directed against the concurrent findings recorded by the courts below by which the petitioner is held to have misappropriated an amount of Rs.57,000/- of respondent no.1 - bank. It is clear from the judgment of the courts below that the petitioner was incharge of the branch in which the alleged misappropriation took place. The only submission advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that in the criminal proceedings, the petitioner had been acquitted in 1992 and while doing so the appellate Court had made observations that the petitioner had been made scapegoat by the 2 2 2 higher officers. Admittedly, the petitioner was incharge of the branch. According to Mr.Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner was acting under the directions of his superiors. However, that has not been established in the instant proceedings. Merely because he has been acquitted by the appellate Court in the criminal proceedings that cannot be a ground for setting aside the concurrent findings recorded by the courts below which, in my opinion, are based on sufficient material on record to sustain those findings. I do not find any ground whatsoever made out by the petitioner to interfere with the concurrent findings recorded by the courts below in extremely limited jurisdiction of this Court under Article 227 of the Constitution of India. The writ petition, therefore, fails and is dismissed as such. (D.B.Bhosale, J.) (D.B.Bhosale, J.) (D.B.Bhosale, J.)