1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH : NAGPUR Criminal Application No.491 of 2010 [Gopal D. Wakode Vs. State of Mah.] Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court's orders Court's or Judge's orders or directions and Registrar's orders. Mr. Amit Band, Adv., for the applicant. Mr. S.S. Doifode, APP for respondent. ----- CORAM : A.H. JOSHI, J. DATE : 05th April, 2010. 1. This is an application for grant of anticipatory bail. 2. The applicant has been named as accused in Crime No. 575/09 registered with Civil Lines Police Station, Akola, for offences under Sections 379, 353, 506 and 386 of Indian Penal Code. 3. Heard. 4. Perused the Case Diary. 5. What is seen from the First Information Report is that the accused person had fled away with the truck loaded with minor minerals, when the process of confiscation thereof was going on. 6. The initial offence was aggravated by the subsequent act of the accused. 2 7. The offence, - subject-matter – does not loss importance, because minor mineral sought to be illegally extracted and then stolen was of a small value of the amount of Rs. 1,000/-. 8. This incidence surfaced as a tip of iceberg, and cannot be seen as an incidence in isolation and a very minor crime. Though seen as a drop of water, it is assuming status in volume as ocean. 9. In this background, the applicant is not entitled to protection by way of anticipatory bail, which he is claiming, pointing at the matter to be of no gravity or of lesser gravity. 10. In these premises, at this stage, it cannot be concluded that the applicant is not involved in commission of offence, nor the offence is less severe. 11. In the result, the applicant does not have a right of grant of anticipatory bail. 12. Application is, therefore, rejected. Judge |Hedau| 3