:1: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.2104 OF 2005 Dr. Sachin Kasat ... Applicant versus State of Maharashtra ... Respondent ... Mr.Tejas Deshpande, for the Applicant. Mr.V.B. Konde Deshmukh, A.P.P., for the Respondent. ... CORAM : A.M.KHANWILKAR,J. 30th March 2005 P.C.: . The Applicant has directly approached to this Court apprehending arrest in connection with offence registered with MIDC Police Station, Andheri (East). The reason for directly approaching this Court stated across the Bar by the learned Counsel is that the practice before the Sessions Court in Greater Mumbai is that no :2: anticipatory bail application is heard by the Judge, unless 24 hours’ advance notice is given to the concerned police station. According to the Applicant, he was apprehending arrest and giving notice would have precipitated the situation, that too without any protection to the Applicant in the meantime. . Indeed, the Court ought to insist that prior notice be given to the concerned police station, but there is no reason to further qualify that such notice should be at least 24 hours’ advance notice. The relief of anticipatory bail is always an emergent application preferred before the Court and it is for the Court, whether to grant ad interim relief till further orders to be passed on the application or otherwise. But not to hear the application at all is not the correct procedure, which is being adopted by the Sessions Court for Greater Mumbai, if the grievance of the Applicant is genuine. . Be that as it may, as the Applicant has directly approached this Court, as rightly :3: objected to by the learned A.P.P., there is no exceptional circumstance for entertaining this anticipatory bail application directly before this Court. Instead, the Applicant is given limited protection upto 1st April 2005 to enable the Applicant to approach the Sessions Court for the same relief, if so advised. That application will be considered on its own merits in accordance with law. The Applicant shall give advance intimation to the concerned police station about the date and time when he intends to move the anticipatory bail application before the concerned Judge of the Sessions Court, as is the practice in that Court; however, such notice need not necessarily be 24 hours’ advance notice, as mentioned earlier. . Copy of this order be forwarded to the Principal Judge, Sessions Court for Greater Mumbai, to enable him to issue appropriate instructions to all concerned on the above terms. . Application disposed of on the above terms. :4: (A.M.KHANWILKAR,J.)