IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 202 OF 2008 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 75 OF 2008. Vidyadhar Rajgonda Patil... ...... ......Applicant. V/s State of Maharashtra. ... ...... .....Respondent. Mr.Sudatta J. Patil, Adv. For the Applicant. Mr.Y.M.Nakhwa, APP For the respondent. CORAM: A.P.DESHPANDE, J. 14/3/08 PC: Appeal admitted. The applicant-accused has been convicted for the offence punishable under section 7 of Prevention of Corruption Act and sentenced to suffer RI for thee years and to pay fine of Rs.1000/-, in default to suffer SI for two months. The applicant has also been also convicted for the offence punishable under section 13(1)(d) read with section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and sentenced to suffer RI for one year and to pay fine of Rs.1000/- in default to suffer SI for one month. Both the sentences are to run concurrently. Hence the maximum substantive sentence is for a period of three years. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant was released on bail during the trial and has not misused the liberty. It is also submitted that the appeal is not likely to come up for final hearing before the expiry of period of 1 sentence. In the result I deem it appropriate to release the applicant on bail. Hence the applicant shall be released on bail on same terms and conditions on which he was released on bail during the trial but on executing fresh bail bonds. Application stands disposed of. 14.3.08 2