IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRI.APPLICATION NO.3738 OF 2008 CRI.APPLICATION NO.3738 OF 2008 CRI.APPLICATION NO.3738 OF 2008 Mr Ranij Vinod Singh, .. Applicant Vs The State of Maharashtra, .. Respondent Mr Prakash Naik, for the applicant. Ms P.P.Shinde, APP, for the respondent. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE,J. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE,J. CORAM : D.B.BHOSALE,J. DATE : 10/12/2008 DATE : 10/12/2008 DATE : 10/12/2008 PC: PC: PC: 1. Heard Mr.Naik, learned counsel for the applicant and Ms.Shinde, learned APP, for the State. 2. The applicant is seeking bail in C.R.No.I-78 of 2008 of Kasa police station, Dist-Thane. The said crime has been registered against the applicant and two others for having allegedly committed an offence punishable under sections 406, 379 read with 34 of IPC. 3. The prosecution case is that the complainant-company had sent a tanker loaded with chemical from Gujarat to JNPT, Uran. The said chemical was to be exported to Taiwan. It is alleged that on the way to JNPT Uran the present applicant along with the driver and one another stopped the vehicle near Dahanu, on Mumbai-Ahamadbad Road, within the jurisdiction of Kasa Police Station. There they were cought red-handed, while removing the seal and chemical from the tanker worth Rs.4,70,000/-. Mr Naik, learned counsel for the applicant, submitted that the applicant was neither a driver on the tanker nor was he working with owner of the tanker in any capacity, and therefore, at the most the provision of section 379 only will be attracted. Having considered the submissions of the learned counsel for the applicant and overall facts and circumstances of the case, I am inclined to enlarge the applicant on bail. Hence, the following order. . The applicant to be released on bail in the sum of Rs.50,000/- with two local sureties to make up the said amount, subject to condition that he shall report to the concerned police station on every Saturday between 7 and 8 pm for a period of six months from today and thereafter one very alternate Saturday till conclusion of the trial. . While passing this order I shall not be understood to have expressed any opinion on merits of the case and the trial Court shall deal with the case without being influenced by the observations made in this order. (D.B.BHOSALE, J.) (D.B.BHOSALE, J.) (D.B.BHOSALE, J.)