1 CA-4125.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.4125 OF 2010 Bandu @ Suryakant Ranoji Andekar .... Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri Shirish Gupte, Senior Counsel with Ms Sharmila Kaushik for the Applicant. Ms R.V. Newton, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: OCTOBER 11, 2010 P.C: This is an application for bail by a person who is alleged to be the mastermind or the person behind the assault on one Somnath Padwal. The applicant claims that on the incidental day, in fact, he had left Pune for Delhi by a morning flight of King Fisher Airways and was not at all in Pune. Fortunately, he had made this claim when he applied for anticipatory bail in March, 2010. Thus, the I.O. had ample opportunity to rule out this claim of alibi by the applicant. Rather than doing this, the I.O. seems to have chosen to write a letter on 7-10-2010 to the 2 CA-4125.10 Director of the Civil Aerodrome at Pune about the number of flights going out of Pune to Delhi and coming from Delhi, etc.. This apart, the statement of Somnath dated 20-3-2010 itself shows that the allegation against the applicant was that the applicant was sitting in a rickshaw when the victim was fired at. Therefore, though the applicant may be the mastermind or the person behind the attack, but because of the slipshod manner in which the police have chosen to go about this investigation, the applicant would have to be admitted to bail. Since the investigation is complete and the charge-sheet has been filed, the applicant be released on bail in C.R. No. 54 of 2010 of Lashkar Police Station, Pune on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs. 50,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.50,000/- on the condition that the applicant will attend the police station concerned on every Sunday in between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. for the next three months and thereafter on the first Sunday of every month till the trial is over. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)