1 abs FARAD CONTINUATION IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 440 OF 2010 Nasir Ismail Khan .. Applicant V/s The State of Maharashtra .. Respondent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Court's or Judge's Orders Coram, appearances, Court's Orders or directions and Registrar's Orders Mr. V.V. Purwant for the applicant. Mr. S.A. Shaikh, A.P.P. for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATE : 8TH FEBRUARY 2010 P.C. : 1. Heard. 2. By this application, the applicant seeks bail in connection with C.R. No.237 of 2009 registered at Samarth Police Station, Pune for an alleged offence punishable under sections 465, 466, 467, 468, 472, 420 read with 34 of the I.P.C. 2 3. The prosecution case in short is that on an information received that bogus PAN cards, driving licences, ration cards, MSEB bills, etc. are being prepared and/or duplicated in a computer shop “Arjun Enterprises”, the police conducted a raid and found out certain incriminating material stored on a computer as well as some false rubber stamps including rubber stamps/seals of the government and government officer. Two persons, namely Rajnish Prakash Gujar and Jitendra Rasiklal Shah were found to be working on the computer and they were arrested. The computer and the incriminating materials were seized under a panchanama. The police also took out prints of the ration card, driving licence, PAN card etc. of the material stored in the computer. Among others, a PAN card and a ration card in the name of the present applicant was found to have been stored on the computer. The present applicant has therefore been 3 arrested. 4. The applicant has not been named in the F.I.R. In the F.I.R., only Rajnish Prakash Gujar and Jitendra Rasiklal Shah are named as an accsued as the persons involved in preparing false documents. The applicant is not shown to be privy to making of any false document, but is arrested only because copy of his PAN card and ration card was found to be stored in the computer. On the basis of the present material, prima facie, the applicant cannot be connected to the crime. May be he was a privy to the crime or he coud be an innocent person who had got his PAN card and ration card scanned and photo copied for his own use but was clandestinely stored in the computer system by the accused. At this stage there is no material against the applicant except that the computer contained an image of his PAN card and ration card. 4 5. The applicant is in custody since 3rd December 2009 but no other material has been found against him. In the circumstances, the applicant can be granted conditional bail. Hence, I pass the following order: ORDER The applicant be released on bail on his executing a personal bond of Rs.15,000/- with two sureties of the like amount subject to the following conditions: (i) The applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence and shall cooperate with the investigation. (ii) The applicant shall report his attendance to the concerned police station once every fortnight, i.e. on every 1st or 2nd and 15th or 16th day of British calendar month, till the charge- sheet is filed. (D.G. KARNIK, J.)