1 abs FARAD CONTINUATION IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 5576 OF 2009 Shamsuddin Ramzan Shaikh .. 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. Shashi Pandey i/b Mr. Sunil Dubey for the applicant. Mrs. M.R. Tidke, A.P.P. for the State. CORAM : D.G. KARNIK, J. DATE : 20TH JANUARY 2010 P.C. : 1. Heard. 2. By this application, the applicant seeks bail in connection with C.R. No.155/2009 registered at Kasturba Marg Police Station, Mumbai. The alleged offence is punishable under sections 464, 467, 468, 470, 472, 420 2 read with 120-B of the I.P.C. 3. F.I.R. has been lodged by Smt. Anuja Anant Gandhi, Manager of Carter Road Branch of Vysya Bank on 18th August 2009. It is alleged that in March 2009, the Chief Executive Officer of the Bank telephoned to her and stated that one Ram Kumar Tiwari would approach her for loan and that she should inspect the papers and help him appropriately. Thereafter, Mr. Tiwari along with another person by name Mr. Shekhar Rao approached her branch for car loans. Three car loans were sanctioned. It is alleged that the bank has been deceived as the loanees were bogus. No specific role has been attributed to the applicant in the F.I.R. In her further statement recorded on the same day, the complainant has stated that the applicant had an account with the bank since December 2007 and the amount of loan was credited to his account in the year 2009. No details are given how the account was opened by the applicant in 3 the year 2007, who had introduced the account and whether any irregularities in the opening or operations of the account were noticed between the years 2007 and 2009. 4. The applicant has been arrested on 23rd August 2009 and is in custody since then. Considering the nature of the complaint, the allegations against the applicant and the role alleged to have been played by him, in my view, the applicant deserves to be granted bail. Hence, I pass the following order: ORDER The applicant be released on bail on executing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.20,000/- with two sureties of the like amount subject to a condition that he shall report his attendance to the concerned police station once a month between 1st and 5 day of every British calendar month. Breach of the condition would entail cancellation of bail. (D.G. KARNIK, J.)