1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 5662 OF 2009 Vijay Mohan Kavade .... Applicant. v/s State of Maharashtra ..... Respondent. Mr. Ajay Joshi for the applicant. Mrs. M.R. Tidake, APP for the State. CORAM: V. M. KANADE, J. DATE : 19TH DECEMBER, 2009 P.C.:- 1. Heard the learned Counsel for the applicant and the learned APP for the State. 2. Applicant apprehends arrest in connection with the offence punishable under sections 376, 363, 366, 504 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code which is registered with Town Police Station Pandharpur, District Solapur vide C.R. No. 270 of 2009. 3. Prosecution case is that the prosecutrix Shardha eloped with one Bhausaheb and they stayed in a Lodge in Tuljapur where the said Bhausaheb had sexual intercourse with her. It is alleged that the applicant had helped Bhausaheb in taking away the prosecutrix to Tulzapur. Apart from that, no other role has been attributed to the present applicant. 2 4. The learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the applicant submitted that two other persons to whom the similar role is attributed in the complaint have been granted anticipatory bail by order dated 9/12/2009 in Criminal Application No.5275 of 2009. Applicant, therefore, in my view, also deserves to be released on bail in the event of his arrest since the role attributed to him is that he had seen them off when they had eloped together. 5. Applicant, therefore, in the event of his arrest in connection with C.R. No.270 of 2009 registered with Town Police Station, Pandharpur, District Solapur for the offence punishable under sections 376, 363, 366 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, be released on bail in the sum of Rs 5000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. Applicant shall report to the concerned Police Station as and when called. 6. Application is disposed of. (V.M. KANADE, J.)