1 BA-445.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE - CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.445 OF 2011 Chiranjib Ronudas Saha .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. .... Respondents Ms Pranali Kakade i/b Subhash Hulyalkar for the Applicant. Ms G.P. Mulekar, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: MARCH 31, 2011 P.C: This is an application for bail by a person who has been arrested for his involvement in offences punishable under Sections 4 and 5 of Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act. The learned APP opposes this application on the ground that the girls were 16 and 17 years in age. The medical certificate shows that one of the girls was above 16 years but below 18 years and the other was above 17 years but below 19 years. Therefore, according to the learned APP, the punishment would not be less than 7 years but could also extend to 10 years of imprisonment. All the same, even the 2 BA-445.11 I.O., before the trial Magistrate, himself had stated that he had no objection to the applicant being bailed out. Therefore, it is not clear as to why the applicant's presence in custody is required pending investigation and trial of this offence, which attracts punishment, to say, of 7 to 10 years. In view of this, the application is allowed. The applicant be released on bail in C.R. No.3013 of 2011 of Vimantal Police Station, District Pune on his furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.25,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.25,000/- on the condition that the applicant shall attend the police station concerned on every evening between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. for the next fifteen days and thereafter on every Sunday between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. till the charge-sheet is filed. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)