:1: IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.1640 OF 2005 Dinesh Mohan Chug and anr. ... Applicants versus State of Maharashtra ... Respondent ... Mr.D.V. Kedar, for the Applicants. Mr.K.V. Saste, A.P.P., for the Respondent. ... CORAM : A.M.KHANWILKAR,J. 11th March 2005 P.C.: . Heard Counsel for the parties. The prosecution case is that the Applicants are indulging in extortion racket and at their instance, one Santosh Sawant had visited the bakery of the complainant threatening to arrange for the extortion money. On the basis of information regarding that episode, which happened on 24th February 2005, trap was laid :2: when the said Santosh Sawant; and Mohan Thakur, Ashok Kadu, Suresh Janardan and Damodar Ramchandra were arrested. During the interrogation, the co-accused disclosed that they were working for the Applicants. There is also material to indicate that Applicant No.1 had threatened the complainant on 3rd November 2004. . As there is strong circumstance to indicate complicity of the Applicants in the commission of the crime, which is serious one, not a case for anticipatory bail. I see no reason to depart from the conclusion reached by the Court below in rejecting the anticipatory bail application. Hence, dismissed. (A.M.KHANWILKAR,J.)