1 CR.APL NO.665/2011 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD 3. APPLN/665/2011 SHAKUNTALA NARAYAN BHOKARE [Criminal] V/S THE STATE OF MAHARASH TRA AND ANR -------------------------------------------------- Office notes, office Memoranda of Court’s or Coram,appearances, Court’s orders Judge’s or directions and Registrar’s orders Orders Mr. P.V.Mandlik, Senior Counsel, h/f Mr.Amol S.Gandhi, Adv., for the applicant. Mr. V.H.Dighe, APP for State. ... CORAM: K.U.CHANDIWAL, J. DATE:8-3-2011 1. Heard. On 21.8.2010, Tehsildar, Nanded, lodged report in the capacity as Taluka Executive Magistrate against the illegal activities at the Government Medical College and Hospital at Nanded, naming nine female employees of Class IV category. Several allegations are made of extracting money from the patients, their relations and harassment by discovering several ways and means, even on occasions, infants are taken for ransom to comply their demands. 2 CR.APL NO.665/2011 2. Learned Counsel for the accused/applicant submits, at the relevant time, whenever the accusations are hurled, the accused/applicant was not on duty, can be verified from the official record. He also adds, it is more a case of departmental action and would not attract penal provisions. 3. Learned A.P.P. submits, voluminous record implicates accused/applicant with illegal activities. The patients have put their grievance in statements, even social organizations have put up their grievance. 4. I quite see that there are numerous complaints of the relatives of the patients and of harassment and ill-treatment and dereliction in official duties of the Class IV staff, at the above referred Government Hospital, however, for that purpose, custodial interrogation is not imperative. Arrest of other accused by itself will not be a parameter to be applied to the 3 CR.APL NO.665/2011 particular case when the accused/applicant submits that she was on leave. 5. Since learned Senior Counsel submits, the accused/applicant will not challenge her identity if identified by any witness, this statement is also accepted. Hence order: ORDER (A) In the event of arrest of the accused/applicant in Crime No. 201/2010 registered at Vajirabad Police Station, dist. Nanded, she be released on her furnishing P.R. bond and surety in the sum of Rs. 5,000/- ( Rs. Five thousand). (B) The applicant to attend the investigator on every alternate day between 5 p.m.to 7 p.m. till 30th June, 2011. (C) The accused/applicant shall not challenge her identity, if specifically the witnesses identify her to be a person having derelicted in her duties or 4 CR.APL NO.665/2011 demanded gratification from particular patient. Application allowed with above conditions. (K.U.CHANDIWAL) JUDGE ... AGP/665-11crapl