IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH AT NAGPUR CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1323/2009 (Santosh Panjab Mirashe vs. State ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, Court's or Judge's orders appearances, Court's orders of directions and Registrar's orders - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- CORAM : S.R.DONGAONKAR, J. DATE : 15 th APRIL, 2009 Heard Shri Jaltare, Advocate, for the applicant and Shri Sonare, APP, for respondent State. The applicant is accused of the offence under Section 376 of the I.P.C. The offence is alleged to be dated 22.6.2007. Charge sheet appears to be filed on 2.1.2008. It appears that such application before the trial Court was moved on 6.1.2008 and it was rejected on 17.1.2008. This application is filed on 1st April, 2009 i.e after considerable lapse of time on rejecting his anticipatory bail application by the trial Court. There is no specific explanation. Though delay may not be the sole ground to dismiss this application, fact remains that the charge sheet was filed long back and since then the applicant is avoiding arrest. Why the prosecution could not make arrest till this date is mystery, but then because of this inexplicible delay, this application cannot be considered. It is rejected. The applicant may appear before the trial Court and seek appropriate relief. Protection from arrest for two days granted for allowing applicant to appear before the trial Court on 17th April, 2009. JUDGE Rvjalit