1 ABA-78.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.78 OF 2011 Aslam Khan Fakir Mohammed Khan .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent Shri A.M. Saraogi for the Applicant. Ms A.A. Mane, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: FEBRUARY 11, 2011 P.C: This is an application for anticipatory bail by a person who was named at serial No.21 in the FIR in respect of an incident which took place in December, 1992. Several persons who had been named in the FIR have been already tried and acquitted by the trial Court. Since the applicant's name is there in the FIR, the applicant apprehends that he may also be arrested. He states that he was available throughout and in fact had obtained passports for himself and his wife, presumably after the police inquiry was conducted. Therefore, it is not the case that the 2 ABA-78.11 applicant was absconding. Therefore, the learned counsel for the applicant states that the applicant be given protection for a month to enable him to approach the Court of Sessions to surrender and seek regular bail from that Court since charge-sheet must have been filed before the Court of Sessions which may have been kept on dormant file. The learned APP states that one month is a very long time and wants seven days' time to be given. Considering the fact that the case is of 1992 and some time would be required for the Sessions Court to retrieve the record and consider the applicant's application for bail, the applicant shall have protection for a period of fifteen days or such time the Sessions Court decides his bail application, which ever is earlier. Till then, the applicant may not be subjected to arrest. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)