1 CAG-5807.10 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.5807 OF 2010 Madhukar Bhika Bachhav .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent WITH CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.5819 OF 2010 Sandeep Shivaji Charoskar .... Applicant Vs. The State .... Respondent Shri A.R. Pitale for the Applicant in CA-5807/2010. Shri S.R. Page for the Applicant in CA-5819/2010. Ms P.H. Kantharia, APP, for the State in both CAs. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: JANUARY 12, 2011 P.C: 1. The applicants in these two applications are a Junior Clerk and an Operator of SETU office at Nashik who are alleged to have assisted the Project Officer in preparing lists of beneficiaries under a scheme under 2 CAG-5807.10 which the Government gave gold mangalsutras to Adivasis. An offence was registered on the allegation that 440 such gold mangalsutras were misappropriated. The learned counsel for the applicants in the two applications submit that one Zagde, who was also a Junior Clerk, has been admitted to anticipatory bail by the Additional Sessions Judge, Nashik. They submit that the role of the two applicants was only to prepare lists and had no decision making authority or any responsibility in respect of the ornaments or the juice making machines. In view of this, in the event of their arrest the applicants be released on bail in C.R. No.I-696 of 2010 of Sarkarwada Police Station, Nashik (now transferred to the Economic Offences Wing, Nashik) on their furnishing P.R. Bond in the sum of Rs.30,000/- each with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs. 30,000/- per person on the condition that the applicants shall report at the police station concerned on 15-1-2011 at 10:00 a.m. for interrogation and thereafter as and when required by the I.O.. The applicants shall not, directly or indirectly, make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him/her from disclosing such facts to the Court or to 3 CAG-5807.10 any police officer and they shall not leave the country without the prior permission of the trial Court. 2. This order shall remain in force till the trial is over with the only stipulation that if charge-sheeted, the applicant may furnish fresh bond before the trial Court in view of the Judgment of the Supreme Court, dated 2-12-2010, delivered in Criminal Appeal No.2271 of 2010, arising out of SLP (Cri.) No. 7615 of 2009 {Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.}. 3. The applications accordingly stand disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)