1 APPA-746.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.746 OF 2011 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.556 OF 2011 Khandu @ Khandya Amarnath Lonkar .... Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra .... Respondent S/Shri Subhash Jha with P.G. Sarda for the Applicant. Shri S.A. Shaikh, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: JULY 04, 2011 P.C: This is an application for bail by the applicant/appellant convicted for the offences punishable under Sections 386 and 392 of the IPC. All the other co-accused have been acquitted. Even in respect of the applicant, the evidence relied upon is that of all hostile witnesses, including the hostile first informant. The applicant has been in jail for about two-and-half years. Considering the near impossibility of taking up the appeal for hearing in the near future and also considering 2 APPA-746.11 the fact that the applicant is sentenced to suffer RI for five years only, pending the hearing of the appeal, the substantive sentence is suspended on the applicant's furnishing P.R. bonds in the sum of Rs.25,000/- with one or more solvent sureties in the sum aggregating to Rs.25,000/- on the condition that he shall report at the police station concerned on the first Sunday of every month in between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. till the appeal is disposed of. The application accordingly stands disposed of. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)