IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.485 OF 2009 Ganpat Mahadev Patil ...Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra ... Respondent --- Shri R.D. Suryawanshi for Applicant Shri S.S. Pednekar, APP for State ---- CORAM: V.M. KANADE J. DATED 10TH FEBRUARY, 2009 P.C. 1. Heard the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the Applicant and the learned APP for the State. 2. This is an application for anticipatory bail. 3. The Applicant is an owner of a hotel. It is alleged that there was a raid conducted in the said hotel and the manager and the other staff members were arrested. An offence punishable under sections 3,4,5 and 7 of the PITA Act has been registered. It is submitted that the Applicant was not aware that his manager is allowing prostitution in the hotel. 4. Time is given to the learned APP for the State to find out whether any material to indicate that the Applicant, who is the owner of the hotel had knowledge about the said activities, which were going on in the hotel. 5. The learned APP for the State, on instructions, submits that there are no antecedents against the present Applicant and no offence is registered against the present Applicant under the PITA Act, at any time. He submitted that there is no material against the present Applicant that he was aware about the said activity, which was carried by the manager in the said hotel. Since there is no material on record to attribute the present Applicant in the offence, in my view, the Applicant deserves to be granted anticipatory bail. 7. The Applicant, therefore, in the event of his arrest in connection with an offence punishable under sections 3,4,5 and 7 of the PITA Act vide C.R. No.II-82 of 2008 registered at Kashimira Police Station, shall be released on bail in a sum of Rs. 25,000/- with one or two sureties in the like amount. He shall report to the concerned police station for a period of one week from 16th February, 2009 between 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. and, thereafter, once in a week, as and when called. 8. Application is disposed of. V.M. KANADE J.