1 CR.APL NO.349/2011 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD 6. APPLN/349/2011 RANJANA RAMCHANDRA TIRTHKAR [Criminal] V/S THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ORS -------------------------------------------------- Office notes, office Memoranda of Court’s or Coram,appearances, Court’s orders Judge’s or directions and Registrar’s orders Orders Mr. M.S.Patil, Adv., for the applicant. Mr. V.H.Dighe, APP for State. ... CORAM: K.U.CHANDIWAL, J. DATE: 22-2-2011 1. Heard. The accused/applicant, in custody from 20th May, 2010, in Crime No.118/2010, registered at Osmanabad City Police Station for an offense under Section 376, 363, 366-A, 34 of IPC and Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Immoral Traffic (Prevention ) Act, 1956, seeks to be released on bail. 2. Learned A.P.P. invited my attention to the supplementary statement of the prosecutrix dt. 19.5.2010 wherein the prosecutrix implicates the accused/applicant as to how she controlled the prosecutrix and six persons, one 2 CR.APL NO.349/2011 after another, committed sexual abuse with the prosecutrix. 3. Considering the nature of accusations, age of the victim to be 17 years, the allegations more lean to illustrate that the applicant conducted a brothel in which the prosecutrix was a victim of situation and circumstances. Even if the allegations of sexual assault are hurled, it is as against six unknown persons. 4. The other female accused, with similar accusations, are released by learned Sessions Judge and also by this Court vide Criminal Application No.3929/2010 by order dt.27.10.2010. 5. Considering the age of the victim to be 17 years and the manner in which she traveled from one place to another and went/carried herself to the house of the accused/applicant herein, the accused/applicant deserves to be released on bail. Hence, order. 3 CR.APL NO.349/2011 ORDER (a) The accused/applicant be released on bail on her executing P.R. bond and surety in the sum of Rs.25,000/- (Rs. twenty five thousand). The accused/applicant shall not influence the prosecution witnesses, tamper them and shall not indulge in identical or similar activity. The accused/applicant shall regularly attend Sessions trial at Osmanabad. Failure to result in termination of bail. Application allowed in above terms. (K.U.CHANDIWAL) JUDGE ... AGP/349-11crapl