1 BA-1141.11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE  CRIMINAL CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.1141 OF 2011 Ashish Laxman Pawar .... Applicant Vs. The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent S/Shri S.V. Kotwal i/b U.N. Tripathi for the Applicant. Ms P.P. Bhosale, APP, for the State. CORAM: R.C. CHAVAN, J. DATED: AUGUST 17, 2011 P.C: 1. This is an application for bail by a person who was caught by the police on the spot soon after the incident. The applicant was attempting to extort money from the victim. The victim had caught hold of the applicant, though the applicant and his friends were beating the victim. The applicant snatched a sum of Rs. 99,930/- from the victim but on seeing the police approaching, passed on this amount and a gold ring to his accomplice who ran away. The learned counsel for the applicant states that the victim had stated that the applicant was also wielding an iron rod which was not found 2 BA-1141.11 at the spot and which is not stated to have been given to the accomplice and therefore, according to him, the victim has made up this story only on seeing the police approaching. There are eye-witnesses apart from the victim who state that the applicant was wielding an iron rod and also that the applicant was a terror in that area. In view of this, no case for grant of bail is made out. The application is rejected. 2. The learned trial Judge would undoubtedly take up the case of the applicant for hearing considering that the applicant is in jail, having due regard to older cases of under-trial prisoners before him. (R.C. CHAVAN, J.)