1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY, BENCH AT AURANGABAD. CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.2324 OF 2009 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.153 OF 1999 Kalyan s/o Bansidharrao Renge .. Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra .. Respondent Shri S.J.Salunke, Advocate holding for Shri V.D.Salunke, Advocate for applicant Shri B.J.Sonawane, APP for respondent-State CORAM : P.V.HARDAS AND R.K.DESHPANDE, JJ. DATE : 17th July 2009 PER COURT : 1. The applicant who stands convicted for an offence punishable under Section 376(2)(g) of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for ten years, by this application seeks permission of this Court for travelling abroad i.e.for going to Thailand in a tour arranged by the Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Parbhani from 1st August 2009 to 15th August 2009. 2. Notice of this application had been issued to the respondent-State but unfortunately though the notice was issued on 10.7.2009 no reply has been filed by the respondent. Our attention has been invited by the learned Counsel for the applicant to an earlier order of this Court dated 2 2.11.2007 in Criminal Application No.3760 of 2007, to which one of us P.V.Hardas was a member. By the aforesaid order the Division Bench of this Court had permitted the applicant to join the study tour for travelling to United States. Shri Salunke, learned Counsel for the applicant states that however, the study tour did not materialize and, therefore, the applicant did not participate in that study tour. 3. It is urged before us by the learned Counsel for the applicant that the Government has introduced a policy of sending agriculturists for study to foreign and accordingly, a study tour is arranged to visit Thailand in order to update their knowledge in agriculture. It is also the contention of the applicant that the tour has been arranged from 1st August 2009 to 15th August 2009. 4. The applicant has, no doubt, been convicted for a serious offence and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for ten years but the applicant had been released on bail. Presently, we do not notice that any complaints have been filed against the applicant of misusing the discretion of the Court in releasing the applicant on bail. We, therefore, see no impediment whatsoever in permitting the applicant to join the study tour for visiting Thailand from 1st August 2009 to 15th August 2009 on certain conditions which are as follows : 3 (i) The applicant shall submit a written undertaking to this Court that he would appear before this Court as soon as the study tour is completed and he returns back to India; (ii) The applicant shall on affidavit disclose the immovable properties standing in his name; (iii) The applicant shall furnish additional surety of Rs.50,000/- (Rs.Fifty thousand) to the satisfaction of the Registrar (Judicial) of this Court. 5. The application is thus allowed on the aforesaid conditions and the applicant is permitted to visit Thailand in the study tour arranged by the Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Parbhani from 1st August 2009 to 15th August 2009. ( R.K.DESHPANDE, J.) ( P.V.HARDAS, J.) vvr/2324.09criappln