..(1).. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.2029 OF 2008 Vijay Gangaprasad Yadav. ..Applicant. Versus Versus Versus State of Maharashtra ..Respondent. .... Mr.V.V.Purwant, Adv. for the applicant. Ms.P.P.Shinde, APP, for the State. .... CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. CORAM : SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J. DATED : 18th July, 2008. DATED : 18th July, 2008. DATED : 18th July, 2008. P.C.: 1. Heard the learned Advocate for the Applicant and the learned APP for the State. 2. The applicant is seeking bail in C.R.No.I-329 of 2007 of Nerul police station, New Bombay. The said case is mainly under Section 396 r/w. 34 of IPC. 3. The prosecution case is that the deceased was driving a gas tanker. The said gas tanker came to be intercepted by the applicant and other accused. Thereafter the driver came to be murdered and his body was thrown away. The said incident took place on 16.9.2007 at around 4:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m.. The statement of witness Kamlesh shows that on 15.9.2007 at about 11:30 p.m. he met the present applicant. The applicant ..(2).. was with other coaccused. At that time, the applicant enquired with the other accused persons whether the gas tanker had came. They informed him that the gas tanker had not come. Thereafter the present applicant told coaccused in presence of this witness that they should assault the gas tanker driver and murder him and thereafter take the gas tanker and sell the gas in the said gas tanker to a particular petrol pump. It is pertinent to note that few hours thereafter Gopal, the driver of the gas tanker, came to be murdered and the gas tanker was taken away. Thereafter the gas in the tanker was taken out and the tanker was found in an abandoned condition. Besides this, the statement of coaccused was recorded under Section 164 of Cr.P.C.. He has stated that the present applicant was one of the conspirators in the said crime. In my opinion, there is sufficient material to show the involvement of the present applicant in a serious crime. Hence, I am not inclined to grant bail to the applicant. Application for bail is rejected. 4. The observations in the present order are only prima facie and they shall not influence the Sessions Court while deciding the trial. ..(3).. (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.) (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.) (SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI,J.)