IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1347 OF 2009 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1347 OF 2009 CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 1347 OF 2009 Parvinder Singh Bhatia ...Applicant vs. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence & Ors. ...Respondents Mr.Uday Prakash Warunjikar for the Applicant. Mrs.A.S. Pai for Respondent Nos.1 and 2. Mr.Rajesh More, APP for the State. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. CORAM : V.M. KANADE, J. DATED : APRIL 1, 2009 DATED : APRIL 1, 2009 DATED : APRIL 1, 2009 P.C. :- P.C. :- P.C. :- 1. Heard Counsel for the applicant and APP for the State. 2. This is an application for reduction of the additional security amount as directed to be deposited by the Sessions Court. 3. The applicant had filed an application to go abroad. The said application was allowed. The learned Magistrate, however, directed that the applicant should deposit additional cash security of Rs.10 lakhs in the court. Being aggrieved by the said additional condition which was imposed, the applicant preferred an application in the Sessions court for reduction of the - 2 - additional cash security. The said amount was reduced from Rs.10 lakhs to Rs.6 lakhs. 4. Counsel for the applicant submits that the Sessions Court has wrongly recorded that the said amount was reduced from Rs.10 lakhs to Rs.6 lakhs with the consent of both sides. It is secondly submitted that the said amount is excessive and the applicant may be permitted to give some other security instead of cash security. It is submitted that the applicant in fact deposited an amount of Rs.1 crore to show his bonafide though according to the Customs authorities, an evasion of customs duty was only Rs.32,50,000/-. 5. In my view, the Sessions Court may not have been justified in saying that the amount of bail is reduced with the consent of parties when no written consent was given. However, in my view, the Sessions Court was justified in reducing it to Rs.6 lakhs. No case is made out for interfering with the said order passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Greater Bombay. 6. The application, accordingly, is rejected. - 3 - (V.M. KANADE, J.) (V.M. KANADE, J.) (V.M. KANADE, J.)