VANDANA RAJKUMAR VERMA Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Shri. Tiwari, learned advocate for the applicants and Shri. Sathianathan, learned Special Public Prosecutor for the State.

(2.) THIS is an application for grant of bail, pending the hearing and final disposal of the appeal.

(3.) THE prosecution case was that on9-4-1999, one Anil Ninawe was murdered by a gang of the main accused Santosh Ambekar in respect of which Crime No. 116 of 1999 was registered at Lakadganj Police Station against the said accused Santosh Ambekar and six other members of his gang for the offences punishable under Sections 302, 147, 148 and 149 of the Indian Penal Code. THE police found that several crimes had been registered against Santosh Ambekar and accused Nos. 2 to 7. THEse seven persons were prominently found having links with each other in commission of organised crime. In the circumstances, sanction was sought by the police machinery to register a crime against them under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (hereinafter referred as the M. C. O. C. Act ). THE said sanction was accorded against the seven persons by the Additional Commissioner of Police, Nagpur, vide his order dated-26-9-1999.