(1) Petitioners by this Petition are seeking an order directing that the Petitioners may be released on bail on furnishing cash bail under section 445 of the Criminal Procedure Code without sureties or alternatively they may be released on bail on their own bonds without sureties.

(2) During pendency of this Petition, Petitioners were released on bail and, therefore, this Petition practically has become infructuous. Shri Adhik Shirodkar, the learned Senior Counsel appearing on behalf of the Petitioners, however, urged that though this Petition has become infructuous, this Court may consider difficulties faced by the Petitioners who are residents of other cities and who are not in a position to obtain local sureties and, secondly, though there is a provision that the accused can be released on furnishing cash bail initially, such orders are not passed, with the result the Petitioners who were high ranking officers of a Private Limited Company had to remain in bail though bail was granted and the sureties could not be furnished since the documents for proving that they were solvent sureties were forwarded to the Tahsildar's Office and, as a result, the said orders were not re