Bajirao Shankar Ankar & Ors. v. The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
Case at a glance
- Decided
- 21 Jul 2025
- Bench
- SARANG V KOTWAL
Outcome
Disposed of
Interim Application stands disposed of accordingly
Provisions considered
Judgment
• Mr. Aditya Raktade a/w Aarti Shah, Advocate for Applicants. • Mr. S. H. Yadav, APP for the State/Respondent. CORAM : SARANG V. KOTWAL, J. DATE : 21st JULY, 2025 P.C. :
This is an application for bail pending final disposal of the Appeal preferred by the Applicant. The Applicants were convicted and sentenced by the learned Special Judge (Atrocity Act) & Additional Sessions Judge, Kolhapur, vide his Judgment and Order dated 21/10/2023 passed in Special Case No.139/2021. They were convicted and sentenced as follows : MANUSHREE NESARIKAR MANUSHREE NESARIKAR Nesarikar (i) The Applicants were convicted for commission of offence punishable u/s 323 r/w 34 of the Indian 12-IA-273-25-IN-APEAL-ST-1043-25.odt Penal Code and were sentenced to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/- and in default of payment of fine to undergo simple imprisonment for one month. (ii) They were acquitted from the charges of commission of offence punishable u/s 3(1)(r)(s), 3(1)(va) r/w 6 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, Amendment Act, 2015 and u/s 143, 147, 506 r/w 149 of the Indian Penal Code.
Heard Mr. Aditya Raktade, learned counsel for the Applicants and Mr. S. H. Yadav, learned APP for the State.
Learned counsel for the Applicants submitted that the sentence imposed is only the payment of fine. The Applicants have already deposited the fine and therefore during pendency of the Appeal, the bail be granted to them.
Considering that only fine is imposed on the Applicants, they can be granted bail during pendency of their Appeal. 12-IA-273-25-IN-APEAL-ST-1043-25.odt
Hence, the following order :
Operative part
O R D E R
(i) During pendency and final disposal of the Criminal Appeal (ST) No.1043 of 2025, the Applicants are directed to be released on bail on their furnishing P.R. bond in the sum of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand only) each, before the Trial Court.
(ii) Interim Application stands disposed of accordingly.
(SARANG V. KOTWAL, J.)
Questions this judgment answers
What did the Court decide in this case?
The Court recorded the following disposition: Interim Application stands disposed of accordingly
Which statutory provisions did this judgment involve?
Special Judge Atrocity Act; Indian Penal Code, 1860; Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989; Amendment Act, 2015.
Which court decided this case, and when?
Bombay High Court, on 21 Jul 2025. The bench was SARANG V KOTWAL.
Precedent status how later indexed judgments have treated this case
No known negative treatment found in the Courts & Cases corpus.
This is a result about the indexed corpus, not a finding that the judgment remains good law. Coverage may be incomplete.