JUDGMENT

Uday Umesh Lalit, J.

Leave granted.

2. These appeals arise out of the common judgment and order dated 21.02.2020 passed by the High Court¹[The High Court of Judicature at Bombay] in Interim Application Nos.2, 3 and 4 of 2019 (preferred by Dr. Ankita Kailash Khandelwal, Dr. Hema Suresh Ahuja and Dr. Bhakti Arvind Mehare – respectively; who are collectively referred to as the Appellants hereafter) in Criminal Appeal No.911 of 2019.

3. The Interim Applications were preferred by the Appellants seeking relaxation of condition nos.(iii), (iv) and (v) imposed upon them in order dated 09.08.2019 passed by the High Court while granting them bail.

4. The basic facts leading to the filing of said Criminal Appeal No. 911 of 2019, in brief, are as under:-

a) The Appellants after completing MBBS course were pursuing Post Graduate Degree course (M.D.) in Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai (‘the College’, for short). They completed two years out of three years of course in April, 2019 and were working as residents in B.Y.L. Nair Charity Hospital (‘the Hospital’, for short) attached to the College.

b) Dr. Payal Tadvi was also student of Post Graduate Degree