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VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA
Prashant Prakash Ratnaparki – Appellant
Versus
State of Maharashtra – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
SANDEEP MEHTA, J.
1. Heard.
2. Leave granted.
3. The present appeal by special leave takes exception to the order dated 31st January, 2025 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Aurangabad Bench1 [Hereinafter, being referred to as ‘High Court’] in Criminal Application No. 4528 of 2024. By the aforesaid order, the High Court partially allowed the petition filed by the appellants under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 20232 [For short “BNSS”] {Corresponding to Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 19733 [For short “Cr.P.C.”]} and quashed the FIR C.R. No. 270 of 2024, P.S. Nandurbar Taluka, District Nandurbar, to the extent of the offences punishable under Sections 115(2), 351(2), 351(3) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 20234 [For short “BNS”] {Corresponding Sections 326, 506 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code, 18605 [For short “IPC”] respectively}. However, the proceedings arising from the said FIR were permitted to be continued in respect of the offence punishable under Section 310(2) of the BNS [Section 395 of the IPC].
4. The afore-stated FIR came to be lodged by respondent No. 2-complainant with the following allegations:
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