H. P. SANDESH
B. heriyanna Shetty – Appellant
Versus
State By Basaveshwara Nagar Police Station – Respondent
JUDGMENT
H.P. Sandesh, J. - This petition is filed under Section 438 of Cr.P.C praying to enlarge the petitioners on bail in the event of their arrest in Cr.No.215/2021 registered by Basaveshwara Nagar Police Station, Bengaluru, for the offences punishable under Sections 323, 354, 504, 506, 420, 468, 471 and 120B read with Section 34 of IPC pending on the file of V aCMM Court, Bengaluru.
2. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and the learned High Court Government Pleader appearing for the respondent-State.
3. The factual matrix of the case of the prosecution is that the complainant had lodged the complaint stating that petitioner No.1 and his associates cheated her by creating the documents. When she had questioned the same, the petitioners were abused her in a filthy language and outraged her modesty by tearing her cloths and assaulted on her shoulder and threatened to her life. The complainant in the complaint stated that the wife of the petitioner No.1 is her classmate and she came in contact with petitioner No.1 when she was looking for purchasing the land in the outskirts of Bengaluru and petitioner Nos.1 and 2 showed her land measuring 19 acres 10 guntas at S
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