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BOMBAY HIGH COURT
SHAIKH NOOR SHAIKH LAL – Appellant
Versus
THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
(ARUN R. PEDNEKER, J.)
1] Heard learned counsel for the applicant Mr. S.J. Salunke alongwith Ms. P. S. Ingle and the learned APP for the respondent-State.
2] By the present application, the applicant is seeking regular bail as he was arrested on 08.07.2024 in connection with Crime No.332/2024 dated 07.07.2024, registered with Nawa Mondha Police Station, Parbhani, District Parbhani, for the offences punishable under sections 103 (1) [302 of I.P.C], 238 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
3] In brief, the case of the prosecution against the applicant as reflected in the F.I.R (dated 07.07.2024) is that the informant (son of the deceased Laxmi) informed the police that the deceased was providing tiffins to school students. The applicant had relations with his mother and that the applicant was visiting home of informant to meet his mother for past one and half years and there was some dispute between them on account of monitory transactions. On the earlier occasion the applicant had threatened his mother that he would kill her. It is also stated in the F.I.R. that 10 to 12 days prior to the incident in the morning hours at 10:00 A.M., the applicant had been to the house of the
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