Badal S/o Dhanraj Madke vs State of Maharashtra

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2025 Supreme(Bom) 878

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH
URMILA JOSHI-PHALKE
Badal S/o Dhanraj Madke – Appellant
Versus
State of Maharashtra – Respondent

Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Shri S.P.Sonwane, Counsel & Shri A.A.Thakur, Mrs.Shiba Thakur, Shri Aquid Mirza, Advocates
For the Respondent: Shri D.V.Chauhan, Public Prosecutor (Senior Counsel) assisted by Mrs.H.N.Prabhu, Addl.P.P. for the State

JUDGMENT :

1. Heard.

2. The present application is filed by the applicant for grant of bail under Section 483 of the BNSS (under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure) in respect of Crime No.639/2022 registered at Police Station Kalamna, Nagpur for the offences punishable under Sections 363, 369, 370, and 120-B read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code and under Sections 75, 81, and 84 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

3. The applicant came to be arrested on 11.11.2022.

4. The crime is registered on the basis of a report lodged by one Rajkumari Raju Nishad alleging that on 10.11.2022 co-accused Yogendra Prajapati came to her house and took her eight months’ old child in the shop behind her house to purchase something for the child and not returned back. Thereafter, she searched for said Yogendra Prajapati. However, he along with his wife were absconding along with her child. As she could not find her child, she approached the police and lodged the report. During investigation, it revealed that co-accused Yogendra Prajapati has handed over the said child to one accused Farzana @ Anjum Ansar Qureshi and obtained consideration amount. Thereafter, acc