Coram : R.N.Laddha, J.

Date : 14 August 2025.

P.C. :

. By this application, the applicant seeks pre-arrest bail in connection with CR No.300 of 2025, registered at Parksite Police Station, Mumbai, for offences punishable under Sections 37(1) and 135 of the Maharashtra Police Act, 1951 , and Sections 115 (2), 118(1), 351(2) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 .

2. It is the case of the prosecution that on 24 April 2025, a dispute over a skyrocketing electricity bill, which the informant believed was caused by the applicant tampering with the wiring, erupted into a violent assault. Following a series of heated phone calls and confrontations, the applicant, accompanied by two unknown individuals, ambushed the informant and his brother near a public toilet. The applicant plunged a knife into the back of the informant’s brother, while one of his accomplices bludgeoned the informant on the head with a wooden stick, leaving both men with serious injuries. The victims were first treated at Rajawadi Hospital, and the informant was later transferred to Sion Hospital.

3. Mr Priyatosh Tiwari, the learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the applicant, asserting the applicant’s innocence, con