IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.3531 OF 2025 Khwaja @ farid abdul karim Shaikh …Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra …Respondent Mr. Mihir Desai, Senior Counsel i/b Rishika Agarwal, for the Applicant.

Ms. S. M. Yadav, APP, for the Respondent-State.

Mr. Kuldeep Vhatkar, API, attached to Khadak Police Station, Pune, present.

CORAM: MADHAV J. JAMDAR, J.

DATED : 22^nd DECEMBER 2025 PC:-

1. Heard Mr. Desai, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the Applicant and Ms. Yadav, learned APP appearing for the Respondent-State.

2. By the present Anticipatory Bail Application filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 the Applicant is seeking pre-arrest bail in connection with CR No.508 of 2025 registered with Khadak Police Station, District – Pune City for the offences punishable under Sections 115(2), 118(1), 189(2), 190, 191(3), 74, 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (“BNS”) and 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (“S.C./S.T. Act”) and Section 37(1)(3) read with Section 135 of the Maharashtra Police Act, 1951.

3. The