2025:BHC-AS:54434

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION BAIL APPLICATION NO. 4621 OF 2025

Shahbaz Ayub Shaikh …Applicant

Versus

State of Maharashtra …Respondent

Mr. Amod Eklaspur, i/b Kaushik Mhatre, for the Applicant.

Ms. Anamika Malhotra, APP for the Respondent-State.

Mr. Prafull R. Wagh, PI attached to Achole Police Station,

M.B.V.V., present.

CORAM DR. NEELA GOKHALE, J.

DATED: 11^TH DECEMBER 2025

PC:-

1. By way of the present Bail Application, the Applicant seeks his release on bail in connection with the FIR No.775 of 2021 dated 6^th September 2021 registered with the Virar Police Station, Palghar for the offences punishable under Sections 302, 120-B and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860

(‘IPC’).

2. The facts of the case, as discerned from the FIR, are that the First Informant is the brother of the deceased. The deceased was engaged in the business of developers and builders. On 6^th September 2021 at around 2.30 am, the Applicant returned home to freshen up and was to go to the Shankar Temple to offer Abhishek to the deity. At 3.10 am, he left his house on his motor-cycle. At that time, the deceased was beaten up by unknown persons and was thereafter taken t