2025:BHC-AS:55729

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO. 3402 OF 2025

Rahul S. Jadhav …Applicant

V/s.

The State of Maha ...Respondent.

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Ms Sonam Pandey for the Applicant.

Mr. B.V. Holambe Patil, APP for the Respondent/State.

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CORAM : N.R. BORKAR, J.

DATE : 17.12.2025.

P.C. :

1. This is an Application for anticipatory bail.

2. The Applicant is apprehending his arrest in Crime No.842 of 2025 registered with Koparkhairane Police Station for the offences punishable under Sections 118(2) & 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya

Sanhita, 2023.

3. According to the prosecution, on the date of incident, which took place on 15^th October 2025, the present Applicant and other co-accused assaulted the first informant and his friend Akshay with a cricket bat, wooden stick and beer bottle on account of a trivial issue. It is alleged that in the said incident, they sustained

grievous injuries. Accordingly, the present crime was registered.

4. I have heard learned counsel for the Applicant and Learned

APP for the Respondent-State.

5. Learned counsel for the Applicant submits that the name of the Applicant is not mentioned in the FIR. It is submitted