2025:BHC-AS:52464-DB A S M A S H H H A I E S S B K H R E AO DbSM D18 yA i a H g :t HA 1 i e A tS 9 E : a S : HB 2 l 1 K 0 y RI 6 E S 2 A s + H 5 i O g .01 n 52 e 3. d 002 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 6057 OF 2025 WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.6074 OF 2025 WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 6084 OF 2025 WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 6089 OF 2025 WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.6108 OF 2025 WITH CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.6109 OF 2025 Naushad Ahmed Shaikh .. Petitioner Versus The State of Maharashtra and anr .. Respondents …

Mr. Mahendra Kawchale a/w Mr. Nishant Patil, Mr. Premkumar Mishra, Mr. Raj Bannatwala, Mr. Rajveer Mundhe for the petitioner.

Mr. Ayush Pasbola a/w Vighneswar Subramanian, Omkar Patil, Himanshu Mane for respondents/victims.

Mr. Y.S. Bhate a/w Mr. D.P. Singh a/w Mr. Harikishan, Sr. Prosecutor, SFIO for the respondents, in IAL No. 20236 of 2025, IAL No.23191 of 2025 in WP No.3199 of 2022.

Ms. Supriya Kak, APP for the respondent State in WP No. 6057 of

2025 and WP No.6109 of 2025.

Mr. T.G. Khan, APP in for the respondent State in WP No. 6074 of

2025, WP No.6084 of 2025 and WP No. 6108 of 2025.

Ms. S.R. Agarkar, APP for respondent State in WP No. 6089 of 2025.

Ms. Vanita Dhumal, P.I., Pimpri Chinchwad police station.

Ms. Chhaya Borkar, P.S.I., EOW.

CORAM: BHARATI DANGRE &

SHYAM CHANDAK, JJ.

DATED : 25th NOVEMBER, 2025 JUDGMENT :- (PER BHARATI DANGRE J.)

1. The Six Writ Petitions filed by the same Petitioner Naushad Ahmed Shaikh, who is accused of offence under the POCSO Act, 2012 in distinct CRs registered with Ravet Police Station, Pimpri Chinchwad, pray for a declaration that his arrest in connection with the CRs is illegal and the same is liable to be quashed and set aside along with the subsequent orders of remand. The Petitions seek issuance of writ of habeas corpus for securing his release from the judicial custody in connection with each of the case registered with Ravet Police Station.

2. We have heard learned counsel Mr. Mahendra Kawchale for the Petitioner in all the Writ Petitions along with learned APP Ms. Supriya Kak, Mr. T.G. Khan and Mr. S.R. Agarkar for the State and also Mr. Ayush Pasbola for respondents.

Rule. Rule is made returnable forthwith by Consent of the Parties.

3. For the sake of convenience, we would refer to the facts in WP No. 6057 of 2025, which involve C.R. No. 68 of 2024 registered with Ravet Police Station.

The said FIR came to be registered on the complaint stating that the complainant, was admitted in 2019 in Creative Academy, Ravet, since she gathered the information that it offers good educational facilities for 11^th and 12^th standard. According to the complainant the accused was a Director of the academy, but he was not teaching any subject. According to the complaint, the petitioner was residing in Flat No.6 in the girls hostel in the academy, where he used to invite girls and by establishing friendly relationship, he made them watch objectionable videos, focusing upon the relationship between man and woman and he also collected their personal information. The complaint specifically refer to certain conversations and directions issued by him with a specific allegation that, he used to talk to the girls about private parts. It is also alleged that he used to make the girls sit in his lap and kiss them on their cheeks, lips, forehead by saying that engaging in such act would enhance their personality. The complaint also states that he used to give them the reading material from Osho and used to often discuss sex related issues with them.

The complaint also refers to several objectionable acts attributed to the accused, where he developed close proximity with the young girls, which involved physical connect and advised the girls to have sex at early age, if they were interested in establishing a career.

4. The complainant specifically alleged in her complaint that between November 2020 and August 2021, he established physical