IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.2346 OF 2023 Dheeraj Gautam Thorat …Applicant Versus The State of Maharashtra …Respondent Mr. Harshavardhan Patil i/b Vishal Kolekar, for the Applicant.

Ms.G. P. Mulekar, APP, for the Respondent-State.

Mr. Sagar Shelake, PSI, attached to Shirur Police Station, Pune (Rural), present.

CORAM: MADHAV J. JAMDAR, J.

DATED : 20^th NOVEMBER 2025 PC:-

1. Heard Mr. Harshavardhan Patil, learned Counsel appearing for the Applicants and Ms. Mulekar, learned APP appearing for the Respondent-State.

2. This application is filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“CrPC”) seeking pre-arrest bail in connection with C.R. No.481 of 2023 registered on 28^th June 2023 with Shirur Police Station, Pune (Rural) for the offences punishable under Sections 323, 354-A, 363, 366, 368, 504 and under Section 506 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (“BNS”).

3. As per the prosecution case, on 05^th June 2023 the Applicant went to the house of the First Informant and he forcefully made First Informant and her daughter aged 7 years to sit in his four wheeler car and thereafter, he assaulted First I