2026:BHC-AS:2374 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL BAIL APPLICATION NO. 3157 OF 2025 Amol Jaisingh Shingade … Applicant/s Versus The State of Maharashtra and anr. … Respondent/s ____________________________________________________________

Ms. Shubhangi Parulekar, Advocate for the Applicant.

Mr. B.B. Kulkarni, APP for Respondent No.1-State.

Ms. Sailee Dhuru, Advocate for Respondent No.2.

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CORAM : SHIVKUMAR DIGE, J. DATE : 16^th JANUARY, 2026.

P.C. :

1. By this application, the applicant is seeking regular bail in Crime No. 334 of 2022 registered with Shikrapur Police Station, District Pune, for the offences punishable under Sections 376(n), 354-A and 506 of the Indian Penal Code 1860 and Sections 4, 8 and 12 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

2. It is prosecution’s case that the applicant is a cousin of the first informant. During the period between 2020 and November 2021, the applicant sexually assaulted the first informant on several occasions by threatening her that if she did not maintain a relationship with him, he SHUBHADA would commit suicide. It is