2025:BHC-AS:57748 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO. 3525 OF 2025 Mohammed Zaid Jabir Ali Shaikh …Applicant V/s.

The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent Mr. Shambu M. Jha a/w Mr. Suraj Pandey a/w Adv. A. Ansari, Advocate for the Applicant.

Mr. V. N. Sagare, APP for the Respondent/State.

CORAM : N.R. BORKAR, J.

DATE : 23.12.2025.

P.C. :

1. This is an application for Anticipatory Bail.

2. The applicant is apprehending his arrest in Crime No. 285 of 2025 registered at Malbar Hill Police Station, for the offences punishable under Sections 318(4), 316(5), 338, 336(3)

read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. It is the case of the prosecution that the co-accused in the present crime, namely Shailesh Sarode, who was working with L & T Fianance had arranged a loan of Rs.21,43,671/- from Poonawala Finecorp Ltd. for first informant. It is alleged that the first informant was in need of some more amount and he thus told the said co-accused Shailesh Sarode, who agreed to arrange another loan for him. It is alleged that the said co-accused, however, told him to close his other loan accounts. It is alleged that thus on