IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.620 OF 2019 RAMESHWAR LAXMAN DILWALE The State of Maharashtra .. Appellant Vs.

Digitally signed by Shailendra Prabhakar Dixit & Ors. .. Respondents RAMESHWAR LAXMAN DILWALE …

Date: 2025.11.19 14:04:52 +0530 Mr. K. V. Saste, APP for the Appellant-State.

None for the Respondents.

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CORAM : SHREE CHANDRASHEKHAR, CJ &

GAUTAM A. ANKHAD, J DATE : 6^th OCTOBER 2025.

P.C. :

To challenge the judgment dated 26^th June 2015 in Sessions Case No.774 of 2013, the State of Maharashtra has filed this Criminal Acquittal Appeal under section 378(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure r/w Rule 19 of Chapter XXVI of the Bombay High Court Appellate Side Rules, 1960.

2. In the Sessions Court, Shailendra Prabhakar Dixit, Nilesh Vijay Vairat, Arvind Dagadu Varule and Shivshankar Rajendra Swami faced the charges framed for committing the offence under sections 143, 147, 148, 149, 307, 324, 504 and 506 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code and under section 37(1) r/w 135 of the Bombay Police Act.

3. The brief facts of the prosecution are that on 14^th July 2006, the informant, namely, Raiesh Rafiq Shaikh along with Soyab Bagwan and Ab