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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

BAIL APPLICATION NO.368 OF 2022

Shivaji Angad Phad

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Applicant

Versus

The State of Maharashtra

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Respondent

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Mr. Imtiyaz Patel a/w Suraj Gaikwad & Mr. Sanket Gaikwad for

the Applicant.

Mrs. Anamika Malhotra, A.P.P. for the State/Respondent.

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CORAM: BHARATI DANGRE, J.

DATED : 19^th AUGUST, 2022

P.C:-

1.

The applicant is charged under section 376, 376 (2)n and

417 of IPC, pursuant to a complaint filed by the prosecutrix on

2/10/2021. He came to be arrested on 3/10/2021 and is

incarcerated since then.

On perusal of the material compiled in the charge-sheet, it

is the case of the prosecution that the prosecutrix was a married

women who had two children from said wedlock. However, in

the year 2020, she had obtained divorce from her husband and

started residing in her parental house.

She was acquainted to the applicant, who was working in

the same company, where she was working and they exchanged

their telephone numbers and started chatting with each other. A

Ashis