Bombay High Court
APEAL/19/2025 of NIKHIL CHAMAN AGARWAL Vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANR on 19 October 2026
19-25.doc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.19 OF 2025 Nikhil Chaman Agarwal … Appellant Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Anr. … Respondents ----- None for the Appellant. Mr. V. N. Sagare, APP for Respondent No.1-State.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.19 OF 2025
Nikhil Chaman Agarwal
… Appellant
Vs.
The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
… Respondents
-----
None for the Appellant.
Mr. V. N. Sagare, APP for Respondent No.1-State.
PSI Sachin Phadatare, Nizampura PS is present.
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CORAM :
N.R. BORKAR, J.
DATE :
19TH OCTOBER 2026
P.C. :
1. This Appeal under Section 14-A of the Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 takes exception to the order dated 01st January 2025 passed by the Learned Additional Sessions Judge, Bhiwandi in Anticipatory Bail Application No.1096 of 2024.
2. By the impugned order, the Learned Additional Sessions Judge has rejected the anticipatory bail application filed by the present Appellant, who came to be arrested in Crime No.890 of 2024 registered at Nizampura Police Station, Bhiwandi for the offences punishable under Sections 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short “SC & ST Act”). Mugdha
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3. Learned APP for the Respondent-State, on instructions, submits that in the present crime, the prosecution has filed the ‘B’ summary.
4. In that view of the matter, nothing survives in the present Appeal and the same is disposed of.
5. However, liberty is granted to the Appellant to file fresh application for anticipatory bail in the event ‘B’ summary is not accepted. (N.R. BORKAR, J.) Mugdha
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