Application for condonation of 112-day delay in filing appeal under POCSO Act. Bench condoned delay, finding sufficient cause based on averments in application and applicant pending jail sentence. Appeal allowed to proceed.
Delay in filing appeal (112 days) was condoned as sufficient cause shown.
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24-87.17
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO.87 OF 2017
in
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. (ST) 52 OF 2017
Gautam Kisanrao Mugdal … vs State of Maharashtra
.. Applicant
.. Respondents
Mr.N.V.Kalantri for Applicant Ms.A.A.Takalkar APP for State
CORAM: A.M.BADAR, J DATE: 27 JANUARY 2017
P.C.
112 days in filing an Appeal challenging the judgment and order of conviction recorded against the Applicant by the learned Designated Judge, under the POCSO Act, 2012 for Greater Bombay. None appears for the Applicant.
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He is seeking to challenge that Judgment by filing an Appeal. Averments in the Application and more particularly those in para 6,7 and 8 reflects sufficient cause. Hence, the following order:
O R D E R
Application is allowed. The delay in lodging the Appeal
is condoned.
(A.M.BADAR, J)
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1 provisions across 1 enactments
Gautam Kisanrao Mugdal
State of Maharashtra
A.M.BADAR
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