The High Court of Bombay relaxed a bail condition requiring monthly police station attendance. The court changed the requirement to attendance on the first Monday of every trimester due to prolonged compliance.
Bail condition modified to require attendance on the first Monday of every trimester instead of monthly.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION INTERIM APPLICATION NO.1144 OF 2024
IN
BAIL APPLICATION NO.3527 OF 2021
Brijeshkumar Rajkishore Singh .. Applicant Versus
The State of Maharashtra .. Respondent
Adv. Mujtaba Shaikh i/b Rajendra Rathod for the applicant. Smt. M.H. Mhatre, APP for State.
CORAM: BHARATI DANGRE, J. DATED : 2nd MAY, 2024
P.C:-
1 The present application seek modification of the condition no. (iii) of the order passed on 16/09/2022, by which the applicant was released on bail in connection with C.R. No. 22 of 2021 registered with Worli police station.
He was directed to mark his attendance in the concerned police station on first Monday of every month between 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
2 This condition, is posing a difficulty to him and barring November, 2023 when his father passed away, he has marked his appearance on each and every date and the attendance sheets to that effect are placed on record at Exhibit E.
Ashish
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3 Considering the compliance at the end of the applicant and since more than one and half year has passed away, since the imposition of the condition, I deem it appropriate to relax condition no.(iii) by directing attendance of the applicant to the concerned police station on the first Monday of the Trimester between 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Rest of the conditions imposed, while enlarging him on bail, remains unchanged.
The application is made absolute in the aforesaid terms.
( SMT. BHARATI DANGRE, J.)
Ashish
1 issue framed by the court
Whether to modify the condition requiring monthly attendance on the first Monday of every month to a tri-monthly basis.
Brijeshkumar Rajkishore Singh
The State of Maharashtra
Bharati Dangre
As recorded by the court registry
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