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Ruturaj Bhujangrao Patil v. State of Maharashtra

Bombay HC9 May 2025ABA/1340/2025

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What is this about?

Anticipatory bail application (ABA No. 1340/2025), High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Rajesh S. Patil J., 09-05-2025 - interim procedural order: impleadment of informant as respondent no.2 directed under default clause of dismissal; notice returnable 02-07-2025; service waived by counsel for intervener; bail merits not decided; no statutes or precedents cited.

What did the court decide?

No relief on the bail prayer; interim procedural directions only - implead the informant as respondent no.2 forthwith (failing which the ABA stands dismissed), APP to serve the amended copy through the IO, notice returnable on 2/7/2025 with liberty for private service and affidavit of service; Kushal Mor waived service for respondent no.2. ¶15

Ruturaj Bhujangrao Patil vs State of Maharashtra — Bombay HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

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Outcome

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Issue for consideration

Whether anticipatory bail should be granted to the applicant - the subject of the application; not adjudicated in this order, which records only procedural directions.

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Court's answer

The applicant is directed to add the informant as party respondent no.2, and the amendment is to be carried out forthwith.

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Ratio / Principle

If the amendment adding the informant as respondent no.2 is not carried out, the anticipatory bail application stands dismissed without further reference to the Court.

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Key takeaways

The learned APP is to serve the amended copy of the anticipatory bail application on the informant through the Investigating Officer.ratio¶13
Notice issued to the newly added respondent no.2, returnable on 2/7/2025; apart from Court notice, the applicant's advocate is permitted to serve respondent no.2 by private notice.ratio¶15
Private service may be effected through all permissible modes of service, with an affidavit of service to be filed before the next date of hearing.ratio

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Bombay High Court (Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction), Anticipatory Bail Application No. 1340/2025, Rajesh S. Patil J., order dated May 9, 2025: none present for applicant Ruturaj Bhujangrao Patil when the matter was called out. The applicant was directed to add the informant as party respondent no.2 forthwith, failing which the anticipatory bail application was to stand dismissed without reference to the Court; the learned APP to serve the amended copy on the informant through the IO. Notice to the newly added respondent no.2 made returnable on 2/7/2025, with liberty to serve by advocate's private notice through all permissible modes and to file an affidavit of service; Kushal Mor (a/w Tanmay Karmarkar, i/b Khaitan & Co.), counsel for the intervener, waived service for respondent no.2. The merits of the anticipatory bail prayer were not adjudicated; no statute or precedent was cited.

Ruturaj Bhujangrao Patil v. State of Maharashtra

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