Shiv Bharti Kumar v. State of Maharashtra
Anticipatory bail – Second/fresh application after rejection of earlier application
Case brief
What is this about?
High Court of Judicature at Bombay (Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction), Anticipatory Bail Application No. 1872 of 2025, decided 24.09.2025 by N.R. Borkar, J.: rejected the fresh anticipatory bail application of Shiv Bharti Kumar in the same crime in which his earlier application (No. 310 of 2025) had been rejected by the Court on 03.02.2025; held that the filing of the charge-sheet after rejection of anticipatory bail cannot be treated as a change in circumstance, since otherwise rejected applicants would abscond and file fresh applications after the charge-sheet.
What did the court decide?
Filing of the charge-sheet after rejection of an anticipatory bail application cannot be treated as a change in circumstance. ¶21