Jyoti Koch Deori v. State of Maharashtra
Case brief
What is this about?
Anticipatory bail; Bombay High Court; Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction; ABA 1957/2025 and ABA 1958/2025; Jyoti Koch Deori; Kabeer Bhismadevari Bharali; State of Maharashtra; abetment/instigation of suicide; FIR delay (incident 3 September 2024; FIR 21 December 2024); marriage 31 October 2021; mother-in-law residing separately in Assam; notice under Section 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; cooperation with investigation; investigation concluded/almost complete; nothing to recover; no coercive action till 8 August 2025; impleading first informant as respondent; Goregaon Police Station; API Raju Rathod; Coram R.N. Laddha, J.; Milan Desai; SV Walve APP; PP Deokar APP; interim order dated 17 July 2025.
What did the court decide?
Interim protection: no coercive action against the applicants in the present crime till 8 August 2025; leave granted to implead the first informant as a party respondent (amendment within one week, notice to the newly added respondent thereafter); matters stood over by consent to 8 August 2025.