Case brief
What is this about?
Anticipatory bail allowed; Section 69 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023; false pretext/guise of marriage; consensual relationship between adults; FIR/C.R. No.25 of 2025, Koregaon Park Police Station, Pune City; incidents October 2022 to January 2025; FIR dated 23 February 2025; investigation concluded including medical examination; nothing to recover or discover; charge sheet in process; PR Bond Rs.25,000/- with sureties; conditions to attend police station till charge sheet and not tamper with evidence or influence witnesses; applicant Sami Ejaz Uddin Quazi; respondents State of Maharashtra and ABC (informant); High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction; R.N. Laddha, J.; decided 7 August 2025.
What did the court decide?
Anticipatory bail: in the event of arrest in C.R. No.25 of 2025, Koregaon Park Police Station, Pune City, release on a PR Bond of Rs.25,000/- with one or more sureties in the like amount; applicant to attend the concerned police station as and when required by the investigating officer till filing of the charge sheet; applicant, himself or through any other person, not to tamper with evidence or influence witnesses.