Aslam Shabbir Shaikh @ Bunty Jahagirdar v. the State of Maharashtra and Another
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Criminal Application No. 1529 of 2024, High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad, decided 24 September 2025 (Smt. Vibha Kankanwadi & Hiten S. Venegavkar, JJ.). Applicant: Aslam Shabbir Shaikh @ Bunty Jahagirdar (advocates M. A. Shaikh Jahagirdar h/f S. P. Mahale); Respondents: State of Maharashtra (Shrirampur City Police Station; APP G. A. Kulkarni) and XYZ. FIR Crime No. 406 of 2023 dated 26.04.2023, registered for offences under Sections 143, 147, 148, 149, 323, 504, 506 IPC and Sections 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1949, quashed and set aside qua applicant under Section 482 CrPC on the strength of the Investigating Officer's communication dated 24.09.2025 showing the applicant was unnamed in the FIR and not charge-sheeted. Keywords: quashing of FIR; Section 482 CrPC; charge-sheet not filed against applicant; applicant not named in FIR; Shrirampur; Ahmednagar; Aurangabad Bench.