Sayed Asad Sayed Rashid v. the State of Maharashtra and Another
Anticipatory bail – Maintainability of successive application
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court, Aurangabad Bench; ABA/1991/2024 (with Cri. Appln. No. 4750 of 2024); Shaikh Pappu Shaikh Ajij v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.; order dated 17.01.2025 by R. M. Joshi, J. Interim order on maintainability of a second anticipatory bail application preferred after the first was withdrawn post charge-sheet: Court held it difficult to reject the application because the charge-sheet was admittedly not before it when withdrawal was permitted; application entertained and stood over to 23.01.2025. Advocates: Rohit Patwardhan (for Applicant), B. A. Shinde AGP (for State), S. M. Nannaware (for Informant).
What did the court decide?
Maintainability objection rejected; application entertained and, at the request of learned Counsel for the Applicant, stood over (adjourned) to 23.01.2025. No final relief on merits granted at this stage.