Lalitkumar Pandit Choudhari v. the State of Maharashtra
Case brief
What is this about?
Interim application (I.A. No. 1064 of 2024) in Criminal Appeal No. 901 of 2008, Lalitkumar Pandit Choudhari v. State of Maharashtra, High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Coram: S. M. Modak, J., dated 13 June 2025. Filed under Section 391 CrPC for adducing additional evidence based on a departmental inquiry decision declared after the Criminal Court held the applicant guilty. Reply filed; copy to be supplied to the other side. Parties to address the binding effect of departmental inquiry findings on the Criminal Court and vice versa; matter stood over to 11 July 2025. Keywords: Section 391 Criminal Procedure Code, additional evidence, departmental inquiry, binding effect, conviction, criminal appeal, interim application.
What did the court decide?
No substantive relief; interim application adjourned to 11 July 2025, with both sides directed to address the Court on the binding effect of the departmental inquiry findings on the Criminal Court and vice versa, and a copy of the reply to be furnished to the other side.