Pratimesh Sudhakar Shetty v. the State of Maharashtra and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Procedural order, Bombay High Court (Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction), Shivkumar Dige J., dated 24-01-2025. Interim Application No. 4727 of 2024 in Criminal Application No. 142 of 2023; Applicant: Pratimesh Sudhakar Shetty; Respondents: State of Maharashtra (Anand S. Shalgaonkar, APP) and Respondent No.2 (Rahul Chauhan with Jinay Jain). Subject: grant of a last-chance adjournment to 04-02-2025 to enable respondent No.1 to honour an undertaking to deposit an amount (quantum not disclosed), despite the applicant's objection based on continued non-deposit. No statute, section or precedent engaged; no merits ruling; limited utility as precedent, relevant only as an example of a 'last chance' stand-over order on a deposit undertaking.
What did the court decide?
Matter stood over to 4 February 2025 as a last chance for respondent No.1 to deposit the amount undertaken by him (per counsel's statement at ¶2 of the order, deposit to be made within one week); the applicant's objection to the adjournment was not accepted. No substantive adjudication on merits.