Suresh Sakharam Salvi v. State of Maharashtra
Case brief
What is this about?
Suresh Sakharam Salvi v. State of Maharashtra & Ors., Criminal Writ Petition No. 1628 of 2024, Bombay High Court, decided 29 January 2025 (neutral citation 2025:BHC-AS:4952-DB). Keywords: direction to register FIR; refusal/non-registration of FIR; Maharashtra police; preliminary enquiry; petitioner's complaints dated 11-09-2021, 22-04-2022, 14-07-2022, 07-09-2022, 02-11-2022; disposal on learned APP's statement; two-week undertaking to decide and communicate; PSI Manish Hajare, Dahisar Police Station, present in court; counsel: Sandeep Barve/Vijay Hamare (petitioner), P. P. Shinde APP (State), Videsha Rohira/Amit Singh (Respondent No. 5). No statute, section or precedent relied upon; no quantum involved.
What did the court decide?
No substantive direction to register an F.I.R. was issued by the Court. The Petition was disposed of on the strength of the learned APP's statement/undertaking that the Police will take an appropriate decision on the Petitioner's complaints within two weeks and communicate the decision to the Petitioner.