Mahavir Pukhraj Jain v. the Commissioner of Police and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Mahavir Pukhraj Jain v. The Commissioner of Police and Anr., Criminal Writ Petition No.221 of 2024, Bombay High Court (Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction), decided 28 January 2025 by Revati Mohite Dere and Dr. Neela Gokhale, JJ. Petition sought further investigation in M.E.C.R. No.20 of 2006 (L.T. Marg Police Station) after three charge-sheets (May 2007, June 2016, June 2023); grievance concerned non-recording of statements of persons named in 164 statements. Police recorded the statements during the pendency of the petition and the learned APP undertook to file a Supplementary charge-sheet within two weeks; statement accepted. Petition and Interim Application No.1083 of 2024 (intervention by Dilip Bhaskar Suru @ Soni and Anr.) disposed of as nothing survived. Petitioner's advocates: Pravin Uttam Gaikwad with Shaharukh Siraj Shaikh; State represented by APP P. P. Shinde.
What did the court decide?
The Court accepted the learned APP's statement that the police, having recorded the statements of the persons named in the 164 statements, will take appropriate steps to file a Supplementary charge-sheet within two weeks; the petition and Interim Application No.1083 of 2024 were disposed of as nothing survived.