Bajrang Nagnath Chavan v. the State of Maharashtra and Other
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: detention matter; writ petition; affidavit-in-reply pending; State of Maharashtra; Kolhapur circuit bench; criminal appellate jurisdiction; interim listing order dated 07-11-2025; next date 14-11-2025; A.P.P. assurance of reply within one week; court's clarification to dispose petition without State reply. Limited research value: purely interlocutory scheduling order with no ratio decidendi, no statutory references, and no cited precedents; citable only as evidence of the Court's stated approach to advance disposal of a detention petition irrespective of the State's affidavit-in-reply.
What did the court decide?
Interim listing order only: the A.P.P. undertook to have the State Government file its Affidavit-in-Reply within one week; the Petition was listed for 14th November 2025 at 4.00 p.m.; the Court expressly clarified it would endeavour to dispose of the Petition even without the State's reply, being a detention matter. The Petition itself was neither allowed nor dismissed on this date.