Balu Arjun Pawar v. the State of Maharashtra and Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
Criminal Anticipatory Bail Application No. 904 of 2026, Balu Arjun Pawar v. State of Maharashtra & Anr., High Court of Judicature at Bombay (Shivkumar Dige, J.), decided 8 June 2026. Dismissed as infructuous because the applicant was arrested during pendency of the application; no merits decided, no relief granted, no statutes or cases cited. Useful only as an instance of dismissal of an anticipatory bail application on the ground of subsequent arrest.
What did the court decide?
Accepting the learned counsel for the Applicant's submission that the Applicant had been arrested during the pendency of the Anticipatory Bail Application and that the application had accordingly become infructuous, the Court dismissed the application as having become infructuous, without deciding the merits of pre-arrest bail. ¶¶14