Shankar Ukha Mahajan v. State of Maharashtra
Case brief
What is this about?
Regular bail on parity: agent-role accused (No. 21 of 269) in Nashik birth-certificate FIR CR 103/2025 (Special Case 186/2025, Malegaon) under Ss. 318(4)/336(3)/340(2)/338 r/w 3(5) BNS 2023 and Ss. 8 & 11 PC Act 1988; role confirmed similar to bailed co-accused Bhagirath Shriram Chaudhary (Criminal Bail Application No. 4797 of 2025); parity also with Accused No. 195 Khalid Akhtar Mohammed Yusuf (AB: Supreme Court FIR 40/2025; ad-interim this Court FIR 51/2025); no antecedents, ~8 months custody, charge unframed, 109 witnesses; P.R. bond Rs. 2,00,000 with sureties; conditions include Malegaon City/Tahsil exclusion, monthly IO reporting, passport surrender; Bombay High Court, Ashwin D. Bhobe, J., 17-04-2026.
What did the court decide?
Release on bail in connection with FIR No. 103 of 2025 (Killa Police Station, Malegaon City, District Nashik) on executing a P.R. Bond of Rs. 2,00,000/- with one or two local sureties of like amount to the satisfaction of the Additional Sessions Judge, Malegaon, subject to conditions: (b) no inducement, threat or promise to dissuade any person acquainted with the facts from disclosing them; (c) no tampering with prosecution witnesses or evidence; (d) furnish cell phone number, contact details and residential address with proof to the IO at Killa Police Station within three days of release and keep updated; (e) surrender passport (if any) to the IO within three days; (f) report to the IO on the 2nd Saturday of every month, 10.00 am to 12.00 pm, till further orders of the Additional Sessions Judge, Malegaon; (g) not enter the territorial jurisdiction of Malegaon City/Malegaon Tahsil until further orders from the Court to which the charge-sheet will be assigned, except for IO reporting and attending hearings in Special Case No. 186 of 2025 (undertaking voluntarily given and accepted); (h) attend each hearing date before the Trial Court unless exempted.