Shrikant Harishchandra Hodawadekar v. State of Maharashtra and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Criminal Writ Petition No. 3470 of 2025, High Court of Judicature at Bombay (Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction); Shrikant Harishchandra Hodawadekar v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.; writ petition withdrawn at argument stage and dismissed with liberty to pursue statutory remedy under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; decided 8 January 2026 by Shree Chandrashekhar, CJ & Gautam A. Ankhad, J; petitioner's advocates: Sandeep Barve, Simmy Sebastian, Anushka Barve, Diksha Gaikwad (i/b B. K. Barve & Co.); State represented by K. V. Saste, Additional Public Prosecutor.
What did the court decide?
Permission to withdraw the writ petition with liberty to avail of the statutory remedy as available to the petitioner under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 ¶¶16