SHAFIQ ALI HAIDER vs THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

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30-ba2829-2025-J.doc AGK IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION BAIL APPLICATION NO.2829 OF 2025 Shafiq Ali Haider, An Indian inhabitant, aged about 32 years, House No.24, Tilgadiya, Budrak, Than Dumriganj, District Siddharth Nagar, U.P. At present lodged in Taloja Central Prison … Applicant V/s. Digitally signed by ATUL The State of Maharashtra, ATUL GANESH GANESH KULKARNI KULKARNI Date: 2025.10.14 at the instance of 10:31:06 +0530 Panvel City Police Station. … Respondent Mr. Milan Desai for the applicant. Mrs. Rajashree V. Newton, APP for the respondent- State. CORAM : AMIT BORKAR, J. DATED : OCTOBER 13, 2025 JUDGMENT: 1. By this application filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS), the applicant seeks regular bail in connection with Crime Register No.414 of 2023 registered with Panvel City Police Station for offences punishable under Sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC). 2. The prosecution case, in brief, is that on 28 June 2023 at about 6.30 p.m., one Mukramali Hashmad Kasar visited Panvel 1 30-ba2829-2025-J.doc City Police Station and lodged a report stating that at about 7.00 a.m. the same morning, he had received a call from the wife of his brother, Mohd. Aslam Harshad, inquiring about her husband’s whereabouts. She told him that her husband had called her at about 2.00 a.m. saying that he would reach his native place by train at 7.00 a.m., but he never arrived and his phone was found switched off. Based on this report, a missing person’s complaint bearing No.68 of 2023 was registered. 3. During the course of inquiry, it was revealed that on 27 June 2023 at about 9.30 a.m., the deceased Mohd. Aslam Harshad was last seen in the company of the present applicant. The police