DR SHREYAS DILIP MANDRE vs STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANR

Gokhale 1 of 28 901-WP-3950-23 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 3950 OF 2023 Dr. Shreyas Dilip Mandre ..Petitioner Versus The State of Maharashtra & Anr. ..Respondents __________ Ms. Avani Bansal a/w. Ms. Parika Singh, Aryan Chourasia and Rishi Thakur for Petitioner. Ms. Mahalakshmi Ganapathy, Addl.PP for State/Respondent No.1. Mr. Wesley Menezes a/w. Waqaar Pathan, Hemali Mehta Tejani and Yash Athre i/b. Saamya Partners for Respondent No.2. __________ CORAM : SARANG V. KOTWAL & SANDESH D. PATIL, JJ. RESERVED ON : 18 APRIL 2026 PRONOUNCED ON : 29 APRIL 2026 JUDGMENT: (PER SARANG V. KOTWAL, J.) 1. Heard Ms. Avani Bansal, learned counsel for the Petitioner, Mr. Wesley Menezes, learned counsel for the Respondent No.2 and Ms. Mahalakshmi Ganapathy, learned APP for the State-Respondent No.1. 2. The petition is filed with the following two main prayers (a) and (b): 2.” 3. The brief facts leading to filing of the present petition are as follows: (i) The Petitioner and the Respondent No.2 got married on 16.06.2008 in Mumbai. After the marriage, both of them shifted to Cambridge MA USA. Their son ‘N’ was born on 24.12.2014