VISHAL GANESH KASABE vs THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

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wp1745-19.docx vai IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY Digitally signed CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION by VASANT VASANT ANANDRAO ANANDRAO IDHOL IDHOL Date: 2026.01.07 17:47:52 +0530 CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1745 OF 2019 Vishal Ganesh Kasabe } Age – 31 Years, Occ.: Service, } R/at – S/12, Near Bhimjyot Mitra Mandal, } Laxminagar, Yerwada, Pune – 06 } … Appellant/ } Accused No.2 Versus } } State of Maharashtra } (Represented by Public Prosecutor, } Bombay, Through Officer-in-Charge } of Yerwada Police Station, Pune) } … Respondent/ Complainant Mr Akshay Bankapur for the Appellant. Mrs P. P. Shinde, Addl. P.P. for the Respondent-State. CORAM: REVATI MOHITE DERE & SANDESH D. PATIL, JJ. RESERVED ON : 27TH NOVEMBER, 2025. PRONOUNCED ON : 2ND JANUARY, 2026. Judgment ( Per Sandesh D. Patil, J. ):- 1. The present appeal is directed against the Judgment and 1/19 wp1745-19.docx Order dated 23rd October 2019 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Pune in proceeding bearing Session Case No. 751 of 2013, by which the learned Additional Sessions Judge convicted the Appellant under Section 302 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred as “IPC”) and sentenced him to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay fine of Rs. 5,000/-(Rupees Five Thousand Only). The appellant was however acquitted of the offence punishable under Section 120 B of the IPC. 2. The present Appellant is Original Accused No.2 (Vishal Ganesh Kasabe). By the impugned Judgment and Order, the Appellant, as well as Lallya @ Vishal Ravindra Dadar (Original Accused No.1), were convicted for the offence punishable under section 302, read with 34 of the IPC. Both, the Appellant as well as Lallya @ Vishal Ravindra Dadar (hereinafter referred to as Accused No. 1) have preferred separate appeals again