TEJAS @ DADA MAHIPATI DALVI vs THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

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CONF3_24.doc IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CONFIRMATION CASE NO.3 OF 2024 State of Maharashtra … Appellant Vs. Tejas @ Dada Mahipati Dalvi, presently in Yerwada Central Prison, Pune … Respondent WITH INTERIM APPLICATION NO.4190 OF 2025 WITH INTERIM APPLICATION NO.2627 OF 2025 IN CONFIRMATION CASE NO.3 OF 2024 Tejas @ Dada Mahipati Dalvi … Applicant Vs. State of Maharashtra … Respondent WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.367 OF 2024 Tejas @ Dada Mahipati Dalvi … Appellant Vs. State of Maharashtra and another … Respondents WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1262 OF 2024 Sujata Mahipati Dalvi, presently in Yerwada Central Prison, Pune … Appellant Vs. State of Maharashtra and others … Respondents --- Mr. Shrikant V. Gavand, APP for Appellant / Applicant-State in CONF/3/2024 and for Respondent-State in IA/4190/2025, IA/2627/2025, APEAL/367/2024 and APEAL/1262/2024. Ms. Rebecca Gonsalvez with Ms. Sahana Manjesh for Respondent in CONF/3/2024 and for Applicant in IA/4190/2025 and for Appellants in APEAL/367/2024 and APEAL/1262/2024. CORAM : MANISH PITALE & MINAL Digitally by MINAL SANDIP SANDIP signed PARAB SHREERAM V. SHIRSAT, JJ. Date: 2026.03.10 PARAB 15:04:02 +0530 DATE : MARCH 10, 2026 1/15 CONF3_24.doc ORDER : (Per Justice Manish Pitale) Interim Application No.4190 of 2025 . The accused No.1 has filed this application invoking Sections 408 and 432 read with Section 329 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) for a direction that the chemical analysers of the concerned laboratory be summoned for cross-examination as chemical analyst’s reports (CA reports), being as many as 12 in number, were directly produced during the recording of evidence of the investigating officer (P.W.29). Reliance is placed on judgements of the Supreme Court and