Perpet Philip Rodrigues vs Mahesh Shashikant Surve — 62/2025

Summary: The petition filed by the complainant seeking directions to register an FIR for theft of a two-wheeler has been rejected. The court found that the complainant's current version (that the accused took the vehicle without permission) was contradictory to her earlier non-cognizable complaints to police, where she stated the accused had borrowed it temporarily and failed to return it. The court upheld the police classification of the offense as dishonest misappropriation under Section 314 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (a non-cognizable, bailable offense), holding no investigation direction was warranted. The matter has been posted for verification under Section 223 of the BNSS, 2023. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.