2024 INSC 1017
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REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2024
(Arising out of SLP(Crl.) No.12939 of 2024) SIDDHANT @ SIDHARTH BALU TAKTODE
…APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANOTHER …RESPONDENT(S)
J U D G M E N T
B.R. GAVAI, J.
1. Leave granted.
2. The present appeal challenges the order passed by the
learned Single Judge of the High Court of Judicature at
Bombay in Criminal Appeal No.298 of 2024, vide which the
appeal filed by the appellant herein challenging the order
passed by the Additional Special Judge (M.C.O.C. Act), Pune
(hereinafter referred to as ‘Special Judge’), rejecting the
application for bail filed by the appellant.
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3. Shri Anand Dilip Landge, learned counsel appearing for
the appellant submits that the learned Single Judge of the
High Court as well as the learned Special Judge have grossly
erred in rejecting the application filed by the appellant. It is
submitted that relying solely on one criminal antecedent, the
provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act,
1999 (for short, ‘the said Act’) have been invoked against the
appellant herein. Relying on certain photographs, the
learned counsel for the appellant submits that the appellant
was not present at the place of the incident, inasmuch as he
was 26 kms., away from the ...