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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO………………………………………….OF 2024 (ARISING OUT OF SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRL.) NO.15379/2024)
RAJ MOHAMMED MANSUR KHAN APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ORS. RESPONDENT(S)
O R D E R
Leave granted.
This appeal challenges the order dated 26.03.2024
passed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay in Bail
Application No.3698 of 2023.
The appellant herein has been booked for the crime
registered pursuant to FIR No.122 of 2023 dated 17.04.2023
lodged with Police Station Wadala T.T., District Mumbai,
Maharashtra State, with respect to offences punishable under
Sections 376(2)(f)(n) and 376(3) of the Indian Penal Code,
1860 (for brevity, “IPC”), Sections 4, 6, 8, 10, 13 and 15 of
the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012
(for brevity, “POCSO Act”) and Sections 67A and 67B of the
Information and Technology Act, 2000 (for brevity, “IT Act”).
An application seeking regular bail having been
rejected by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay vide
impugned order dated 26.03.2024, the appellant has preferred
the instant appeal.
By order dated 23.10.2024, the following order was
passed by this Court:
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“Delay condoned.
Issue notice to the respondents, returnable
on 27.11.2024.
Learned counsel for the petit...