Bhavikkumar Vinodchandra Devani v. State Of Maharashtra And ANR.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.2210 OF 2024 Bhavikkumar Vinodchandra Devani ... Applicant V/s.
The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
... Respondents WITH ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.2212 OF 2024 Vivek Ajaykumar Devani ... Applicant V/s.
The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
... Respondents WITH ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.2211 OF 2024 Priyank Ajay Devani ... Applicant V/s.
The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
... Respondents WITH ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION NO.2216 OF 2024 Pragnaben Bhavikkumar Devani ... Applicant V/s.
The State of Maharashtra & Anr.
... Respondents ----- Mr. Ratnish Shobhnath Dubey, Bhagyashri Prakash Roundal for the Applicants in all ABAs.
Ms. Rutuja Ambekar, APP for Respondent No.1-State in all ABAs. Mr. Mubin Solkar a/w Tahir Hussain, Anas Shaikh, Rabin Bamla, Zahid B., Somia i/by Yusuf Mithi for Respondent No.2 in all ABAs. IO Manoj Gadale, Kandivali Police Station is present. ----- CORAM :
N.R. BORKAR, J.
DATE :
07TH OCTOBER 2025
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1.
All these Applications for anticipatory bail are arising out of one and the same crime. Thus, the same are disposed of by common order. 2.
The Applicants are apprehending their arrest in Crime No.451 of 2024 registered with Kandivali Police Station for the offences punishable under Sections 409, 420 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code. 3.
It is the case of the prosecution that the first informant is a businessman dealing in the business of Agro products. The present Applicants are traders in the same business. It is alleged that the Applicants in connivance with each other, made the first informant to purchase certain goods and thereafter sold the same to a third party. It is alleged that they failed to pay the first informant an amount of Rs.1,32,69,625/- for the sale of the said goods. Thus, the FIR came to be registered against the Applicants.
4.
Learned Counsel for the Applicants and Learned Counsel for the first informant jointly submit that the parties have amicably settled their dispute. They have tendered the consent terms to that effect on record. The consent terms in each of the Applications are taken on record and marked 'X' for the purpose of identification. 5.
Prima facie, the dispute between the parties appears to be of civil nature. In view of the settlement between the parties, I am inclined to release the Applicants on anticipatory bail. Hence, the following order:
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ORDER
i.
The Anticipatory Bail Applications are allowed. ii.
In the event of the arrest of the Applicants in Crime No.451 of 2024 registered with Kandivali Police Station for the offences punishable under Sections 409, 420 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code, they shall be released on bail on furnishing a PR Bond in the sum of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand Only) each with one or two sureties in the like amount.
6.
The Anticipatory Bail Applications are disposed of in the aforesaid terms.
(N.R. BORKAR, J.)