Supreme Court – Daily Orders
Shashikant Pralhad Chaudhari (S 2) vs The State Of Maharashtra on 24 March, 2025
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRL.) NO.6504 OF 2019
SHASHIKANT PRALHAD CHAUDHARI (S 2) Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ORS. Respondent(s)
O R D E R
The present Special Leave Petition is arising out of an order
dated 24.04.2019 passed by the Bombay High Court in three Criminal
Writ Petitions.
2. The petitioner(S2) before this Court is a practicing advocate
and he had filed a petition for quashing of the FIRs for offence
under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, (for short “IPC”)
lodged by respondent(S3). The Bombay High Court has dismissed the
Writ Petitions.
3. Chart of pending matters/cases/complaints between the parties
as per the record are detailed as under:
SL. DETAILS OF THE
DATED SECTIONS FILED BY FILED AGAINST
NO. CASE/COMPLAINT
1 Complaint to 06.07.2015 Shashikant 1. Ms.
Hon’ble Chief Chaudhari Shaziya Rais
Justice,
Bombay High
Signature Not Verified 2. Ms. Sabiya
Digitally signed by Court and alias Sabiha
RADHA SHARMA
Date: 2025.04.02 others. Rahat Khan
17:21:39 IST
Reason:1
SL. DETAILS OF THE
DATED SECTIONS FILED BY FILED AGAINST
NO. CASE/COMPLAINT
2 Crime 28.08.2015 S. 354 I.P.C. Ms. Sabiha Shashikant
No.484/2015 Khan Chaudhari
P.S. Dinsoshi
3 Crime No. 12.03.2016 S.406, 420, Shashikant 1. Sunil
125/2016 P.S. 465-467, 471, Chaudhari Kumar Ganga
Borivali 473, 199, Sharma
200, 295 IPC 2. Sabiha
Rahat Khan
3. Saziya
Rais Khan @
Shaikh
4. Anjali
Tripathi
4 Crime No. 01.04.2016 S. 406, 420, Shashikant 1. Sunil
93/2016 465 – Chaudhari Kumar Ganga
P.S. 468, 471, Sharma
Kurar, Mumbai 473, 2. Sabiya @
199, 200, Sabiha Rahat
204, 205 Khan
& 120-B
I.P.C.
5 Crime No. 144/ 08.04.2016 S. 406, 420, Shashikant Sunil Kumar 2016 – P.S. 465 – Chaudhari Ganga Sharma Azad Maidan, 468, 471, Mumbai 473, 199, 200, 204, 205 & 500 of I.P.C.
6 FIR No. 225/ 16.05.2019 S. 420, 465, Shashikant 1. Sunil
2019 468, Chaudhari Kumar
P.S. Dinsoshi 469, 471, 2. Sabiya @
201, 506 (2), Sabiha Rahat
r/w S. 120B Khan
of 3. Saziya
IPC And Rais Khan @
S.3(1)(p), Shaikh
(q),(u), 4.Sanjay
(z), 3 (2) Maurya
(ii), 5. Sagar
(vi),(viii) Gavhane
Of Scheduled 6. Vishal
Castes Krishna Singh
and the
Scheduled
Tribes
(Prevention
of
Atrocities)
1989
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4. In the present case, there were two writ petitions filed by
respondent(S3) and three other writ petitions against the five FIRs
lodged by the present petitioner(S2). One writ petition was filed
by the petitioner(S2) against the FIR lodged by the respondent(S3).
The Bombay High Court has dismissed the Section 482 CrPC petitions,
thereby all these petitions were dismissed by the Bombay High
Court. An effort was also made by Bombay High Court for amicable
settlement of the solution. Unfortunately, no amicable solution
took place in the matter and in those circumstance, the matters
have been decided on facts.
5. This Court in order to resolve these issues which are being
dragged for the last ten years had requested both the petitioner as
well as the complainant in the Section 354 case to remain present
and a length Chamber hearing has taken place in the matter.
6. The petitioner before this Court has shown great magnanimity
after great deliberation to withdraw all these FIRs filed by him
against respondent(S3) and the other writ petitioner, and the
respondent(S3) has also graciously accepted to withdraw all
allegations made against the petitioner in respect of the FIRs
which are for offence under Section 354 IPC.
7. It is certainly true that both the petitioner and the
respondent(S3) are young lawyers and the matter has been continuing
for the last ten years. No fruitful purpose is going to be served
in continuing the matter for another ten years and, therefore, by
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exercising our powers under Article 142 of the Constitution of
India in light of the statement made by the parties before this
Court, we are putting an end to all the FIRs lodged by the
petitioner as well as by the respondent (S3).
8. The petitioner(S2) and respondent(S3) in support of their oral
submissions also stated that they will file their affidavits within
one week from today withdrawing all allegations against each other.
Let the same be done possibly within one week. The same shall be
read as part and parcel of this order.
9. It is needless to mention that all proceedings arising out of
the FIRs mentioned in the present order will come to an end on
account of the order passed by this Court and there will be no
future litigation of any kind whatsoever before any Court of law in
respect of the lis involved in the present case/FIRs.
10. The matter was triggered by complaint lodged by the petitioner
before the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and petitioner has
also graciously accepted to withdraw the complaint made to the
Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. Therefore, all criminal matters
arising out of those complaint before the Chief Justice of Bombay
High Court shall stand quashed.
11. It is further clarified that on account of the quashing of the
FIRs in question, proceedings against all other accused persons
have also come to an end and there will be no future litigation by
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the accused persons against the petitioner(S2) with regard to the
complaint that has been made by the petitioner(S2) against the
other accused as well as to the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
involving respondent (S3) also.
12. The petitioner before this Court has stated that on account of
this litigation, specifically the FIR which was lodged for an
offence under Section 354 IPC, he was not able to apply for various
posts and, therefore, as we are putting an end to all the matters,
the FIRs will not come in way of the said petitioner applying in
respect of any job or application to any post in future, including
any judicial appointment.
13. We place on record our appreciation of the stand taken by the
respective parties in this litigation and also the assistance
rendered by Ms. Yugandhara Pawar Jha, learned counsel for the first
respondent-State and Ms. Aswathi M.K., learned counsel for
respondent(S3) in arriving at a settlement of the dispute.
14. Any dissemination of information about this case in any of the
social media platforms or other print and electronic media shall be
restrained, and if there is any other material already on any of
the social media platforms the same shall be taken down.
15. A copy of this order shall be brought to the notice of the
concerned officer/official in the respective social media platform.
16. A copy of this order shall be brought to the notice of the
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Registrar General, Bombay High Court to be placed before the
Hon’ble the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. The Registry of
this Court to dispatch a copy of the same to the Registrar General,
Bombay High Court.
The Special Leave Petition stands disposed of in the aforesaid
terms.
Pending application(s), if any, shall stand disposed of.
……………………………………………………………………………J.
(B.V. NAGARATHNA)
……………………………………………………………………………J.
(SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA)
NEW DELHI;
MARCH 24, 2025.
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ITEM NO.36 COURT NO.7 SECTION II-A
S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 6504/2019
[Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 24-04-2019
in CRWP No. 3795/2016 passed by the High Court of Judicature at
Bombay]
SHASHIKANT PRALHAD CHAUDHARI (S 2) Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ORS. Respondent(s)
(IA No. 108678/2019 – EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.
IA No. 108682/2019 – PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES)
Date : 24-03-2025 This matter was called on for hearing today.
CORAM : HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE B.V. NAGARATHNA
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA
For Petitioner(s) Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR
Mr. Anjani Kumar Singh, Adv.
Ms. Nivedita Nair, Adv.
For Respondent(s) Ms. Yugandhara Pawar Jha, Adv.
Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv.
Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR
Ms. Lavanya Dhawan, Adv.
Ms. Aswathi M.K., AOR
UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
O R D E R
The Special Leave Petition stands disposed of in
terms of the signed order which is placed on the file.
Pending application(s), if any, shall stand disposed
of.
(RADHA SHARMA) (DIVYA BABBAR)
ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS COURT MASTER (NSH)
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