Bombay High Court
SHESHADRI P RversusSTATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ANR
- Decided
- Disposal
- Dismissed for non-complying conditional Order
- Bench
- ASHWIN D BHOBE
Summary
The Bombay High Court, sitting on 9 March 2026, issued a common order directing the handling of several pending criminal appellate matters. Due to time constraints, the listed matters could not be heard and the court set deadlines for removal of office objections, filing of any affidavits-in-reply, and supply of spare notice copies by petitioners. It ordered that unserved respondents be deemed dismissed if copies are not supplied within seven days, and otherwise notices must be issued with a two‑week return date. The order also scheduled the listed matters for hearing on specific dates in August 2026, subject to compliance with the procedural requirements. No substantive adjudication on the merits of any case was made.
Subjects
- court procedure
- case management
- interim order
- notice service
Judgment
Arjun COMMON ORDER.doc
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CORAM : ASHWIN D. BHOBE, J.
DATE : 9th March, 2026.
P.C. :
1. At the time of rising of the Court at 7:10 p.m., the matters
mentioned in the Chart in Paragraph No. 7 hereunder, could not be
taken up for hearing due to paucity of time.
2. In some of the matters mentioned in the Chart, there are
office objections. As such, all the office objections shall be removed
within a period of one week from today.
3. Subject to compliance of the above, ad-interim/interim
order, if any granted earlier, would continue.
4. The Affidavit-in-Reply/Rejoinder, if any, shall be filed
within a period of one week from today.
5. Matters in which service of notice is awaited, put up after
service.
6. Matters in which though notices were issued, the office
could not process the notice due to non-supply of spare copies, the
Petitioner shall supply spare copies for issuance of notice within 7
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days, failing which, the matters in which copies are not supplied,
would stand dismissed as against the unserved Respondents on the
8th day. If copies are supplied, office to issue notice to the unserved
Respondents, returnable after two weeks.
7. Subject to the above, list these matters as under :-
Serial Numbers of To be listed on
Matters on the Board
47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 05/08/2026
54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 06/08/2026
61, 62, 63
64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 07/08/2026
71, 72, 73
77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 10/08/2026
84, 101, 102, 103
104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 11/08/2026
110, 111, 114, 117
118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 12/08/2026
123, 124, 125, 126, 127,
128, 129, 131, 133, 134, 13/08/2026
135, 136, 137, 138
139, 141, 142, 143, 144, 14/08/2026
145, 146, 147, 148, 150
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151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 17/08/2026
156, 157, 158, 159, 160
162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 18/08/2026
168, 169, 170, 171, 172
(ASHWIN D. BHOBE, J.)
Digitally
signed by
ARJUN
ARJUN KRISHNA
KRISHNA RODGE
RODGE Date:
2026.03.10
11:05:44
+0530
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