Bombay High Court

VISHWAS RAGHUNATH BAGALEversusTHE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS

Disposal: DISPOSED OFF

Holding

The petitions are disposed of with liberty to the petitioners to challenge the orders referred to in the communications.

Summary

The petitioners, Indubai Eknath Patil and Vishwas Raghunath Bagale, filed criminal writ petitions challenging certain orders. The respondents, the State of Maharashtra, filed applications and produced communications dated 28 September 2020, 31 October 2020 and 3 November 2020. The court examined these communications and agreed that the petitions could be disposed of while preserving the petitioners' right to contest the orders mentioned therein. Consequently, the court disposed of both criminal writ petitions and the pending civil application, granting the petitioners liberty to raise further challenges. No substantive merits of the underlying orders were decided.

Issues considered

Whether the criminal writ petitions may be disposed of while allowing the petitioners to retain the right to challenge the orders communicated on 28‑09‑2020, 31‑10‑2020 and 03‑11‑2020.

Subjects

criminal writ petition
disposal
liberty to challenge
communications
pending civil application
High Court of Bombay

Judgment

2026:BHC-AUG:43478-DB

1 912 CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1036 OF 2020

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
BENCH AT AURANGABAD

912 CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1036 OF 2020

INDUBAI EKNATH PATIL
VERSUS
STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHRS.
...
Adv. U. L. Memale h/f Adv. M. S. Deshmukh, Advocate for the
Petitioner
Adv. Rajdeep D. Raut, APP for Respondents-State
...

WITH
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 266 OF 2021
IN WP/1036/2020

VISHWAS RAGHUNATH BAGALE
VERSUS
THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND OTHERS
…
Adv. A. S. Sawant, Advocate for Applicant
Adv. Rajdeep D. Raut, APP for Respondents-State
...

CORAM : SANDIPKUMAR C. MORE AND
VAISHALI PATIL-JADHAV, JJ.

DATED : 22/09/2026
Per Court:

. Heard.

2. The learned APP has placed on record the communication

dated 28.09.2020 along with the subsequent communications

dated 31.10.2020 and 03.11.2020. The learned counsel for the

petitioner has also gone through the said communications and
2 912 CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO. 1036 OF 2020

confirms the fact that this petition can be disposed of by keeping

the right of the petitioner to challenge the order mentioned in the

aforesaid communication. All these communications are taken on

record and marked “X” collectively for identification.

3. In view of the same, the petition stands disposed of with

liberty to the petitioner as aforesaid. The pending Civil Application

is also disposed of.

( VAISHALI PATIL-JADHAV, J. ) ( SANDIPKUMAR C. MORE, J. )

shivani/

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