PRAMOD SURYABHAN PAWAR Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) By its judgement dated 7 February 2019, the High Court of Judicature at Bombay dismissed an application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 "CrPC". The appellant sought the quashing of a First Information Report "FIR" registered against him on 17 May 2016 with the Panvel City Police Station for offences punishable under Sections 376, 417, 504 and 506(2) of the Indian Penal Code "IPC" and Sections 3(1) (u), (w) and 3(2) (vii) of The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989 (as amended by the Amendment Act, 2015), "SC/ST Act". The second respondent is the complainant.

(3.) The allegations in the FIR are summarised thus: