The Bombay High Court has extended the order in which it had earlier given relief to actor Suniel Shetty with regards to a case registered against him.
Actor Suniel Shetty (File image)
The Bombay High Court has extended the order in which it had earlier given relief to actor Suniel Shetty with regards to a case registered against him.
The court had earlier asked the lower court not to proceed with the case until the petition filed by Shetty in the Bombay HC is decided.
In 2021, the Mumbai police’s crime branch had chargesheeted Shetty and others before the Esplanade Metropolitan Magistrate court. The charges against Shetty and others are under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 427 (mischief causing damage upward of Rs. 50,000), 448 (house trespassing), 201 (destruction of evidence) and 114 (abettor present when offence is committed) under the Indian Penal Code.
This was in a case which took place in 2013 regarding a property in South Mumbai. The case was at first registered with the VP Road police station in Mumbai and then later handed over to the crime branch.
The complainant’s case is that he had an agreement and was running a restaurant in Girgaum after investing a huge money in the renovation of the place. However, in 2013, Shetty and his people allegedly threw them out in spite of having a valid agreement and began using the premise for their own business because of which he is suffering huge losses.
However, after the filing of chargesheet, Shetty then approached the Bombay high court seeking quashing of the proceedings before the Esplanade Magistrate Court. The complainant had also approached the high court seeking enhancement of the charges against Shetty and others.
In 2021 itself, when Shetty’s petition had come up for hearing, after hearing Shetty’s lawyer and the prosecution, Bombay High Court while issuing notices had asked the Magistrate court to not go ahead with the hearing of the case against Shetty and had asked the trial court grant a “suitable adjournment post the date assigned to this writ petition.” It is this relief that has been extended by three weeks by the division bench of Justices Nitin Jamdar and NR Borkar on Monday.
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