1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 24 OF 2006 Iftekar Haroon Shaikh ...Applicant V/s. The State of Maharashtra ...Respondent None for the Applicant Mrs. Poornima Kantharia, Additional Public Prosecutor, for the Respondent. CORAM: KSHITIJ R. VYAS, C.J. DATE: JUNE 16, 2006. P.C.:- 1. When called out, learned counsel for the applicant and the applicant are absent. 2. Learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Mrs. Poornima Kantharia, appearing for the State, states that the learned Additional Sessions Judge, City Sessions Court, by his order dated 7th April, 2006 in Sessions Case No. 903 of 2002, acquitted accused No. 2 (the present applicant), accused No. 3, accused No. 4 and accused No. 5 under Section 232 of the Criminal Procedure Code for the offences punishable 2 under Sections 364-A and 387 read with Sections 34 and 368 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. She placed on record the operative part of the said order, which is taken on record. 3. By the present application, the applicant prays for discharging him in Sessions Case No. 903 of 2002. In view of the order of acquittal dated 7th April, 2006, this application is rejected, having become infructuous. CHIEF JUSTICE