The five youths are Bhavesh Keshav Mhatre, Deepak Parshuram Kadam, Vrushabh Maruti Londhe, Sairaj Nagesh Gore and Atish Ashok Bhanusaghare.
The Bombay High Court (HC) has directed five college students, aged between between 19 and 22 years, to do cleaning work in the Badlapur area every Sunday in November for two hours for quashing the charges of outraging the modesty of a minor girl against them.
"Considering the peculiar facts of the case, it cannot be said that the offence alleged is against the society at large. Considering the age of the petitioners and the remorse shown by them, we are inclined to quash the First Information Report (FIR)," a Division Bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice A A Sayed said. However, the Court asked them to do the social service.
The five youths are Bhavesh Keshav Mhatre, Deepak Parshuram Kadam, Vrushabh Maruti Londhe, Sairaj Nagesh Gore and Atish Ashok Bhanusaghare.
The Court also directed the Badlapur Municipal Council officials to assign and monitor the cleaning work carried out by the accused and issue certificates to them. The certificates will have to be presented to the concerned police station, which will then file the compliance report before the Court in December.
In addition, the accused will have to deposit Rs 50,000 each with the HC Registry, which will transfer the money to the Maharashtra Legal Aid Services Authority. The five accused had approached the Court to quash the case registered against them in September by a 17-year-old girl. As per her complaint, she knew Bhavesh and Yash.
Bhavesh had objected to her meeting Yash, and, on September 25, when she visited Yash's residence to provide him medicines, the accused and his friends allegedly reached there and committed objectionable acts. They also assaulted a friend who had accompanied her, she had said in her complaint.
In the Court, the victim's mother and her friend, who was assaulted, supported the plea by the accused. Their affidavits said that once the FIR was lodged, they realised that, as a result of their action, the girl and are her friend will be dragged to the Criminal Court. Since the girl's mother does not want her daughter and her friend to visit the police station or the Criminal Court any longer and as respectable persons from the locality have met the family members of the petitioners and her family members, they have decided to put an end to the controversy, the affidavit said.
The Court accepted the affidavits and quashed the proceedings but directed the accused to do social service.
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