2024 INSC 798 Non-Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal Nos. of 2024 (Arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 8245 of 2023) Yashodeep Bisanrao Vadode …Appellant(s) Versus The State of Maharashtra & Anr. …Respondent(s) J U D G M E N T C.T. RAVIKUMAR, J. Leave granted. 1. This appeal by special leave is directed against the judgment and order dated 15.12.2020, passed by the High Court of Judicature of Bombay at Bombay in Criminal Appeal No.1014 of 2014, which was heard along with Criminal Appeal No.14/2015, both arising from a common judgment in two Sessions Cases emerged from a single First Information Report. The appellant was the second appellant in Criminal Appeal No.1014 of 2014 Page 1 of 11 SLP (Crl.) No. 8245 of 2023which was partly allowed under the impugned judgment whereunder, his conviction under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘the IPC’) was confirmed and the sentence imposed therefor was commuted to the period