DEEPAK MINDA & ORS. vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on: 25.09.2025 Pronounced on: 19.12.2025 + CRL.M.C. 8155/2024 DEEPAK MINDA & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Hrishikesh Baruah, Mr. Utkarsh Dwivedi, Mr. Anurag Mishra, Mr. Kumar Kshitij, Mr. Yashaswy Ghosh, Advocates. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Tarang Srivastava, APP with SI Chinki Yadav, PS- Shalimar Bagh. Mr. Jeevesh Bindal, Advocate for R-2. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAVINDER DUDEJA JUDGMENT RAVINDER DUDEJA, J. 1. This is a petition under Section 528 of the BNSS, 2023 (earstwhile Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973) against the order dated 24.09.2024 passed by the JMFC-07, North- West Rohini Court, New Delhi vide which the complainant’s application under section 311 Cr.P.C., to examine PW-8 was allowed. CRL.M.C. 8155/2024 Page 1 of 14 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:VAISHALI PRUTHI Signing Date:19.12.2025 19:31:48 Brief facts of the case: 2. The FIR records that on 10.06.2005 at about 8:00 a.m., while the complainant, Harish Bindal, was reading the newspaper at his residence at AE-167, Shalimar Bagh, his wife allegedly injured herself by breaking her own bangle and called the police, following which she was taken to the hospital. At around 8:30 a.m., after she had left, his brothers-in-law Sunil Minda and Deepak Minda, accompanied by Kunal Minda, Ashwani Jain, Purakh Chand Minda and Kalpana Minda, allegedly entered his house forcibly, demanding withdrawal of a pending Rs. 3.5 crore credit case, and on his refusal, abused, assaulted, and dragged him into the street, during which Deepak Minda allegedly struck him, breaking his tooth and causing bleeding. The complainant dialled the PCR, and during the scuffle, Sunil Minda's spectacle glass fell