NITIN @ CHOTA vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

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$~64 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: December 04, 2025 + BAIL APPLN. 4698/2025 & CRL.M.A. 36192/2025 NITIN @ CHOTA .....Applicant Through: Mr. Ramesh Gupta, Mr. Shailendra Singh, Mr. Anshul Pratap Singh, Ms. Utsa Sharma & Mr. Durga Pratap Singh, Advs. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ritesh Kumar Bahri, APP for the State along with Ms. Divya Yadav & Mr. Lalit Luthra, Advs. SI Sachin Rathee, PS Mukherjee Nagar. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN AMIT MAHAJAN, J. (Oral) 1. The present application is filed seeking pre-arrest bail in FIR No.154/2025 dated 09.03.2025, registered at Police Station Mukherjee Nagar, for offence under Sections 110/3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (‘BNS’). 2. Briefly stated, the FIR was registered for the offence under Sections 110/3(5) of the BNS on the statement of the complainant, namely, Amit Kumar (victim’s friend). Subsequently, after death of the victim, Section 105 of the BNS Signature Not Verifiedwas added. It was alleged that on the intervening night of Signed By:HARMINDER BAIL APPLN. 4698/2025 Page 1 of 7 KAUR Signing Date:05.12.2025 18:14:43 07.03.2025 and 08.03.2025, at around 2:30AM, the victim had gone to the PG where the complainant was staying, and requested him to shelter the victim from the accused Sourabh and his friends. Allegedly, after some time, around 4 AM, the accused Sourabh came to the spot with his friends in search of the victim. Hearing a voice calling out to find the victim for teaching him a lesson, the victim became terrified and ran towards the stairs to escape by crossing over to the other terrace. The accused persons allegedly came inside the PG of the complainant and searched furiously for the victim. It is alleged that the accused persons a