PRABHAT KUMAR vs THE STATE OF GOVT. NCT OF DELHI & ANR.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 03.12.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 09.12.2025 Judgment uploaded on: 09.12.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 4049/2025 PRABHAT KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Vijay Laxmi Chopra, Advocate versus THE STATE OF GOVT. NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for the State with Mr. Chetan Dahiya, Advocate. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The applicant has preferred this application, seeking grant of regular bail in case arising out of FIR bearing no. 33/2025, registered at Police Station Crime Women Cell Nanak Pura, Delhi, for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 498A/406/377/ 376/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter ‘IPC’]. 2. The brief facts of the case are that on 03.03.2025, the complainant had submitted a written complaint alleging dowry BAIL APPLN. 4049/2025 Page 1 of 7 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:09.12.2025 15:19:28 demands, physical and mental cruelty, as well as sexual assault by her husband, i.e. the applicant herein. On the basis of her complaint, counselling and mediation proceedings had been initiated, but the same had failed. Thereafter, the present FIR was registered, and investigation was taken up. As per her complaint dated 11.02.2025, the complainant ‘B’ had alleged that the accused/applicant, Prabhat Kumar, had deceitfully induced her into a relationship on a false promise of marriage. She had come into contact with him in April 2022 while working at an Aadhaar Centre, during which he had developed intimacy with her on the basis of the assurance of marriage and thereafter had established physical relations against her will. Despite her objections,