SAAD vs STATE (NCT OF DELHI)

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 30.10.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 03.12.2025 Judgment uploaded on: 03.12.2025 + CRL.M.C. 7600/2025 SAAD .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Chetan, Advocate versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. ...Respondents Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for State with SI Hemant Kumar, PS: Jafrabad, Delhi CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The petitioner by way of this petition lays challenge to his arrest in relation to FIR bearing no. 192/2024, registered at Police Station Jafrabad, Delhi, for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 302/201/120B/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereafter ‗IPC‘). 2. Brief facts of the case are that on 21.05.2024, a PCR call was received regarding a murder, upon which the police had reached the spot and found the dead body of one Shahbaz. It emerged during inquiry that the deceased, who had married Ayesha about 5–6 months Signature Not Verified CRL.M.C. 7600/2025 Page 1 of 10 Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:03.12.2025 18:17:16 earlier, was facing domestic discord, and Ayesha had returned to her parental home around eight months prior. The prosecution alleges that Ayesha‘s brothers, Salman and Zeeshan, were unhappy with the marriage and, pursuant to a criminal conspiracy, they had murdered Shahbaz. Both the accused persons were arrested and during investigation, they disclosed that Zeeshan had stabbed the deceased multiple times with an iron knife while Salman had restrained him. The prosecution further alleges that the petitioner Saad was part of the conspiracy and had actively facilitated the commission of the offence. He is alleged to have provided the iron knife, used in committing the murder of the de