SUNIL KUMAR vs STATE OF NCT DELHI

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 26.11.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 09.12.2025 Judgment uploaded on: 12.12.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 2256/2025 & CRL.M.A. 28382/2025, CRL.M.A. 25302/2025 SUNIL KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Praveen Rana, Mr. N.B. Tiwari, Ms. Sarita Sharma and Ms. Marshan, Advocates versus STATE OF NCT DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for the State with Ms. Amisha Dahiya, Advocate Mr. Akshat Aggarwal, Advocate for the complainant along with complainant. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The applicant has preferred this application, seeking grant of anticipatory bail in case arising out of e-FIR bearing no. 80145093/2024, registered at Police Station Preet Vihar, New Delhi, for the commission of offence punishable under Section 303(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 [hereafter ‘ BNS’]. BAIL APPLN. 2256/2025 2. Briefly stated, the facts of the present case are that the complainant got the present e-FIR registered on the allegation that his employee, Sunil Kumar (the applicant herein), had committed theft of articles/belongings, including hand wash, fro