DEVENDER KUMAR vs STATE NCT OF DELHI

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 21.07.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 28.07.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 2488/2025 DEVENDER KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Ramesh Gupta, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Mumtaz Ahmed, Mr. Shailendra Singh and Mr. Satish Sharma, Advocates. versus STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Amit Ahlawat, APP for State. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA JUDGMENT “Avarice is a common frailty of mankind and Robert Walpole’s famous pronouncement that all men have their price, notwithstanding the unsavoury cynicism that it suggests, is not very far from truth. As far back as more than two centuries ago, it was Burke who cautioned:“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot last long.” In more recent years, Romain Rolland lamented that France fell because there was corruption without indignation. Corruption has, in it, very dangerous potentialities. Corruption, a word of wide connotation has, in respect of almost all the spheres of our day-to-day life, all the world over, the limited meaning of allowing decisions and actions to be influenced not by the rights or wrongs of a case but by the prospects of monetary gains or other selfish considerations.” {2025 SCC OnLine SC 488} 1. The accused/applicant, posted as Head Constable in Delhi Police, Bail Application 2488/2025 Page 1 of 14 pages GIRISH KATHPALIA Digitally signed by GIRISH KATHPALIA Date: 2025.07.28 14:40:46 +05'30' Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:NEETU N NAIR Signing Date:28.07.2025 16:22:14 seeks anticipatory bail in case FIR No.04/2025 of PS Vigilance for offence under Section, 7 Prevention of Corruption Act and 61(2), Bharatiya Nagarik Sanhita (BNS). Reply/status report was filed on behalf of respondent, strongly opposing the anticipatory