PARDEEP PRADHAN vs STATE GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Reserved on: 10th July, 2025 Pronounced on: 18th July, 2025 + BAIL APPLN. 1505/2025 PARDEEP PRADHAN S/o Sh. Rajender Pradhan R/o RZ-5B, Gali No. 30, Palam Colony, Palam Village, New Delhi .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Navlendu Kumar, Adv. versus STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI) Through SHO PS Paharaganj .....Respondent Through: Mr. Shoaib Haider, APP for the State CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA J U D G M E N T NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA, J. 1. First Bail Application under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (earlier Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973) has been filed on behalf of Petitioner – Pardeep Pradhan for grant of Regular Bail in FIR No. 0461/2021 dated 19.11.2021 under Section 364A/392/397/412/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as „IPC‟) and Sections 25/27/54/59/30 of Arms Act, registered at Police Station Paharganj. 2. Briefly stated, the Bail Application filed before the learned ASJ had been dismissed vide Order dated 04.04.2025. It is submitted that the Applicant is an Accused and not a convict. The over-arching postulate of criminal jurisprudence that the A