PARDEEP PRADHAN vs STATE GOVT OF NCT OF DELHI

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* 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. Signature Not Verified Signed By:ANIL BAIL APPLN. 1505/2025 Page 1 of 7 KUMAR BHATT Signing Date:18.07.2025 19:02:27 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 Accused is presumed to be innocent unless proven guilty, cannot be brushed aside lightly howsoever stringent the penal law may be. It is submitted that due to lack of post-operative palliative care, the Applicant’s mother is experiencing complications in her operated eye. She is in urgent need of cataract surgery for her right eye and also requires emotional and moral support, especially in the light of recent demise of Applicant’s father. 3. It is further submitted that the thre