RAHUL KUMAR SHARMA vs STATE NCT OF DELHI

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$~17 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 03.07.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 15/2025 RAHUL KUMAR SHARMA .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Rajesh Kumar and Mr.Sanjay Jain, Advocates versus STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Ms. Meenakshi Dahiya, APP for State. Mr. Harshvardhan Jain and Ms. Tara Narula, Advocates for R- 2/Victim. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR SHALINDER KAUR, J (ORAL) 1. The present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, seeking Regular Bail in FIR No.32/2020 dated 19.01.2020, for the offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) registered at Police Station Wazirabad, North District, Delhi. 2. The genesis of the present case lies in a PCR call received on the night of 18.01.2020, vide DD No. 48A, to the effect that an injured person was lying at RCC Road, near Burari Traffic Signal, Hardev Nagar, Delhi. Upon receipt of said information, ASI Virender Pal, accompanied by Ct. Pawan and Ct. Anil, reached the spot, where a grey Maruti EECO vehicle bearing registration number DL-4CAX- 6013 was found parked with its window glasses shattered. Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed BAIL APPLN. 15/2025 Page 1 of 8 By:RASHIM KAPOOR Signing Date:04.07.2025 18:34:17 3. Upon inquiry at the spot, no eyewitnesses were found. Meanwhile, information was received from Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial (BJRM) Hospital vide DD No. 05-B dated 19.01.2020, informing that one Kartik, son of Rajkumar Khanna, resident of Nathu Pura, Burari, Delhi, aged 23 years, had been brought dead to the hospital. The body bore a stab injury on the left side of the chest. The subject FIR was registered thereafter and the investigation was handed over to Inspector Gulshan Gupta. 4. Relatives of t