SHER SINGH RAWAT vs STATE NCT OF DELHI

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$~104 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 28.07.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 1306/2025 SHER SINGH RAWAT .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sanjiv K. Jha and Mr. Sachin Bhatt, Advocates versus STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for the State with Inspector Nagender Nagar, PS Saket CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J (ORAL) 1. By way of this application, the applicant is seeking grant of regular bail, in case arising out of FIR bearing no. 342/2022, registered on 26.08.2022, at Police Station Saket, District-South, Delhi, for the offence punishable under Section 302/34 of Indian Penal Code (hereafter ‘IPC’). 2. Brief facts of the present case are that the present FIR was registered on receipt of a complaint and statement of one Arun Kumar Sah (the brother of the deceased Arvind Sah). As per complaint, the deceased had been working at Concor Container Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed BAIL APPLN. 1306/2025 Page 1 of 7 By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:28.07.2025 16:56:23 Depot, Tughlakabad, Delhi, and used to return home around 11:00– 11:30 PM daily. However, on 24.08.2022, the deceased had not returned home. Despite extensive search efforts by the family, they had neither been able to trace his whereabouts nor establish contact, as his mobile phone was found to be switched off. On 25.08.2022, the complainant had received information that his brother Arvind was lying unconscious on the road opposite Mother Dairy, Pushp Vihar. He had immediately rushed him to Max Hospital, where he was declared „brought dead‟. The information regarding the MLC had been received at the police station via DD No. 16A. Subsequently, on the same day, after the cremation of the deceased, the complainant had