UMESH VERMA vs STATE

$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 09.07.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 14.07.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 3788/2022 & CRL.M.A. 22040/2023 UMESH VERMA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Raj Shekhar Rao, Sr. Advocate with Mr. Tarun Gaur, Ms. Vishakha Gupta and Mr. Shubham Arora, Advocates. versus STATE .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ritesh Kumar Bahri, APP for State with Ms. Divya Yadav, Advocate with SI Pankaj, EOW. Mr. Archit Kaushik, Advocate for Complainant. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA JUDGMENT GIRISH KATHPALIA, J.: 1. The accused/applicant seeks regular bail in case FIR No. 132/2020 of PS Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for offences under Section 406/409/420/467/120B IPC. Earlier, the accused/applicant had filed Bail Application No.3500/2021 for grant of regular bail in the same case FIR, but that application was dismissed by a coordinate bench of this court vide judgment dated 26.10.2021. Bail Application 3788/2022 pages GIRISH 2. Broadly speaking, the circumstances relevant for the present purposes are that one Joginder Kumar lodged a complaint with the DCP, EOW against a crypto currency company namely Pluto Exchange and its owners including the pre