GAURAV vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

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$~16 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 27.03.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 945/2025 GAURAV .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Varun Deswal and Mr. Siddharth S. Yadav, Advocates versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Ms. Priyanka Dalal, APP with SI Laxmi Narain, PS North Avenue CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA J U D G M E N T (ORAL) 1. Petitioner, who is a Proclaimed Offender, seeks anticipatory bail in case FIR No. 60/2024 of PS North Avenue for offences under Section 190/191(2)(3)/115(2)/109(1)/3(5) BNS, 2023. 2. Briefly stated, prosecution case is as follows. On 19.10.2024, at about 10:00 pm, the complainant Dheeraj along with Deepak and Vineet was sitting at a local restaurant/kiosk, where Ricky and Pawan met them. Ricky had suffered head injury and informed that on account of money dispute, he had a quarrel with Pawan and Anuj and in the process, he as well as Anuj suffered injuries. On this, Dheeraj, Deepak and Vineet took Ricky and Pawan for medical treatment to Dr. RML Hospital, where Ricky and Pawan BAIL APPLN. 945/2025 Page 1 of 5 pages Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:NEETU N NAIR Signing Date:27.03.2025 19:11:17 refused to get their MLCs prepared. In the hospital, they also found Anuj and his companions Ankush, Karan, Sonu, Ramesh, R. Murgan, Gaurav and Rahul besides another boy taking their treatment. Seeing them, Dheeraj and his friends came out of the hospital and started waiting for the police at gate no.5. Thereafter at about 01:30am, Anuj along with his above named companions came out of the hospital and Ramesh challenged Dheeraj, after which there was exchange of hot words. The boys accompanying the petitioner Gaurav exhorted his companions to assault the other group, on which Ramesh took out a buttoned knife from his