AKASH vs THE STATE OF NCT DELHI & ANR.

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 05.05.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 1071/2025 AKASH .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Vaishali Goyal, Advocate versus THE STATE OF NCT DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for the State with Mr. Vipin Kumar Yadav, Advocate Mr. Arjun Anand, Advocate for complainant/R-2 CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J 1. The applicant has approached this Court by way of this application, praying for grant of regular bail in case arising out of FIR No. 500/2024, registered at Police Station Mahendra Park, Delhi, for the offences punishable under Sections 70/61(2)/123 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 [hereafter ‘BNS’]. 2. Briefly stated, the present FIR was registered at the instance of prosecutrix ‘J’ who disclosed that she used to work in a factory in Bhalswa Dairy, where one Rohan also used to work as a Manager and one of his friends namely Akash i.e. present applicant/accused BAIL.APPLN. 1071/2025 Page 1 of 11 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:08.05.2025 17:13:56 used to come to meet him. She further stated that the said persons had planned to go for a party, for which they had managed to convince the prosecutrix. It was alleged that on the intervening night of 03/04.08.2024, Rohan had picked her from Outer Ring Road alongwith his two other friends in a car for the party; but the prosecutrix knew only one of the friends i.e. present applicant Akash, and did not know the name of another friend who was driving the car, whom both of them used to call as bhai. First they had gone to Murthal and had dinner and thereafter they had taken the prosecutrix to Hotel Park in Mahendra Park, where they had allegedly given he