ARUN KUMAR JINDAL vs CENTRAL BEREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Judgment text excerpt

$~70 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of decision: 09.05.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 1705/2025, CRL.M.A. 13567/2025 ARUN KUMAR JINDAL .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Nandita Rao, Senior Advocate with Mr. Sheezan Hashmi, Mr. Akshat Kumar, Mr. Sirhaan Seth, Mr. Surya Pratap Singh, Mr. Adesh Kumar Choudhary, Mr. Shubham Raj Anand and Mr. Amit Peswani, Advs. versus CENTRAL BEREAU OF INVESTIGATION .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ravi Sharma, SPP with Mr. Swapnil Choudhary, Mr. Ishann Bhardwaj & Mr. Shivam Prasad, Advs. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR SHALINDER KAUR, J (ORAL) 1. By way of the present petition under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Surakhsha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) the petitioner seeks the grant of Anticipatory Bail in FIR No. RC-216-2025-A-0005 dated 06.04.2025 for offences under Section 61(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) & Sections 7, 8, 9, 10 & 12 of Prevention of Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed BAIL APPLN. 1705/2025 Page 1 of 15 By:NEELAM Signing Date:10.05.2025 18:12:56 Corruption Act, 1988 (PC Act) registered at Police Station CBI, AC-1, New Delhi (subject FIR). 2. The factual matrix, as emerging from the record, is that the petitioner is a public servant, who joined Government Service in the year 1995 and is presently serving as Senior Section Engineer (Tender Section) [SSE] with the Northern Railways, New Delhi. 3. It is the case of the prosecution that Saket Chand Srivastava, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (General) [Sr. DEE], Arun Jindal, SSE (In-charge, Tender Section), Electrical-G Branch (petitioner herein), and Tapendra Singh Gurjar, Senior Section Engineer, Electrical-G Branch, were engaged in corrupt and unlawful practices in the matter of issuance of work orders and clearance of bills pertaining to private