RAJ KUMAR CHAUDHARY vs THE STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI

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$~67 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 15.05.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 1859/2025 & CRL.M.A. 15005/2025 RAJ KUMAR CHAUDHARY .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Amit Chadha, senior advocate with Mr. Dhan Mohan, Ms. Tanisha Bhatia, Mr. Atin Chadha and Ms. Munisha Chadha, Advocates versus THE STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Nawal Kishore Jha, APP for State with SI Saurabh, PS Neb Sarai CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA JUDGMENT (ORAL) Road rage is not mere road rage. It has wide ranging ramifications in the form of not just physical injury but the psychological dent caused on the victim. Quite often, it is seen that road rage leads to loss of human lives as well. The damage caused gets aggrandized when one of the aggressors is a lawyer while the other is a President of a political organization. Such is the case this court is faced with. The violent incident that took place in broad daylight at a public place was captured in CCTV, footage whereof has to be seen to be understood in its full perspective and magnitude. BAIL APPLN. 1859/2025 Page 1 of 7 pages GIRISH KATHPALIA Digitally signed by GIRISH KATHPALIA Date: 2025.05.15 18:19:27 +05'30' Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:RAHUL YADAV Signing Date:15.05.2025 19:27:04 1. The accused/applicant seeks anticipatory bail in the case FIR No.131/2025 of PS Neb Sarai for offence under Section 110/127(2)/351(3)/ 3(5) of BNS, 2023. 2. The violent incident which led to the registration of FIR against the accused/applicant and his accomplices, as narrated in the complaint lodged by the victim, a software engineer and also captured in CCTV is as follows. 2.1 On 19.02.2025, at about 03:30pm while going to Deoli Road on his two wheeler, when the victim reached the Shutter Wali Gali, the passag