OM PRAKASH vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment delivered on: 03.11.2025 + CRL.REV.P. 250/2025 & CRL.M.A. 19964/2025 OM PRAKASH .....Petitioner versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Advocates who appeared in this case: For the Petitioner : Mr. Imran Ali & Ms. Misha, Advs. For the Respondent : Mr. Raj Kumar, APP for the State SI Yashveer Sharma, PS- Govindpuri CORAM HON’BLE MR JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN JUDGMENT 1. The present petition is filed essentially challenging the order on charge dated 29.04.2025 (hereafter ‘impugned order on charge’), passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, South East District, Saket Courts, New Delhi in the case arising out of FIR No. 197/2018, Signature Not Verified Signed By:SANJAY KUMAR CRL.REV.P. 250/2025 Page 1 of 16 Signing Date:03.11.2025 19:55:17 registered at Police Station Govind Puri, whereby it was found that a prima facie case for offences under Sections 304A/201/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’) is made out against the petitioner. The petitioner has also challenged the consequent order of the same date whereby charges were framed. 2. The brief facts of the present case are as follows: 2.1. The present case pertains to the death of a patient at the de- addiction centre– Jeevan Raksha Foundation, which was owned by the petitioner. On 12.06.2018, on receipt of a PCR call, police officers reached the de-addiction centre and found a male dead body lying on the ground. The dead person was identified as one Amit Bidhuri and the FIR was registered on the statement of the eye-witness/ complainant Hemant Kumar, who was also admitted at the de- addiction centre for his alcohol addiction. Allegedly, on 11.06.2018 at about 11 PM, four employees of the centre bought the victim to the centre. It is alleged that the victim wa