MANOJ RAI vs THE STATE (GOVT. OF NCT) DELHI & ANR.

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$~37 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 13.10.2025 + CRL.A. 1047/2025 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 1588/2025 MANOJ RAI .....Appellant Through: Ms.Jahanvi Worah, Adv. (through VC) versus THE STATE (GOVT. OF NCT) DELHI & ANR ......Respondents Through: Mr.Nawal Kishore Jha, APP CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIVEK CHAUDHARY HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN JUDGMENT CRL. M (BAIL) 1588/2025 1. The present application has been filed under Sections 430 and 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, seeking suspension of sentence and consequential release during the pendency of the appeal. 2. The case of the prosecution, as per the record, is that on 24.03.2018, at about 7:15 p.m., a PCR call was received at Police Station Shalimar Bagh reporting that an eleven-year-old boy, S, had been missing since 4:00 p.m. from near Nahar Wala Park, Shalimar Bagh. The complainant, SP, father of the missing child, stated that he resided as a tenant at the given address and worked in a masala factory at Haiderpur. He stated that at about 4:00 p.m., his son had gone to fetch water from a temple situated in front of their house but did not return. He also expressed suspicion against Manoj Rai (the appellant Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CRL.A. 1047/2025 Page 1 of 4 By:PRATIBHA KUMARI Signing Date:14.10.2025 17:52:44 herein), believing that he had enticed and taken away his son. On the basis of his said statement, an FIR was registered. 3. During the course of investigation, on 25.03.2018, another PCR call informed the police that the appellant had been apprehended. Upon interrogation, he disclosed that he had killed the boy by manual strangulation and had disposed of the body in a drain near the dumping yard at Bhalswa Dairy, Delhi. Pursuant to his disclosure, the dea