NARENDER KUMAR BABBAR @ DADDY vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

Judgment text excerpt

$~3 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision : 03.09.2025. + BAIL APPLN. 2136/2025 NARENDER KUMAR BABBAR @ DADDY .....Petitioner Through: Mr. K.K. Manan, Sr. Adv. along with Ms. Uditi Bali, Ms. Karmanya Singh Choudhary, Mr. Mayank, Ms. Tanya and Ms. Shivani, Advs. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Manoj Pant, APP for the State with Mr. Ashish Priya and Mr. Ajay Pratap Singh Chauhan, Advs. along with SI Kuldeep. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J (Oral) 1. By way of the instant petition filed under Sections 483, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereafter “BNSS”), read with 439, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereafter “Cr.P.C.”), the petitioner-applicant seeks the grant of regular bail in the FIR no. 657/2004 registered under Sections 302/174-A, Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereafter “IPC”) at Paschim Vihar East Police Station. 2. Briefly stated, the facts of the case are that vide DD no. 13A Signature Not Verified BAIL APPLN. 2136/2025 Page 1 of 6 Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:03.09.2025 19:43:32 dated 27.08.2004, information was received at PS Paschim Vihar regarding the murder of one Smt. Praveen (hereafter, “deceased”) at A-2/222, Paschim Vihar, culminating in the present FIR. It is alleged that on the said date, the applicant-accused had gone to the house of the deceased, where one Rakesh, her domestic servant, had opened the door and had let him in. Thereafter, Rakesh had been sent to enquire about flat no. A-2/254 in the neighbourhood. While the applicant-accused was left alone with the deceased, he had started misbehaving with her and upon her protesting thereto, she was threatened by the applicant-accused, pushed onto the bed, and strangulated.