NARENDER KUMAR BABBAR @ DADDY vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

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 3. During the course of investigation, statements of the eyewitness, Rakesh Kumar, as well as of the husband of the deceased, Gulshan Lal, were recorded under Section 161 of Cr.P.C., to the effect that