PABITRA NARAYAN PRADHAN vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Pronounced on: 25th September, 2025 + BAIL APPLN. 4785/2024 PABITRA NARAYAN PRADHAN S/o Sukumar Pradhan R/s Village-Pratap Puram PS Panskura, Dist-Purvi Madnipur West Bengal .....Petitioner Through: Mr. M. S. Khan, Mr. Prashant Prakash, Ms. Qausar Khan, Mr. Rahul Sahani and Mr. Zahbi Tihami, Advocates versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI Through SHO PS Crime Branch .....Respondent Through: Mr. Utkarsh, APP for the State with SI Dev Kumar and ASI Dharmender CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA J U D G M E N T NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA, J. 1. Application filed under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 (corresponding to Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973) on behalf of the Applicant/Pabitra Narayan Pradhan seeking Regular Bail in the FIR No. 260/2022 dated Signature Not Verified DigitallySigned By:RITA BAIL APPLN. 4785/2024 Page 1 of 24 SHARMA Signing Date:25.09.2025 19:44:21 11.11.2022, under Sections 274/275/276/420/468/471/120B/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as “IPC”), PS Crime Branch. 2. It is submitted that the Investigating Officer, filed the Final Report under Section 173 CrPC on 08.01.2022, before Ld. MM, Patiala House Court, New Delhi. However, for the same incident, there is another FIR No. 638/2022 under Sections 274/275/276/420/468/471 IPC and Section 18(a)(i)/27 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 (hereinafter referred to as „D&C Act‟) dated 11.11.2022, PS Tronica, city, Ghaziabad, U.P. against the Applicant for manufacturing of spurious drugs. 3. Brief facts of the prosecution case are that on 08.11.2022, a secret information was given by a Secret Informer at PS Crime Branch that the Applicant along with other persons, namely, Shubham Ma