AMIR vs STATE NCT OF DELHI

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$~9 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 12.02.2026 + BAIL APPLN. 4703/2024 & CRL.M.(BAIL) 1945/2025 AMIR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Aman Akhtar, Advocate. versus STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjeev Sabharwal, APP for State with IO/Inspector Prashant Anand CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA J U D G M E N T (ORAL) 1. The accused/applicant seeks regular bail in case FIR No. 654/2021of PS Seemapuri for offence under Section 302/307/34 IPC. 2. This application was first taken up before the predecessor bench on 20.12.2024. Thereafter, the application kept getting adjourned before different benches and finally today for the first time it has come up before me. Before proceeding further, I must place on record the anguish, expressed genuinely and politely by learned counsel for accused/applicant that for 25 months his bail application remained pending before the trial court despite his having filed early hearing application; and even before this court, the suffering did not reduce and this application remains pending till BAIL APPLN. 4703/2024 Page 1 of 3 pages Digitally signed by GIRISH KATHPALIA GIRISH DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF DELHI, Signature Not Verified 2.5.4.20=8401dd889b27a77b2f65ffffe4afec45 569af3962c6fb4835d435f97626cacca, ou=HIGH COURT OF DELHI,CID - 7047638, KATHPALIA postalCode=110003, st=Delhi, serialNumber=d3e86796451ec45c07b5d1557 0996b40f80cbd2eee60402c487965ff801e26fa, Digitally Signed cn=GIRISH KATHPALIA Date: 2026.02.12 17:58:10 -08'00' By:NEETU N NAIR Signing Date:12.02.2026 18:01:24 date. 3. Broadly speaking, the allegation against the accused/applicant is as follows. On the ill-fated day, when the complainant de facto Anees along with his friends Subhan, Sohail, Arshad and Sameer were sitting and talking, accu