ANAND MANDAL vs THE STATE NCT OF DELHI

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$~9 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 10.02.2026 + BAIL APPLN. 2886/2025 ANAND MANDAL .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sunil Tiwari, Advocate. versus THE STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjeev Sabharwal, APP for State. CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA J U D G M E N T (ORAL) 1. The accused/applicant seeks regular bail in case FIR No. 81/2014 of PS Mandawali for offence under Section 395/394/411/34 IPC. 2. At the outset, once again in this case also neither the investigating officer nor the SHO Mandawali has bothered to appear and assist learned prosecutor. Consequently, learned prosecutor expresses inability to disclose the status of trial of this case. Even counsel for accused/applicant has not appeared. Adjourning the matter in such situation would not be appropriate in view of old pendency of this bail application. This application is amongst BAIL APPLN. 2886/2025 Page 1 of 3 pages Digitally signed by GIRISH KATHPALIA GIRISH DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF DELHI, 2.5.4.20=8401dd889b27a77b2f65ffffe4afec4556 9af3962c6fb4835d435f97626cacca, ou=HIGH Signature Not Verified KATHPALIA COURT OF DELHI,CID - 7047638, postalCode=110003, st=Delhi, serialNumber=d3e86796451ec45c07b5d155709 96b40f80cbd2eee60402c487965ff801e26fa, cn=GIRISH KATHPALIA Date: 2026.02.10 18:03:51 -08'00' Digitally Signed By:NEETU N NAIR Signing Date:10.02.2026 18:25:35 179 old pending bail applications received by this bench by way of transfer from different benches and today is the first date before this bench. 3. Broadly speaking, the prosecution case registered on the first information of the complainant Vishwajeet Singh is as follows. The complainant is running a mobile phone shop and on 29.01.2014 at about 04:15am when he was sleeping in his home on the first floor a