KOMAL KUMAR vs CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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$~108 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 02.02.2026 + BAIL APPLN. 5013/2025 KOMAL KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. N. Hariharan, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Siddharth Yadav, Mr. Rahul Sambher, Mr. Ayush Kr. Singh, Ms. Kashish Ahuja, Ms. Rekha Punya Angara, Mr. Arjan Mandla, Mr. Aman Akhtar, Ms. Sana singh, Ms. Vasundhra N and Ms. Vasundhra Raj Tyagi, Advs. versus CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION .....Respondent Through: Ms. Rajni Gupta, SPP for CBI with Mr. Shivender Gupta, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J. (Oral) 1. By way of the present application, the applicant seeks grant of regular bail in case arising out of FIR bearing no. RC221/2025/E0006 registered at Police Station EO-III, Delhi, for the commission of offence punishable under Section 61(2)/308/318(4)/319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter „BNS‟) and Section 66C/66D/66 read with Section 43 of the Information Technology Signature Not Verified BAIL APPLN. 5013/2025 Page 1 of 10 Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:04.02.2026 18:21:14 Act, 2000 (hereinafter „IT Act‟). 2. The brief facts of the present case are that a regular case was registered on the basis of reliable source information indicating that a group of individuals based in India, primarily operating from Delhi, and certain other locations, was running a sophisticated cyber- enabled fraud scheme targeting victims in Japan. The perpetrators were involved in technical support scams, wherein fake virus alerts and phishing prompts were displayed on the computer screens of unsuspecting users. These pop-ups, hosted on malicious URLs that largely used Microsoft Azure servers, were designed to create panic by falsely warning users that their systems were inf