SUMEET SURI vs STATE (NCT OF DELHI)

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$~J-1 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 15.12.2025 Judgment delivered on: 07.01.2026 + CRL.A. 1434/2025 SUMEET SURI .....Appellant Through: Mr. N. Hariharan, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Chander M. Lall, Sr. Adv. with Mr.H.S. Bhullar, Ms. Ekta Chandani, Mr.Sarthak Aggarwal, Ms. Sarabjeet Kaur, Ms.Punya Rekha Angara, Mr. Aman Akhtar, Ms. Vasundhara Raj Tyagi, Mr. Arjan Singh Mandla, Ms. Gauri Ramachandran, Ms. Yashi Gupta, Mr.Fateh Singh Bhullar and Ms. Annanya Mehan, Advs. versus STATE (NCT OF DELHI) .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ajay Vikram Singh, APP for State with SI Amit Tyagi PS EOW and SI Bijender ASI Hardesh Kumar PS Alipur. Mr. K.K. Manan, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Gaurav M. Liberhan, Mr. Sumant Vyas, Ms. Uditi Bali, Mr. Karmanya Singh Chaudhary, Mr. Lavish Chandra, Ms. Yakshi Kataria, Ms. Shivani Varun, Ms. Adriti Gupta and Mr. Arun Singh Rawat, Advs. for complainants. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS MAHAJAN Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:DEEPAK SINGH CRL.A. 1434/2025 Page 1 of 11 Signing Date:07.01.2026 04:17:00 JUDGMENT VIKAS MAHAJAN, J CRL.M.(BAIL) 2099/2025 1. The captioned appeal has been preferred by the appellant seeking to impugn the judgment of conviction dated 25.09.2025 passed by the learned Special Judge (PC Act), in SC No. 02/2022, whereby the appellant was held guilty of the charge under Section 409 IPC and acquitted of charges under Sections 420, 468 and 471 IPC. 2. The present application under Section 430 BNSS (erstwhile Section 389 CrPC) seeks to suspend the order on sentence dated 09.10.2025 whereby the appellant was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 4 years and was further directed to pay a fine of Rs. 5,00,000/- of which Rs. 1,00,000/- was payable to the State and Rs. 4,00,000/- was directed