OMA KANT GUPTA vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI THROUGH SHO

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$~120 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 12.03.2026 + BAIL APPLN. 3534/2025, CRL.M.A. 27710/2025, CRL.M.A. 35235/2025 OMA KANT GUPTA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Divyakant Lahoti Ms. Praveena Bisht, Mr. Siddharth Tripathi, Advs. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI THROUGH SHO ....Respondent Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP for State. CORAM: HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA JUDGMENT DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J. (Oral) 1. By way of the present application, the applicant is seeking grant of anticipatory bail in case arising out of FIR bearing no. 109/2025, registered at Police Station Special Cell, Delhi, for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 308(2)/318(4)/ 319(2)/204/61(2)/3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (hereafter ‘BNS’). 2. Briefly stated, the facts of the present case, as per the prosecution, are that a complaint was received from Smt. Indu Signature Not Verified BAIL APPLN. 3534/2025 Page 1 of 9 Digitally Signed By:ZEENAT PRAVEEN Signing Date:12.03.2026 19:39:51 Mahajan, resident of Greater Kailash Part-I, New Delhi. She alleged that on 15.03.2025 she received a WhatsApp call from mobile number +91-9056689953 from a person who introduced himself as Vijay Khanna. The caller informed her that he was a surveillance officer and that her bank accounts were under surveillance pursuant to orders of the court. During the call, he added other persons and informed her that a CBI officer was also present on the call. The caller further told her that she was under “digital arrest” on account of her alleged involvement in a money laundering case relating to a Canara Bank account and also sent her a purported Supreme Court order through WhatsApp. It is alleged that during a group video call, a person posing as a judge in