PAPPU KUMAR vs STATE (NCT OF DELHI)

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$~56 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 11th May, 2026 + BAIL APPLN. 1840/2026 PAPPU KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Abhay Kumar and Ms. Priyanka Kumar, Advocates. versus STATE (NCT OF DELHI) .....Respondent Through: Ms. Priyanka Dalal, APP for the State with SI Chandrashekhar. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) CRL.M.A. 14842/2026 (exemption) Exemption allowed subject to all just exceptions. BAIL APPLN. 1840/2026 1. Applicant seeks anticipatory bail in case FIR No.80101884 dated 27.10.2025 registered at P.S Delhi Cantt for commission of offences under Section 303(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 (corresponding Section 379 of IPC). 2. According to applicant, he has been falsely implicated in the case in hand. He was driver with RAPIDO and the complainant had booked his vehicle i.e. Dzire as she was to come back from Nizamuddin Railway Station to a Guest House situated at Palam Air Force Station. According to him, the due fare was paid and the cab driver i.e. applicant was duly discharged and thereafter the complainant reported the matter to police, claiming that her one bag was missing. 3. As per investigating agency, the cab was taken but immediately after the complainant found her one bag to be missing, she sent message to the Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed BAIL APPLN. 1840/2026 1 By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:13.05.2026 11:45:55 applicant herein and despite above, the applicant absconded. He did not join the investigation despite given due notice in this regard by the police. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant contends that for totally unwarranted reasons, father of the applicant was also arrested for the offence in question and that he has already been granted bail by the learned Trial Cou