BAIL APPLN./640/2024 of RAHUL NARANG Vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI+ BAIL APPLN. 640/2024 RAHUL NARANG

..... Petitioner

Through:

Mr.G.S. Narula, Adv.

versus

STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

..... Respondent Through: Ms.Priyanka Dalal, APP. Insp. Ramkesh. Mr.Ravi Chawla, Mr.Himanshu Sood & Mr.Satish Tikoo, Advs. for Complainant.

CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLAO R R

03.04.2024

1.This application has been filed by the Applicant under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short, ‘Cr.P.C.’), praying for the applicant to be released on Bail in FIR No.0277/2019 registered at Police Station: Economic Offences Wing, EOW, Delhi under Sections 420/406/120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short, ‘IPC’).

2.The learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has been in custody since 23.10.2020 without any break in the custody.

3.Keeping in view the fact that the present FIR alleges charges under Sections 420/406/120B IPC and the applicant is in custody for period of more than three and half years, in my view, the applicant

deserves to be released on bail.

4.The purpose of keeping person in custody, while the trial is in progress, is not to punish the accused but to ensure that he shall remain present to face the trial and the punishment if awarded to him. I am also guided by the provision of Section 436A of the Cr.P.C.

5.Accordingly, it is directed that the Applicant be released on Bail in FIR No.0277/2019 registered at Police Station: Economic Offences Wing, EOW, Delhi on furnishing personal bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- with one local surety of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned Trial Court, and further subject to the following conditions:

i. The Applicant will not leave the country without the prior permission of the learned Trial Court.

ii. The Applicant shall provide his permanent address to the learned Trial Court. The Applicant shall also intimate the learned Trial Court, by way of an affidavit, and to the IO regarding any change in his residential address.

iii. The Applicant shall appear before the learned Trial Court as and when the matter is taken up for hearing.

iv. The Applicant shall provide all/latest/fresh mobile numbers to the IO concerned, which shall be kept by the applicant in working condition at all times and shall not be switched off or changed by him without prior intimation to the learned Trial Court and the IO concerned. The mobile location be kept on at all times.

v. The Applicant shall not indulge in any criminal activity

and shall not communicate with or come in contact, directly or indirectly, with any of the prosecution witnesses or tamper with the evidence of the case while being released on Bail.

6.In case the Applicant is found involved in another case, it will be open to the prosecution to file an appropriate application seeking cancellation of his Bail in the present case as well. 7.The application is disposed of in the above terms.

8.Copy of this order be sent to the Jail Superintendent for information and necessary compliance.

APRIL 3, 2024/rv/ss

NAVIN CHAWLA, J

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