JUDGMENT

ANU MALHOTRA, J.

1. The applicant, vide the present application seeks the grant of bail in relation to FIR No.189/2017, PS Crime Branch, New Delhi under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 submitting inter alia to the effect:-

• that he has been incarcerated since 15.11.2019;

• that he has been falsely implicated in the instant case;

• that two other co-accused persons namely Samir Tantubai and Manoj Hari who were the main and only beneficiaries, have already been granted bail;

• that the charge sheet in the matter has been filed;

• that the applicant was not even named in the main charge sheet;

• that the matter is at the stage of evidence and in the prevailing pandemic, the trial would take time;

• that the applicant has clean antecedents and has never been convicted previously and that he has been falsely implicated in other unsolved FIRs;

• that the applicant’s father is aged more than 87 years and suffers from acute spinal injury, and had met with an accident and is confined to bed;

• that the younger daughter of the applicant aged 5 years suffers from kidney disease and that both the father and daughter of the applicant need proper care, attention and presence of the app