$~4 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 24.02.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 4161/2024 SUMIT KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sumit Singh, Advocate.

versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Laksh Khanna, APP for State with SI Shalini, PS Paharganj Mr.

Harshit Jain, Adv (DHCLSC)

Ms. Pallavi S. Kansal, Mr. Shantanu Sharma and Mr. Raghav Vij, Advocates for R-2/Complainant.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA

O R D E R

MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA, J (ORAL):

1. The present application has been filed under Section 439 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (Cr.P.C.) read with Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) for seeking grant of regular bail in FIR No. 762/2023 registered under Sections 313/376/201/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) at Police Station (P.S.) Paharganj.

Brief Facts

2. As per the case of the prosecution set out in the Status Report, on the statement of the complainant SSSS/victim on 13.09.2023 the captioned FIR was registered. Signature Not Verified

2.1. It is stated that the victim informed that she works in a private enterprise known as CG & Company and is also preparing for government jobs and physical test for police recruitment. It is stated that the victim came in contact with the Applicant in a park. It is stated that the victim started talking with the Applicant on Facebook and they both exchanged numbers. It is stated that the Applicant told the victim that he wants to marry her. It is stated that before they could get married the Applicant was recruited in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). It is stated that thereafter the Applicant asked the victim to secure a job so that they could get married after that.

2.2. It is stated that the Applicant came to Delhi from Jammu & Kashmir via train on 08.11.2022 and called the victim at Hotel Kamal Deluxe, Paharganj New Delhi. It is stated that the victim reached the said hotel at around 10 AM, where when she went to the room, the Applicant was already waiting there. It is stated that the Applicant tried to make physical contact with the victim to which she refused stating that physical relation before marriage was not appropriate. It is stated that the Applicant made the victim believe that they are anyways going to marry with each other and there was no wrong in having a physical relation prior to that amongst them. It is stated that the same event happened again on 12.02.2023 and both the Applicant and victim made physical relation.

2.3. It is stated that one day victim felt dizzy and went to Mavi Nursing Home in Ghaziabad UP and she was informed there that she was pregnant. It is stated that the victim informed the Applicant about the said pregnancy to which the Applicant responded to state that he will visit her in September, Signature Not Verified

2023 and will marry her. It is stated that the Applicant also prescribed the victim some medicine and after consuming the said medicines on regular basis the victim had an abortion in June, 2023.

2.4. It is stated that after the victim suffered abortion the Applicant stopped taking her calls. It is stated that thereafter in July, 2023 one lady claiming herself to be the wife of the Applicant called the victim and informed her that Applicant is married to the said lady and directed the victim to not contact the Applicant.

2.5. It is stated that however, the Applicant called the victim and threatened her to continue her relationship with him and threatened her that if she discontinues, he will leak her private and intimate pictures amongst her relative and parents. It is stated that these were the pictures which victim had shared with the Applicant during their relationship.

2.6. It is stated that the Applicant contacted the victim on 03.09.2023 and blackmailed her to come to the same hotel and again made physical relation with the victim forcefully. It is stated that victim made no contact with the Applicant after 09.09.2023.

2.7. It is state