$~129 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + CRL.M.C. 551/2026 VINOD KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Vikram Gujral, Advocate with petitioner in person.

versus STATE NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Priyanka Dalal, APP with SI Mohan Rawar, PS: Safdarjung Enclave.

Mr. Aryan Kalia, Advocate for R2 with R2 in person.

CORAM:

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE PRATEEK JALAN

O R D E R

% 22.01.2026

1. The petitioner has filed this petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 [“BNSS”] (corresponding to Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [“CrPC”]) seeking quashing of FIR No. 446/2017 dated 09.11.2017, lodged at Police Station Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi, under Sections 186/332/353/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [“IPC”], on the ground of settlement.

2. The facts, as emerging from the impugned FIR, are that on 08.11.2017, respondent No. 2 – complainant, then working as a Branch Manager of Dena Bank, alongwith his staff, visited the place of one Shally Noori to enquire about an outstanding car loan availed from the Bank. It is alleged that upon reaching there, they were assaulted by the petitioner and his friend, as a result of which the co