JUDGMENT (ORAL)

1. The accused/applicant seeks regular bail in case FIR No. 654/2021of PS Seemapuri for offence under Section 302/307/34 IPC.

2. This application was first taken up before the predecessor bench on 20.12.2024. Thereafter, the application kept getting adjourned before different benches and finally today for the first time it has come up before me. Before proceeding further, I must place on record the anguish, expressed genuinely and politely by learned counsel for accused/applicant that for 25 months his bail application remained pending before the trial court despite his having filed early hearing application; and even before this court, the suffering did not reduce and this application remains pending till date.

3. Broadly speaking, the allegation against the accused/applicant is as follows. On the ill-fated day, when the complainant de facto Anees along with his friends Subhan, Sohail, Arshad and Sameer were sitting and talking, accused persons, namely, Hemant, Nursingh and Amir (the present accused/applicant) reached there and in the course of talks, they started quarrelling. Hemant caught hold of Shoaib from behind and Nursingh stabbed Shoaib with some sharp object.