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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on: 18.12.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 18.03.2026 Judgment uploaded on: 24.03.2026 + CRL.M.C. 2454/2022, CRL.M.A. 10311/2022, CRL.M.A.

14550/2024, CRL.M.A.14551/2024, CRL.M.A. 5983/2025 &

CRL.M.A. 5985/2025 MANISH POPLI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Maninder Singh, Senior Advocate with Ms. Aekta Vats and Ms. Janvi, Advocates.

versus CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mrs. Anubha Bhardwaj, SPP CBI along with Ms Ananya Shamshery and Mr. Vijay Misra, Advs. along with Inspector Avinash, IO, CBI.

CORAM:

HON’BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA

JUDGMENT

DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J

1. By way of the present petition, the petitioner seeks setting aside of the order dated 13.12.2019, declaring the petitioner as „proclaimed person‟, passed by the learned CMM (South-East), Saket District Court, New Delhi in FIR bearing no. 162/2018, registered at Police Station Defence Colony, Delhi, for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 376/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [hereafter „IPC‟], and subsequent proceedings emanating therefrom in case titled „State v. Manish Popli @ Aashu‟, CBI/22/2021, pend