$~3 to 5 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 16.03.2026 + BAIL APPLN. 3923/2024 PARTH GULHATI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Abhishek Nagar, Advocate.

versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjeev Sabharwal, APP for State with IO/SI Arun Kumar.

+ BAIL APPLN. 3970/2024 SUMEET SINGH RANA SINGH SAINI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Abhishek Nagar, Advocate.

versus STATE GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjeev Sabharwal, APP for State with IO/SI Arun Kumar.

+ BAIL APPLN. 3990/2024 MITALI GULHATI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Abhishek Nagar, Advocate.

versus STATE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjeev Sabharwal, APP for State with IO/SI Arun Kumar.

CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA J U D G M E N T (ORAL)

1. The accused/applicants seek anticipatory bail in case FIR No.

545/2023 of PS Maidan Garhi for offence under Section 406/420/34 IPC.

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1.1 Learned counsel for accused/applicants appearing through videoconferencing submits that he is appearing in Tis Hazari Courts and seeks a pass over to address in these matters. But pass over request is declined, because if pass over is allowed, these matters will not reach till even 05:30pm. And being old pending bail applications, adjournment also is not possible. The daily cause lists clearly bear an endorsement that the bail matters of the Advance List shall be taken up first so that the old pending bail matters get decided.

1.2 These anticipatory bail applications came up for the first hearing on 25.10.2024 and 04.11.2024 before the predecessor bench and thereafter continued getting adjourned before different benches. By orders dated 10.02.2025 and 29.10.2024, the accused/applicants were granted interim protection from arrest subject to joining investigation and that protection continues till date on date to date basis. Along with 179 such old pending bail applications, these three anticipatory bail applications also were transferred to this bench.

1.3 Today is the first hearing before me. I have heard learned counsel for accused/applicant through videoconferencing and learned APP for State present in courtroom.

2. Broadly speaking, prosecution case is as follows. The complainant de facto, a single parent bringing up two sons lodged complaint that when her son was in Rehabilitation Centre, Dehradun, the accused Parth Gulhati met D Si i g gi n ta a l t l u y r S e i g N n o ed t Verified G KA IR T I H SH P ALIA DD25ops76D e .5 0f uo iN a 5 a r g 6 9 =s t i . , :4 a i e t 9 9 t H c c al . : a a 6n 2 N = lI 2 l f C b G 0 = I 3 u 0 yN 4 o = H G 9 m 2 0 s, d 86 6I i C o fR be g 42 . 8 = 0 O I =e 0 n c 0S3 H r 16 1U e Hc= . df 1 1 Id b R b G d K 0 d 6 d T b 4 3 H A 0 8 2 1 8 y O e0 8 Te 7 C 3 83 G F H 9 e : O 5 6 1 , b e I P Dd 7 R s 8 U2 6A tE4 9 I : R = 7 0 4 S L L3 6 H a 4 T 0 D I H5 4 A 7 0 O - e f 5 I K 7 2 0 9,lC 1 AF h b c 7 7 e I 4 T i ' 26D D 0 ,c 8 H f2 4 E 0 6 - 7 6 P 5 L ' 5 7 9 c AH c f 0 6 a 0 LI 4c 5 , 7 I c A 7 f e b a6 4 85 ,3 a 0d f 8 1 e 1 , e c 52 4 5 him. When the accused Parth Gulhati came out in January 2022, he called her up and assured her that he could send both her sons to Canada for opening a resort, so that her sons get settled. In February 2022, accused Parth Gulhati called her to Mumbai and thereafter, across a period of few months, he made her transfer different amounts of