$~3 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 25.03.2026 + BAIL APPLN. 3779/2025 SHUBHAM SHARMA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Ravi Ranjan, Advocate (through video conferencing)

versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Sanjeev Sabharwal, APP for State with IO/SI Deepika.

Mr. Abhinav, Advocate for prosecutrix (through video conferencing)

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

1. The accused/applicant seeks anticipatory bail in case FIR No. 650/2025 of Police Station Adarsh Nagar for offence under Section

64(2)/89/351(2) BNS.

1.1 This bail application came up for the first hearing on 26.09.2025 before the predecessor bench and thereafter continued getting adjourned before different benches. By way of order dated 26.09.2025 itself, the predecessor bench granted interim protection to the accused/applicant from arrest and that protection continued from date to date.

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1.2 On last date, the matter came up before me for the first time and after part arguments, prosecution was granted time to place on record copy of chargesheet because learned counsel for accused/applicant contended that there is no material to support the allegations of the prosecutrix as regards rape, forced abortion, drug peddling and extortion etc.

2. Broadly speaking, the prosecution case is as follows. The prosecutrix met the accused/applicant during her employment at the Urban Health and Wellness Centre, Ghaziabad, U.P, and they developed friendship. In the month of July 2024, the accused/applicant asked the prosecutrix to carry a parcel from Himachal Pradesh to Delhi, which she did and handed it over to the accused/applicant. Again in the month of December 2024, the accused/applicant asked the prosecutrix to carry a parcel from Himachal Pradesh to Delhi, but this time she could not do so in time. On account of delay in delivery of parcel, behaviour of the accused/applicant towards her became aggressive, so under suspicion, she opened the parcel and found the same containing narcotics. The prosecutrix disposed of that parcel in garbage, after which the accused/applicant started threatening her. On 25.02.2025, the accused/applicant called the prosecutrix to a hotel to discuss about the said parcel and it is the in the hotel that the accused/applicant raped her and recorded the rape in his mobile phone, threatening to release the video if she disclosed about that incident to anyone. On 28.03.2025, the prosecutrix discovered that she had become pregnant and when she confronted the accused/applicant, the latter again threatened to circulate her BAIL APPLN. 3779/2025 Page 2 of 6 pages D B Si y i g g :R i n ta A a l t l H u y r U S e L i g N Y n o e A d t D V A e V rified G KA IR T I H SH P ALIA DD2ea7s1fD8 e ,c. 0 5 iN a 5 0 r g o4 4 5 t i . 1 :4 u a i 5 e 7 7 tc e l .5 : = a 6 0 2 N = 22 6 l 3 9 H 0I u 60 y 9 N 8 9 = I f m 2 Ga , 6a s,8 6 f p io b, H b 3 g 4 .c o = 0 4 e 90 n C n s 3 0 H r 61 e t = O = . f 2d a 2 Id 8 G G d Ul cd 5 0 C b 3 H 6 I R 8 cR1 o y e f T b 8 I b 8 C d 8 S G 9 d : O4 O e6 H0 b I 2 8 =7 R F 9 U 2 eK 3 9 I 1 : D R7 1 S e 5 A 61 H aT 0 e dE T 40 7 6 L 4 O H- 50 K 7 0 0 H3 10 P AFb 4 7 5I e3 A , T 0 ' 2D Cf 0 c, H 9 L 2 f 4 Is E 0 6 I D7 c P t A 5 L ' 5 = 4 6 AH c - f 8 2 D 0 LI 7 6 , 7e I A 9 ec blh a4 6 5 c i