SHALINDER KAUR, J (ORAL)

1. By way of the present petition under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Surakhsha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) the petitioner seeks the grant of Anticipatory Bail in FIR No. RC-216-2025-A-0005 dated 06.04.2025 for offences under Section 61(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS) & Sections 7, 8, 9, 10 & 12 of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (PC Act) registered at Police Station CBI, AC-1, New Delhi (subject FIR).

2. The factual matrix, as emerging from the record, is that the petitioner is a public servant, who joined Government Service in the year 1995 and is presently serving as Senior Section Engineer (Tender Section) [SSE] with the Northern Railways, New Delhi.

3. It is the case of the prosecution that Saket Chand Srivastava, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer (General) [Sr. DEE], Arun Jindal, SSE (In-charge, Tender Section), Electrical-G Branch (petitioner herein), and Tapendra Singh Gurjar, Senior Section Engineer, Electrical-G Branch, were engaged in corrupt and unlawful practices in the matter of issuance of work orders and clearance of bills pertaining to private contractors, in lieu of illegal gratification.

4. The prosecution has alleged that Sa