$~70 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of decision: 09.05.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 1705/2025, CRL.M.A. 13567/2025 ARUN KUMAR JINDAL .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Nandita Rao, Senior Advocate with Mr. Sheezan Hashmi, Mr. Akshat Kumar, Mr. Sirhaan Seth, Mr. Surya Pratap Singh, Mr. Adesh Kumar Choudhary, Mr. Shubham Raj Anand and Mr.

Amit Peswani, Advs.

versus CENTRAL BEREAU OF INVESTIGATION .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ravi Sharma, SPP with Mr.

Swapnil Choudhary, Mr. Ishann Bhardwaj & Mr. Shivam Prasad, Advs.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINDER KAUR 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 (Ten