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$~25 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI # CNR No. DLHC010158552024 + CRL.A. 277/2024 CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION .....Appellant Through: Mr. Sanjay Jain, Sr. Adv., Mr. Rishi Raj Sharma, Mr. Katyayani Shekhar, Mr. Nishank Tripathi and Ms. Rishika Aggarwal, Advs. along with Mr.

Manoj Kumar, DSP, CBI.

versus A RAJA & ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Mr. Rishi Agarwala, Mr. Tejasvi Chaudhary and Ms. Chanan Parwani, Advs. for R-5.

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar and Mr. Anshul Sehgal, Advs. for R-6.

Mr. Sushil Bajaj, Mr. Bharook Chauhan and Mr. Shivam Tyagi, Advs. for R-7.

Mr. Balaji Subramaniam and Mr.

Akash Kundu, Advs. for R-16.

Dr. Joseph Aristotle, Sr. Adv., Ms. Priya Aristotle and Mr. Arunpandian, Advs. for R-17.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN DATTA

O R D E R

% 27.10.2026 Crl.M.A.29287/2024 (Exemption from filing certified copies of annexures) Crl.M.A.29289/2024 (Exemption from filing certified copies of annexures) Crl.M.A.29294/2024 (Exemption from filing certified copies of annexures)

Crl.M.A.4632/2024 (Exemption from filing certified copies of annexures)

1. The applications are disposed of with a direction to the applicant/s to file certified/true typed copies of annexures/documents before the next date of hearing.

2. It is noted that Crl.M.A. 4632/2024 has been filed on behalf of respondent no. 5 seeking exemption from filing certified copies of annexures/documents.

3. The substantive application of respondent no. 5, seeking orders and directions, is Crl.M.A. 4631/2024.

4. Accordingly, the registry shall correct the description of the applications, viz. Crl.M.A. 4632/2024 and Crl.M.A. 4631/2024, in its record. Crl.M.A.14255/2023 (filed on behalf of R-3 for necessary orders and directions)

Crl.M.A.4631/2024 (filed on behalf of R-5 seeking orders and directions to CBI)

Crl.M.A.29286/2024 (filed on behalf of R-4 seeking necessary orders and directions to CBI)

Crl.M.A.29288/2024 (filed on behalf of R-14 seeking directions) Crl.M.A.29293/2024 (filed on behalf of R-13 seeking directions)

5. Crl.M.A. 14255/2023 has been filed by respondent no. 3 while Crl.L.P. 185/2018 was pending. It seeks dismissal of the leave petition in limine based on preliminary objections. It further seeks a direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to expunge the averments and grounds in the memo of appeal which are founded on documents not proved at the trial for want of the requisite certificates and to file a revised memo of appeal. It also seeks a direction that the document annexed to CBI’s application dated 15.04.2015 before the Ld. Special Judge shall be deemed to be inadmissible as evidence and accordingly be kept out of consideration.

6. Crl.M.A. 4631/2024 has been filed by respondent no. 5. The said application seeks a direction to the CBI to obscure/ strike off the grounds in the appeal founded on the unapproved/ inadmissible documents referred to in the aforesaid application dated 15.04.2015, which came to be dismissed by the Ld. Special Judge vide order dated 22.12.2015. It is also sought that certain other grounds in the memo of appeal be directed to be removed.

7. Crl.M.A. 29286/2024 has been filed by respondent no. 4, seeking the following prayers:

“(a) Pass necessary orders and directions to CBI for obscuring/striking-off all the grounds forming part of the present appeal which are related to or are referred in the Application dated 15.04.2015, as indicatively detailed in Annexure 4 of the present Application, as same are admittedly without proper proof and without proper certificates as per law;

AND (b) Pass necessary orders and directions to CBI to obscure/remove the ground at the proposed memo of appeal as reproduced in Para 19 of the application of Pg. 729/730 VII and VIII of the appeal as the same would be contrary to order dated 11.04.2011 passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No.10660/2010;

AND (c) Pass necessary orders and directions to CBI to file a fresh Appeal after obscurin