HIGH COURT OF DELHI
JASPAL SINGH ANAND – Appellant
Versus
GNCT OF DELHI – Respondent
BAIL APPLN.-1987/2022
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
Reserved on: September 02, 2022
Decided on: September 19, 2022
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BAIL APPLN. 1987/2022
JASPAL SINGH ANAND
..... Applicant
Through: Mr. H S Phoolka, Sr.
Advocate with Mr. Mohit
Gupta, Ms. Sharanya Sinha
and Ms. Shilpa Diwan,
Advocates.
versus
GNCT OF DELHI
..... Respondent
Through: Mr.
Shashank
Khurana,
Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma,
Mr. Daksh Sachdeva,
Advocates with S.I. Amit
Kumar, EOW-VII.
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CORAM:
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR KUMAR JAIN
JUDGMENT
1.
The present application is filed under section 439 Cr.P.C read
with section 482 Cr.P.C for grant of regular bail on behalf of the
applicant Jaspal Singh Anand under section in FIR bearing no.
0096/2018 under section 406/420/34 IPC registered at P.S. Economic
Offences Wing and the applicant is stated to be in judicial custody
since 31.05.2018.
2.
The perusal of FIR bearing no. 0096/2018 reflects that it was
got registered on the basis of complaint made by Maninder Singh s/o
This is a digitally signed Judgement.
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Surinder Singh wherein it was stated that the applicant and his wife
namely Raminder Kaur @ Simmi are running a boutique at C-1/122,
First Floor, Janakpuri, New Delhi under the name and style of
Dulhan Boutique and are known to the complainant and his relatives.
The applicant and his wife Raminder Kaur @ Simmi approached the
complainant for taking a friendly loan with assurance to return the
same back as early as possible. The complainant gave Rs. 30 lakhs
(Rupees Thirty Lakhs Only) as friendly loan through cheques drawn
on Karur Vysya Bank, Janakpuri but the applicant and his wife did
not return back the said amount, despite various requests made by the
complainant. The complainant subsequently came to know that the
applicant and his wife are the habitual cheaters and they have taken
loan from several other persons and did not return back the loan
amount. The applicant and his wife is stated to have sold their shop
and houses and thereafter, transferred the money to other country and
also were trying to flee from the country but were arrested.
3.
It is stated in the application under consideration, that the
complainant’s have looted the boutique of the applicant and his wife
for which FIR bearing no. 0096/2018 was got registered. The
complainants were having financial transactions with the applicant
and his wife. The complainant owes Rs. 5,30,000/-(Rupees Five Lakh
Thirty Thousand Only) to the applicant and his wife. The
complainant did not have any dishonest intention or induced the
complainant at any point of time. In the application, the details of the
transaction with the other complainants who were surfaced during
investigation have been narrated. The Bail application was rejected
This is a digitally signed Judgement.
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vide order dated 09.06.2022 passed by the Court of Shri Aashish
Gupta, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, South West
District, Dwarka. It is prayed that the accused applicant be released
on bail.
4.
The respondent/State filed the Status Report wherein it was
stated that the present FIR was got registered on the basis of
complaint made by Maninder Singh who advanced friendly loan of
Rs. 30 Lakhs (Rupees Thirty Lakhs Only) through different cheques
to the applicant and his wife Raminder Kaur @ Simmi. During
investigation, other persons namely Dayawati, Laxmi Seth,
Aakanksha Khanna, Pushpinder Singh, Taranjit Singh etc., were
surfaced as victims who have given about Rs. 2.5 Crores to the
applicant and his wife Raminder Kaur @ Simmi on false assurance to
retu