Delhi High Court Grants Bail In Murder Case, Orders Action Against Police For Misleading Status Report

The Delhi High Court has granted bail to an accused in a murder case while directing action against police officials for filing a misleading status report by concealing vital evidence from the Court.Justice Girish Kathpalia said, “case of a shocking situation where the then SHO PS Bawana filed an incomplete and misleading status report dated 14.07.2025. The erstwhile SHO PS Bawana is stated to be Inspector Rajnikant. In the said status report, the SHO concealed the vital portion of testimony of the star witness of prosecution. The Court was dealing with a bail application pending since July 2023.At the outset, the Court noted that the prosecution case commenced on a “blind FIR” and neither the investigating officer nor the SHO concerned were present to assist the prosecution. Moreover, it noted that the status report filed by the IO concealed the vital portion of chief examination of the witness of last seen circumstance.“It appears that PW1 was partly chief examined on 08.08.2024 and her further chief examination was deferred because the IO had not brought the laptop to play CCTV footage of the alleged last seen incident. In the status report, only that partial testimony of PW1 was filed. Thereafter, in further chief examination of PW1 recorded on 17.02.2025, which was concealed from this Court, on being played the CCTV footage, PW1 expressed inability to identify the accused/applicant. That portion of testimony of PW1 has been shown today by learned counsel for the accused/applicant and correctness thereof is not disputed by prosecution side,” the Court noted.Meanwhile, the accused has undergone 04 years 08 months of incarceration.In this backdrop, the Court directed that the Petitioner-accused be released on bail subject to his furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.10,000/- with one surety in the like amount.It further ordered the concerned Deputy Commissioner of Police to take appropriate action against the erring officials.Appearance: Mr.Raj Singh Phogat, Advocate for Petitioner; Mr. Sanjeev Sabharwal, APP for the State Ms. Tanya Agarwal and Mr. Krishna Kumar, Advocates for R-2 Case title: Aman@ Prince @ Bhura v. StateCitation: 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 190Case no.: BAIL APPLN. 2217/2023Click here to read order

Delhi High Court Grants Bail In Murder Case, Orders Action Against Police For Misleading Status Report

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