Ashish Kumar v. State & ANR

$~2 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + BAIL APPLN. 1217/2020 ASHISH KUMAR .....Petitioner Through:

Mr. Akshay Malik and Mr. Mukul Rawal, Advocates.

versus STATE & ANR ....Respondents Through:

Ms. Meenakshi Chauhan, APP for State/GNCTD.

Mr. Anil Grover, AAG for the State of Haryana with Mr. Mishal Vij, Advocate.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAJMI WAZIRI

O R D E R

% 11.06.2020 CRL.M.A. 7533/2020 (exemption)

1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

2. The application stands disposed-off.

CRL.M.A. 7534/2020 (exemption from court fee)

3. Exemption allowed, subject to the condition that the petitioner will file the duty sworn/attested affidavit and the requisite Court fee within 72 hours from the date of resumption of the regular functioning of this Court.

4. The application stands disposed-off.

BAIL APPLN. 1217/2020

5. The hearing was conducted through video conferencing.

6. Issue notice.

7. The learned counsels named above accept notice on behalf of the respondents.

8. At joint request, the application is taken up for disposal.

9. The petitioner seeks transit bail to join investigations in case FIR No. 0121/2020 registered under section 406 and 420 IPC at Police Station: Thanesar, Kurukshetra, Haryana. It is the petitioner's case that it will take some time for him, especially in the constraints of the pandemic nationwide lockdown, to move an application before the appropriate Court in Kurukshetra, Haryana, to seek anticipatory bail and/or regular bail from the Court concerned.

10.Mr. Anil Grover, the learned AAG for the State of Haryana, states that all the Trial Courts in the State of Haryana are functioning through electronic mode and the petitioner could well move an application for the relief sought in this case. 11.Be that as it may, since the petitioner expresses constraint of moving to the Courts in Haryana at this stage, therefore, he is granted 10 working days to move an appropriate application before the relevant Court. Mr. Grover states that, in the interim, no coercive measures will be taken against the petitioner subject to the petitioner joining the investigations through electronic mode whenever so required and to physically join the investigations when free movement is permitted or feasible.

12.The application is disposed-off in terms of the above. 13.Nothing stated in this order shall be deemed to be an adjudication on the merits of the case.

14.The order be uploaded on the website forthwith. Copy of the order be also forwarded to the counsels through email. NAJMI WAZIRI, J JUNE 11, 2020/AB