Pawan Kumar v. The State Of NCT Of Delhi

via Video-conferencing $~2 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + BAIL APPL. 2085/2020 & CRL.M.A. Nos. 10593-94/2020 PAWAN KUMAR ..... Applicant Through:

Mr. Samrat Nigam, Adv.

versus THE STATE (GOVT. OF NCT OF DELHI) ...... Respondent Through:

Ms. Neelam Sharma, APP for the State.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANUP JAIRAM BHAMBHANI

O R D E R

% 07.08.2020 By order dated 03.07.2020 made in Bail Appl. 1324/2020, the applicant was granted interim bail for 30 days from the date of his release, which period expires today.

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By way of the present application, the applicant seeks extension of interim bail for 45 days.

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Other things apart, by operation of orders dated 13.07.2020 and 24.07.2020 made by a Full Bench of this Court in W.P.(C) No. 3037/2020 titled Court on its own Motion vs. State & Ors., it has inter alia been clarified that, in view of the serious threat of spread of the coronavirus pandemic in prison, where undertrials are on interim bail as on the date of that order, irrespective of whether they were released before or after 16.03.2020, such interim orders shall stand BAIL APPL. 2085/2020 Page of

extended till 31.08.2020 on the same terms and conditions as were imposed earlier.

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Accordingly, the interim bail granted to the applicant by order dated 03.07.2020 stands extended till 31.08.2020.

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The application stands disposed of.

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Other pending applications, if any, also stand disposed of. 7.

A copy of this order be sent to the Jail Superintendent. ANUP JAIRAM BHAMBHANI, J.

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