Manoj Kumar Jha v. State (Nct of Delhi)
Anticipatory bail – repeat application in the same FIR
Case brief
What is this about?
Delhi High Court (Girish Kathpalia, J.), 07.07.2025, BAIL APPLN. 2397/2025 & CRL.M.A. 19059/2025: anticipatory bail refused to Manoj Kumar Jha in FIR No. 81/2024 PS Parliament Street (Section 204, BNS 2023; impersonation as IAS officer, collection of sensitive information); repeat application after coordinate bench dismissal dated 12.11.2024 of Bail Application No. 3337/2024; held that earlier rejection was not solely for failure to join investigation and that no change in circumstances existed; application and accompanying CRL.M.A. dismissed.
What did the court decide?
The earlier anticipatory bail application (Bail Application No. 3337/2024) was not rejected merely because the accused/applicant failed to join investigation; the coordinate bench, besides finding that he did not join investigation despite interim protection, also tested the strength of his remaining arguments after traversing the 12 other cases of similar offences registered against him in Delhi, Kolkata, Bihar and Punjab.