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Maqsood Ahmad and Ors. v. State of NCT of Delhi & Anr.

Delhi HC20 May 2025W.P.(CRL)/368/2025

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Writ petition challenging the legality of arrest and remand order. The Court directed the State to provide grounds of arrest and disposed of the petition pending the Trial Court's decision on bail, instructing the Trial Court not to be influenced by the order.

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State directed to provide copies of grounds of arrest; petition disposed; Trial Court directed to decide bail application.

Maqsood Ahmad and Ors. Vs State of NCT of Delhi & Anr. — Bail and Remand | Delhi HC (2025)

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(CRL) 368/2025

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MAQSOOD AHMAD AND ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Kartik Murukutla, Adv.

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versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Rahul Tyagi, ASC for the State with Mr. Mathew M. Philip, Mr. Sangeet Sibou and Mr. Aniket Kumar Singh, Advs. with Insp. Prateek Saxena, PS Naraina.

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CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN O R D E R

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% 20.05.2025

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By the present petition, the petitioners pray as under :

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a) Declare the arrest of the Petitioner as illegal and in gross violation of the fundamental rights of the Petitioner guaranteed under Article 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India in relation to FIR no.416/2024 PS Naraina dated 1.12.2024;

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b) Declare and set aside the remand order dated 02.12.2024 and all subsequent orders consequentially passed by the Ld. Trial Court, Ld. MM, Patiala House Courts, as null and void as the same being passed in complete violation of all constitutional mandates of the Petitioner;

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c) Direct immediate release of the Petitioner from custody in FIR no. 416/2024 PS Naraina dated 1.12.2024;

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d) Pass any such other order as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the case.

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The petitioners seek a declaration that their arrest is illegal.

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The case of the petitioners is that the grounds of arrest

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were not supplied to them.

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The State has handed over the photocopies of document

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This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 02/07/2025 at 00:24:53

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titled as ‘Grounds of Arrest’ holding thumb impressions of two of the petitioners and signatures of two of the petitioners, indicating that the same were supplied to the petitioners.

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Even otherwise, it is undisputed that the petitioners have already availed of their remedy of filing an application seeking bail.

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Undisputedly, if the learned Trial Court, while dealing with the bail application, finds that the fundamental rights of the petitioners have been violated while arresting them, it is the duty of the learned Trial Court to release the petitioners on bail.

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This Court does not consider it apposite to keep the present petition pending when the learned Trial Court is already hearing the application for the release of the petitioners. 8. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the grounds of arrest were not supplied to the petitioners. 9. The State is directed to give a copy of the Grounds of Arrest to the learned counsel for the petitioners. 10. The present petition is disposed of with the aforesaid observations.

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The learned Trial Court is directed to decide the bail application filed by the petitioners without being influenced by any observation made by this Court in the present order.

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AMIT MAHAJAN, J

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MAY 20, 2025 / ‘KDK’

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Maqsood Ahmad and Ors. v. State of NCT of Delhi & Anr.

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