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Gajendra Pal Singh v. State

Delhi HC16 Jul 2025CRL.M.C./4433/2019

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What is this about?

Withdrawal of criminal revision/miscellaneous petition challenging order on charge and framing of charge; liberty reserved to argue all grounds at final argument stage before Trial Court; no merits decided, rights and contentions left open; Delhi High Court; Justice Sanjeev Narula; Gajendra Pal Singh v. State (CBI); CRL.M.C. 4433/2019; decided 16 July 2025; dismissed as withdrawn.

What did the court decide?

Petition dismissed as withdrawn, with liberty to the Petitioner to raise all grounds urged in the petition, and all other grounds available in law, before the Trial Court at the stage of final arguments; no opinion expressed on the merits; rights and contentions of the parties left open. ¶¶18

Gajendra Pal Singh Vs State — Delhi HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

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Issue for consideration

Whether the Petitioner should be permitted to withdraw the present petition, with liberty to urge the grounds raised therein, and all other grounds available in law, before the Trial Court at the stage of final arguments. +1 more

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Court's answer

As prayed, the petition is dismissed as withdrawn, with liberty to the Petitioner to raise all grounds urged in the petition and all other grounds available in law before the Trial Court at the stage of final arguments.

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Ratio / Principle

The early hearing application was allowed and the main petition taken up for hearing the same day (16.07.2025) with the consent of counsel; the application was disposed of.

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Key takeaways

The Court has not expressed any opinion on the merits of the case; all rights and contentions of the parties are left open.ratio¶¶19

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

High Court of Delhi (Sanjeev Narula, J.), 16.07.2025 — CRL.M.C. 4433/2019, Gajendra Pal Singh v. State (through CBI): The petition had challenged the order on charge dated 25.03.2019 and the order dated 27.05.2019 framing charge against the Petitioner. By the time of hearing, the trial had progressed to the stage of final arguments. On the Petitioner's request, the petition was dismissed as withdrawn, with liberty to urge all grounds raised in the petition, and all other grounds available in law, before the Trial Court at the stage of final arguments. The Court expressly refrained from expressing any opinion on the merits and left all rights and contentions of the parties open. An accompanying early hearing application (CRL.M.A. 20175/2025, shown in the order heading as CRL.M.A. 20174/2025) allowing the petition to be heard the same day was disposed of.

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

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- CRL.M.C. 4433/2019, CRL.M.A. 20175/2025

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GAJENDRA PAL SINGH .....Petitioner

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Through: Mr. Shashi Shanker and Mr. Kartik Pathak, Advocates.

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versus STATE .....Respondent Through: Mr. Ripudaman Bhardwaj, SPP with Mr. Kushagra Kumar and Mr. Amit Kumar Rana, Advocates for CBI.

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CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV NARULA

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O R D E R

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% 16.07.2025 CRL.M.A. 20174/2025 (for early hearing)

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For the grounds and reasons stated in the application, the same is allowed and the main petition is taken up for hearing today itself, with the consent of counsel for the parties.

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The application is disposed of.

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CRL.M.C. 4433/2019

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The present petition challenges the order on charge dated 25^th March, 2019 as well as the order dated 27^th May, 2019, framing charge against the Petitioner. However, during the pendency of the present petition, the trial in the impugned proceedings continued, and has now reached the stage of final arguments.

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In light of the foregoing, counsel for the Petitioner, seeks leave to

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This is a digitally signed order.

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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 18/07/2025 at 11:52:21

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withdraw the present petition with liberty to urge all the grounds raised in the present petition before the Trial Court at the stage of final arguments.

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Accordingly, as prayed, the present petition is dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to the Petitioner to raise all the grounds urged in the present petition and all other grounds available in law before the Trial Court at the stage of final arguments.

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The Court has not expressed any opinion on the merits of the case and all rights and contentions of the parties are left open.

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Dismissed.

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SANJEEV NARULA, J

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JULY 16, 2025 nk

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This is a digitally signed order.

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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 18/07/2025 at 11:52:21

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