IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(S). 1178 - 1179 OF 2026 (@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRL.) NOS. 11594-11595/2025)
NIKHIL BAJAJ APPELLANT
VERSUS
RAJEEV DHINGRA & ANR. RESPONDENTS
O R D E R
1. Leave granted.
2. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
3. The appellant is in appeal against an common order
dated 08.04.2025 passed by the High Court, wherein,
respondent No.1-Rajeev Dhingra has been granted pre-arrest
bail in connection with FIR No.114 of 2025 registered at
Police Station Greater Kailash, New Delhi for offences
punishable under Sections 420, 406 and 34 of the Indian
Penal Code, 1860.
4. A plain reading of the FIR clearly brings out that
respondent No.1 from the very beginning probably had the
dishonest intention and had entered into an agreement to
sell dated 03.06.2023 whereunder an amount of
Rs.1,96,00,000/- was received in advance by him despite
the fact that the property was already sold. It has also
come on record that similar transactions of agreement to
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sell have been entered into by the accused-respondent-1
with different parties and is facing complaints in that
regard also.
5. The High Court in passing the impugned order
basically recorded two facts that the agreement to sell is
doubtful and that the respondent No.1-accused has returned
a sum of Rs.1,67,95,000/-.
6. We are constrained to state that such findings or
observations could not have ...