$~2 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + BAIL APPLN. 5070/2025 ANSHU RAJA AVI ALIAS PINTU RAJU .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Nitish Kumar Singh, Adv. versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR .....Respondents Through: Mr. Naresh Kumar Chahar, APP with Insp. Sudhir Rathi. Mr. Amol Sinha, ASC with SI Anju. Mr. Sachin Kumar and Mr. Shivam Awasthi, Advs. for Victim. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN O R D E R % 03.07.2026 1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode. 2. The present application is filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘BNSS’), seeking grant of regular bail in connection with FIR No. 918/2024, registered at Police Station Narela Industrial Area, for offences punishable under Sections 376, 506 and 509 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘IPC’), and Section 67A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘IT Act’), 3. Issue notice. 4. Learned APP for the State accepts notice. 5. Learned counsel for the Applicant submits that, as per the FIR, only the first alleged incident took place in 2020, whereas the FIR was registered in October 2025. It is further submitted that the relationship between the 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 06/07/2026 at 10:21:53 Applicant and the prosecutrix was consensual and that the Applicant has already been in custody for more than one year. 6. Per contra, learned APP for the State submits that, as per the FIR itself, after the first incident, the Applicant took obscene photographs and videos of the prosecutrix, which he subsequently uploaded on Instagram and Facebook after her marriage. It is further submitted that, upon seizure of the Applicant's mobile phone, several obscene photographs and videos of the prosecutrix were recovered. 7. He further submits that, on the pretext of making these photographs and videos viral, the Applicant continued to sexually assault the prosecutrix. 8. Learned counsel for the victim, who also appears on advance notice, submits that, after the videos were made viral on Facebook and Instagram, complaints were made to the concerned DCP. However, since no action was taken, an application under Section 156 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Cr.P.C.’) was filed before the concerned Court. It was only pursuant to the Court's direction for registration of the FIR that the present FIR came to be registered. 9. Keeping in view the nature and gravity of the allegations and the serious accusations levelled against the Applicant, this Court is of the considered opinion that no case for grant of regular bail is made out at this stage. 10. Accordingly, the present bail application is dismissed. 11. The order be uploaded on the website forthwith. MADHU JAIN, J JULY 3, 2026/JYH/rm 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 06/07/2026 at 10:21:53