Delhi High Court grants bail to man involved in 17 FIRs, accused of defrauding banks

The Delhi High Court recently granted bail to a man alleged to be involved in nearly a dozen-and-half first information reports (FIRs) and defrauding banks by mortgaging same property many times..Justice Prateek Jalan noted that the applicant was not arrested during the course of the investigation and supplementary chargesheet was also filed without arrest.Another reason that weighed with the court while granting bail was that the person at whose instance the present accused is alleged to have committed the acts was already granted bail, Justice Jalan observed..The High Court was dealing with a bail application filed by one Suresh Kumar seeking bail in a cheating and criminal conspiracy case.It was alleged that Kumar is an expert in operating computers with good knowledge of scanning and printing. He was offered work by one Sandeep who, along with two other people, were involved in frauding banks.Kumar was alleged to be engaged in scanning and printing the content of documents with the help of computer, scanner, photocopiers and other gadgets, and preparing copies by deleting the details in the original documents and inserting details, as well as by putting his fingerprints and thumb impressions thereon..The Court noted that the evidence in the case has already been collected, was largely electronic in nature with little possibility of the applicant tampering with it and therefore, he should be released on bail..Senior Advocate Pramod Kumar Dubey along with advocates Pinky Dubey, Vinay Sharma, Trishita Parashar, Prince Tiwari and Akshat Sharma appeared for the petitioner. Additional Public Prosecutor Amit Chadha appeared for the State. .[Read Order]