2026 (5) TMI 759

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.... HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH CHANDRA SHARMA For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Vikram Chaudhri, Sr. Adv., Mr. Keshavam Chaudhri, Adv., Mr. Rishi Sehgal, Adv., Ms. Hargun Sandhu, Adv., Mr. Rishab Tewari, Adv., Ms. Divya Bhagwan, Adv., Mr. Rijul Seth, Adv., Mr. Kabir Brar, Adv., Mr. Nikhil Jain, AOR. For the Respondent(s): Mr. S.D. Sanjay, Ld. ASG, Mr. Zoheb Hussain, Adv., Mr. Arkaj Kumar, Adv., Mr....

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....eave to Appeal (Crl.) No(s). 16656 of 2024, by the Respondent-ED. Although the Hon'ble Supreme Court dismissed the Appeal, however, in paragraph 5, it is observed that, while granting bail, this Court has imposed the stringent conditions. Further, in paragraph 7 it is observed that no case is made out for interference with the discretion exercised by the learned Single Judge of this Court while gr....

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....onsidered opinion that the order of the High Court is patently erroneous and cannot be sustained. 5. Merely because the special leave petition of the Enforcement Directorate was dismissed by this Court on an earlier occasion would not preclude the High Court from considering the prayer for modification of conditions. Dismissal of SLP against an order of bail cannot, ipso facto, be held as a sta....

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....the High Court other than the learned Judge who granted bail. 9. This Court in Shekhar Prasad Mahto v. Jharkhand High Court 2025 SCC OnLine SC 2280 directed, subject to conditions mentioned therein, that all bail applications from the same FIR must be listed before the same Judge. 10. Since we are remitting the application for modification of conditions of bail to the High Court for fresh he....