Raghvendr Singh @ Rinku vs State Of Nct Of Delhi

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The applicant sought regular bail in two FIRs (No. 108/2019 and No. 109/2019) registered at PS Paschim Vihar (West), Delhi, arising out of the murder of a married couple, Gurmeet Singh and Jagir Kaur, whose dead bodies were found stuffed in bags in a waste drain in March 2019. The prosecution alleged that the main accused, Davinder Kaur @ Sonia and her paramour Prince Dixit @ Vikram, conspired to kill the deceased parents over a property dispute, and roped in the applicant and one Diwakar as hired accomplices for Rs. 50,000/- each. The applicant was alleged to have actively participated in smothering the first deceased and in disposing of both bodies, and articles belonging to the deceased were recovered from his residence in Lucknow.

The applicant contended that he was falsely implicated solely on the basis of the confessional statements of the main accused, which were contradictory inter se, and that he was not present in Delhi on the relevant dates. It was further submitted that the disclosure statements and alleged recoveries were unreliable and that no independent material evidence connected him to the crime. The State opposed the bail applications on the ground of the serious nature of the offences, the applicant's active role in the double murder for hire, and the recoveries made pursuant to his disclosure.

The Delhi High Court considered the submissions of both sides in the context of the twin FIRs involving charges of murder, conspiracy, and destruction of evidence against the applicant, and pronounced its judgment on 7th January 2025.

Catchwords: bail · murder for hire · criminal conspiracy · smothering · double murder · disclosure statement · recovery · Test Identification Parade · absconding accused · Indian Penal Code