Advocate Dev Datt Arya presented the statement of the Supreme Court in the Sessions Court and the accused got bail - Haryana/Order-Order
District and Sessions Court, Panipat
Advocate Dev Datt Arya, a Supreme Court advocate living in Ghaziabad, has saved the lives of many accused from being spent behind bars with his strong arguments and irrefutable evidence. His ability can be gauged from the fact that while handling many difficult cases, he has proved his worth by getting bail for undertrial prisoners from lower courts instead of higher courts. In one such case, Advocate Dev Datt Arya has earned praise by getting bail for a female prisoner lodged in a Haryana jail from the Sessions Court of Panipat. This case is also in the headlines because the case was related to cyber crime in which bail could be obtained only from the High Court, but Advocate Dev Datt Arya placed the statement of the Supreme Court before the Sessions Court. The Sessions Court readily accepted this statement and approved the bail of the female prisoner. Advocate Dev Datt Arya said that this was a case of cyber fraud in which a person named Pushpendra had given a complaint letter to the Bapoli police station alleging that on July 4, 2024, he received a call from an unknown number that some scheme was going on on his SBI Bank credit card and the caller asked for OTP. Pushpendra gave the OTP to the caller and after some time Rs 30,855 was deducted from his credit card. Pushpendra lodged a complaint of this cyber fraud on 1930. On the basis of the complaint, an FIR was registered and on June 9, 2015, the police arrested Ritu Sharma, resident of Sainik Enclave Mohan Garden Delhi and sent her to jail.
The police also showed the recovery of mobile from Ritu. Advocate Dev Datt Arya had filed an application in the Sessions Court of Panipat for the bail of Ritu who is in jail. Advocate Arya argued that his client's name is not mentioned in the FIR and she herself has joined the investigation.
Advocate Dev Datt Arya Advocate, Supreme Court
The court convicted Ritu without filing the final report. She has been in custody since June 9, 2025, even though she was not a beneficiary of the looted amount. She worked in a call center and was only an employee. Advocate Dev Datt Arya also argued that 64 days have passed since the FIR was filed, but the investigation is still pending. Therefore, further custody of Ritu is not required. On the basis of this argument, Advocate Arya urged to grant bail to Ritu. But the Public Prosecutor argued that Ritu is a cunning woman. She made fraudulent calls by posing as a customer service officer of State Bank of India. The mobile phone from which she made the fraud call has been recovered from her. He argued that the investigation is pending, if she is granted bail, it may hamper the investigation or repeat the crime or tamper with the evidence. He prayed to dismiss the bail plea. In these circumstances, Advocate Dev Datt Arya, citing his experience and the statement of the Supreme Court that "bail is the rule and jail is the exception", argued vigorously in the Sessions Court. He said that in the case of Dataram Singh vs State of Uttar Pradesh (2018), the Supreme Court of India has said that the jails are overcrowded and therefore, bail should be considered the general rule, while jail should be considered an exception. Similarly, the case of Arnab Manoranjan Goswami vs State of Madhya Pradesh, 2021 (2) was also mentioned in which the Hon'ble Supreme Court has held that the basic rule of our criminal justice system is bail, not jail. In this way, the Sessions Court, accepting the solid arguments of Advocate Dev Datt Arya and the order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court, issued an order to release the accused Ritu on bail on presenting a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and a surety of the same amount. With this, another link was added to the success story of Advocate Dev Datt Arya. -- Ganga Mahima August 2025 pg. 27
