Yadwinder Singh vs Lakhi Alias Lakhwinder Singh

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2025 Supreme(SC) 561

AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA
Yadwinder Singh – Appellant
Versus
Lakhi Alias Lakhwinder Singh – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Mr. Jitesh Malik, Adv. Ms. Anisha Dahiya, Adv. Mr. Jatin Hooda, Adv. Ms. Anjana Sharma, Adv. Mr. Abhay Singh, Adv. Mr. Satish Kumar, AoR
For the Respondents: Mr. Saurabh Singh Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Rajeev Kumar Dubey, AoR Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Diggaj Pathak, AoR Ms. Shweta Sharma, Adv. Mr. Naveen Gaur, Adv. Ms. Vaibhavi Pathak, Adv. Mr. B. Abishek, Adv. Mr. Pradyut Kashyap, Adv. Ms. Shreya Nair, Adv. Mr. Shivam Harsana, Adv. Mr. Karan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Manik Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Shrey Kapoor, AoR

JUDGMENT :

Ahsanuddin Amanullah & Prashant Kumar Mishra, JJ.

Leave granted. By way of extraordinary indulgence to the respondents, we have taken up the matter(s) de novo. The instant Judgment be, therefore, read and contextualised in conjunction with our Order dated 19.03.2025.

2. learned counsel and learned senior counsel for the parties.

3. The present appeals are directed against the Impugned Order dated 18.07.2024 [2024 SCC OnLine P&H 11673] passed by a learned Single Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh by which summons issued under Section 319¹[‘319. Power to proceed against other persons appearing to be guilty of offence .—(1) Where, in the course of any inquiry into, or trial of, an offence, it appears from the evidence that any person not being the accused has committed any offence for which such person could be tried together with the accused, the Court may proceed against such person for the offence which he appears to have committed.

(2) Where such person is not attending the Court, he may be arrested or summoned, as the circumstances of the case may require, for the purpose aforesaid.

(3) Any person attending the Court, although not under arrest or upo