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IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH AT SHIMLA
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIVEK SINGH THAKUR
Mohammad Faique @ Aayan – Appellant
Versus
State of Himachal Pradesh – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Vivek Singh Thakur, J.
Petitioner, herein, is in judicial lock-up in case FIR No.7 of2020 dated 21.1.2020, under Sections 302 , 147, 149 of the INDIAN PENAL CODE (‘IPC’ for short), registered in Police Station Parwanoo, District Solan, Himachal Pradesh. He has approached this Court, under Section 483 of the Bhartya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘ BNSS ’), seeking regular bail in the matter.
2. In status report, filed on behalf of respondent-State, statement of complainant Rajan Kumar Singh has been reiterated, on the basis of which FIR was registered against the petitioner and other co-accused.
3. According to status report, on 21.1.2020, an information was received from ESI Hospital, Parwanoo, in Police Station Parwanoo that a person injured in a quarrel has been brought to the hospital for treatment, whereupon HC Vinod Kumar alongwith others had rushed to the hospital, where statement of complainant Rajan Kumar Singh was recorded under Section 154 Cr.P.C., wherein he had stated that on that day, i.e. 20.12.2020, at about 11 p.m., when he was sitting in his vehicle at Sector-6 Parwanoo, near Negi Petrol Pump, he had received a call on his mobile phone from Raju,
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