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MOHD. AKRAM CHOWDHARY
Karan Singh – Appellant
Versus
UT of J&K – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
MOHD. AKRAM CHOWDHARY, J.
1. Petitioner through the medium of the instant application seeks grant of bail in a case registered at Police Station Nagrota, Jammu vide FIR No. 12/2022 for the commission of offence punishable under section 306 IPC.
2. Petitioner has asserted that he had a land dispute with one Dillawar Singh of village Sidhra; that he had filed a suit for permanent prohibitory injunction and obtained an interim order of injunction from the Court of Learned Munsiff Jammu; that the said Dillawar Singh on 31.12.2021 set himself to fire and his wife who made an attempt to save him also got burnt and she expired; that the said Dillawar Singh also expired later on; that the Police registered the aforementioned case and falsely implicated the petitioner due to land dispute; that he has been arrested on 06.01.2022.
3. Petitioner further pleads that there is nothing attributable to the petitioner which may fall within the definition of Section 306 IPC. Petitioner has also placed on record the copy of the plaint of the civil suit titled Karan Singh vs. Dillawar Singh and Others, with regard to land comprising of Khasra No. 198 of village Sidhra, Tehsil and District Jammu
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