JUDGMENT

Gurvinder Singh Gill, J. - The petitioner has approached this Court seeking grant of anticipatory bail in respect of a case registered vide FIR No.85 dated 16.6.2021 at Police Station Adampur, District Jalandhar Rural under Sections 420, 120-B, 353, 186 of Indian Penal Code and Section 68 of Punjab Excise Act, wherein offences under Section 307 IPC and Sections 20 and 61-A of Punjab Excise Act, 1914 were added later on.

2. The FIR in question was lodged on the basis of secret information received by the Excise Department to the effect that Rajan Angural and his brother Sunny Angural alongwith their companions have factories in Jalandhar City, Rural, where they prepared illicit liquor by affixing fake labels on the bottles. Pursuant to receipt of said information raids were conducted at different places. At the disclosed place one Alto Car bearing registration No.PB-08- EA-0597 was found and two persons were trying to flee in the said car out of which one was identified as Sunny Angural. The said car was chased and the said persons riding the car were rounded up and they were brought back to the factory premises. Inside the factory Rajan Angural was found present alongwith hi