Balwinder Singh vs State of Punjab - 2025 Supreme(P&H) 1278

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2025 Supreme(P&H) 1278

PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH
JASJIT SINGH BEDI
Balwinder Singh – Appellant
Versus
State of Punjab – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. Surinder Garg, Advocate
For the Respondent:Mr. Harkanwar Jeet Singh, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab

JUDGMENT :

Jasjit Singh Bedi, J. (Oral)

1. The present revision petition has been filed impugning the judgment dated 19.03.2008 passed by Additional Sessions Judge (Adhoc), Fast Track Court, Muktsar whereby the appeal filed against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 28.04.2007 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muktsar has been dismissed.

2. The FIR in the present case came to be registered on 14.01.2002. The judgment of conviction was passed on 14.01.2002 by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muktsar. The Appeal filed against the order of conviction was dismissed on 19.03.2008 by the Additional Sessions Judge (Adhoc), Fast Track Court, Muktsar. The instant revision petition was filed on 21.05.2008 and has come up for final hearing now i.e. after a period of 22 years from the date of registration of the FIR.

3. The brief facts of the prosecution case are that on 14.01.2002, a police party headed by ASI Kulwant Rai of Police Station Bariwala was coming from village Sarainaga towards Village Warring in connection with checking the arrangements for the Maghi Mela. When the police party reached near the school, in the area of village Warring, it was about 12.30 p.m.. One