IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL
Jagroop Singh alias Charna – Appellant
Versus
State of Punjab – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL, J.
1. Prayer in the instant petition filed under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 is for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.0026 dated 05.02.2025 registered under Sections 132, 221, 259 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Sections 259 of BNS deleted and Section 262 of BNS was added later on), at Police Station Chheharta, District Amritsar.
2. Brief facts of the present case as per the prosecution are that, the petitioner while in custody in another criminal case, tried to snatch the weapon from the police officials in order to abscond while he was being taken to the spot for recovery as per his disclosure statement. Hence the present FIR.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. He argued that as per the case of the prosecution, when the petitioner was being escorted by a police party, he snatched the official firearm (pistol) from ASI Pawan Kumar, in order to ran away from the spot and also attempted to fire at the police party, which is filmsy and casts serious doubt on the prosecution story. He argued that the petitioner has alread
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