IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

Date of Decision: 24.12.2025

Gurjant Singh

…Petitioner.

Versus

State of Punjab …Respondent.

CORAM: HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE AARADHNA SAWHNEY.

Present: Mr. Aajeshwar Singh Grewal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Kamalpreet Bawa, DAG, Punjab.

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AARADHNA SAWHNEY, J. (Oral)

1. Petitioner, an accused in case FIR No. 305 dated 23.11.2025, registered against him under Sections 115(2), 118(1) of BNS (offence under Section 118(1) of BNS has been deleted and offence under Section 118(2) of BNS has been added vide DDR No.36 dated 1.12.2025), at Police Station Talwandi Sabo, District Bathinda, has filed the present petition for grant of

anticipatory bail.

2. Relevant facts as emerging from the documents on record be

noticed hereinbelow:-

Boota Khan, son of Bhura Khan, resident of Singo, set the

criminal law in motion by filing a complaint pointing therein that his father Bhura Khan had died about nine years ago, leaving behind his mother Smt. Nikki Kaur and four children including the complainant. He and the other

two sisters are married and residing separately. Youngest of the sibling is Gurjant Singh, who had joined Indian Army in 2010. About four months a