IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision:18.02.2026 Darshan Singh ...Applicant Versus Jagtar Singhand Ors. ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Harshit Jain, Advocate for the applicant.

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M ANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. The instant application has been filed by the applicant under Section 378(4) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) seeking grant of leave to file appeal against the judgment of acquittal dated 15.11.2017, passed by the Court of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Dhuri in Criminal Complaint bearing No.46 of 2012 titled as 'Darshan Singh Vs. Jagtar Singh and others' filed under Sections 323, 295-A, 447, 506, 148 IPC, whereby respondent/accused Jagtar Singh had been acquitted of aforementioned offences.

2. Today, learned counsel for the applicant, while relying upon a recent pronouncement of Hon’ble Supreme Court in M/s. Celestium Financial vs. A. Gnanasekaran Etc., 2025(3) RCR (Criminal) 208, has submitted that by directing the present application as an appeal, filed under Sections 372 of Cr.P.C. (which is pari materia with Section 413 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023), th