IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision:25.02.2026 Buta Singh ... Appellant Vs.

State of Punjab & another ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. D.S. Virk, Advocate for the appellant.

Mr. Roshandeep Singh, AAG, Punjab.

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Manisha Batra, J. (Oral).

1. The instant appeal has been filed under Section 14-A(2) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for short ‘SC/ST Act’)by the appellant, challenging the order dated 20.08.2025 passed by the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Ludhiana in case arising out of FIR No.260, dated 16.10.2022, registered under Sections 323, 342, 506, 148 IPC and Section 3 of the SC/ST Act, at Police Station Jamalpur, District Ludhiana, whereby an application for grant of anticipatory bail had been dismissed.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of statement recorded by complainant – Bhupinder Singh, alleging that on 12.10.2022, he was present in his house, when accused Amrit accompanied by 3-4 unknown persons reached there and took his son Husanpreet with him on the pretext of asking something from him. The complainant followed them