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123 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

CRM-M No.65134 of 2025 Date of Decision: 23.03.2026

Charanjot Singh @ Jot ….. Petitioner

Versus

State of Punjab ….. Respondent

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ

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Present: Mr. Gursimran Singh Madaan, Advocate;

Mr. Sewak Singh, Advocate and Mr. Gurmehar Singh Minhas, Advocate

for the petitioner.

Ms. Ramta Chowdhary, DAG, Punjab(cid:1)

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RAJESH BHARDWAJ, J. (ORAL)

1. Present third petition has been filed praying for the grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.104, dated 30.07.2023, under Sections 302, 307, 323, 324, 326, 120-B, 34 of IPC and sections 25, 29, 30 of Arms Act, registered at Police Station Adampur, District

Jalandhar.

2. Succinctly, the facts of the case are that FIR in the present case was got registered on the statement of complainant, namely, Mahavir Singh. It was alleged that the complainant came out of the jail 15 days ago and was going to village Padhyana on his motorcycle. On the way, 3-4 boys met the complainant, who were already standing there and they were

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his co-prisoners when the complainant was in jail. Kulwant Singh threatened the complainant that he had attacked him while he was in jail and thus, they started causing injuries to him. Kulwant Singh fired shots at the complainant with his pistol, which hit on his right side of the chest and right arm bicep and Charanjot Singh @ Jot (petitioner) hit him with the sickle which hit on his arm as well as on forehead. Kulwant Singh again fired shot him with his pistol which hit on the right leg of the complainant. After causing injuries to the complainant, they all escaped from the place of occurrence along with their respective weapons. Thus, the request was made to take legal action against the accused. On the basis of the same, the FIR was registered. On registration of the FIR, the investigation commenced. The FIR initially was registered for the offence under Section 307 IPC, however, the complainant, Mahavir Singh subsequently succumbed to the injuries and died on 06.02.2024 and thus, the offfence under Section 302 IPC was added. The petitioner was arrested on 07.08.2023. On completion of the investigation, the challan was presented and on framing of the charges, the trial commenced. The petitioner approached the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Jalandhar praying for the grant of regular bail. However, after hearing both the sides and finding no merit in the same, the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Jalandhar dismissed the bail application filed by the petitioner vide order dated 19.12.2023. Being aggrieved, the petitioner earlier approached this Court twice praying for the grant of regular bail by way of filing CRM-M- 5776-2024 and CRM-M-47783-2024, however the same were dismissed vide orders dated 29.07.2024 and 22.08.2025. Hence being aggrieved, the

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petitioner is again before this Court praying for grant of regular bail by

way of filing the present third petition.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has vehemently contended that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. He has submitted that the alleged occurrence had taken place on 30.07.2023 wherein the petitioner has been alleged to have caused the daggar blow to the deceased, namely, Mahavir Singh on his right arm and forehead. He has submitted that the deceased was medico legally examined and both these injuries were declared simple in nature. He has submitted that the complainant died on 06.02.2024, i.e. after about 06 months of the alleged occurrence. He has submitted that the cause of death was opined to be asphyxia due to aspiration of food, which seems probably due to chronic illness. He has submitted that from the fa