IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 13.01.2025 Pronounced on: 27.01. 2025 Kala Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab …Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA Argued by: Mr. Kuldip Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Jasjit Singh, DAG, Punjab.

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ANOOP CHITKARA, J.

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

98 31.08.2024 Arniwala, District 303 (2) BNS, 21 (1) and 4(1)

Fazilka of Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957

1. The petitioner apprehending arrest in the FIR captioned above has come up before this Court under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, [BNSS], seeking anticipatory bail.

2. In paragraph 16 of the bail petition, the accused declares that he has no criminal antecedents.

3. The facts and allegations are being taken from the reply filed by the State, which reads as follows:

“3. That the facts of the case are as under:- (i) The FIR in question was registered against the petitioner-accused on the basis of recovery of stolen sand. Brief facts of the case are that on 31.08.2024, when the police party headed by ASI Malkeet Singh, in Govt. vehicle No.PB-22K-9057 Bolero was present at Bus Stand Mand