IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 6^th March, 2025 Gagandeep Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Harjinder Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Swati Batra, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab.

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MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):-

Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), is for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in FIR No. 57 dated 08.07.2024, registered under Sections 109, 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) and Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 (offences under Section 61(2) of BNS and Sections 25(1)(1-B)(a), 29, 25(8), 27(1) of the Arms Act were added later on and offence under Section 3(5) of BNS was deleted) at Police Station Nurmehal, District Jalandhar.

2. Brief facts of the case relevant for the disposal of the present petition are that the aforementioned FIR has been registered on the basis of the statement recorded by complainant Resham Singh on the allegations that in the morning of 08.07.2024, he was going towards his agricultural land on his tractor and when he was on the way, th