223 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 03.07.2025 KULWINDER SINGH @ MADDAR ...PETITIONER Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ...RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. J.S. Thakur, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Nitesh Sharma, DAG Punjab.

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Harpreet Singh Brar, J. (Oral)

1. This is the first petition filed under Section 483 of Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No. 231 dated 29.12.2021 registered under Sections 379-B, 34 of Indian Penal Code (hereinafter to be referred as ‘IPC’) Section 411 of IPC added later on at Police Station Majithia Road District Am-

ritsar Commissionerate.

2. FIR(supra) was registered on the allegations that on 28.12.2021 at about 9.45 PM, complainant along with his friend Gurwinder Singh were going in their car and at about 10.00 PM, his friend stopped the car near Arora Ice-cream and went to purchase an ice cream. Thereafter, from the front side, two turban persons came, whose faces were covered with muffler, out of which one young boy opened the left door of the car and asked the complainant to come out of the car and p