229 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: September 16, 2025 Rakesh @ Rakesh Kumar ….Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ….Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present:- Mr. Sahil Choudhary, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Deepak Kumar Grewal, DAG Haryana.

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL)

Present third petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) read with Section 528 of BNSS for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.197 dated 13.05.2023, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 302, 201, 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’), at Police Station Barauda, District Sonipat.

2. The gravamen of allegations against the petitioner is that on 13.05.2024, at around 9:00 A.M., Nand Kishore (since deceased) had gone to Rohtak in a TATA Punch car bearing registration number HR11P-4696, owned by Sunny, a friend of Yogesh, for some work. Later the same day, at about 6:00 P.M., his body was discovered lying in the bushes near a kucha road adjacent to Butana Canal, and the said car also found parked nearby. The deceased had sustained multiple inj