IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 19^th September, 2025 Sachin @ Bhatti ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Munish Gulati, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Roshandeep Singh, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab.

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MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):-

The present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner seeking grant of regular bail in case bearing FIR No. 73 dated 11.08.2024 registered under Sections 111, 111(2), 111(3) and 111(4) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) and Section 25-A of Arms Act, 1959 at Police Station Sadar Moga, District Moga.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the allegations that on 11.08.2024, on receipt of a secret information to the effect that the petitioner along with the co-accused had formed a gang and was involved in committing serious offences and was also in possession of huge quantity of illicit weapons and ammunition and could be apprehended near grain market Khorkhara area, if raided immediately as he was making plan to commit some offence, a raiding pa