IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 09.12.2025 RITIK ..PETITIONER VS.

STATE OF HARYANA ..RESPONDENT CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S. GREWAL Present: Mr. A.P.S. Deol, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Sagarika, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Vijay Kumar, AAG, Haryana.

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H.S. GREWAL, J.(ORAL)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 483 of BNSS for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No. 0035 dated 28.01.2025 under Sections 127(6) BNS (offence u/s 140(1), 238(1), 103(1), 3(5) BNS-2023 added lateron vide GD No. 028, dated

04.02.2025), registered at Police Station Sadar, Fatehabad.

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 28.01.2025, one Rajender s/o Ram Naryan filed a report regarding the missing of his brother Subhash s/o Ram Naryan. Subsequently on the same day, the dead body of Subhash was recovered from a canal. On 04.02.2025, an extra-judicial confession was allegedly made by the petitioner and his co-accused before one Bhoop Singh, former Sarpanch who thereafter deposed before the police on the same day. In his statement, Bhoop Singh deposed that Vishnu, Laden and Ritik-the present petitioner had jointly confessed that they ha