IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

210 Date of decision: 13.01.2026 Kuljeet Singh ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS State of Haryana ...Respondent(s)

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Rakesh Kumar Gargi, Advocate and Mr. Ripudaman Singh Sidhu, Advocate for the petitioner(s).

Ms. Chhavi Sharma, AAG Haryana.

Mr. Sumeet S. Brar, Advocate for the complainant.

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VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

1. This is the first petition for grant of regular bail to the petitioner(s) in case bearing FIR No.178 dated 10.06.2024, registered under Section(s) 120-B, 147, 148, 285, 302, 452, 216 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 at Police Station Kalanwali, Police District Dabwali, Sirsa.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner contends that the present FIR was registered on the statement of Sandeep Singh @

Seepa, which reads thus:-

“xxxxxxx 1 am resident of above noted address and I am agriculturist by occupation. I have friendly relations with Devender Singh alias Gaggu son of Gurjant Singh resident of village Gadrana and we usually remain together. I and Devender go for morning walk with each other on daily basis. Today at around 6.00-7.00 AM, I and Devender Singh alias Gaggu son of Gurjant Singh resident of Gadana were coming back towards the house of Devender after morning walk and when we turned in street towards the house of Gaggu, then driver of one car brought his car in a over speed & Rash manner & hit his said car on the person of Devender @ Gaggu with the aim to kill him and due to hit by the car, Devender @ Gaggu fell down towards one side, then two cars and motorcycles came there, two persons were riding on motorcycle and 10-12 persons came out from the cars, they were armed with Pistols, Swords and Kaapas, then, Gurwinder Singh alias Guri S/o Jagga Singh resident of Takhatmal and Gurdeep Singh @ Gaggi son of Toti Singh resident of Gadrana got down from their motorcycle and Harjinder Singh alias Gullu son of Jagga Singh, Savraj Singh @ Mandar Singh residents of Takhatmal, Charanjit Singh @ Channi resident of Jodhpur Bhakhar, Punjab, Manpreet Singh son of Raja Singh resident of Jagmalwali, Gurmeet Singh @ Geeti resident of Gadrana, Beant Singh Sarpanch son of Labh Singh, Kuldeep Singh son of Kaur Singh, Sukhraj Singh @ Kala son of Mahender Singh, Karanvir Singh alias Karni son of Sukhraj Singh alias Kala, Harpal Singh alias Kala son of Balbir Singh, Jasvir Singh son of Hardeep Singh residents of village Gadrana and Harjinder Singh son of unknown resident of village Khokhar and 5-7 more persons alighted from the car. Gurwinder Singh @ Guri has raised Lalkara and told his associates that to kill Devender @ Gaggu and Sandeep Singh, then Gurwinder Singh and Gurdeep Singh alias Gaggi, Charanjit Singh alias charni, Harjinder Singh alias Gullu, all four armed with pistols, Gurmeet Singh@ Geeti was armed with Sword, Beant Singh Sarpanch was armed with Danda and the remaining persons were also armed with Swords. Devender @ Gaggu rushed towards the street then all these persons also run behind Devender @ Gaggu with the aim to kill him and Devender @ Gaggu to save his life has gone through the roofs of houses and tried to hide himself in the house of Jagsir Singh S/o Jaggar Singh, resident of Gadrana, then all the above said persons have encircled Devender @ Gaggu in the house of Jagsir Singh and have attacked to him with pistols and Swords with the aim to kill him, due to which Devender @ Gaggu received injuries on his head, hands and other parts of his body, then said all the assailants made firing in the air and while going they were saying that today Sandeep got saved, in future we will also kill him. All the assailants ran away from the spot along with their weapons in the respective vehicles. One motorcycle and Khanda are lying at the spot. Later on I gave information about it to my known persons, we arranged Ambulance and got Devender @ Gaggu in Government Hospital M