IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision:11.02.2026 Ajay @ Ajay Kumar ... Petitioner Vs.

State of Haryana ... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Deepak Jindal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Aditya Pal Singla, AAG, Haryana.

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Manisha Batra, J. (Oral).

1. 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.221, dated 20.04.2025, registered under Sections 190, 191(3), 110, 115, 117(2), 126, 351(3) and 61 of the BNS, at Police Station Indri, District Karnal.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of statement recorded by complainant – Mahender Singh on 20.04.2025, alleging therein that on the evening of 19.04.2025, he along with his son Lovish and driver Kuldeep was working in the fields of Omi Lal with a tractor, when 15-20 youths riding on 4-5 bikes reached there. By forming an unlawful assembly and after making exhortations, they opened an assault upon the petitioner and his son, forcibly stopped their tractor and extended injuries on their person with their respective wea