IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision : 07.04.2026 SHEKHAR AAJAD ... PETITIONER Versus STATE OF PUNJAB .. RESPONDENT CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.GREWAL Present:- Mr. Pardeep Kumar, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Surinderjit Singh Nahar, AAG, Punjab.

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H.S. Grewal, J.(Oral)

1. This petition has been filed by the petitioner under Section 483 BNSS, 2023 (corresponding Section 439 Cr.P.C.) for grant of regular bail in case FIR No. 25 dated 25.03.2025 under Sections 110, 126(2), 115(2), 191(3), 190, 324(4), 351(2), 61(2) of BNS, 2023 (Section 117(2) BNS added later on vide DDR No.31 dated 01.07.2025), registered at Police Station Bareta, District Mansa.

2. The case of the prosecution is that the petitioner along with his co-accused have inflicted 19 injuries on the person of the complainant and threatened the complainant in the name of Kulwant Singh @ Kala and Paramjit Singh.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner, however, submits that the petitioner has not been named in the FIR and there is an unexplained delay of five days in the registration of the FIR. It is submitted that the petitioner has been nominated on the basis of a supplementary statemen