231 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 16.04.2026 Date of Uploading: 16.04.2026 Akashdeep Singh @ Akashdeep Khan …..Petitioner.

Versus State of Punjab .....Respondent.

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL *****

Present:- Mr. Kanwaljeet Singh Brar, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Baljinder Singh Sra, Addl. A.G, Punjab.

SUMEET GOEL, J.(Oral)

Present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.40 dated 16.04.2025 under Sections 103, 126(2), 191(3), 190, 61(2) and 238 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, registered at Police Station Maur, District Bathinda.

2. The case set up in the FIR in question (as set out in the present petition by the petitioner) is as follows:-

‘Copy of Statement, Darshan Singh son of Arjun Singh, resident near Peerkhana, Ward No. 10, Maur Mandi, aged about 75 years, M.No. 62832-15551 stated that I am a resident of the above-mentioned address. I work as a labourer. We are two brothers, the name of my elder brother is Karam Singh. We live together in one family. My brother Karam Singh has 5 daughters and one so