IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 12.02.2026 BALJIT KUMAR @ MONU & ANR ......... PETITIONERS VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB ..... RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE YASHVIR SINGH RATHOR Present : Mr. K.S. Dadwal, Advocate with Mr. Manish Dadwal, Advocate for the petitioners/revisionists.

Ms. Niharika Sharma, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. Hemant Saini, Advocate with Mr. Himanshu Monga, Advocate for the complainant.

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YASHVIR SINGH RATHOR , J. (Oral)

1. The present revision petition has been filed for setting aside the order dated 08.02.2024 passed by Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Jalandhar, arising out of FIR No.62 dated 16.05.2019 registered under Section 306, 34 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’) at Police Station Division No.8, Jalandhar, whereby application for discharging of petitioner has been dismissed on 08.02.2024 and on the same date, charge under Section 306 of IPC read with Section 34 of IPC has been framed against the petitioners.

The contents of FIR would read as under:-

“Statement of Jaswinder Lal S/o Dharam Singh, Resident of B-IX-591, Mohalla Santokhpura, PS Div No.8, Jalandhar, aged about 64 years, stated that I am resident of above mentioned address and I do labour work. I have one son and two daughters. Today at time about 3 PM, I came back home from work and the gate was locked from inside. I knocked at the gate firmly and also called my son by raising my voice, but he did not open the gate. Then I made telephone call to my daughter Dayal Kaur and my daughter Dayal Kaur and my son in law Birbal son of Tarsem Lal R/o Kangniwal came at the spot and my daughter Dayal Kaur went inside from the neighbouring house and opened the gate and I alongwith my daughter Dayal Kaur and Birbal went inside and saw that my son Manjit Lal alias Lucky had ended his life by hanging from the girder by tying bed-sheet around his neck. One suicide note was found in front of his chest in which it is written that he has committed suicide by hanging due to harassment by Harbhajan Sandhu who is residing in our neighborhood, his brother in law Bindri resident of Vill Jaitewali, his driver Jagjit Singh alias Jeeta who is residing in Mohalla Santokhpura Near Nimbu Wali Gali, Ashoka son of Jaswinder Lal Resident of Santokhpura and Sonu, Monu, sons of Dalwinder Lal who are my nephews. Legal action be taken against them. Sd/- English Jaswinder Lal. Attested Sd/- English Satwinder Singh SI PS Div No.8, Jalandhar dated

16.5.2019.

Action of Police: Today I SI was present in the Police Station, when one telephone call was received that Manjit Lal @ Lucky s/o Jaswinder Lal Resident of Mohalla Santokhpura has committed suicide by hanging. Action be taken. On this, SI alongwith HG Pram Singh 1101. HC Satnam Singh 1879, CT Bhupinder Kumar 1678 reached at the spot where in the presence of father of the boy namely Jaswinder Lal and Ex-MC Rakesh Kumar Ward No.7, Bhogpur, the dead body was brought down and Jaswinder Lal has handed over one suicide note before me, which was taken into police custody. Jaswinder Lal aforesaid has got recorded his statement before me and after hearing the statement and admitting the same to be true, signed underneath in English and I attested the same. From the statement, the offence under Section 306, 34 IPC has been found. After writing down of Ruqa, with a view to record the FIR, the same is hereby sent through CT Bhupinder Kumar No.1678 to the Police Station. After registration of FIR, number be informed Control Room be informed through wireless. After preparation of special reports, the same be sent before the officers. I am busy in investigation at the spot Sd/English PS Div No.8, JAL at 16.5.19. Today in the area of Santokhpura Mohalla Jalandhar AT Today in Police Station: After receiving of writing in the police station, after registering of FIR under the aforementioned provisions, the copy of writing alongwith copy of FIR is hereby sent through CT before ASI at the spot. Afte