IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

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CRM-M No.52352 of 2025 (O & M)

Date of decision : 12.2.2026 Date of uploading : 12.02.2026 Kultaran Singh and another ………….Petitioners Versus State of Punjab …….Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Mr. Gurmehar Singh Minhas, Advocate, for the petitioners Mr. Baljinder Singh Sra, Addl. AG, Punjab Mr. Ankur Bansal, Advocate, for the complainant (through VC)

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL)

1. 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.142 dated 2.8.2025 under Sections 115(2), 126(2), 191(3), 190, 118(1) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (Sections 117(2) and 118(2) of BNS added later on), registered at Police Station Navi Baradari, District Jalandhar.

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

‘Statement of Shehnaz Mohammad, age 45 years, son of Mohammad Sharif, resident of village Kanganiwal, post office Hazara, tehsil & district Jalandhar, resident near Senior Secondary School, Ladhewali, Jalandhar, mobile number 98151 68256. Stated that I am a resident of the above address and I have been practicing as a paramedical doctor at Joginder Nagar, Kaki village, for the last 22 to 23 years and I have a medical store named M. K Medical Store. These shops were taken on rent by me 22 to 23 years ago from Amarjit Singh (deceased) son of Karnail Singh, resident of house number 354, Joginder Nagar, Kaki village, Jalandhar. Amarjit Singh, his wife Balbir Kaur, along with their three sons Kulbir Singh, Kuljit Singh and Harvinder Singh, were permanently residing at 43, COLLINDAL AVE, ERITH, KENT, UK. Amarjit Singh had a property in Jalandhar, who is now deceased, and his wife Balbir Kaur used to visit India frequently. After Amarjit Singh's death, his brother Iqbal Singh used to look after the shops, and after his death, Jaspal Singh, who seems to be Amarjit Singh's nephew, used to look after the shops and collect the rent from me. On 26.07.2025, I was going to Phagwara Gate, Jalandhar for my personal work after closing my shop like every day from 8:00 to 8:15 PM on my Activa number PB08-CC-1760 when I started crossing Ladowali Road, Phatak at around 8:35 PM to 8:40 PM and due to the speed breaker, I slowed down. At that moment, two persons on two motorcycles Hero Honda Shine and another black motorcycle and three persons came and stopped my Activa by parking their motorcycles in front of my Activa. This person is the same person who had come to my shop with Jaspal Singh etc. a few days ago and had threatened me to vacate the shop and left, whom I can recognize when I come across them. All these young men were armed with swords, baseball,bats and maces and as soon as they arrived they told me to catch him and kill him, not to leave him alive because the owners had called from foreign country. Before I could say anything, the motorcyclist and the person sitting behind attacked me on the head with swords with the intention of killing him, which injured my head in two or three places. Then I put my left arm forward to protect myself, then the people sitting on the other motorcyclist with baseball bats and maces hit me on the legs with baseball bats and maces, which broke my left arm and fractured the fingers of my left hand and my right leg was also broken and they injured my right leg and both ankles. I was completely bleeding and shouted "mar ditta mar ditta". Hearing my screams, my brother Shaukat and his friend Anil Kamal, a resident of the village, Kanganiwal who had come for their personal work tato Ladowali Road, Jalandhar came to me and other people also gathered there. Seeing my brother and other people gathering, the above five persons along with weapons threatened me that today you have escaped, we will not leave you in the future and we will kill you. I am fully