IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

213 CRM-M-69269-2025 (O&M) Date of decision: 13.02.2026.

KARAMJIT SINGH ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB ...Respondent(s)

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. Hakam Singh, Advocate, Ms. Amrita Negi, Advocate, and Mr. Ajay Singh Virk, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Mohit Kapoor, Sr. DAG, Punjab. VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

The present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.105 dated 21.12.2024, under Section(s) 113(1) and 113(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Section 9(B) of the Explosives Act, 1884, Section 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 and Section 25(1) of the Arms Act, 1959, registered at Police Station Behram, District S.B.S. Nagar.

2 A table showing details of the offences and punishment prescribed for the same is extracted as under: -

113 BNS, 113. (1) Whoever does any act with (2) Whoever commits a 2023 the intent to threaten or likely to terrorist act shall,— (a)

threaten the unity, integrity, if such offence has sovereignty, security, or economic resulted in the death of security of India or with the intent to any person, be strike terror or likely to strike terror punished with death or in the people or any section of the imprisonment for life, people in India or in any foreign and shall also be liable country,–– (a) by using bombs, to fine; (b) in any other dynamite or other explosive case, be punished with substance or inflammable substance imprisonment for a or firearms or other lethal weapons term which shall not be or poisonous or noxious gases or less than five years but other chemicals or by any other which may extend to substance (whether biological, imprisonment for life, radioactive, nuclear or otherwise) of and shall also be liable a hazardous nature or by any other to fine.

means of whatever nature to cause or likely to cause,— (i) death of, or injury to, any person or persons; or (ii) loss of, or damage to, or destruction of, property; or (iii) disruption of any supplies or services essential to the life of the community in India or in any foreign country; or (iv) damage to, the monetary stability of India by way of production or smuggling or circulation of counterfeit Indian paper currency, coin or of any other material; or (v) damage or destruction of any property in India or in a foreign country used or intended to be used for the defence of India or in connection with any other purposes of the Government of India, any State Government or any of their agencies; or (b) overawes by means of criminal force or the show of criminal force or attempts to do so or causes death of any public

3 The aforesaid FIR was registered on the basis of secret information received by the police officials. The prosecution version may be extracted thus: -

“…… On 21.12.2024, police officials received secret information to the effect that the head of Babbar Khalsa International Organization namely Harwinder Singh Rinda is sending arms and ammunition in India. His companions Gurpreet Singh @ Gopi and Jaspreet Singh @ Jassi through their friends are in the progress of committing terrorist activities in India. The informer also informed that few days ago Harwinder Singh Rinda has sent weapons and grenades etc. through Jaspreet Singh @ Jassi to Manvir Singh. Today Manvir Singh is standing near Bir Sarangwal on his Activa bearing no. PB-32-T-8369 along with arms and ammunition and is waiting for his friends. Thereafter, present FIR under sections 113 (1), 113 (3) of BNS, 2023, u/s 9 (B) of Explosive Substances Act 08 and section 05 of Explosive Substances Act, 1908 and Section 25 (1) of Arms Act, 1959 was lodged and the police officials reached on the spot where Manvir Singh was standing on Activa bearing no. PB-32-T-8369. He was unable to produce the documents of said Activa. When the dikki of the Active was checked, two p