IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 16^th February, 2026 Jaspreet Singh @ Jassi ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Ms. Malvi Aggarwal, Advocate for the petitioner.

(Legal Aid counsel)

Mr. Roshandeep Singh, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab.

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MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):-

The present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner seeking grant of regular bail in case bearing FIR No. 236 dated 08.06.2025 registered under Sections 115(2), 118(1), 126(2), 351(1), 191(3) and 190 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) and Section 52 of Prisons Act at Police Station City Barnala, Barnala.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of statement got recorded by complainant-prisoner-Babbu Singh detained in Barnala Jail in a case registered under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’), alleging that on the evening of 07.06.2025, he along with under trial prisoner-Sarwan Singh was standing in barrack when the petitioner along with Ravi Kumar, Deepu Kumar @ Chottu,