IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision : 16.02.2026 Date of uploading : 16.02.2026 Lakshay @ Buman ………….Petitioner Versus State of Punjab …….Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Ms. Vaishali Thakur, (cid:1)(cid:2)(cid:3)(cid:4)(cid:5)(cid:6)(cid:7)(cid:8)(cid:9)(cid:1)(cid:10)(cid:5)(cid:11)(cid:1)(cid:8)(cid:12)(cid:9)(cid:1)(cid:13)(cid:9)(cid:8)(cid:14)(cid:8)(cid:14)(cid:5)(cid:15)(cid:9)(cid:11)(cid:1)

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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.314 dated 08.12.2025 under Sections 115(2), 126(2), 109, 351(2), 3(5) of BNS, registered at Police Station City Rupnagar, District Rupnagar.

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:- Statement of Harish Chander Bedi, son of Tilak Raj, resident of House No. B-1/155, Mohalla Sekha, Rupnagar, Police Station City Rupnagar, District Rupnagar. Age about 50 years, Mobile No. 98556- 51427. He stated that I am a resident of the above-mentioned address. I have a grocery shop near Guru Ravidas Gurdwara, Sekha Mohalla, Rupnagar. On 06.12.2025, in the evening, I was going on foot from my shop to my house for some necessary work. When I reached near the rear gate of my house, at about 06:00 PM, in the street where my house is situated, Priyansh, resident of Balmiki Mohalla, Rupnagar, whom I already knew due to acquaintance, was standing with a girl in an objectionable condition. On seeing them, when I asked them to leave from there and not to do such acts at that place, in the meantime the girl ran away from the spot. Thereupon, Priyansh took out an iron daat from his dub and directly struck a blow on my left arm, due to which I tried to save myself. He then called someone on the phone and said that he had a fight and asked them to come near Guru Ravidas Gurdwara, Pipli side. Within a few minutes, three more young boys came on a motorcycle. I already knew the boy who was driving the motorcycle due to acquaintance; his name is Lakshay, resident of Balmiki Mohalla, Rupnagar. The Two young boys sitting behind asked something from Priyansh, and Lakshay caught hold of my arm and took me to one side. In the meantime, Lakshay signalled his companions to beat me. Those young boys surrounded me, and one of the young boy who had come with Lakshay, whose name I later came to know as Jashan, resident near Jagjit Nagar, Rupnagar, struck me with a kirch held in his hand on my left side. Priyansh, resident of Balmiki Mohalla, Rupnagar, struck me with the iron daat held in his hand on the left side of my head with the intention to kill me, due to which I fell on the ground. Thereafter, Lakshay and the young boys who came with him on the motorcycle, whose name I later came to know in as Fezaan, resident of Shampura, kicked me the stomach while I was lying on the ground and were saying that today they would not spare me alive. Due to the blows inflicted by them, blood started oozing from my head and arm. All the youths, along with their weapons, fled from the spot on the motorcycle while giving threats to kill me. In my injured condition, my acquaintance Happy, resident of Sekha Mohalla, Rupnagar, took me to Civil Hospital, Rupnagar. Lakshay also came there after some time and stopped my admission and again gave threats to kill me and then fled from the spot. The doctor gave me first aid and referred me to GMCH Sector-32, Chandigarh, from where I have now been discharged.Legal action be taken against the youths who fought with me and injured