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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

CRM-M No.9102 of 2026

Date of Decision: 19.05.2026

Gagandeep @ Gagan Bansal @ Kali

….. Petitioner

Versus

State of Punjab

….. Respondent

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ

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Present: Mr. P. S. Jammu, Advocate;

Mr. R. P. S. Jammu, Advocate;

Mr. R. K. Poonia, Advocate and

Mr. Akashdeep Singh, Advocate

for the petitioner.

Mr. Raj Karan Singh, Asstt. A.G., Punjab.

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RAJESH BHARDWAJ, J.

1. Present second petition has been filed praying for the grant of

regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.108, dated 12.05.2025,

under Sections 115(2), 126(2), 351(3), 191(3), 190, 117(2), 110 of BNS,

registered at Police Station Lambi, District Sri Muktsar Sahib.

2. Succinctly, the facts of the case are that FIR in the present

case was got registered on the statement of complainant, namely, Sahil

Soni. It was alleged that the complainant was running an Ahata with his

father in Dana Mandi, Killianwali from about 04 months. It was alleged

that Amit Arora @ Shanka often comes to the Ahata and the complainant

was to take Rs.4000/- from him and whenever he demanded money form

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him, he made excuses. It was alleged that on 21.04.2025, in the evening,

Amit Arora @ Shanka came at the Ahata of the complainant and

demanded some food items from him. The complainant demanded his

previous payment from him, however, Amit Arora @ Shanka became

furious and gone from there by saying that I give your money today. It was

alleged that after some time, Amit Arora @ Shanka armed with iron rod,

Noni Arora armed with an axe, Amit Bansal armed with stick, Gagan

Bansal @ Kali (petitioner) armed with iron cutter and Vikas Kumar came

there. Gagan Bansal @ Kali (petitioner) raised a lalkara and told to thew

complainant that money will be given to you. Thereafter, Gagan Bansal @

Kali gave a blow of Kappa, which hit on the head of the complainant and

the complainant received injuries on both sides of his head. Amit Bansal

also gave a blow of stick, which hit on the knee of left leg of the

complainant. Amit Arora @ Shanka also gave blow of iron rod, which hit

on the rear side of left arm of the complainant. Noni Arora gave blow of

stick, which hit on the left shoulder of the complainant. All the accused

gave several beatings to the complainant. However, on raising alarm, all

the accused ran away from the spot along with their respective weapons.

Father of the complainant also reached at the spot and admitted the

complainant in Civil Hospital, Lambi, from where he referred to Civil

Hospital, Badal. He was further referred to AIMS Hospital, Bathinda for

treatment. Thus, the request was made to take legal action against all the

accused persons. On the basis of the same, the FIR was registered. On

registration of the FIR, the investigation commenced. Resultantly, the

petitioner was arrested on 12.09.2025. On completion of the investigation,

the challan was presented and on framing of charges, the trial commenced.

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The petitioner approached the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge,

Sri Muktsar Sahib praying for the grant of regular bail. However, after

hearing both the sides and finding no merit in the same, the learned

Additional Sessions Judge, Sri Muktsar Sahib dismissed the bail

application filed by the petitioner vide order dated 17.11.2025. Being

aggrieved, the petitioner earlier approached this Court praying for the grant

of regular bail by way of filing CRM-M-67513-2025, however the same

was dismissed as withdrawn vide order dated 05.12.2025. Hence being

aggrieved, the petitioner is again before this Court praying for grant of

regular bail by way of filing the present second petition.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has vehemently contended

that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the