REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS. 753-755 of 2009

State of Punjab

…Appellant

Versus

Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar & Ors. etc.

…Respondents

With

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 2258-2264 of 2011

(Arising out of SLP(Crl.) Nos. 6503-6509 of 2011)

Sumedh Singh Saini

…Appellant

Versus

Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar & Ors

…Respondents

J U D G M E N T

Dr. B.S. Chauhan, J.

1.

Leave granted in the Special Leave Petitions filed by Shri

Sumedh Singh Saini.

2.

These appeals have been preferred against the orders dated

30.5.2007, 22.8.2007, 5.10.2007 and 4.7.2008 in Crl. Misc. No. 152-

MA of 2007; order dated 19.9.2007 in Crl. Misc. No. 86286 of 2007 in

Crl. Misc. No. 152-MA of 2007; and orders dated 2.11.2007 and

6.11.2007 in Crl. Misc. No. 93535 of 2007 in Crl. Misc. No. 152-MA of

2007 passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh.

For the sake of convenience of disposal of the appeals, we would refer

only to the criminal appeals filed by the State.

3. The Appeals herein raise peculiar substantial questions of law as

to whether the High C