JAGMENDER PAHAL @ KALA vs STATE OF HARYANA

-1- 2026:PHHC:070287 aoe CRM-M-2643-2026 oe IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 217 CRM-M-2643-2026 Date of decision: 06.05.2026 JAGMENDER PAHAL @ KALA ....-Petitioner Versus STATE OF HARYANA ....Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL Present:- | Mr. Saurabh Dalal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Mohit Chaudhary, AAG, Haryana. 2k ook 2 ok RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL, J. (ORAL) 1. This is 1" petition filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023 (for short-‘BNSS’) seeking grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.326 dated 05.09.2024, registered under Sections 140(2), 204, 238(a), 351(3), 61(2) of BNS, 2023 and Section 25 of Arms Act at Police Station City Sonipat, District Sonipat. 2. Brief facts of the case are that the petitioner, along with co- accused persons, allegedly abducted the complainant and extorted a sum of 19 lakhs from him. Hence the present FIR. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case and that the FIR is merely an afterthought, lodged to harass the petitioner. He submits that, that the petitioner was not named in the FIR and his