LAKHBIR ALIAS KALA vs STATE OF HARYANA

CRA-S-1088-2026 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 210 CRA-S-1088-2026 (O&M) Date of decision : 19.05.2026 LAKHBIR ALIAS KALA ... APPELLANT Versus STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER .. RESPONDENTS CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.GREWAL Present:- Mr. Kuldeep Singh Siwach, Advocate for the appellant. Dr. Malvika Singh, DAG, Haryana. *** H.S. Grewal, J.(Oral) 1. This appeal has been filed under Section 14-A(2) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as ‘SC/ST Act’) against the order dated 04.02.2026 passed by the Court of learned Additional District and Sessions Judge, Fatehabad, whereby the application for grant of bail filed by the appellant has been dismissed in case FIR No. 382 dated 17.10.2025, registered under Sections 103(1), 3(5) and 61(2) of BNS, 2023 and Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Act, 1989, at Police Station Sadar Fatehabad, District Fatehabad. 2. The case of the prosecution is that the complainant-Nirmal Singh alleged that his son, Jaspreet Singh, had fallen into drug addiction due to the influence of accused Mangal Singh alias Mangi and the present appellant, who were allegedly