LOVEPREET SINGH vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-6619-2026 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 207 CRM-M-6619-2026 Decided on: 07.05.2026 Lovepreet Singh …...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab …...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY VASHISTH Present: Mr. Mikhail Kad, Advocate for the petitioner (through V.C.) Mr. Manjinder Singh Bhullar, DAG Punjab **** SANJAY VASHISTH, J. (ORAL) 1. Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 (earlier Section 438 Cr.P.C.), is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner, who has been booked in a criminal case arising out of FIR No.236 dated 11.12.2025, under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 190, 304, 117(2) of BNS at Police Station City Budhlada, District Mansa. 2. On 05.02.2026, following order was passed: “(i) xx xx xx xx (ii) 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner, inter alia, contends that as per the allegations levelled in the FIR, petitioner is only attributed the role of having raised a lalkara. It is further submitted that the allegation regarding snatching of a gold chain belonging to the complainant, Bhupinder Singh, was introduced subsequently by way of a supplementary statement recorded on 21.12.2025, i.e. after an unexplained delay of