RAMAN KUMAR ALIAS THANDU vs STATE OF PUNJAB

2026:PHHC:-080619 CRM-M-28602-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 104 CRM-M-28602-2026 Date of decision : 20.05.2026 RAMAN KUMAR ALIAS THANDU ... PETITIONER Versus STATE OF PUNJAB .. RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.GREWAL Present:- Mr. Japjit Singh Johal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. P.S. Pandher, AAG, Punjab. 2K H.S. Grewal, J.(Oral) 1. This petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No. 75 dated 05.04.2026 registered under Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 at Police Station Mukerian, District Hoshiarpur. 2. The case of the prosecution is that Pardeep Singh was apprehended in a case registered under the NDPS Act and during investigation, he suffered a disclosure statement stating that the present petitioner had supplied him a country-made pistol, which was subsequently recovered. On the basis of the said disclosure statement and the recovery effected, the present FIR came to be registered against the petitioner. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is cont