SUKHJINDER SINGH @ SONU vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-21956-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 241 CRM-M-21956-2026 Date of decision :12.05.2026 Date of uploading :12.05.2026 Sukhjinder Singh @ Sonu ………….Petitioner Versus State Of Punjab …….Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Mr. Devansh Khanna, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Hemant Aggarwal, DAG, Punjab. --- SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL) 1. Present 2nd petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.57 dated 05.05.2018 under Sections 302, 341, 323, 324, 148, 149 of the IPC, registered at Police Station Majitha, District Amritsar Rural. 2. The case set up in the FIR in question (as set out in the present petition by the petitioner) is as follows:- “Statement of Gurbej Singh alias Gori son of Lakhwinder Singh, caste Majbi Sikh, resident of Ward No. 5 Majitha, aged about 25 years. He stated that I am a resident of the above address and work as a labourer in Dana Mandi Majitha, and my friend Ravinder Singh alias Ravi son of Bachan Singh, caste Majbi Sikh, resident of Ward No. 5 Majitha Mandi, is a Chaudhary. On the dat