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Criminal · Reportable judgment

Baljinder Singh Alias Aman vs State of Punjab & Anr.

Court
Supreme Court of India
Date
16 May 2025
Case No.
Criminal Appeal No. 2629 of 2025
Result
Allowed
Bench
B.V. Nagarathna, Satish Chandra Sharma
Citation
[2025] 5 S.C.R. 735 : 2025 INSC 796
Acts & Sections
CrPC IPC
Supreme Court Reports [2025] 5 S.C.R. 735 : 2025 INSC 796
Issue for consideration
Whether the High Court erred in granting bail to the respondentsaccused(s) setting aside the order of the Trial Court by which it declined to grant bail.
Headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.439 – Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 323, 34, 427, 120B – High Court set aside the order of the Trial Court declining to grant bail to the respondentsaccused(s) – Interference with: Held: Respondents are alleged to have committed the offence u/s.302, IPC – It may be a fact that the respondent-accused(s) may have carried the injured victim, who later died, to the Hospital but he was actually brought dead to the hospital – This fact will have to be considered de hors from the fact as to who actually had committed the offence in the first place in the instant case – Trial court rightly noted the said aspect and declined to grant bail – However, the High Court set aside the said order and granted bail on a very cryptic reasoning – Order of the High Court set aside and that of the Sessions Court is restored. [Paras 19, 20]

Keywords: Bail · Regular bail · Regular bail declined · Regular bail rightly declined · Injured victim · Brought dead · Cryptic reasoning · Wooden stick blow on the head · Filthy language · Trespass · Dismantling the barbed wire fencing on the property · Wooden sticks · Habitual offender

As published in the Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court of India. Headnotes prepared by: Divya Pandey. Text from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open data set (Dattam Labs), CC BY 4.0.

Full Judgment Text

Judgment Leave granted. 2. These appeals have been preferred by the complainant by being aggrieved by the order dated 14.11.2024 passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in CRM-M-35115/2024 (O&M) and CRM-M-36312/2024 (O&M). 3. By the impugned order, the High Court has set aside the order of the Trial Court declining to grant regular bail to the respondents herein and consequently, has allowed the petitions for bail. At this stage itself, it may be mentioned that the regular bail was sought by the respondents herein with regard to the FIR No.30 dated 22.03.2023 which was
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