In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-3367 of 2010 ..... Date of decision:23.2.2010 Hardeep Singh alias Bagga .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent .... Present: Mr. Avtar Singh Khinda, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Shilesh Gupta, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks regular bail in a case registered against him on 17.3.2009 for the offences under Sections 307, 323, 324, 148 and 149 IPC. In the incident that occurred on 16.3.2009, the petitioner was armed with a `Sota' and he caused a `Sota' blow on the head of the complainant-Bhupinder Singh. There were 16 injuries on the person of Bhupinder Singh and 5 were on his head, however, all the five injuries on the head have been found to be simple in nature. Therefore, the injury attributed to the petitioner is simple in nature. The petitioner is in custody since 19.3.2009. The other co-accused of the petitioner have been granted the concession of bail vide order dated 29.1.2010 (Annexure-P.1) passed by this Court. The trial in the case is likely to take time. In the circumstances, the petitioner on his furnishing personal Cr. Misc. No.M-3367 of 2010 [2] bond and surety to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jalandhar shall be admitted to bail. The criminal miscellaneous petition stands disposed of. February 23, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*