Crl. Misc. No. M- 36739 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M- 36739 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision: February 18, 2010 Kartar Singh and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GURDEV SINGH Present: Mr. SPS Sidhu, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. AS Brar, Sr. DAG, Punjab. GURDEV SINGH, J. Heard. Petitioners, Kartar Singh, Gurdeep Singh, both sons of Bhag Singh, Jaswant Singh son of Gurdeep Singh, Gurmeet Singh @ Laddu son of Gurbachan Singh and Ajit Singh son of Partap Singh, have filed this petition for regular bail under Section 439 of the Criminal Procedure Code in FIR No. 258 dated 25.11.2008 registered at Police Station Sadar Jalalabad, District Ferozepur, under Sections 307, 324, 323, 379, 427, 506, 148, 149 IPC and Sections 25/27 of the Arms Act. However, during investigation the offence under Section 307 IPC was diluted to Section 336 IPC. The FIR was registered on the basis of the statement of Surjit Singh, who gave a detailed version therein. According to him, the petitioners came to his shop armed with different weapons and voluntarily Crl. Misc. No. M- 36739 of 2009 2 caused injuries/hurt to him and that Pritam and Jagjit Singh fired two shots from their fire arm weapons with an intention to kill him and that they had been extending threats and while leaving the spot Gurdeep Singh dishonestly took away his 1000 bricks in the tractor. All the offences, of which the petitioners are accused, are bailable except offences under Section 379 IPC and Section 25/27 of the Arms Act. The alleged recovery has already been effected and the petitioners are in judicial custody. It has been submitted by the State counsel that challan has already been presented in Court. The conclusion of the trial will take some time. Keeping in view the above facts, it will not be in the interest of justice to detain the petitioners in custody for all that period. Accordingly, this petition is allowed. The petitioners are admitted to bail to the satisfaction of the trial court/Duty Magistrate, Ferozepur. February 18, 2010 (GURDEV SINGH ) prem JUDGE