High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCRM-M/40800/2025allowed

Kuljeet Singh Alias Kaali v. State Of Punjab

2025-08-29Mr. Justice Sumeet Goel3 pages

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etitioner, inter alia, contends that een recovered from the conscious and d Lovepreet Singh @ Bobby. The Learned counsel for the p admittedly, 05 grams of heroin has be exclusive possession of co-accused petitioner has been nominated as acc statement made by abovenamed interrogation, which has no evidentia law that any such statement made by would be hit by Sections 25 & 26 Sections 23(1) & 23(2) of Bharatiya t d e e p cused only on the basis of disclosure co-accused during his custodial ary value in the eyes of law. It is trite l e y w y co-accused while in police custody of Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (now Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023). Further,

the petitioner is not connected with the alleged recovery directly or indirectly and there is no other evidence against him except the disclosure statement made by co-accused Lovepreet Singh @ Bobby. The petitioner is having clean antecedents and is not involved in any other case. Notice of motion for 29.08.2025.

Keeping in view the ratio of law enunciated by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Arnesh Kumar Vs. State of Bihar, (2014) 8 SCC 273, Arnab Manoranjan Goswami Vs. State of Maharashtra, (2021) 2 SCC 427, Satender Kumar Antil Vs. CBI, (2022) 10 SCC 51, Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre Vs. State of Maharashtra and ors., 2010 SCC OnLine SC 1375 and Shri Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia Vs. State of Punjab, (1980) 2 SCC 565, the petitioner is directed to appear before Investigating Officer within a period of two weeks from today and thereafter, as directed by the Investigating Officer. In the event of arrest, the petitioner will be admitted to interim anticipatory bail on furnishing bail/surety bonds to the satisfaction of Investigating/Arresting Officer.

The petitioner shall cooperate with the investigation/Arresting Officer and abide by the conditions as provided under Section 482(2) of BNSS (erstwhile Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973). If the Arresting Officer does not permit the petitioner to join the investigation, he would appear before learned Illaqa Magistrate, who would then summon the Arresting Officer and direct him to join the petitioner in the investigation, in terms of the order of this Court. Nothing observed hereinabove shall be construed as an expression of opinion by this Court and learned trial Court shall decide the case on its own merits, strictly in accordance with law" /6 + $*!

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