P&H: Grants Bail in Arms Act Case, Says Other FIRs Alone Cannot Defeat Bail

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⚖️ Order Date: 10 Aug 2026
Headnotes

Arms Act, 1959, Ss.25, 54 and 59, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.483  — Bail — Recovery of illegal weapons and cartridges — Challan already filed and 17 prosecution witnesses cited but none examined — Petitioner in custody for about six months and eight days...


Facts of the Case

P&H: Grants Bail in Arms Act Case, Says Other FIRs Alone Cannot Defeat Bail

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted regular bail to Yaqoob Ali alias Jakub Ali in a case under the Arms Act, observing that the trial was likely to take time and that there was no material to show that he would flee or interfere with evidence.

Justice Sumeet Goel was hearing a petition under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, seeking bail in an FIR registered at Police Station Rama Mandi, Jalandhar, concerning recovery of illegal weapons and cartridges.

The petitioner argued that he had been falsely implicated, that the procedural safeguards under the BNSS...

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