P&H: Grants bail; Every day spent in custody can provide a new cause of action for filing a bail application under certain circumstances.

punjab-haryana
⚖️ Order Date: 13 Aug 2026
Headnotes

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.483 — Successive bail application — Accused has a right to make successive applications for grant of bail and while entertaining such a subsequent application, Court is required to consider reasons and grounds on which earlier bail petition was rejected...

Arms Act, 1959, S.25, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.483, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, Ss.103, 109, 111, 3(5), 61(2), 249, 253, 113(1) — Bail — Murder — Petitioner was alleged to have facilitated commission of offences by providing a car to co-accused for harbouring them - Role attributed to him...

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, S.483 — Bail — Petitioner was in long custody - This factor was a ground to move for bail afresh - Accused cannot be kept in custody for an indefinite period of time and bail application can be considered on its own...


Facts of the Case

P&H: Grants bail; Every day spent in custody can provide a new cause of action for filing a bail application under certain circumstances.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted regular bail to Supreet Singh in a case arising out of a gang war in Batala, observing that the role attributed to him was limited and that he had already spent considerable time in custody.

The case stemmed from an FIR registered after police received secret information that gangster Baljinder Singh @ Billa and his associate Gurpreet Singh @ Gora were present in a white Endeavour car at a filling station, where members of a rival gang allegedly arrived in a black Verna car and both sides fired at each other. Gurpreet...

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