Baljit Singh v. State of Punjab and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
Section 319 CrPC; power to add additional accused; persons named in evidence but not charge-sheeted; Section 169 release / column 2 chargesheet; discretionary and extraordinary power, strong and cogent evidence standard; High Court, Chandigarh; complainant Angrej Singh, Nambardar, Village Rame Wala, P.S. Sadar Ferozepur; incident 19.05.2019 near Beri Wala turn / Village Peer Ahmed Khan after polling; assailants Jaswinder Singh, Tarsem Singh, Satpal, Vijay, Baljit Singh, Gurdev Singh; weapons kirpan, baseball, pistol; injuries to right thigh; car damage (Mahindra Verito PB-10-DD-0525, Mahindra Logan PB-05-AA-5427); quoted precedent paras 105-106 and summary point 21; FIR reference and Annexure references present but numerals corrupted; operative holdings and outcome illegible due to encoding damage.