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3. The facts and allegations are being taken from the reply filed by the State, which reads as follows:

"4. That on 31.10.2023, at about 4:20 PM the police party was on patrolling in search of suspected persons. At about 4:20 PM, when the police was present at village Gatawali Bus Stand, ASI Jarnail Singh received a secret information that the accused Arshdeeep Singh @ Arsh Dalia, resident of Canada, who had previously committed many more serious crimes like extortion, dacoity etc. in the Punjab region, is now trying to commit extortion by demanding money from a person within the area of District Bathinda, in connivance with his gang members including the accused- petitioner Harjiwan Singh @Jassa and Paramjit Singh @ Pamma. The informer further disclosed that the accused- petitioner and the co-accused Paramjit Singh were conspiring to demand extortion money from some person belonging to District Bathinda on the instructions of Gangster Arshdeep Singh @ Arsh Dalla and they were still roaming near village Giana with intent to commit some serious crimes in the area using assault weapon and if they (the accused-petitioner and accomplice) be nabbed and searched, the illegal weapons along with ammunition may be recovered from their possession and commission of serious crimes may be averted.

On the basis of the aforesaid credible information, the FIR in question was registered against the accused-petitioner, Arshdeep Singh @ Arsh Dalla and Paramjit Singh @ Pamma and the investigation was set-forth instantly and in order to nab the accused-petitioner and the co- accused, the police party set-forth from village Gatwali to Giana as per the aforesaid secret information, and when the police party was about half KM behind from the village Giana, they saw that the accused-petitioner was standing at the right side of the road under suspicious circumstances, who perplexed upon seeing the police party and tried to run away from the spot. The police party nabbed the accused-petitioner. The accused-petitioner was asked his whereabouts, then the accused- petitioner disclosed to the police about his name, residence etc. The police party tried to join a private witness on spot, but no private witness could be joined despite possible efforts by the police. The search of the accused-petitioenr was conducted and one 32 bore country made pistol with 2 live cartridges in magazine and one 30 bore country made pistol with 2 live cartridges in magazine, were recovered from the possession of the accused-petitioner."

"12. That from the investigation conducted so far, it has been established that the accused- petitioner and the co-accused Paramjit Singh @ Pamma, Lovejeet Singh @ Lavi, Kamaljeet Singh @ Kamal, Harjinder Singh @ Gullu, Avtar Singh @ Tari, Sandeep Singh @ Maloatia and Jasvir Singh @Jassi were hatching a planning with intent to extort money from some innocent person within the area of District -Bathinda and for executing the illegal activity of extortion, the instruction was to be given by the gangster Arshdeep Singh @ Arsh Dalla and the name of the said person (prospect victim) was to be disclosed to the accused-petitioner and co- accused by the accused Arshdeep Singh @ Arsh Dalla at later stage. Furthermore, on the day of occurrence, the accused- petitioner along with co-accused, was roaming near the village Giana with intent to commit serious crime, by using the assault weapons and ammunition, as per instruction of gangster Arshdeep Singh @ Arsh Dalla. The accused-petitioner was arrested alongwith a 32 bore country made pistol with 2 live cartridges in a magazine and a 30 bore country made pistol with 2 live cartridges in a magazine, which were recovered from his conscious possession of the accused-petitioner and the same was taken in police possession by way of separate recovery memos."