JARNAIL SINGH vs STATE OF PUNJAB — Crl.A. No. 687/1998

The Supreme Court upheld Jarnail Singh's conviction under Section 25 of the Arms Act and Section 5 of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987, for illegal possession of a double-barrel gun without permit. The Court rejected his argument that expert test-firing was necessary to prove the gun's working condition, holding that for a traditional "Mujhal" or "Toredar" gun, a trained police officer's evidence that the mechanism was intact sufficiently established it was functional. The appeal was dismissed and the conviction and sentence were confirmed. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.