Mohali, Nov. 17 -- A local court has dismissed the anticipatory bail application of an accused, booked for allegedly attacking three men with a meat-cutting weapon in Balongi on Diwali night last year. The court held that the "nature of injury and the gravity with which it was inflicted" did not justify granting pre-arrest bail.

The accused, identified as Manpreet Singh, had sought relief under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) in FIR No. 241, registered on November 8 under Sections 115(2), 126(2) and 351(2). Police later added Section 118(2) after doctors declared the complainant's injury grievous.

According to the FIR, complainant Dharam Singh, a mason, told police that he was standing outside his house on O...