chandigarh the punjab and haryana high court has declined bail to an accused who according to the cbi conspired with others and attacked the houses of haryana finance minister captain abhimanyu in rohtak during the february 2016 jat agitation for reservation by inciting the mob that indulged in arson and looting hc was of the view that if released on bail at the crucial stage of cbi investigation the accused may temper with the evidenceaccused lakshya alias pappu was found possessing some coins belonging to the family of abhimanyu whose house was allegedly ransacked set on fire and looted by the mob on february 19 2016haryana has passed through a very difficult phase during jat agitation when many properties were put on fire keeping in view the gravity of the offence the investigation was handed over to cbi keeping in view the evidence on record against the petitioner and stage of investigation i am of the considered opinion that grant of regular bail to the petitioner at this stage will allow him opportunity to prevail upon the prosecution witnesses and to tamper with the evidence observed justice surinder gupta in its detailed orderin this case lakshya had approached the high court for regular bail on the ground that only evidence against him was recovery of some coins belonging to the ministers familycbi on the other hand argued that besides the recovery of silver coins having imprint of name of abhimanyus father miter sain arya and mother parmeshwari devi it had collected the evidence which showed that the petitioner had entered into criminal conspiracy to incite the mobthere is direct evidence about involvement of the petitioner in the crime cbi after handing over the investigation to it by the state government is investigating the case which is at crucial stagethe petitioner was one of the perpetrators of violence during jat agitation and if released on bail will prevail upon the witnesses who are otherwise fearful in prevailing situation in that area cbi counsel sumeet goel had arguedaccording to the complaint in the case several persons named in the fir had attacked and set on fire the family house of captain abhimanyu and tried to burn all those living there