Rakesh Kumar vs State of Punjab - 2025 Supreme(P&H) 1050

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2025 Supreme(P&H) 1050

PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH
JASGURPREET SINGH PURI
Rakesh Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Punjab – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. M.S. Sachdev, Advocate
For the Respondent: Mr. P.S. Bhandari, AAG. Punjab

JUDGMENT :

Jasgurpreet Singh Puri, J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of BNSS for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in FIR No.105 dated 23.10.2024, under Sections 115(2), 126(2), 3(5), 351 (3) and 85 of BNS (Sections 117(2), 109(2) of BNS added later on), registered at Police Station Division No.2, District Jalandhar.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case at the instance of his wife who is the complainant by alleging that he has caused grievous injuries upon her. While referring to the FIR, he submitted that the marriage between the petitioner and the complainant-wife took place in the year 2002 and thereafter i.e. in the year 2007 a matrimonial dispute arose between the parties and an FIR under Sections 406 and 498-A IPC was lodged against the petitioner in which the petitioner was convicted by learned trial Court. However, later on a compromise took place between the parties and at the appellate stage on the basis of compromise, the petitioner was acquitted. He submitted that now again the present FIR has been lodged by alleging that the petitio