JUDGMENT :

RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL, J.

1. Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.46 dated 18.02.2026 registered under Sections 216, 229, 242, 318(4), 319, 336(3), 337, 338, 339, 340(2) and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, at Police Station Sohana, District SAS Nagar.

2. Brief facts as per the prosecution case are that the petitioners in connivance with other co-accused submitted fake surety bonds in the Court, in order to secure bail. Hence, the present FIR.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the present case. He further submitted that the petitioners had never met the sureties and one Narinder Singh had approached the petitioners in District Courts Complex, Mohali and stated that he could arrange genuine sureties with genuine documents and the petitioners agreed to his statement. He further argued that the allegations of hatching a criminal conspiracy in order to cheat the learned trial Court is not made out as the FIR does not disclose any link or conspiracy between the petitioners and the alleged fake sureti