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2026 Supreme(P&H) 248

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
NEERJA K.KALSON
............ – Appellant
Versus
............ – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. Munish K. Dadwal, Advocate and Mr. Vivek K. Thakur, Advocate
For the Respondents:Mr. Nitesh Sharma, DAG, Punjab, Mr. Uday Singh Cheema, Advocate

JUDGMENT :

NEERJA K. KALSON, J.

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanita, 2023 seeking grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No. 0151 dated 03.07.2019, under Section 363, 366-A, 506, 120-B of IPC, 1860 (now Sections 137(2), 96, 351 and 61(2) of BNS) and Section 376(2) (now Sections 64/65 BNS 2023) and Section 4 of POCSO Act, 2012 (added later on), registered at Police Station Tandan, District Hoshiarpur (Annexure P-1).

2. The case set up in the FIR in question (as set out in the present petition by the petitioner) is as follows:-

“Statement of xxxx son of xxxx resident of village xxxxx police station Tanda Distt Hosiarpur aged about 44 years stated that I am resident of aforementioned address. That ethnically I belong to village xxxx, xxxxx and we came to village Tahli 28/30 years ago and started residing here and here only I have blessed with 3 daughters and 2 sons. My two elder daughters are married and third daughter xxxx whose age is about 16 years And her D.O.B is 06.02.2003 who is after passing 10th standard, after 2017 was doing household work and sewing work. I and my family members do labour work to