JUDGMENT :

SUMEET GOEL, J.

1. Present petition has been filed under Section 483 of BNSS 2023 on behalf of the petitioner for grant of regular bail in case bearing FIR No.101 dated 21.08.2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 308(4), 318(4), 61(2) of BNS, 2023, Sections 66, 66(C), 66(D), 75 of the IT Act, Section 42(3) of the Telecommunications Act & Sections 7 & 8 of the P.C. Act, at Police Station Cyber Crime, Sector 20, District Panchkula.

2. The gravamen of the FIR in question is that on the intervening night of 20/21.08.2025, police received secret information that fake call centres were being run on 2nd and 6th floors of Plot No. 7, Twin Tower, Sector 22 IT Park, Panchkula and on the second floor of Plot No.9, DHSL. Further, the miscreants were cheating foreigners and extorting money from them. Police obtained search warrant from DCP, Crime and Traffic, Panchkula. Raiding teams were constituted to conduct raid at the three call centres simultaneously. Raid was conducted in flat no.M-10-06 GF Twin Tower, IT Park, Sector 22, Panchkula, on the 6th floor. When the raiding party went inside flat no. M-10-06, it saw boys and girls sitting in a hall, working on laptops, they were wearing earphones/ headphones and speaking through the microphones in English. 17 girls and 28 boys were present at the spot; they disclosed their names as Preety; Kupuli; Catherine; Suzan; Aline; Kivi; Jenny; Julio; Grace; Fourlina; Dainty; Nono; Kivini; Michel; Kithetoli; Renu; Alivi; Ranjeet; Abhishek; Kaloto; Akho; Nipuve; Namchi; Luntsuba; Myanlumo; Henry; Iteileube; Md.Bhurhamddin; Vipu; Rokotoliu; Nikivi; Iloka; Akito; Johny; Asupa; Anguvi; Lunso; Vipeto; James Poa; Bardei; Tunakivi; Rajib Das; Pramod; Yusuf. 62 laptops; 16 Mobile Phones; Personal Mobile Phones of aforesaid employees; Headphones; Chargers; Wi-Fi Connectors; Printer; Registers, etc.were recovered from the spot. Upon inquiry, police found that Ranjeet and Preety were the oldest of the aforesaid employees. Ranjit claimed that he had been working in Ispace Technologies Pvt. Ltd.since 10 months; he used to run a cosmetics shop in his village Bhuj, Gujarat earlier; he had an account on Facebook where he came across a link for Job Recruitment in the aforesaid company; when he opened the link, it showed the profile of Ispace Technology Pvt. Ltd.,Pune. He got a phone call; a woman enquired about him and his educational qualifications. He told her that he held a diploma in Web Designing, whereupon he was asked to join the job at No. 22, Twin Tower, Panchkula; he came there in November and met Fahad, who claimed himself to be the Manager of the Panchkula Centre of the company. He trained him and told him that he would have to talk to people in English through Eyebeam Software/ Dialer on a laptop and inform the foreigner customers that he was an employee of Obama Insurance Company, USA and insure at least 5 Americans; if he insured more than 5, he would get incentive; they used to get calls on Eyebeam Software/Dialer, whereupon they answered the call, claiming that they were from Obama Insurance, and offering help; after the customer enquired about the scheme, they inquired from him about his Medi- claim, Medi-Care and income. They supplied the said information to the Supervisor/ Manager Fahad, who used to capture their photographs with his phone. Fahad was cheating the Company and the foreigners. Two of his unknown accomplices also used to accompany Fahad. Preety informed the police that she had been working since 4 months in Ispace Technology Pvt. Ltd. Company; one of her friends Alum used to work with her in Radison Hotel, Bangalore, who informed her about the Panchkula centre of the company and gave her the contact no. of Fahad, to whom she talked in January; he inquired about her education and skills and asked her to join the job at Sector-22, Twin Tower, Panchkula; she joined the job in April 2025, Fahad was Manager and Supervisor there; he gave her training about the