IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Resham Singh ……Petitioner(s)

Versus State of Punjab ……Respondent(s)

Decided on : 03.02.2026 Date of uploading: 03.02.2026 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Mr. PKS Phoolka, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Adhiraj Singh, AAG, Punjab.

None for the complainant.

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (Oral)

1. Present petition has been filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘the BNSS’) for grant of pre-arrest/anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.61 dated 07.07.2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 118(1), 115(2) of BNS 2023, at Police Station Rampura, District Bathinda.

2. The gravamen of the FIR in question reflects that the present FIR was registered at the instance of the complainant-Navjot Kaur that on 03.07.2025 at about 9:30 a.m., the petitioner (herein) came to the house of the complainant in an intoxicated condition and was holding a brick in his hand. Immediately upon arrival, he struck the complainant on the left side of her head with the brick. The complainant in her complaint made to the police had alleged that the petitioner k