IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANAAT CHANDIGARH DECIDED ON: 13.02.2026 AMREEK SINGH .....PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB .....RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA PARTAP SINGH Present: Mr.Gurvinder Pal Singh, Advocatefor the petitioner.

Mr. Jasdev Singh Thind, DAG Punjab.

SURYA PARTAP SINGH, J.

CRM-44749-2025 This is an application seeking for placing on record certain documents. For the reasons stated in the application, the same is hereby allowed and the documents annexed with the application are taken on record.

CRM-M-58021-2025

2. The order dated 29.07.2017 (Annexure P-1), hereinafter being referred to as ‘impugned order’, passed by the learned Chief Judicial MagistrateKapurthala, hereinafter being referred to as ‘trial Court’ only, is under challenge in the present petition, filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, hereinafter referred to as ‘BNSS’

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2. By virtue of abovementioned order, the learned trial Court while holding a trial for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 406 and 420 of Indian Penal Code, declared the petitioner to be a proclaimed person.

3. In nut-shell, the facts emerging from record are that the pet