IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

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CRM-M No.6047 of 2026 Date of decision : 18.2.2026 Date of uploading : 18.2.2026 Ravi Kumar ………….Petitioner Versus State of Punjab …….Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Mr. G.S. Minhas, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr. Jaypreet Singh, DAG, Punjab ---

SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL)

1. Present third petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.293 dated 12.9.2020 under Sections 302, 323, 324 and 34 of the IPC, registered at Police Station Basti Bawa Khel, District Jalanahdar.

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 one Roshni wife Ravi Kumar, daughter of Gara Ram, resident of Shiv Nagar near Dogra Ladri, Police Station Division No. 1, Jalandhar, age about 20-21 years, stated that I am a resident of the above address and do domestic work. My father Gara Ram, son of Thoru Ram, was working in the Punjab Home Guard, whose duty was at Gandhi Vanita Ashram, Jalandhar. I got married on 12-03-2020 to Ravi Kumar,