IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Sr. No.131-1 CRM-M-71972-2025 Date of Decision: 09.03.2026 YASHVARDHAN RAJPUT AND ANOTHER ...Petitioners Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANDEEP PANNU Present:- Ms. Tanu Bedi, Advocate and Mr. Shivam Kapila, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. H.S. Wadhwa, DAG, Punjab.

Mr. G.S. Sandhu, Advocate for the complainant.

(Appeared through video conferencing).

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MANDEEP PANNU, J. (Oral)

1. This is the first petition under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 seeking the concession of regular bail to the petitioners in case FIR No. 70 dated 15.05.2025 registered under Sections 109, 103(1), 190, 191(3) and 118(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 at Police Station Satnampura, Phagwara, District Kapurthala.

2. Briefly stated, the present FIR has been registered on the basis of the statement made by Ahmed Mohamed Nour Ahmed Hussen, who alleged that on 15.05.2025 at about 4:00 a.m., he along with his friends had gone outside after offering prayers when 6–7 unknown persons started abusing them and demanded the mobile numbers of their sisters. When they objected to the said conduct, the as