IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M- 42208-2025 SURAJ CHOUDHARY ......Petitioner Versus STATE OF HARYANA ......Respondent CRM-M- 43009-2025 HEMRAJ JAT ......Petitioner Versus STATE OF HARYANA ......Respondent Decided on : 18.03.2026 CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY VASHISTH Present: Mr. Gaurav Arora, Advocate, and Mr. Yashpal Thakur, Advocate for the petitioner (in CRM-M-42208-2025), and Mr. J.P. Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner (in CRM-M-43009-2025). Mr. Kanwar Sanjiv Kumar, AAG, Haryana, assisted by PSI Deepak.

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SANJAY VASHISTH, J.

1. By this common order, both the aforementioned petitions, i.e. CRM-M-42208-2025 and CRM-M-43009-2025 shall stand disposed of.

2. Petition, i.e. CRM-M-42208-2025 is filed by the petitioner – Suraj Choudhary, seeking grant of regular bail, in case, FIR No.10, dated 25.03.2025, under Section 318(4) of BNS, sections 61, 238(c) of BNS added later on, registered at Police Station Cyber Mahendargarh, District Mahendergarh.

Petition, i.e. CRM-M-43009-2025 is filed by the petitioner –

Hemraj Jat, seeking grant of regular bail, in case, FIR No.10, dated 25.03.2025, under Section 318(4), 238, 61(2) of BNS, registered at Police Station Cyber Mahendargarh, District Mahendergarh.

2. Complainant – Shubham got registered the present FIR alleging therein that:-

“He received a message on his Whatsapp ID for a task, who asked him to give a five-star rating to the hotel on Google Maps and send a screen Shot to Telegram Id- https://t.me/Janvi_1998 and I gave a five-star rating to the hotel on Google Maps and sent the Screen Shot to the said Telegram id and they transferred a total of Rs. 300/- on 07.03.2025 to my HDFC bank account number 50100446427877 for rating a Screen Shot 6 times at the rate of Rs. 50/- per rating. After that, after giving Hotel Review Rating 7 times, when they asked me to give Hotel Review Rating for the 8th time, they made me deposit Rs. 1,000/- and after profit, transferred Rs. 1,420/- and Rs. 900/- to my HDFC bank account number 50100446427877. Then after that on 08.03.2025, they demanded Rs. 3,000/- from me without doing any task and I transferred Rs. 3,000/- from my HDFC bank account number 50100446427877 as per their instructions. After that, they demanded Rs. 500/- from me, I transferred it and then they transferred Rs. 4,550/- to my said HDFC bank account. In this way, I started trusting them. After that on 22.03.2025, they demanded Rs. 5,000/- and I transferred Rs. 5,000/- from my said HDFC bank account as per their instructions and when I asked them to give me a profit of Rs. 5,000/-, they asked me to transfer Rs. 30,000/- more and give me Rs. 42,000/-along with the profit. After I transferred Rs. 30,000/- from my said HDFC bank account as per their instructions, I asked them to transfer Rs. 42,000/- along with the profit to my bank account, then they demanded Rs. 95,000/- from me and in this way, from 07.03.2025 to 24.03.2025, unknown persons, by deceiving me to return the entire amount including the profit, transferred a total of Rs. 5,30,000/- from my bank account, my friends Bhupendra Yadav, Shiva Maggu, Chandini Singh, Richa Pandey and Pratik Pal Singh to different bank accounts.”

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner-Suraj Choudhary (in CRM-M-42208-2025), submits that:-

(i) out of the total amount allegedly cheated from the complainant, not a single penny was transferred into the account of the petitioner.

(ii) There exists no telephonic conversation, text message, or any form of communication between the petitioner and the complainant, indicating that petitioner had no involvement in the alleged fraud.

(iii) Only a mobile phone, along with two SIM cards, was recovered from the petitioner. However, there is no record of calls, messages, or WhatsApp communication from these SIM cards to the complainant.

(iv) Only allegation against the petitioner is that he allegedly obtained the bank account details and other documents of Hemraj (petitioner in CRM-M-43009-