IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Decided on: 24.03.2026 Pardeep Maini alias Honey and another …...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab …...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY VASHISTH Present: Mr. S.S. Nagra, Advocate and Ms. Himani Nagra, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Manjinder Singh Bhullar, DAG Punjab ****

SANJAY VASHISTH, J. (ORAL)

1. Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 (earlier Section 438 Cr.P.C.), is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners, who has been booked in a criminal case arising out of FIR No.91, dated 17.05.2025, under Sections 381, 408, 34 IPC, registered at Police Station Division B, District Amritsar.

2. On 13.11.2025, following order was passed:

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(ii) Learned counsel for the petitioners, inter alia, contends that allegations in the FIR have been levelled merely on the basis of suspicion, arising out of the complainant’s grievance that petitioners stopped working in his shop and joined employment with another shop, which is situated just opposite to that of the complainant’s shop. It is submitted that without any factual basis, complainant initially lodged an FIR dated 23.10.20