IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-312-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision : 09.01.2025 Pradeep Gupta ...Petitioner(s)

Versus Anil Kochar ...Respondent(s)

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MAHABIR SINGH SINDHU Present: Mr. Gurmandeep Singh Sullar, Advocate, Mr. Devaki Anand Sullar, Advocate, and Mr. Haneesh Kumar, Advocate for the petitioner.

MAHABIR SINGH SINDHU, J.

Present petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘the BNSS’) praying for quashing of the summoning order dated 11.01.2024 (P-1) , passed by learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Gurugram (for short, ‘JMIC’), in complaint No.COMI/231/2023 dated 29.04.2023, under Sections 420, 406 read with Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘the IPC’), titled as “Anil Kochar Vs. Smt. Mamta Kaul and others” and all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom.

2. Contends that co-accused, namely, Mamta Kaul, had engaged the petitioner, only to provide legal assistance for the purpose of vetting the agreement to sell, which she intended to execute with respondent-complainant. Further contends that petitioner’s signatures on the alleged agreement to sell