203 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-41966-2024 Date of decision: 11.02.2025 SAJID SAIFI ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER ...Respondent(s)

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASGURPREET SINGH PURI Present:- Mr. Aayush Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. P. S. Bhandari, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. J. S. Jaidka, Advocate for respondent No.2.

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JASGURPREET SINGH PURI, J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 for the grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in FIR No.59 dated 31.07.2024, under Sections 406 and 498-A of the IPC, registered at Police Station Women, District Police Commissionerate, Ludhiana, Punjab.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that it is a case where a matrimonial dispute arose between the petitioner and respondent No.2 and efforts were also made for reconciliation through mediation in the Mediation and Conciliation Centre of this Court but unfortunately the same failed. He

29.08.2024, it was directed that petitioner shall handover a demand draft of

Rs.20,000/- to respondent No.2 as litigation costs. He further submitted that it

was also directed that in the meanwhile, the arrest of