IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Pronounced on: 20.02.2025 Reserved on: 10.02.2025 Sukhjit Singh and another ....Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Sukhwinder Singh Kamboj, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Sandeep Kumar, DAG, Punjab.

HARPREET SINGH BRAR J. (Oral)

1. The petitioners have approached this Court by way of filing the present petition under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter ‘BNSS’) for quashing of the impugned FIR bearing No.106 dated 30.05.2020 under Sections 353, 186 and 34 of IPC registered at Police Station Sadar Ahmedgarh, District Malerkotla (Annexure P-5), as well as all subsequent proceedings arising therefrom including final report under Section 173 Cr.P.C. and charge-sheet dated 30.08.2022.

2. The facts of the present case, tersely put, are that the petitioners constructed an unauthorized shed within the limits of Municipal Council Ahmedgarh without obtaining the necessary sanction. Since the construction of the shed was illegal, therefore on

04.09.2019, the operation to demolish the shed was initiated. However, in an