IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-11514-2025 DECIDED ON: 01.03.2025 NEERAJ SONI AND ANOTHER .....PETITIONERS VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA .....RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANDEEP MOUDGIL Present: Mr. Aazam Khan, Advocate and Mr. Saleem Ahmed, Advocate for the petitioners.

SANDEEP MOUDGIL, J (ORAL)

1. Relief sought The jurisdiction of this Court has been invoked under Section 482 BNSS, 2023 for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners in FIR No.179, dated 03.07.2024, under Sections 406, 420, 34 of IPC, 1860, registered at Police Station Sadar Tauru, District Nuh (Haryana).

2. Prosecution story setup in the present case as per the version in the FIR as under:-

“To SHO Police Station Tehsil Tauru, Nuh. Subject: Request regarding cheating in the name of making jewelry and to register FIR against the accused and to get our money back. Sir, request is that Sunita wife of Sombiru is the permanent resident of Rathivas, Tehsil Tauru District Nuh (Haryana). In our village, a goldsmith Dharmendra Soni along with his family wife Sakuntala wife of Dhamendra Soni and sons Neeraj Soni, Anish Soni So Dhamendra Soni, two daughters-in-laws Chhaya wife of Anish Soni, D