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, Deepmala wife of Neeraj Soni were residing on rent in the house of Jaibeer .

Singh son Shazad resident of Rathivas for the last 3 years. First of all this person made his trust in our village due to which we came under his trust and gave him the money earned by our hard work, which was kept for the marriage of our children. That the accused Dharmendra Soni, who was living in our village and had a goldsmith shop and had built a good deal of trust in the village in the transaction. That he after taking money in advance from people in lieu of making jewelry, vacated his house and shop and fled from the village on 22.06.2024 without informing anyone. Information of which, when we tried to get from many places, we could not find anything and when we tried to get information about him from Jaiveer son of Shahjahan, we were sent away by the landlord saying that he has also taken Rs.3 lakh from him. Sunita wife of Somveer is the resident of Rathivas Tauru, Tehsil Tauru District Nuh, whose account no.77150101019406 is in Sarva Haryana Gramin Bank Rathivas Tauru in which she gave chaque of Rs. 1, 00,000/-to Anees resident of Kharkhoda Sonipat, whose bank no.847223 dated 03.05.2023 and it, was already encashed. A cheque no.847224 dated 03.05.2003 of Rs.1, 00,000/ - was given to Sukantala wife of Dhamendra Soni Resident of Kharkhauda Sonipat and both the cheques have been encashed. I came to know that Dharmendra Soni has also cheated money from other people of our village and fled away, in which he cheated Rs. 1.70 lakhs from Seelam Patri Narendra and Rs. 5 Lakhs from Geeta wife of Mukesh and fled away and he has taken money from Naresh son of Zile Singh and fled away and also taken money from Jaggi Sarpanch of Khori Kalan and fled away and we had a self-help group whose head was Shakuntala wife of Dharmendra Soni. And she also took Rs.2 lakh from that group as well. Before living in the house of Jaibeer, he was living in the house of Santram son of Mukhyar resident Rathibas for 9 years. Suman the mother of Mrs. Chhaya wife of Aneesh (daughter-in-law of the accused Dharmendra), who lives in village Tauru Jatwada Mohalla, there we all called the police by calling on 112 number, then they called a person named Sachin Soni, he said that you all will get your money within two-three days, I will solve this and we came to our house taking false assurances of this. But Sachin Soni is now clearly denying that he does not know anything about them, he has nothing to do with this. You can do whatever action you want to take. Sir, Dhamendra Soni, Mobile No: 8684032990, Sakuntala wife Mobile No.8684067126 and Neeraj Soni, Mobile No. 8813802642, all of their mobiles are switched off since a long time. The entire family of Dhamendra Soni is also involved in this fraud. This fam