IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

283 CRWP No.2396 of 2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 11.03.2025 Gurkaran Singh Dhaliwal ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. R.S. Rai, Senior Advocate (through Video Conferencing), Mr. Vinod Ghai, Senior Advocate Mr. Amit Jhanji, Senior Advocate with Mr. Gautam Dutt, Advocate, Mr. Harlove Singh Randhawa, Advocate, Mr. Shiv Kumar Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Satinder Pal Singh, Advocate, Mr. Jashan Bains, Advocate, Mr. Arjun S. Rai, Advocate, Mr. Gursher Singh, Advocate, Mr. G.S. Dhillon, Advocate, Mr. Arnav Ghai, Advocate, Mr. Dhruv Trehan, Advocate and Mr. Shashank Shekhar Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Subhash Godara, Addl. A.G., Punjab and Mr. Deeepender Singh, Addl. A.G., Punjab.

HARPREET SINGH BRAR J. (Oral)

1. The present criminal writ petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter ‘BNSS’) seeking the following reliefs:

(i) issuance of a writ in the nature of Habeas Corpus, for release of detenu – Pushpinder Pal Singh Dhaliwal, father of