204 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-45548-2024 (O&M) Date of Decision: 08.05.2025 Anuj Jhanji ....Petitioner(s)

Versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondent(s)

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE JASGURPREET SINGH PURI Present: Mr. Varun Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Gaurav Gurcharan Singh Rai, Sr. DAG, Punjab.

Mr. Mohinder Kumar, Advocate, for respondent No.2.

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JASGURPREET SINGH PURI , J. (Oral)

CRM-18619-2025 The present application has been filed for placing on record affidavit of respondent No.2.

For the reasons recorded in the application, the same is allowed.

Affidavit of respondent No.2. is taken on record subject to all just exceptions. Main case

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.0095 dated 26.08.2024, under Sections 406 and 498-A IPC, registered at Police Station Women District Police Commissionerate, Jalandhar.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submitted that the petitioner is the husband and the present FIR has been lodged by the brother of the wife of the petitioner in which the allegations of seeking dowry and har