IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 12.05.2025 VIKRAM PADAM …. Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB …. Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present : Mr. Yoginder Nagpal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Himani Arora, A.A.G, Punjab.

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MANISHA BATRA, J. (oral)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short-‘BNSS’) by the petitioner for grant of anticipatory bail in case arising out of FIR No.90 dated 29.06.2024 registered under Sections 406, 420, 120-B of IPC, at Police Station Mullanpur, District SAS Nagar, Mohali.

2. As per the allegations, the petitioner represented to the complainant that he was posted as a clerk in the office of Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh. He introduced the complainant with Raman Kumari by saying that she was posted as Commissioner in Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh. Accused Raman Kumari is in fact the wife of the petitioner. Both of them represented to the complainant that they could secure jobs for the post of Peon as well as Clerk in Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh. They induced him to pay a sum of `6 lakhs each for appointment of the c