IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on:- 22.5.2025 Date of Decision: 10.6.2025 Mandeep Kaur ......Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Argued by: Mr. P.S.Ahluwalia, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Aakanksha Gupta, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. Akshat Dalal, Advocate for respondent No. 2.

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KIRTI SINGH , J.

1. The instant petition has been filed against the impugned order dated 17.7.2018 passed by the learned trial Court concerned, in case FIR No. 33 dated 17.4.2014 under Sections 304-B and 201 of the IPC, registered at Police Station Mehtiana, District Hoshiarpur, whereby an application preferred by the complainant under Section 311 Cr.P.C. seeking summoning of two additional witnesses, namely Rakesh Kumar and Harpreet Kumar alias Vicky has been allowed.

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2. The present FIR was registered under Sections 304-B and 201 IPC on the basis of a statement made by the complainant-respondent No.2, who is the father of deceased alle3ging that his daughter had suffered maltreatment and harassment at the hands of her in-laws including the Gurpreet Singh present petitioner-Mandeep Kaur due to demand