218 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 08.07.2025 Gurinder Kaur ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another …Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA Present: Mr. A.P. Kaushal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Akshay Kumar, A.A.G., Punjab.

Mr. T.S. Grewal, Advocate for the complainant.

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ANOOP CHITKARA, J.

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

0016 19.03.2025 Shimlapuri, 420, 406, 120-B IPC Ludhiana

1. The petitioner apprehending arrest in the FIR captioned above has come up before this Court under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, [BNSS], seeking anticipatory bail.

2. In paragraph 12 of the bail petition, the accused declares that she has no criminal antecedents.

3. The facts and allegations are being taken from translated version of FIR, which reads as follows:

“One complaint bearing no PGD-392478 complaint no 391988 dated 26.07.2024 and one complaint bearing no 396719/395989 dated 30/07.2024 and C no 1313/2-2 dated 25/11/2024 from sema singh son of Sukhdev singh r/o 1688/27/155-Street no 9-C, Chimney Road, Preet Nagar, Shimlapuri, Police Commissionerate, Ludhiana mobile no 8360996806, 9617797055. Against smt Ranjit kaur bhatti wife of Sukhdev singh r/o 658/1, street no 20, Punjab mata nagar, Jawaddi road, Dugri, Gurinder kaur w/o Jaspreet Singh r/o Lakhmirwala, Jhunir, Mansa, Punjab, Sukhminder Singh area bank manager, Punjab & Sindh Bank, Shimlapuri after conspiring with each other and giving false hope of job and taking amount of Rs 10 lakh 31 thousand for registration of case which is as follows to the police Commissionerate Ludhiana. For getting the job in Punjab & Sindh bank, the above named person had duped the honest and hard working person of Rs 10 lakhs. Now the said persons are neither returning the amount nor had got the job to the complainant. 1. Sulhdev singh bhatti retired police officer r/o 658/1, street no 20. Punjab mata nagar, jawaddi road, model town, Ludhiana, m no 98760-66338, 2. Ranjit kaur bhatti w/o Sukhdev singh bhatti retired police officer r/o 658/1, street no 20, Punjab mata nagar, jawaddi road, model town, Ludhiana, 98152-00756, 3. Gurinder kaur bank official, Punjab & Sindh bank wife of Jaspreet singh r/o Lakhmir wala, mansa, m no 80546-17704, 62834-79473. 4.) Sukhminder Singh area manager, Punjab & Sindh bank, Ludhiana, 75290-77040. Sir I sema singh son of Sukhdev singh r/o 1688/27/155-Street no 9-C, Chimney Road, Preet Nagar, Shimlapuri, Police Commissionerate, Ludhiana and my complaint is as follows that above named persons namely Sukhdev singh bhatti and his wife Ranjit kaur bhatti are my maternal uncle and aunt and gurinder kaur is their close associate who is working in Punjab & Sindh bank and one area manager namely sukhminder singh is their close associate of all three persons. All these persons had taken Rs 10,00,000 from me for getting me job in Punjab & Sindh Bank and its been now around one and half year. All these persons neither got me job nor returned back my money. After 3-4 times panchayat got convened and thereafter Ranjit kaur bhatti and Gurinder haur gave me cheque worth Rs 5 lakhs each in which one choque was of IHDFC Bank and other was of kotak Mahindra bank (photocopies of cheque attached herewith). That 1 presented both the cheque in the bank which were returned back due to difference in signatures. That when I asked them about these cheques that both the cheques got failed. That you should take back these cheques and give back my money then they started giving me threats that I should keep quite, they are not going to return the amount, you should do whatever you want to do. Ranjit kaur bhatti stated that my husband is retired senior police official. They have got high links in the offices and they are not going to return back the amount. Therefore, request is to help me in saving my life and legal action be taken against the said persons from some senior higher official and justice be granted to me