IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 09.7.2025 Giano Devi and others ......Petitioners Versus State of Haryana .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. M.S.Dalal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Mahima Yashpal, DAG, Haryana.

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

1. Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is for grant of pre-arrest bail to the petitioner in case FIR No. 236 dated 06.8.2024, under Sections 76, 115, 190, 191(3), 351(2) of BNS (Sections 190 and 191(3) of BNS were deleted and Sections 85, 117 and 35 of BNS were added later on), registered at Police Station Sadar Pehowa, Kurukshetra.

2. Reply by way of affidavit of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Pehowa, Kurukshetra has been filed by the State, which is taken on record.

3. Brief facts of the present case are that the victim-complainant moved a complaint to the police alleging therein that on 04.08.2024, when she was taking rest in her house, thereupon her brother-in-law Hardev, Arvinder nephew of her mother-in-law alongwith Umed Singh entered her room in a drunkard condition. They all told her that she has moved