IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 27.08.2025 XXXXX ....Petitioner(s)

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

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE JASGURPREET SINGH PURI Present: Mr. Aditya Sanghi, Advocate, Ms. Shaveta Sanghi, Advocate Mr. Pradeep Bhardwaj, Advocate and Mr. Himanshu Garg, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Vishal Kashyap, DAG, Haryana. Mr. Karunesh Kaushal, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. Manish Bansal, P.P., U.T., Chandigarh and Mr. Sandeep Vashisht, APP, U.T., Chandigarh.

Mr. Navjit Singh, Central Government Counsel for the Union of India.

Mr. Ravi Sharma, Standing Counsel and Mr. Raywant Kaushish, Advocate for National Medical Commission (NMC).

Mr. Avinit Avasthi, Advocate for the PGIMER, Chandigarh.

Mr. M. S. Randhawa, Advocate for respondent No.2.

Ms. Tanu Bedi, Advocate as Amicus Curiae with Ms. Simran, Advocate, Mr. Vibhu Agnihotri, Advocate, Mr. Pushp Jain, Advocate, Ms. Hanima Grewal, Advocate.

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JASGURPREET SINGH PURI , J .

A. FACTUAL MATRIX

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

2. While looking at the Medico-Legal Report filed by the respondent-State along with reply as Annexure R-1, it shook the conscious of this Court as not even a word or a letter was legible. Thereafter, in the second case i.e. CRM-M-9887-2025 again the prescription in the nature of clinical notes (Annexures P-3 and P-4) were totally illegible. Both of them have been written by the Doctors working in the Government Hospitals while treating their patients. Therefore, this Court deemed it fit to take judicial cognizance of the issue pertaining to practice of both government and private doctors whereby they write medical prescription and diagnosis in a totally illegible handwriting which cannot be read at all by an ordinary person. This serious and important issue will be dealt with in the later part of this judgment.

3. As per the aforesaid FIR, the complainant knew the petitioner- accused since the time she was in school and he was living in her neighbouring village. In the year 2019, she took admission in a University at Delhi for pursuing her Graduation and in November, 2019, she again came in contact with the petitioner and they started talking to each other. In August, 2021, the petitioner visited the house of the complainant to meet her father and misrepresented that he was well acquainted with some officers and he has been selected in the Navy and now a days anything can be achieved by money, accordingly a job can also be secured for the complainant by paying some money. The father of the complainant agreed to get the job of the complainant secured in the upcoming Intelligence Bureau on the post of ACIO-II and he was told that an amount of Rs.18-20 lakhs would be required for the same. Thereafter, communication at various instances took place and allegedly, the petitioner told the complainant and her father that due to some reason the officer is expressing his inability to meet and after some days, the petitioner again misrepresented before the father of the complainant that recruitment in Intelligence Bureau is about to be made and asked him to arrange an amount of Rs.5,00,000/- till tomorrow and in this way, the father of the complainant arranged Rs.4,00,000/- from his close relatives and told the petitioner that the remaining Rs.1,00,000/- will be paid in 2-3 days and in this way, the petitioner took Rs.4,00,000/- and went away and thereafter, the balance amount was also paid to the petitioner by the father of the complainant on 19.11.2022. Thereafter one person called the complainant and misrepresented himself as a Commander in Navy and told her that her form for recruitment in Intelligence Bureau has been filled up and remaining formalities were to be completed and on 15.02.2023, he took interview online and another person also misrepresented himself as a Rear Admiral in Navy and the complainant was aga