IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH Sr. No.: 105 Criminal Miscellaneous No.M-47530 of 2025 Date of Decision: August 28, 2025 Vikas Goyal ..... PETITIONER(S)

VERSUS State of Punjab & another ..... RESPONDENT(S)

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUBHAS MEHLA PRESENT: - Mr. Vikas Kuthiala, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Subhash Godara, Additional Advocate General, Punjab.

SUBHAS MEHLA, J The petition has been filed seeking anticipatory bail to the petitioner in CRM-955 of 2024 titled ‘Jaswinder Singh Grewal v. M/s Geetu Constructions Pvt. Ltd. & another’, whereby non-bailable warrants of arrest have been issued against him vide order dated 07.08.2025 (Annexure P-9)

passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, SAS Nagar (Mohali).

2. Brief facts of the case are that petitioner was convicted by learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, SAS Nagar (Mohali) under Section 138 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (for short, ‘NI Act’) in case beaing No.NACT No.776 of 2015, titled ‘Jaswinder Singh v. M/s Geetu Constructions Pvt. Ltd. & another’ vide judgment dated 14.12.2023 (P-1). Appeal was filed against the aforesaid judgment wherein while issuing notice of motion, the lower appella