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Mr. Sangram Singh Saron, Advocate with Mr. M.B. Rajwade, Advocate for the complainant.

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(cid:2)(cid:30) The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 seeking grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.148 dated 16.07.2025 (Annexure P-l), registered at Police Station City Nawashahar, District SBS Nagar, for offence punishable under Section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.

2. The brief facts of the case as narrated by counsel for the petitioner which led to the filing of the present petition are as under:

2.1 The complainant is a widow having two daughters, elder one is residing abroad, and younger one who was 16 years and 11 months old, had committed suicide on 04.07.2025. The inquest proceedings were conducted on the said date and the statement of the complainant (Annexure R-1) did not record any offence. However, subsequently, on 16.07.2025, after a passage of 12 days, the complainant again approached the authorities as she found certain cogent evidences in the shape of suicide note and the authorities after considering the supplementary statement recorded on 16.07.2025, this turn of event, whereby, a suicide note was discovered led to the lodging of the present FIR under Section 108 of BNS, 2023 against the petitioner as well as two other co-accused.

2.2 It was further stated by the complainant in the FIR that the alleged suicide note was signed by her deceased daughter and the complainant got the suicide note laminated. The petitioner being named in the said suicide note and being arrayed as an accused in the said FIR, apprehending arrest, sought the concession of anticipatory bail which was declined by the Additional Sessions Judge, SBS Nagar, vide order dated 21.07.2025, on the ground that the deceased/victim in her suicide note specifically alleges the continuous torture and threat by the petitioner, that left the deceased with no other option but to end her life, which suggest the positive role of the petitioner. The dismissal of the said application led to filing of the present petition.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has opened his arguments by submitting that the victim committed suicide on 04.07.2025 and, in the inquest proceedings undertaken by the Police on the same day, the statement of the mothe