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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-40760-2025 Date of decision :04.09.2025 PARAMJIT KAUR ... Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASJIT SINGH BEDI Present: Mr. Navjeet Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Harkanwar Jeet Singh, Asstt. A.G., Punjab.

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JASJIT SINGH BEDI, J.

The prayer in the present petition under Section 482 BNSS, 2023 is for the grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.96 dated 07.07.2025 (Annexure P-1) registered under Section 316(5)

of BNS, 2023 at Police Station Doraha, District Khanna.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the present FIR has been registered on the complaint of one Mandeep Singh Bhathal on which inquiry was conducted by the SSP, Khanna to the effect that the accused/applicant while being the Sarpanch from the year 2019 to 2024, was given the grants by the Government for doing social work in the form of public utility services to the tune of Rs.79 Lacs, but she alongwith her co-accused i.e. Secretary Harminder Singh and Lambardar Bachitta Singh had misappropriated the Rs.8 Lacs for their personal use and thus caused loss to the State Exchequer. As per the re