IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 17.09.2025 Hemlata ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ....Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL Present: Mr. N.S. Dadwal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Ravinder Singh, DAG, Punjab.

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RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL, J (ORAL)

1. Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.192 dated 01.07.2025 registered under Sections 319(2), 318(4), 336(2), 338, 336(3), 340(2) and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, at Police Station Division No.5, District Police Commissionerate Ludhiana.

2. Brief facts as per the prosecution case are that the above FIR was registered against the present petitioner and the co-accused on the directions of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Ludhiana. As per the FIR, one person had impersonated to be Inderpal Singh and prepared fake Aadhar Card and other documents and as such, committed offence of forgery, impersonation and cheating. His co-accused Hemlata (petitioner)

had identified him to be Inderpal Singh.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that the petitioner has be