IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

206 Date of decision : 23.09.2025 Rohit ….Petitioner V/S State of Punjab ….Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAMIT KUMAR Present: Mr. Abhimanyu Batra, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Hemant Aggarwal, D.A.G., Punjab.

Mr. Navraj Singh, Advocate for respondent No.2.

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NAMIT KUMAR , J. (ORAL)

1. The petitioner has filed the instant petition under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘the BNSS) seeking anticipatory bail in case FIR No.37 dated 12.05.2025 registered under Sections 376 & 509 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 67-A of Information Technology Act, 2008 at Women Police Station, District Police Commissionerate Jalandhar.

2. Status report by way of an affidavit of Sh. Sanjay Kumar, PPS, Assistant Commissioner of Police, NDPS/PBI-cum-CAW & Children, Jalandhar, on behalf of the respondent-State, filed in the Registry is taken on record.

3. Brief facts of the case are that on 14.01.2025, the prosecutrix moved a complaint to the Commissioner of Police, Jalandhar levelling allegations against Rohit (the present petitioner) that she had friendly relationship with the petitioner prior t