IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 08.09.2025 Pronounced on: 24.09.2025 GURJINDER PAL SINGH ALIAS JASPREET ...PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA …RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA Present: Mr. Sonpreet S. Brar, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Atul Gaur, AAG, Haryana.

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ANOOP CHITKARA, J.

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

32 17.01.2025 Gharaunda, District Karnal, 406/420 and 506 IPC and Haryana Section 24 of Immigration Act

1. The petitioner incarcerated in the FIR captioned above had come up before this Court under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, [BNSS], seeking regular bail. 2. Per paragraph 5 of the bail petition and para 7 of the status report, the petitioner has the following criminal antecedents:

Sr. No. FIR No. Date/Year Offenses Police Station

1. 20 2022 420 of IPC Bhaini Miyan Kala, District Gurdaspur, Punjab

2. 225 2020 420/120-B IPC Kum Kala, District Ludhiana, Punjab

3. 225 07.08.2024 406/420/468/471 of Safido, District Jind IPC

4. 123 29.06.2024 406/420 IPC and City Thanesar, District

10/24 of Immigration Kurukshetra Act

5. 78 03.04.2024 406/420 IPC Safido, District Jind

6. 17 23.01.2024 406/420/120-B IPC Farakpur, District Yamuna and 10/24 of Immi- Nagar gration Act

7. 52 28.03.2024 406/420/506/120-B Jhaansa, District

8. 85 29.04.2024 406/420 of IPC and City Thanesar, District

10/24 of Immigration Kurukshetra Act

3. The facts and allegations are being taken from the status report filed by the State, which reads as follows:

“2. That in compliance of order passed by this Hon'ble Court, it is submitted that on 17.01.2025, a complaint was received at the police station from Vinod Kumar son of Sh. Jile Singh resident Ward No. 1, Furlak Road, Gharaunda, District Karnal against 1. Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay son of Yakub Masih. 2. Neeraj Saini wife of Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay resident of Jail Singh Colony Gharaunda, District Karnal, 3. Gurjinder Pal Singh @ Jaswinder Singh son of Balraj Singh resident of Saidpur Harni, District Gurdaspur, Punjab. The above accused have conspired with each other and cheated the complainant's money in the name of sending him abroad and prepared fake visa and threatened to kill him. In his complaint, he alleged that he got acquainted with the accused in July 2023 through his neighbor Kali Ram son of Jeetu Ram. Kali Ram, who works in life insurance, went to the accused to get a policy. The accused used to send children abroad, who used to talk and deal with people from their rented house itself. Accused Gurjinder Pal Singh @ Jaswinder Singh's office was in Chandigarh, which accused No. 1 and 2 later used to take people to Chandigarh for talks. The complainant wanted to send his son Rohit to Australia, for which the complainant went to accused Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay & Neeraj Saini through the Kali Ram and accused Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay & Neeraj Saini asked for Rs. 17 lakh to send the complainant's son Rohit to Australia on the basis of work permit, regarding which the complainant and accused Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay & Neeraj Saini were agreed. Accused Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay & Neeraj Saini asked for documents and photos of the complainant's son Rohit. On 06-08-2023, the complainant along with his brother- in-law Jasbir Singh son Sh. Ramsaroop resident of village Hasanpur, district Karnal and Kali Ram took all the documents and photos of his son and went to accused Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay & Neeraj Saini and talked to them and both accused wrote on the page the total amount of Rs. 17 lakhs, out of which Rs. 10 lakhs will be given on visa arrival in their handwriting and Rs. 7 lakhs will be given later on which accused Neeraj Saini signed and wrote the date. After this, the complainant applied to the bank for a loan on his house. On 19-08-2023, accused Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay & Neeraj Saini took the complainant and his son to Chandigarh for medical, where the complainant son's medical was done and Accused Sulkhan Masih @ Ajay & Neeraj Saini took Rs. 16,000/-