IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 08.10.2025 Gurakshdeep Singh ......Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. Vikram Jeet Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Aakanksha Gupta, AAG, Punjab.

None for respondent No. 2.

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

1. Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner, in case FIR No. 94 dated 13.11.2024, under Sections 137(2), 87 of BNS, subsequently added Sections 64, 61(2) of BNS and Section 4 of the POCSO Act, registered at Police Station Maqsudan, District Jalandhar Rural.

2. Vide order dated 17.9.2025, the petitioner was directed to join investigation. The said order is reproduced hereinafter:-

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2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner, a young boy of over 18 years has been falsely implicated in the instant FIR, lodged on the statement of the mother of the prosecutrix. There is inordinate delay of 05 days in lodging the FIR, in which the petitioner was not even named as an accused. It is s