IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

207 Date of decision: 29.10.2025 Maan Singh ... Petitioner Vs.

State of Punjab ... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Parambir Singh Ghotra, Advocate and Mr. Arish Bhalla, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Ms. Sakshi Bakshi, AAG, Punjab, for the respondent-State.

Ms. Harmanjit Kaur, Advocate, for Mr. Sarabjit Singh, Advocate, for the complainant.

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MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed by the petitioner under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) seeking anticipatory bail in the FIR mentioned below:-

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

24 27.03.2025 Khilchian, District420 of IPC and 13 of Amritsar Rural the Punjab Travel Professionals (Regulation) Act, 2014

2. Brief facts relevant for the purpose of disposal of this petition are that the aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of complaint submitted by the complainant Lovejit Singh alleging that he had contacted the petitioner who was a travel agent for getting a work permit visa for Canada in favour of his brother Prabhjit Singh. The petitioner had told him that he could get work per