IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision : 30.10.2025 Pankaj Arora ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. L. M. Gulati, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Neeraj Poswal, AAG, Haryana.

Mr. S. K. Kaushik, Advocate for respondent No. 2/complainant.

MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’), is for quashing of FIR No. 251 dated 30.03.2016, registered under Sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of IPC at Police Station Sadar Hisar, District Hisar along with all the subsequent proceedings having emanated therefrom.

2. Brief facts of the case relevant for the purpose of disposal of the present petition are that the aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint submitted by complainant Surender Singh, who was running a firm under the name of M/s Goodwill Tea and Industries, dealing in the business of packaging of tea leaves, alleging that the present petitioner Pankaj Arora along with co-accused Madan Gopal had approached him and had projected that they were hav