IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

202 CRM-M-56042-2025(O&M) Date of Decision: 31.10.2025 JORAWAR SINGH ...Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present:- Mr. Prateek Pandit, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Akanksha Gupta, AAG, Punjab *****

K IRTI SINGH , J. (Oral)

1. Apprehending his arrest the petitioner has filed this petition under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of anticipatory bail in case bearing FIR No.148 dated 19.07.2025 under Sections 65(1), 127(2), 351(2), 61(2)(a) of BNS, 2023 and Sections 6 and 17 of POCSO Act, registered at Police Station Mehatpur, District Jalandhar (Rural).

2. This Court while issuing notice of motion on 01.10.2025 passed the following order:-

“Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 482 of BNSS, is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners, in case FIR No. 148 dated 19.7.2025, under Sections 65(1), 127(2), 351(2), 61(2)(a) of BNS, 2023 and Sections 6 and 17 of POCSO Act, registered at Police Station Mehatpur, District Jalandhar (Rural).

Learned counsel for the petitioner inter alia submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicat