133 THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 06.11.2025 Varun Singh ..... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ....Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ Present: Mr. K.S. Nalwa, Senior Advocate with Mr. Vismaad S. Bajwa, Advocate, Ms. Ashima Attri, Advocate and Mr. Ashmeet K. Shah, Advocate for the petitioner.

RAJESH BHARDWAJ, J.

1. Present petition has been filed for quashing of impugned order dated 03.10.2025, wherein learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rupnagar has accepted the application filed under Section 311 Cr.P.C. dated 07.05.2025 filed by the prosecution seeking summoning of three additional prosecution witnesses in case FIR No.16 dated 22.03.2024 under Sections 380, 457 of IPC (Section 120-B and 201 IPC added lateron) registered at Police Station Sadar Rupnagar, District Rupnagar.

2. Succinctly the facts of the case are that the FIR in the present case was lodged on the statement of Sukhwinder Singh, Chief Chemists GGSSTP, Rupnagar. It was alleged that on 18.03.2024 at about 9:00 am the coal lab staff found all locks of the main door and strong room in broken condition. All the three locks of Almirah containing the 16 No.