IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-44929-2024(O&M) Date of Decision: 14.11.2025 Jaspal Singh ..Petitioner Versus State of Punjab & anr. ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL Present: Mr. N.S. Mahal, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Kunwarbir Singh, AAG, Punjab.

Ms. Amandeep Kaur, Advocate for respondent No.2.

S HALINI SINGH NAGPAL , JUDGE

1. Petitioner seeks anticipatory bail in FIR No.083 dated 17.08.2024 under Sections 406 & 498-A IPC, Police Station Women, District Jalandhar. This is his first petition for anticipatory bail.

2. On 20.09.2024, following order was passed. :- “Prayer in this petition filed under Section 482 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (B.N.S.S.) is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.083 dated 17.8.2024 (Annexure P-1) under Sections 406 and 498-A IPC, registered at Police Station Women, Police Commissionerate, District Jalandhar, Punjab.

Learned counsel for the petitioner, inter alia, submits that the petitioner was married to the complainant/respondent No.2 herein on 13.10.2019. One daughter was born out of the said wedlock on 10.08.2020, who is currently in the care and custody of the c