IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision : 02.12.2025 SATNAM SINGH …. PETITIONER V/S STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANR …. RESPONDENTS CORAM:HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr.Mohit Garg, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Luvinder Sofat, Sr. DAG, Punjab.

Mr. Suveer Sheokand, Advocate for respondent No.2.

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KIRTI SINGH, J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for quashing of FIR No.0069 dated 11.07.2022, under Section 376 IPC, 1860 registered at Police Station Bhadson, District Patiala and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom.

2. The contents of the aforesaid FIR are reproduced herein below:-

“Statement of Ranjit Kaur wife of Yadwinder Singh, resident of Sandhu Colony, Bhadso Tehsil Nabha Distt Patiala, age about 38 years, mobile no.xxx. Stated that I am resident of the above said address and is doing household work and I am married. I have two children, elder boy is Jasanpreet Singh aged 18 years and the younger girl is xxx aged 16 years. In the year 2017, I had talked with Satnam Singh (MC) son of Narayan Singh, resident of Sandhu Colony, Bhadson. Due the love relation