IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Sunil Kumar ....Petitioner V/s State of Haryana ....Respondent Date of decision: 02.12.2025 Date of Uploading : 02.12.2025 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Mr. Nirmal Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Tarun Aggarwal, Additional Advocate General, Haryana (on the strength of advance notice).

Mr. Pawan Kumar Hooda, Advocate for the complainant (on his own volition).

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (Oral)

1. Present petition has been filed on behalf of the petitioner seeking grant of anticipatory/pre-arrest bail under Sections 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘BNSS’) in FIR No.243 dated 04.11.2025 registered for offences punishable under Sections 316(2), 318(4), 336(3), 337, 340(2), 61(2) of BNS at Police Station Panipat Sadar, District Panipat.

2. The essence of the FIR, as set-out in the petition, is that Vijay Kumar and Sanjay Katariya filed a complaint to the Superintendent of Police, Panipat alleging therein that four persons i.e. Gagandeep Sharma, Sunil Kumar (petitioner herein), Pankaj @ Bhagta, and Dharampal Singh had contacted them about a plot of land measuring 24 kanals 1