IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

229 CRA-S-2437-2022 (O&M)

Date of decision: 09.12.2025.

MEENU GUPTA AND ANOTHER ...Petitioner(s)

VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER ...Respondent(s)

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ Present :- Mr. L.S. Sekhon, Advocate, for the appellants.

Ms. Savi Nagpal, AAG, Punjab.

VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

The instant appeal has been filed against the order dated

15.11.2022 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Mansa, whereby the application filed by the appellants under Section 438 Cr.P.C. for grant of anticipatory bail in complaint case bearing No.SC158 dated 14.10.2019 filed under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act) 1989, had been dismissed.

Mr. P.K.S. Phoolka, Advocate, enters appearance and files power of attorney on behalf of respondent No.2.

The matter came up for hearing on 23.11.2022 and the following order was passed: -

“Learned counsel for the appellants has submitted that it is a case where the appellants had filed an application for grant of anticipatory bail before the learned Sessions Court which has been dismissed and since