IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

209-2 CRM-M-56848-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision: 15.12.2025 Rajinder Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Eklavya Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Sakshi Bakshi, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. Abnash Singh, Advocate for the complainant.

MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No. 76 dated 27.03.2025, registered under Sections 406 and 420 of IPC at Police Station Sohana, District SAS Nagar.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint lodged by complainant Amarpreet Singh alleging therein that he was interested in buying a house in SAS Nagar (Mohali). The petitioner, who is a resident of Mohali, was contacted. He represented to the complainant that one Amardeep Singh @ Nippy owned a house and thereafter introduced him to accused Amardeep Singh, who met the complainant in the presence of the Manjeet Kaur (petitioner’s wife) as well as Harpreet Kaur, wife of Amard