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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

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CRM-M No.49778 of 2025

Date of decision : 22.12.2025

Date of uploading : 23.12.2025

Chatar Singh ………….Petitioner

Versus

State of Haryana …….Respondent

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL

Present: Mr. Vinod Ghai, Senior Advocate with

Ms. Kashish Sahni, Advocate and

Mr. Arnav Ghai, Advocate, for the petitioner

Mr. Gurmeet Singh, AAG, Haryana

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL)

1. Present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of

regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.5 dated 24.1.2025 under

Sections 43, 66(C) of Information Technology Act, 2000, Sections 61(2),

316(2), 316(5), 318, 318(4), 336(3) and 338 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,

2023 (Section 340(2) of BNS added later on) and Sections 7, 13(1)(A)

read with Section 13(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, registered

at Police Station ACB Faridabad, District Anti-Corruption Bureau,

Haryana.

2. The case set up in the FIR in question (as set out in the present

petition by the petitioner) is as follows:-

ASHWANI KUMAR

2025.12.23 12:17

I attest to the accuracy and

integrity of this document

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‘To Station House Officer, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Faridabad. Memo No.

A4-4-2025/2707 dated 23.01.2025 was received in the office of ADGP,

ACB, Haryana from DG Development and Panchayat Department,

Haryana with a request for a registration of FIR and further legal action

regarding financial embezzlement. The said Memo was sent vide e-mail to

the office of ACB, Faridabad on 24.01.2025 for registration of a case and

further investigation. The contents of the Memo are reproduced here.

"From Director General, Development Panchayats Department, Haryana,

Chandigarh. To Additional Director General of Police, Anti-Corruption

Bureau, Haryana, Panchkula. Memo No. AA-4-2025/2707, Dated:

23/01/2025. Subject: Request for Registration of FIR and Further Legal

Action Regarding Financial Embezzlement. Please find enclosed a copy of

letter dated 21.01.2025 submitted by Sh. Aruri Kumar, Chief Account

Officer, Development 0/0 Development and Panchayats, Department

Haryana at Chandigarh, copy of D.O. letter No. FAW/Central Audit/2024-

25/200 dated 16.12.2024 and D.O. letter No. FAW/2023-24/2024-25/1374

dated 16.01.2025 received from Principal Accountant General (Audit)

Harvana herein a serious case of financial embezzlement and

unauthorized budget allocation of more than 50 Crores has been

observed. Based on preliminary verification and the available evidence, it

has come to light that substantial funds/budget were allocated to DDPO

Palwal in financial year 2023-24 and 2024-25 from the login ID of Chief

Accounts Officer, Development, at Headquarters on website of Finance

Department without proper authorization or sanction. Furthermore, as

pointed out by Principal Accountant General (Audit) in the above referred

D.O. letter, a significant amount of these funds has been siphoned by the

BDPO, Hassanpur Office, District Palwal, through repeated payments

made to a particular private firm namely M/s Deepak Manpower

Service/Deepak Kumar and Other payees. It is pertinent to mention here

that, as informed by CAO of this office, Budget Controlling Authority i.e.

CAO in this case, allots budget to Budget Controlling Officer ie. DDPO,

Palwal in this case, for further allocation of Budget as per demand

received from the respective DDOs under their control. In present case

after going through the dashboard of Finance Department it has been

noticed that by mentioning sanction order number as SPL-10, SPL10,

SPL, 10 etc. budget was allotted to DDPO Palwal which are fake, because

no record regarding demand received from concerned DDPO or sanction

ASHWANI KUMAR

2025.12.23 12:17

I attest to the accuracy and

integrity of this document

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order from the concerned branch is available regarding these

transactions. Subsequently, frivolous bills were generated