IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 16.01.2026 AMRESH KUMAR ......Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Ms. Menka Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Aakanksha Gupta, AAG, Punjab. Mr. Jaiteshwar S. Bhandari, Advocate for the complainant. (through VC)

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

1. Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner, in case FIR No. 14 dated 17.03.2025, under Sections 406 and 498-A of IPC, registered at Police Station Women, Ferozepur, Punjab.

2. Vide order dated 08.12.2025, the petitioner was directed to join investigation. The said order is reproduced hereinafter:-

“Learned counsel for the petitioner inter alia submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case. It is submitted that the marriage between petitioner and the complainant was solemnized on 05.06.2023 as per Hindu rites and rituals, and at the time of marriage no dowry etc. was exchanged. On 11.12.2023, the petitioner left for his official duty at Ayodhya, whereafter