IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 28.1.2026 Jatin and another ......Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. Aditya Anand, Advocate for the petitioner.

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, for quashing of FIR No. 220 dated 21.10.2023, under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (for short ‘the Act of 1956’), Sections 177 and 419 IPC and Sections 14/14-C of Foreigners Act, 1946, registered at Police Station Ranjit Aveneue, District Police Commissionerate, Amritsar and all other consequential proceedings arising therefrom including the final/inquiry report dated 08.10.2024.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 21.10.2023 SI Amandeep Kaur received secret information regarding the running of a prostitution racket at First Care Spa, D-Block, Pizzeria market, Ranjit Avenue, Amritsar, under the guise of spa business. Subsequently, a raid was conducted at the said spa centre where several Indian and foreign women as well as the alleged customers, including th