IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 06.02.2026 MANPREET SINGH & ANOTHER ......Petitioners Versus STATE OF PUNJAB .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. J.S. Grewal, Advocate for the petitioners. (Through V.C.)

Ms. Aakanksha Gupta, AAG, Punjab.

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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 petitioners, in case FIR No.126 dated 03.06.2025, under Sections 74, 118(1), 115(2) and 3(5) of BNS, 2023, registered at Police Station City 1, Abohar, District Fazilka.

2. Vide order dated 06.11.2025, the petitioners were directed to join investigation. The said order is reproduced hereinafter:-

“The petitioners have filed the instant petition under 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of anticipatory bail in FIR No.126 dated 03.06.2025 registered under Sections 74, 118(1), 115(2) & 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 at Police Station City 1, Abohar, District Fazilka.

Status report by way of an affidavit of Sh. Sukhwinder Singh Brar, PPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police,