IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 9^th February, 2026 Vijay Tulsani ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Mandeep Kumar Dhot, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Roshandeep Singh, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab.

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MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):-

The present petition has been filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner seeking grant of regular bail in case bearing FIR No. 02 dated 22.01.2024 registered under Sections 419, 420 and 120-B of IPC and Section 66-D of IT Act, 2000 at Police Station State Cyber Crime, District SAS Nagar, Mohali.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint made by complainant Kamaljit Singh alleging that he had received whatsapp calls/messages on his phone and the messenger/caller advised him to join whatsapp group namely “08 Private Equity Mentoring Exchange Club” and induced him to invest in stock market. He was made to download an application and to invest an amount of Rs. 76,05,000/- through different transactions into eleven bank accounts. Subsequently, the investment a