IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 10.02.2026 MANPREET SINGH ......Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. Karan Singh Rana, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Aakanksha Gupta, AAG, Punjab.

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

1. This is the second petition filed under Section 483 BNSS for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.227 dated 10.10.2019 under Sections 376-D, 458 and 120-B of IPC; Section 4 of POCSO Act and Section 61 of IT Act, registered at Police Station Lambi, District Shri Muktsar Sahib.

2. The translated version of the FIR is reproduced below:-

“Statement of unknown xxxx, daughter of Kuldeep Kumar, son of Raj Kumar, potter, age about 13 years, resident of Street No.5. Panj Pir Tibba, Abohar Mo: No: 98074-xxxx stated that I am a resident of the above address, my parents work as laborers. My parents and I had gone to my maternal grandmother's house in Tarmale about 20 days ago, my maternal grandparents had gone to Rajasthan to pick cotton. My mother and my father went to pay obeisance at Mata Kalwani, district Hisar on 5/10/2019. My two maternal uncles and one maternal au