204(2) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 10.02.2026 SOMA DEVI …Petitioner V/S STATE OF PUNJAB …Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL Present: Mr. Sanjay Singh, Advocate for Mr. Rajeshwar Singh Thakur, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Kunwarbir Singh, AAG Punjab ****

SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL J. (Oral)

1. Petitioner seeks anticipatory bail in case vide FIR No.101 dated 19.08.2025, under Sections 85, 115(2), 118(1), 316(2) and 61(2) of BNS,Police Station Sadar, Gurdaspur. This is the first application for anticipatory bail.

2. Following order was passed on 19.01.2026: “Petitioner seeks anticipatory bail in case vide FIR No.101 dated 19.08.2025, under Sections 85, 115(2), 118(1), 316(2) and 61(2) of BNS, Police Station Sadar, Gurdaspur.

This is the first application for anticipatory bail.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that marriage of petitioner’s son and the complainant was solemnized in the year 2022. One month after the marriage, petitioner’s son left for Australia where he was permanently settled. The complainant resided in the matrimonial home only for one and a half month, after which she returned to her parental home and