IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision:12.02.2026 Amit Kumar Mehta ......Petitioner Versus State of Haryana .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE AARADHNA SAWHNEY Present: Mr. Hiamsnhu Garg, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Shweta Nahata, DAG, Haryana.

AARADHNA SAWHNEY , J (ORAL)

1. Petitioner, who is an accused in case FIR No.293 dated 11.07.2025 registered against him, for commission of offences punishable under Sections 3(5),318(4),336(3),338,340 of BNS at Police Station Civil Lines, Sirsa has filed the instant petition, praying for grant of pre-arrest bail.

2. Relevant facts as emerging from the documents on record be noticed hereinbelow:

Jaspal Singh, son of Kashmir Singh, resident of Vishal Nagar, Ward No.2, Sirsa set the criminal law in motion by filing a complaint pointing therein that sometimes ago, he had met Amit Mehta (petitioner) of Dabwali, who had posed a question to him (c) as to whether he wants a Government job. As expected, he (complainant) replied in the affirmative. Amit then added that he knows influential persons in Government set up and demanded Rs.2.50 lacs for the said purpose. Somehow, he got taken in, in these false assura