IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision:30.03.2026 Hardial Singh ... Petitioner Vs.

State of Punjab ... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Ankit Kharbanda, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Sakshi Bakshi, AAG, Punjab.

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Manisha Batra, J. (Oral).

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner seeking grant of anticipatory bail in case arising out of FIR No.9, dated 09.01.2026, registered under Section 420 IPC and Section 13 of the Punjab Travel Professional (Regulation) Act, 2014, at Police Station Ranjit Avenue, District Amritsar.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of a written complaint filed by complainant – Amandeep Kaur, alleging therein that the petitioner along with his wife Manpreet Kaur, who was running immigration services under the name and style of 'Immigration Group' at Amritsar, had induced them to part with a sum of Rs.11,98,500/- and Rs.41,500/- i.e. Rs.12 lakhs on the pretext of sending them to United Kingdom. They had also represented that they would manage issuance of a degree in their favour as b