IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Sulakshna Girdhar Lalwani ... Petitioner Vs.

State of Haryana ... Respondent 1. The date when the judgment is reserved 25.03.2026 2. The date when the judgment is pronounced 30.03.2026 3. The date when the judgment is uploaded on the 30.03.2026 website

4. Whether only operative part of the judgment is Full pronounced or whether the full judgment is pronounced

5. The delay, if any, of the pronouncement of full Not applicable judgment, and reasons thereof CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. R.S. Rai, Senior Advocate with Mr. Vishal Sharda, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Neeraj Poswal, AAG, Haryana.

Mr. Vinod Ghai, Senior Advocate with Mr. Pratap Singh, Advocate and Mr. Vijay Dahiya, Advocate for the complainant.

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Manisha Batra, J. (Oral).

1. The present petition has been filed by the petitioner for grant of anticipatory bail in case arising out of FIR No.80, dated 05.05.2025, registered under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 511 IPC, at Police Station Sector-37, District Gurugram.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of a written complaint filed by complainant – Brij Lal Lalwani, alleging therein that he had purchased some land situated in village Mohammadpur Jharsa, Sector- 36, Gurugram, Haryana vide a registered sale deed dated 17.08.1988. His son Girdhar Lalwani with an intent to grab the said property in connivance with the co-accused i.e. his son and wife i.e. the present petitioner prepared a forged and fabricated document purported to be a deed of gift of the aforementioned property by him in his favour, though, the complainant had never executed any gift deed in favour of his son. It was alleged that the said gift deed neither bore his signatures nor it was a registered document. He came to know about the existence of such gift deed when his son filed a civil suit bearing Civil Suit No.2839 of 2024. By alleging that previously, he had also filed a civil suit bearing No.4361 of 1998 against his son Girdhar Lalwani seeking injunction against them thereby restraining them from entering in his house or office as they had been harassing him and that he had been cheated and defrauded at the hands of his son, petitioner and co- accused, he prayed for taking action. On his complaint, the aforementioned FIR was registered. Apprehending her arrest, the petitioner moved an application for grant of pre-arrest bail, which has been dismissed by the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Gurugram vide order dated

15.05.2025.

3. Vide order dated 23.05.2025 passed in this petition, the petitioner had been granted interim bail and had been directed to join investigation.

4. It is argued by learned counsel for the petitioner that she has been falsely implicated in this case only on account of her being wife of co- accused Girdhar Lalwani. She has no concern with the property in question as it belongs to HUF, of which her husband i.e. co-accused and the complainant are part of. Though not legally divorced, but she has been living separately from her husband over a period of more than 02 decades. She has no interest in the property in question but has been looking after the gaushala existing over the premises by way of charity. Since her husband could not manage gaushala property, he executed a trust deed with her son and herself for the purpose of proper management of the property in question qua which no title has been passed. She has no concern with the gift deed which is alleged to be forged and fabricated document got prepared by her husband. She is not beneficiary to the same since as per the allegations, this gift deed was executed in favour of her husband only. Moreso, even her husband has no ownership over the disputed property on the basis of said gift deed and as such, it cannot be stated that the said gift deed had been prepared with an intent to cheat the complainant or to cause any wrongful loss to him. There is inordinate delay in lodging of t