IN THE PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 06.04.2026 Narinder Singh @ Kakku …Petitioner V/S State of Punjab and another …Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL Present: Mr. Barjinder Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Sukhbeer Singh, DAG, Punjab.

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SHALINI SINGH NAGPAL J. (Oral)

1. Petitioner seeks anticipatory bail in case arising out of FIR No.360 dated 22.07.2025, under Sections 9, 11 of Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 and Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 201 (added later on) and Section 64 of BNS (added later on), Police Station Goindwal Sahib, Distrcit Tarn Taran. This is the first petition for anticipatory bail.

2. Prosecutrix alleged that she was living with her grand- parents in village Jawanda Kalan, after her parents divorced and got remarried. Her father had been pressurizing her to get married and despite her resistance, her paternal aunts Jasbir Kaur wife of Amandeep Singh and Jaswinder Kaur wife of Jagjit Singh in connivance with her father and Mediator-Narender Singh @ Kaku and his wife Sabri, forcibly got her married with Gorakh Iqbal Singh son of Dhanwant Singh resident of Jala