IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 9^th April, 2026 Vikram Singh and another ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Barjinder Singh, Advocate for the petitioners.

Ms. Ruchika Sabherwal, Sr. DAG, Punjab.

Mr. Aman Kumar, Advocate for the complainant.

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MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):-

The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioners seeking grant of anticipatory bail in case bearing FIR No. 168 dated 03.09.2025 registered under Sections 309(4), 309(2), 310(2), 61(2), 127(2), 304, 115(2), 191(3) and 190 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) at Police Station City Sangrur, District Sangrur.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of statement got recorded by the complainant Lovepreet Singh @ Labbu, alleging that on 03.09.2025, the petitioners along with the co-accused had wrongfully confined him, snatched his cell phone and silver neck chain, had stripped him and had forcibly recorded a video making him apologize. He had been assaulted by petitioner No. 2-Aman Kumar and accused M