IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Sukhdeep Singh ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab ....Respondent Date of decision: 12.02.2026 Date of Uploading : 12.02.2026 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Ms. Nidhi Sharma, Advocate with Mr. Kesar Arora, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Adhiraj Singh Thind, AAG Punjab.

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (Oral)

1. Present petition has been filed on behalf of the petitioner seeking grant of anticipatory/pre-arrest bail under Sections 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘BNSS’) in FIR No.113 dated 14.07.2025 registered for offences punishable under Sections 106 of the BNS, 2023 and later on added Section 105 of the BNS, 2023 at Police Station Sadar, Amritsar.

2. As per the prosecution case, the FIR was lodged on the basis of statement made by the complainant namely Urmila wherein she alleged that on 14.07.2025 at about 1:00 AM, her husband namely Sanjeev Kumar, was walking in Vijay Nagar, Street No. 6, Paris Town, near Pappy Gudiya Wala, when a white Verna car bearing registration No. UP-16-AN-3188 came at a very high speed and in a rash and negligent manner ran over him. It has been furth