IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 16.02.2026 DILPREET SINGH AND ANOTHER ......Petitioner VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB .......Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ *****

Present: - Mr. Shivraj Angi, Advocate for the petitioners.

Dr. (Ms.) Savi Nagpal, Asst. A.G. Punjab.

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VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 for grant of pre-arrest bail to the petitioners in case bearing FIR No.57 dated 29.05.2025, under Sections 118(1), 191(3), 190 of BNS, 2023 (Section 118(2) of BNS was added later on) registered at Police Station Phul, District Bathinda.

2. The FIR in the present case has been registered on the statement of Satnam Singh son of Maghar Singh resident of Ghanda Banna and the same is extracted as under:

“Statement of Satnam Singh s/o Maghar Singh, resident of Ghanda Banna, aged about 35 years, Mobile No. 98760-26820, stated that I am resident of above mentioned address and do the labour work. On dated 13.05.2025 time was about 9:00, I came to my house from outside, at that time my sister-in-law Lovepreet Kaur w/o Sukhdev Singh started staying bad names to my wife. My wife