116 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision:16.02.2026 SHIV KUMAR VIG AND ANOTHER ... PETITIONERS VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER ... RESPONDENTS CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.GREWAL Present:- Mr. Aalok Jagga, Advocate with Mr. Karan Inder Singh, Mr. Aryaman Jagga and Mr. Madhav Singhal, Advocates for the petitioners.

Mr. Rishabh Singla, A.A.G., Punjab.

Mr. Bhupinder Singh, Advocate for the respondent no.2.

H.S. GREWAL, J. (ORAL)

1. The present petition has been filed by the petitioners under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing the FIR No. 279 dated 28.12.2018 under Section 406 IPC registered at Police Station Model Town, District Hoshiarpur along with all the consequential proceedings arising therefrom.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners contends that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the present case. It is submitted that the dispute, on a plain reading of the FIR, arises out of business transactions between the parties and is purely civil in nature. The complainant alleges that the petitioners, who are engaged in running a brick kiln, had purchased coal from the complainant’s company between the years 2013 and 2016, ₹

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