IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 16.2.2026 Nitin Marwaha ......Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. Harsh Chopra, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Aakanksha Gupta, AAG, Punjab.

Mr. R.S.Bajaj, Advocate for respondent No. 2.

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

CRM-6584-2026 The application is allowed as prayed for.

Short reply filed on behalf of respondent No. 2 is taken on record.

CRM-M-73029-2025

1. Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’), is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner, in case FIR No. 118 dated 07.11.2025, under Sections 85, 316(2), 115(2) and 75 of BNS, registered at Police Station Women Cell, Commissionerate Jalandhar.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner inter alia submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case by respondent No. 2, who is the father of the victim by leveling sweeping allegations. It is submitted that the genesis of the present FIR lies in a matrimonial dispute which took place between the petitioner and the daughter of the complain