IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ****

127 CRM-M-10551-2026 Date of Decision : 23.02.2026 RAM SHANKAR ...Petitioner VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER ...Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE AARADHNA SAWHNEY Present: Mr. Jashandeep Singh, Advocate for the petitioner (through Video Conferencing).

Mr. Kamalpreet Bawa, DAG, Punjab.

Mr. Nakul Sharma, Advocate for the complainant.

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AARADHNA SAWHNEY, J. (ORAL)

1. This petition for grant of anticipatory bail under Section 482 BNSS, has been filed by petitioner, an accused in case bearing FIR No.30 dated 23.01.2026, registered against him at Police Station Division No.8, District Ludhiana, for the commission of offences punishable u/s 318(4), 306 of BNS.

2. Relevant facts as can be inferred from the documents on record are noticed hereinbelow:-

Vikram Jain, s/o Mangat Rai Jain, running a jewelry showroom under the name and style of “M.B. Jain Jewellers” on College Road near Fountain Chowk, Ludhiana, set the criminal law in motion by filing a complaint pointing therein that he has been running the aforesaid shop for the last 8 years. He has employed 10 persons at the showroom, out of whom Ram Shankar (present petitioner), p