IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 23.02.2026 RAHUL VERMA ......Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. Jagpal Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Yadwinder Singh, AAG, Punjab.

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

1. The jurisdiction of this Court under Section 483 of BNSS has been invoked for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No. 204 dated 16.07.2025 under Sections 137(2), 87 of BNS and lateron added Section 64 of BNS, Section 6 of POCSO Act, registered at Police Station Ludhiana.

2. The translated version of the FIR is reproduced below:-

“Statement of unknown xxxx, wife of Ram Narayan Tiwari, resident of Street No. 3, Mohalla New Abedkar Nagar, 33 Foot Road, Giaspura, Police Station Sahnewal, Ludhiana, age about 42 years, Mob: 9653923991, stated that I am a resident of the above address. My marriage took place in the year, 2001 in UP, and I have four children, out of which three are girls, the eldest of whom is xxxx, xxxx and xxxx, and the son is Rajnis Kumar Tiwari. My younger daughter is xxxx, the eldest of whom is xxxx, who passed her 10th class papers from Government Schoo