IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 23.02.2026 CHARANJIT SINGH ......Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Ms. Prerna Shrivastav, Advocate for the petitioner (through V.C.).

Mr. Luvinder Sofat, Sr. DAG, Punjab.

Mr. Rupender Singh Rana, Advocate for the respondent No.2.

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KIRTI SINGH , J. (ORAL)

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.214 dated 18.08.2024, under Sections 82(1) and 85 of BNS, registered at Police Station City, Kapurthala.

2. Vide order dated 13.10.2025, the petitioner was directed to join investigation. The said order is reproduced hereinafter:-

“The petitioner has filed the instant petition under 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of anticipatory bail in FIR No.214 dated 18.08.2024 registered under Sections 82(1) & 85 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 at Police Station City Kaputhala, District Kapurthala.

Short reply by way of an affidavit of Sh. Deep Karan Singh, PPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sub Division Kapurthala, on behalf of respondent No.1-State, filed in the Registry is taken on record.

Learned counsel for the petitioner, inter alia, submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. He submits that the genesis of the FIR in question is result of the matrimonial discord between the petitioner and the complainant-wife. The allegations levlled in the FIR against the petitioner are that he performed the first marriage with one Surinder Kaur on 02.07.2004 and during the subsistence of first marriage, he contracted second marriage with Anita on 17.02.2017 and thereafter, contracted third marriage with complainant-Baljit Kaur on 22.03.2017 without getting a divorce. He submits that the said question would be a matter of trial. He further submits that the petitioner is ready to join the investigation.

On the other hand, learned State counsel assisted by learned counsel for the complainant has opposed the instant petition for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.

Adjourned to 23.01.2026.

In the meanwhile, arrest of the petitioner shall remain stayed. He shall join the investigation and co-operate with the investigating agency and shall not leave country without prior permission of this Court.”

3. Learned State counsel on instructions from ASI Harjit Singh, submits that in compliance of order dated 13.10.2025, the petitioner has joined the investigation and is not required for any further investigation.

4. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances, the petition is allowed. Order dated 13.10.2025 passed by this Court, is hereby made absolute.

5. This order should not be treated as "blanket" order. It will not be read granting the petitioner(s) indefinite protection from arrest. It shall be confined to the FIR mentioned ibid and will not operate in respect of any other incident that involves commission of an offence.

6. This order does not in any manner limit or restrict the rights or duties of the police or investigating agency to investigate into the charges against the petitioner(s).

7. The accused-petitioner(s) shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him or her from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer.

permission of the Court.

when called by the police.

10. It will be open to the police or the investigating agency to move to this Court for a direction under Section 483(3) of BNSS, 2023 (erstwhile Section 439(2) of Cr.P.C.) to arrest the accused-petitioner(s), in the event of violation of any term, such as absconding, non-cooperating during investigation, evasion, intimidation or inducement to witnesses with a view to influence outcome of the investigation or trial.

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