IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M No.70301 of 2025 Date of Decision: 09.03.2026 Sarwan Kumar ..... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ..... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ ***

Present: Mr. Manoj Kumar Sood, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Tanuj Sharma, AAG, Haryana.

Mr. Baljeet Beniwal, Advocate for the complainant.

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RAJESH BHARDWAJ, J.

1. Present petition has been filed praying for the grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.742, dated 22.11.2023, under Sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of IPC, registered at Police Station City Ballabgarh, District Faridabad.

2. Succinctly, the facts of the case are that FIR in the present case was got registered on the statement of complainant, namely, Mandhir Maan, s/o Rattan Singh Mann. It was alleged that Paramvir, Rajesh Gupta and Ranvir were involved in selling of properties and swindling money by preparing agreement with forged documents. Rajesh and Ranvir were working as property dealers and told the complainant that H. No.85, Sector 29, measuring 250 sq. Yards was for sale and Paramvir, i.e. the petitioner was the owner of the same. Rajesh Gupta and Ranvir got fixed the meeting of the complainant with Paramvir and the deal was done for an amount of Rs.1 Crore. The agreement to sell was executed on 23.11.2021 in the presence of co-accused, namely, Rajesh Gupta and Ranvir. It was alleged that Earnest money of Rs.20,00,000/- was paid and thereafter, on 01.02.2022, an amount of Rs.10,00,000/- was paid. Balance amount was to be paid at the time of registration of sale deed. Rajesh Gupta and Ranvir put their signatures on the agreement as the witnesses in the presence of notary. Later on, the complainant realized that Paramvir was avoiding to execute the registered sale deed and took money at the instance of Rajesh Gupta and Ranvir. They were not disclosing the reasons for not getting the sale deed registered. Thus, the complainant got suspicious and, therefore, inquired about the property from HUDA and then, it was transpired that the property was neither in the name of Paramvir nor any document was there in respect of ownership of the said property. The complainant informed Rajesh Gupta and Ranvir about the alleged fraud as committed with him but they started putting off the matter and avoided to meet him. When the complainant demanded back the amount of Rs.30,00,000/- given to them, they started to threaten him. Thus, the complainant found that he was cheated by all the accused and, thus, request was made to take legal action against them. On the basis of the complaint, the FIR was registered. On registration of the FIR, the investigation commenced.

During the investigation, complicity of the petitioner, namely, Sarwan Kumar, surfaced and thus, he was arrayed as an accused in the present case. Resultantly, the petitioner was arrested on 08.11.2025. The petitioner approached the Court of learned Additional District & Sessions Judge, Faridabad praying for the grant of regular bail. However, after hearing both the sides and finding no merit in the same, the learned Additional District & Sessions Judge, Faridabad declined the bail application filed by the petitioner vide order dated 02.12.2025. Hence being aggrieved, the petitioner is before this Court praying for the grant of regular bail by way of filing the present petition.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. He has submitted that neither the petitioner was named in the FIR nor there is any complaint filed by co-accused, Paramvir that the petitioner had cheated him, however, he has been implicated in the present case only on the basis that he had sold the said property to co-accused, namely, Paramvir on the basis of fake/forged registered Will dated 19.09.2019. He has submitted that as per the FSL report, the signature does not match with the original and there was no evidence