IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 20^th May, 2026 Mohd. Mehraj ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Ashish Jhamb, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Himani Arora, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana.

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MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):-

The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner seeking grant of anticipatory bail in case bearing FIR No. 151 dated 15.03.2026 registered under Sections 123, 127(2), 140(3) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) at Police Station Palla, Faridabad.

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of a written complaint submitted by the complainant Rubi Khatun, alleging therein that she had been residing separately from her husband Ali Sher Khan, due to some matrimonial disputes. Her husband had been residing with some other female. Some time back, her husband had called her younger daughter Jannat to live with him to avoid making payment of any maintenance amount. On 10.03.2026, she received information from the female with whom her husband had been residin