IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision 08.05.2026.

RAM AVTAR AND OTHERS ...... PETITIONERS VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA ...... RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA PARTAP SINGH Present : Mr. Vikram Sheoran, Advocate and Mr. Kunal Phogat, Advocate for the petitioners.

*****

SURYA PARTAP SINGH . J .

CRM-14347-2026 Allowed as prayed for.

Main case

1. This is a petition under Section 528 of the ‘Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023’, hereinafter being referred to as “BNSS”. The petitioners who are aggrieved of the order dated 28.07.2022 passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate 1^st Class, Rohtak, duly affirmed in a revision petition by the learned Additional Sessions Judge Rohtak vide, order dated

19.12.2025, have preferred the present petition.

2. The above-mentioned orders have been issued in the backdrop of the fact that at the instance of ‘Raj Bala’, hereinafter being referred to as complainant only, the FIR for the commission of offence punishable under Sections 323, 506, 307 and 326 of Indian Penal Code was lodged in Police Station Kalanaur, District Rohtak. Once the above-mentioned FIR was lodged, the investigation was conducted by the police and o