IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

234 Date of Decision: 06.05.2026 Ankit Khurana ... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and another ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Anand Chhibbar, Senior Advocate with Mr. Utkarsh Khatana, Advocate and Mr. Inderjeet Singh, Advocate, for the petitioner.

Mr. Neeraj Poswal, AAG, Haryana, for the respondent-State.

Ms. Swati Vashisth, Advocate, for respondent No.2-complainant.

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MANISHA BATRA , J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed by the petitioner under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (For short “BNSS”) seeking regular bail in the FIR mentioned below:-

FIR No. Dated Police Station Sections

210 09.06.2025 Cyber West, District3(5), 318(4), 319, 336(3), Gurugram 338, 340 and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (For short “BNS”) and 66D of Information Technology (Amendment)

Act, 2008

2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of a written complaint submitted by the complainant that in January 2025, he had received messages from one female who was administrator of a Whatsapp group named “Key to Wealth” by representing that she was part of a company which was subsidiary Company of Investment Group under the name of Indmoney Private Limited. She joined him in the above named group and induced him to join a stock market group through the App of her company named as “Indmoney PV” by representing that her company dealt in stock market and used to buy large number of shares on lower rates and alluring him on the ground of fetching handsome profits. He was induced to invest a huge amount of money and was made to believe that he had earned profit of a sum of Rs.1,26,78,750/- on his investment. When he applied for withdrawal of money on necessity having arisen, he was asked to deposit 30% of the total profit earned on account of Short Term Capital Gain Tax to the tune of Rs.41,02,226/-. He had deposited the said amount also but then came to know that he had been duped of a sum of Rs.1,46,71,187/-. As such, he prayed for taking action in the matter.

3. After registration of FIR, investigation proceedings were initiated. It was revealed that the money from the bank account of the complainant had been transferred to different bank accounts. The record of beneficiary account numbers were obtained. It was revealed that in the second Layer, an amount of Rs.02,50,000/- was transferred on 17.05.2025 from the account of Layer-1 operative at Punjab & Sind Bank. The said account was operative in the name of one Selective Brains Spezill Pvt. Ltd. and run by accused Yatin and also in the account of accused Sharad Kant. Both of them were joined into investigation. They were interrogated and suffered disclosure statement admitting their involvement in the crime. They got recovered ATM Card, sim card and a particular phone number and gave details of net banking username and password of the abovementioned company. The record of another Layer II beneficiary which was current bank account at AU Small Finance Bank was also obtained and it was revealed that a sum of Rs.4,00,000/- was transferred on 24.05.2025 from Layer-1 bank account in which money was transferred from the account of the complainant. The said account was in the name of Daksh Enterprises under the proprietorship of the present petitioner.

4. As per the further allegations, the petitioner was joined into investigation on 23.01.2026 and was formally arrested. He suffered disclosure statement admitting his involvement in the crime and got recovered a mobile phone containing chats with Sumit Malik who was nominated as an additional accused. He also disclosed that out of the amount of Rs.4,00,000/- received in his bank account, an amount of Rs.40,000/- was kept by him as his own commission and the remaining amount was given to the co-accused Sumit Malik. Investigation qua the petitioner stands concluded and supplementary challan against him as well as co-accused Sh