IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANAAT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 19.05.2026 Date of Uploading: 19.05.2026 Paramdeep Singh Lotey @ Mandeep Singh Lotey @ Vicky Lotey ….Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another ….Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present:- Mr. Varinder S. Rana, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Adhiraj Singh, AAG, Punjab.

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SUMEET GOEL, J. (ORAL)

Present second petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.0138 dated 08.08.2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 316(2), 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’), registered at Police Station Dugri, District Ludhiana.

The first petition bearing CRM-M-56474-2025 (Annexure P-4)

for grant of pre-arrest/anticipatory bail filed before this Court was dismissed on merits thereof on 06.10.2025. The present petition is the second petition for grant of anticipatory/pre-arrest bail which has been preferred by the petitioner on 04.05.2026.

2. The gravamen of the FIR in question is that complainant, namely, Shu