IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 21.04.2026 RAJINDER KUMAR SHARMA AND ANOTHER ... PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB ... RESPONDENT CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.GREWAL Present:- Mr. Sandeep Gupta, Advocate for the petitioners.

(Through video conferencing)

H.S. Grewal, J.(Oral)

1. This petition has been filed by the petitioners for direction to the Arresting Officer to release the petitioners on bail forthwith in event of their arrest in case FIR No 145 dated 02.10.2025 under Section 316(2) of BNS and Section 61(2) BNS added on 29.12.2025 registered at Police Station Satnampura, District Kapurthala.

2. The case of the prosecution is that the daughter of the petitioners was married to the complainant on 26.01.2015. On 10.04.2025, the complainant’s wife left the matrimonial home on the pretext that the children had holidays and did not return thereafter. On 15.04.2025, the complainant, accompanied by respectable members of his family, approached his in-laws to bring her back; however, they refused to send her with him. Upon returning home, the complainant discovered that gold articles, which had been entrusted to his wife for safe custody, along wi