IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on : 11.03.2026 Pronounced on : 21.04.2026 Pappu Sharma ..... Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana & Ors.

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CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA PARTAP SINGH Argued by: Mr. Nitin Bhanwala, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Ramender Singh Chauhan, AAG Haryana.

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SURYA PARTAP SINGH, J.

This petition under Section 528 of ‘the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023’, has been filed by the petitioner for clubbing/consolidating 10 FIRs, mentioned in Annexure P/1, registered at the instance of different complainants on similar allegations in different police stations against the petitioner.

2. In nut-shell the facts emerging from record are that there exists a society named ‘Human Welfare Credit & Thrift Co-operative Society Limited’, and that the abovementioned Society offered various investment schemes, such as Fixed Deposits, Recurring Deposits, monthly income plans and ‘Sukanya Samridhi Yojana’. The abovementioned schemes were launched with a claim of providing higher interest rates, than the rates offered by Government Banks. The assurance of complete safety of the invested amounts was also given. Relying upon the