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CRM-M-64309-2025 (O&M) 1

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

(106) (cid:1)(cid:1) CRM-M-64309-2025 (O&M)

Date of decision :27.07.2026

VIKAS KUMAR

... Petitioner

Versus

CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

...Respondent

CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA

Present: Mr. Gaurav Chopra, Senior Advocate with

Mr. Rohit Kumar, Advocate and

Mr.Vikram Vir Sharda, Advocate for the petitioner

Mr. Ravi Kamal Gupta, Special Public Prosecutor

for the respondent-CBI

Mr. P.S. Ahluwalia, Senior Advocate with

Ms. Keerat Dhillon, Advocate for the complainant

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MANISHA BATRA, J. (ORAL)

1. The instant petition has been petition filed by the petitioner under

Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short “BNSS”)

for grant of regular bail in cases bearing RC No.0512023S00012 & RC

No.0512023S00013 (For short RC-12 and RC-13 respectively) dated

15.11.2023 registered under Section 120-B read with Sections 452, 323, 506,

427, 148, 149, 408, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 193 of IPC at Police Station CBI,

Special Crime Branch, Chandigarh.

AMIT SHARMA

2026.07.27 16:07

I attest to the accuracy and

integrity of this order/judgment.

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2. Vide order dated 18.10.2023 passed in CRM-M-6340-2023, a

direction had been issued by this Court to the respondent-CBI to conduct

investigation in cases bearing FIR No.133 dated 10.03.2022 registered under

Sections 452, 323, 506, 427, 120B, 148 and 149 of IPC at Police Station

Zirakpur, District SAS Nagar (Mohali) (For short “FIR No.133”) and case

bearing FIR No.303 dated 04.10.2023 registered under Sections 420, 465,

467, 468 and 471 of IPC at Police Station Dera Bassi, District SAS Nagar

(Mohali) (For short “FIR No.303”).

3. FIR No.133 was lodged by Harjit Singh, Manager of Guru

Nanak Vidhya Bhandar Trust, Daryaganj, New Delhi (now to be mentioned

as “complainant Trust”), alleging therein that 32 bighas of land situated at

Zirakpur Patiala Road had been purchased by the complainant-Trust in the

year 1986 and it was in possession of the same. With intent to grab the said

land, accused Sanjeev Kumar Gatha, Rajesh Kumar Gaba, Rajinder Kumar

and Sarabjit Singh hatched a conspiracy with their accomplices and had got

registered a separate Trust with the name similar to that of the complainant

Trust and had got prepared different documents. Inquiries were pending in

different offices with regard to the said Trust. He alleged that on 10.03.2022,

the accused Rajesh Kumar Gabba alongwith his 10-12 accomplices entered

inside the land of the Trust by being armed with deadly weapons. The

security guards standing at the gate of the said land were assaulted with

weapons. Injuries were caused to them and their phones as well as CCTV

cameras installed therein were damaged. Threats were extended to the guards

AMIT SHARMA

2026.07.27 16:07

I attest to the accuracy and

integrity of this order/judgment.

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and all this was done to take illegal possession of the land of the Trust. A

Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted and charge-sheet was filed

as against the co-accused Sanjeev Kumar Gatha, Rajesh Kumar Gaba and

Manoj Kumar.

4. FIR No.303 was registered on the basis of complaint filed by

Inder Deep alleging that accused Sanjeev Kumar Gatha, Rajesh Kumar,

Sarabjit Singh and Rajinder Kumar had created and utilized forged documents

to claim ownership and possession of the land owned by the complainant

Trust.

5. After re-registration of both the above FIRs as RC No.12 and 13

respectively, the CBI had conducted investigation. It was revealed that the

accused Sanjeev Kumar Gaba, Rajinder Kumar and Sarabjit Singh alongwith

the fake Trust had filed a civil suit in the Court of Civil Judge (Junior

Division), Dera Bassi through the present petitioner, who was a practising

Advocate.An application under Order 39 Rules 1 and 2 of CPC as filed in the

said suit had been dismissed by the Court of Learned Civil Judge (Junior

Division), Dera Bassi vide order dated 04.04.2022 and strictures were passed

against the abov