INDU BHALLA vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-2177-2026 (O&M) -1- 204 See 2026:PHHC:094487 ee IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-2177-2026 (O&M) Date of Decision: 13.07.2026 Indu Bhalla ...Petitioner(s) Vs. State of Punjab ... Respondent(s) CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE N.S. SHEKHAWAT Present: | Mr. Sangram Singh Saron, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. M.S. Bajwa, DAG, Punjab. sek N.S. SHEKHAWAT, J. (Oral) 1. The petitioner has filed the present petition under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short BNSS, 2023) with a prayer to grant anticipatory bail to him in case FIR No.182, dated 11.12.2025, registered under Sections 406 and 420 IPC, at Police Station Police Commissionerate Division no.5, Jalandhar, District Jalandhar. 2. While granting the concession of interim anticipatory bail, this Court had noticed the following contentions:- “Learned counsel for the petitioner contended that the main allegation is against co-accused - Varun Bhalla, who happens to be son of the present petitioner; the present petitioner is a widow of 70 years of age and a household lady. She has nothing to do with the present case regarding sending the complainant abroad i.e. Cananda. She has diso