SACHIN ALIAS PARSHOTAM KUMAR ALIAS PURUSHOTAM DASS vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-16279-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 148 CRM-M-16279-2026 Date of decision: 13.07.2026 SACHIN ALIAS PARSHOTAM KUMAR ALIAS PURUSHOTAM DASS ... PETITIONER Versus STATE OF PUNJAB … RESPONDENT CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S. GREWAL Present:- Mr. P.S. Bal, Advocate for the petitioner. *** H.S. Grewal, J.(Oral) 1. This petition has been preferred by the petitioner under Section 528 of BNSS, 2023 (erstwhile Section 482 Cr.P.C.), seeking quashing of the order dated 02.02.2016 (Annexure P-12) passed by the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rupnagar, in CHI/6934/2013, titled as ‘State vs. Nishant Sharma’ arising out of FIR No.20 dated 12.02.2011, under Sections 420, 406 IPC (now Sections 318 & 316 BNS, 2023) registered at Police Station Kurali, District Rupnagar (now SAS Nagar Mohali) whereby the petitioner has been declared as a proclaimed person. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the trial Court, without following the procedure prescribed under Section 82 Cr.P.C., declared the petitioner a proclaimed person vide the impugned order, which is unsustainable under the law. Learned counsel also submits that the petitioner SONIA