SANJEEV KUMAR vs EMANIAL SALHOTRA

2026:PHHC:096926 CRM-M-16034-2025 ae IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 203 CRM-M-16034-2025 Date of decision: 16.07.2026 SANJEEV KUMAR ... PETITIONER Versus EMANIAL SALHOTRA ... RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S. GREWAL Present:- Mr. Atul Kumar, Advocate for Mr. G.P.S. Ghuman, Advocate for the petitioner. wee 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 29.01.2025 (Annexure P-3) passed by the learned JMIC-4, Jalandhar in a complaint case registered under Section 138 of the NIA Act bearing CIS No.CRM/4253/2023 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 undertakes to appear before the trial Court concerned on each and every date and would not absent himself without prior permission of the trial Court. It is, som euens