SONIA SHAI vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER

CRM-M-28594-2026 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 110 CRM-M-28594-2026 Sonia Shai ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab and another ....Respondents Date of decision: 15.07.2026 Date of Uploading : 16.07.2026 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present: Mr. Dixit Raj Kapoor, Advocate for the petitioner (through Video Conference). Mr. Adhiraj Singh Thind, AAG Punjab. Mr. S.S. Sarwara, Advocate for the respondent No.2. ***** SUMEET GOEL, J. (Oral) 1. Present petition has been filed under Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (hereinafter to be referred as ‘the BNSS’) for grant of pre-arrest/anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case bearing FIR No.74 dated 01.04.2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 318(4) of BNS and Section 13 of Punjab Travel Professionals (Regulation) Act, 2014, at Police Station Civil Lines, Patiala. 2. The case of the prosecution, as emerging from the FIR, is that the complainant namely Prem Singh (respondent No.2 herein) alleged that the petitioner, who was running an immigration business in the name and style of ‘Sahi Immigration’, represented that she could arrange a United Kingdom work permit vis