ARSH KHURANA vs STATE OF UT CHANDIGARH

141 CRM-M-30712-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-30712-2026 Date of decision: 27.05.2026 ARSH KHURANA ….Petitioner Versus UNION TERRITORY, CHANDIGARH ....Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL Present:- Mr. Rohit Khullar, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Sandeep Kumar, Advocate for Mr. Amit Kumar Goyal, Addl. P.P. UT Chandigarh. ..… RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL, J. (ORAL) 1. The present petition has been preferred under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, assailing the impugned order dated 13.08.2018 (Annexure P-8), whereby the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh has declared the petitioner a proclaimed person. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that FIR No.262 dated 15.10.2017 under Sections 406, 420, 201 and 120-B IPC, was registered at P.S. Mani Majra, Chandigarh, against the petitioner on the basis of a complaint filed by one Mrs. Krishan Lata Sharma. He submits that since the petitioner was living abroad he was unaware of the registration of the FIR and resultantly failed to appear before the learned Trial Court. He submits that due to his non-appearance the petitioner was declared a procl