GAUTAM KHANNA vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-26252-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 280 CRM-M-26252-2026 Date of decision: 20th May, 2026 Gautam Khanna ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Vivek K. Thakur, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Durgesh Garg, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab. *** MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):- The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioner seeking grant of anticipatory bail in case bearing FIR No. 94 dated 09.10.2018 registered under Sections 420 and 120-B of IPC at Police Station Khilchian, District Amritsar. 2.. As per the allegations, the petitioner along with co-accused Dushyant Sabharwal and Navin Pathak organized a seminar at Khilchian, District Amritsar in May 2018, thereby inducing the complainant and other public persons to invest their money in Bitcoin company by alluring them on the premise that they would earn profits/interest to the tune of 10% on the invested amount. The complainant Nitin Seth, who lodged a complaint before the police, further alleged that on being induced by the present petitione