GAUTAM KHANNA vs STATE OF PUNJAB

2026:PHHC:068410 eae CRM-M-24301-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 146 CRM-M-24301-2026 Date of decision: 04.05.2026 GAUTAM KHANNA ... PETITIONER Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ... RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S. GREWAL Present:- Mr. Vivek K. Thakur, Advocate for the petitioner. KEK 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 16.04.2024 (Annexure P-2) passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate 1 Class, Amritsar in case FIR No.94 dated 09.10.2018, registered under Sections 420 & 120-B IPC, at Police Station Khilchian, District Amritsar whereby the petitioner along with other co-accused(s) 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 (Annexure P-2), which is unsustainable under the law as no publication, no announcement or affixation has been done in the present case. Learned counsel also submits that gies 2026:PHHC:068410 C