HARI SINGH AND ANOTHER vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-16429-2026 (O&M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. 208 CRM-M-16429-2026 (O&M). Date of Decision: 05.05.2026. Hari Singh and another ....Petitioners. VERSUS State of Punjab ....Respondent. **** CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY VASHISTH --- Present: Mr. Lakshay Bector, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Vinay Malhotra, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. **** SANJAY VASHISTH, J. (Oral) 1. Prayer in this petition, filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 (earlier Section 438 Cr.P.C.), is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners, who have been booked in a criminal case arising out of First Information Report, as detailed hereunder:- Name of FIR Date Section(s) Police District petitioner(s) No. Station Hari Singh 83 19.04.2025 115(2),118(1),126(2) Sidhwan Ludhiana Balwinder Kaur 191(3),190 and 351(2) Bet BNS (117(2) and 238 BNS added later on) 2. On 25.03.2026, following order was passed:- “1. xxx 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners with clean past antecedents have been falsely implicated. Even if the allegations as levelled in the FIR are taken to be true at its face value, (though not admitted), no specific overt act h