HARJINDER SINGH NIJJAR vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER

1 CRM-M-8757-2025 122 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-8757-2025 Harjinder Singh Nijjar ….Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another ….Respondents Date of Decision: May 15, 2026 Date of Uploading: May 15, 2026 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SUMEET GOEL Present:- Ms. Sajida Akhtar, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Adhiraj Singh Thind, AAG Punjab. Mr. Liaqat Ali, Advocate for respondent No.2. ***** SUMEET GOEL, J. (Oral) Present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 seeking quashing of the impugned order dated 02.11.2016 (Annexure P-5) passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Phillaur, District Jalandhar, whereby, the petitioner has been declared as proclaimed person, in complaint case No.75/1/2014, dated 21.03.2014, under Sections 324, 326, 148, 149 of IPC, 1860, at Police Station Nurmehal, District Jalandhar. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has contended that the impugned order, whereby the petitioner has been declared a proclaimed person, is wholly illegal, arbitrary, and unsustainable in the eyes of law. Learned counsel has submitted that earlier an FIR No.35 dated 05.03.2014, was got lodged by respondent No.2 and