HARPREET CHAHAL vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-30545-2026 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 138 CRM-M-30545-2026 Date of Decision: 26.05.2026 HARPREET CHAHAL .....PETITIONER VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB .....RESPONDENT CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.GREWAL Present: Mr. Navraj Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. **** H.S. GREWAL, J. (ORAL) 1. This petition has been filed under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (corresponding to section 482 Cr.P.C.) for quashing of order dated 13.11.2020 passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Jalandhar (Annexure P-3) whereby the petitioner was declared proclaimed offender in FIR no. 10 dated 19.02.2020 under sections 323, 324, 326, 506 read with section 34 IPC, registered at police station Patara, District Jalandhar Rural and all consequential proceedings arising therefrom as the same are illegal, arbitrary and unsustainable in law, and therefore liable to be set aside in the interest of justice. (corresponding to section ,118(1), 118(2),351(2)(3) BNS) 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner had no knowledge regarding the pendency of the FIR and the subsequent proceedings, as the matter had already been compro