PRINCE KUMAR vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-26409-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 203 CRM-M-26409-2026 Date of decision : 15.05.2026 PRINCE KUMAR ... PETITIONER Versus STATE OF PUNJAB .. RESPONDENT CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S.GREWAL Present:- Mr. Sandeep Kumar, Advocate for the petitioner. *** H.S. Grewal, J.(Oral) 1. This petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (erstwhile Section 438 Cr.P.C.) seeking anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.5 dated 24.02.2026 registered under Sections 420, 120-B IPC (now Sections 318(4) & 61 BNS, 2023) and Sections 81 and 82 of the Registration Act at Police Station Punjab State Crime, Crime Wing, SAS Nagar, Mohali. 2. The case of the prosecution is that the petitioner, while posted as a Patwari, in connivance with other revenue officials and co-accused persons, facilitated the execution of certain sale deeds and mutation entries in the revenue record in respect of the property of late Rajinder Singh situated at village Lalton Kalan, Ludhiana, despite subsisting stay/status quo orders passed by the competent Civil Court. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has b