ROHIT AND OTHERS vs STATE OF PUNJAB

CRM-M-26236-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 207 CRM-M-26236-2026 Date of decision: 26th May, 2026 Rohit and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present: Mr. Harjit Singh Sandhu, Advocate for the petitioners. Ms. Sakshi Bakshi, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab. *** MANISHA BATRA, J (ORAL):- The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) by the petitioners seeking grant of anticipatory bail in case bearing FIR No. 20 dated 17.01.2026 registered under Sections 310, 304, 115(2), 3(5) and 61(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) at Police Station Shahkot, District Jalandhar. 2. The aforementioned FIR was registered on the basis of statement got recorded by the complainant Tanish Gaba, alleging therein that on 17.01.2026, he along with his partner Dinesh Kumar, was present in his rice sheller, when at about 12:30 p.m., petitioners No. 1 and 3 i.e. Rohit and Mani @ Jagroop, respectively reached there in a Chevrolet Cruze vehicle. After alighting from their vehicle, they forcibly started taking rice bags ke