SURESH KUMAR vs STATE OF HARYANA

CRM-M-20853-2026 -1- 132 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-20853-2026 Date of Decision: 11.05.2026 Suresh Kumar ..... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana .......Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BHARDWAJ Present: Mr. Sumit S. Bairagi, Advocate, for the petitioner. Rajesh Bhardwaj, J. (Oral) 1. Prayer in the present petition is for quashing of the impugned FIR No.1046 dated 25.12.2025 registered under Section 174-A IPC (now Section 209 BNS, 2023), registered at Police Station Civil Lines, District Karnal with all consequential proceedings alongwith the order dated 17.12.2025 passed by learned JMIC, Karnal, vide which the petitioner has been declared proclaimed person. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner was prosecuted in a complaint filed under Section 138 of the NI Act, however, during the pendency of the same, the petitioner was declared as proclaimed person vide impugned order dated 17.12.2025 due to his absence and the impugned FIR under Section 174-A IPC was registered against him. He submits that even otherwise both the sides have compromised their inter-se dispute. He submits that on the basis of the said