VIKAS SHARMA vs STATE OF PUNJAB

2026:PHHC: vole CRM-M-28128-2026 Ee -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 138 CRM-M-28128-2026 (O & M) Date of decision: 18.05.2026 VIKAS SHARMA ....Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ... Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMAN CHAUDHARY Present : Mr. Suvir Sidhu, Advocate, for the petitioner. AMAN CHAUDHARY, J. (ORAL) 1. The present petition has been filed under Section 528 of BNS for granting permission to allow the petitioner to return back to India on 26.05.2026, who is arraigned as an accused in FIR No.10 dated 21.06.2019, registered at Police Station Vigilance Bureau, Flying Squad at Mohali, District Mohali, under Sections 409, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B IPC, Section 7 and 13(1) (A) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. 2. Learned counsel submits that the petitioner was granted bail by this Court, vide order dated 05.12.2023, whereafter he was granted permission by this Court four times to travel abroad and each time he returned within the prescribed period. However being under the impression that the order dated 27.05.2024 was continuing and his personal appearance also’ stood permanently exempted in CRM-M-24659-2024 by