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Yashita Jain Vs State of Punjab (Punjab And Haryana High Court)
FULL TEXT OF THE JUDGMENT/ORDER OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT
Prayer in this petition filed under section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 is for seeking anticipatory bail in a case FIR No. 177 dated 26.12.2020 (Annexure P-1) lodged under Sections 420, 465, 467 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code 1860 registered at Police Station Daresi, District Ludhiana, Punjab.
Learned senior counsel for the petitioner, inter alia, contends that the allegations leveled in the FIR in question to the effect that the petitioner, in active collusion of Manpreet Singh and Manish Verma, officials of the Capital Small Finance Bank Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “the Bank”), has operated locker No. 46 with the Bank on 12.11.2020, which was in the name of her husband Sahil Jain and removed certain crucial documents is totally false and against the facts on record. He further contends that though admittedly she did operate the locker on 12.11.2020 but she was neither asked by the bank official nor did she put her signatures in the Register of the Bank. He further contends that in fact it was the co-accused Manish Verma who made the requisite entries in the locker operating register and forged the signature of the husband of the petitioner, which fact stands admitted by the Manager of the Bank during his interrogation.
Still further, learned senior counsel has submitted that an application had been moved by her husband, Sahil Jain, with the Bank on 02.11.2020 requesting them to add the name of the petitioner as a joint lessee of the locker in question, hence, she was well within her right to operate the locker in the above background.
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