The petitioners, Monika Garg and another, filed a petition under Section 482 CrPC before the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking quashing of FIR No.154 dated 13.06.2015, registered under Sections 420/465/467/468/471/120-B IPC at Police Station Kotwali Bathinda. Their principal ground was that an earlier FIR No.45 dated 01.05.2013 had already been registered on the same set of allegations under Sections 306/506/420/34 IPC, and therefore a second FIR was impermissible. The background involved allegations that the petitioners had fraudulently obtained a loan of Rs.1,45,00,000 from Punjab and Sind Bank using the deceased Darshan Singh Dhillon as a guarantor, whose subsequent suicide led to FIR No.45. In FIR No.45, all three accused were ultimately convicted by trial court vide judgment dated 07.04.2025 and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment of 10 years under Section 306 read with Section 34 IPC, among other sentences. The State and the complainant opposed the quashing petition, contending that the allegations and accused in both FIRs were entirely different, and the judgment concludes mid-discussion of the applicable legal principles.