CRM-M18781of 2009 (O&M) 1 In the High Court for the States of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh. Decided on August 18,2009. Harnek Singh -- Petitioner vs. State of Punjab --Respondent. CORAM:HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr.Kashmir Singh,Advocate,for the petitioner Mr.K.D.Sachdeva, Addl.A.G.Punjab. Mr.G.S.Toor,Advocate,for the complainant. Rakesh Kumar Jain, J: (Oral) The petitioner has applied for anticipatory bail apprehending his arrest in a case registered vide FIR No.122 dated 28.5.2009 under Sections 419,420,465,467,468,471,120-B IPC at Police Station, Barnala, District Barnala. The FIR has been registered on the statement of Kulwant Singh son of Karam Singh in which he has alleged that he had purchased 13 kanals 19 marlas of land vide sale deed No. 6042 dated 21.12.2005, 3 kanals 4 marlas of land vide another sale deed No.6041 dated 21.12.2005, situated in village Karamgarh, District Barnala and land measuring 35 kanal-1 marla vide sale deed No. 6050 dated 22.12.2005 situated in village Sanghera Tehsil Barnala. The aforesaid land was on lease with one Jaswant Singh alias Ghona resident of village Sanghera from 1.5.2006 to CRM-M18781of 2009 (O&M) 2 April 2009. Since he committed some irregularities in payment of lease money, therefore, the complainant decided to change the lessee. He went to the house of Jaswant Singh alias Ghona on 5.5.2009 to retrieve the keys of the Motor but he flately refused. Then on 8.5.2009, he alongwith Daljit Singh son of Ajmer Singh, Tarlochan Singh son of Bakhtawar Singh, residents of village Manakwal, again went to the house of Jaswant Singh alias Ghona to obtain the keys from him but at that time, he was told that the aforesaid land has already been sold by Jit Singh resident of village Sanghera, Sukhpal Singh alias Pal resident of village Bhadder Wad, Kuldip Singh son of Mohinder Singh resident of village Kuthala and Gurmit Singh Mahant of village Thikriwal. He further came to know that Jaswant Singh alias Ghona connived with the aforesaid persons and sold his land to Lakhwinder Singh, Varinder Singh and Manpreet Singh sons of Joginder Singh son of Lal Dass, resident of Ablowal, District Patiala. It is pertinent to mention here that before coming to this Court, the petitioner had applied for anticipatory bail before the learned Addl.Sessions Judge, Barnala,which was dismissed on 04.7.2009. Learned counsel for the petitioner has argued that the petitioner has been granted interim bail by this Court and has also joined the investigation. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is the Nambardar of the village, who had only attested the sale deed but he is not beneficiary. On the contrary, learned State Counsel has argued that as per the investigation conducted by Inspector Chand Singh,Incharge, Economic Offences Wing, Barnala, the sale deeds are the result of impersonation and the petitioner had attested the sale deed which means that he had wrongly CRM-M18781of 2009 (O&M) 3 identified the seller and is also a part of this conspiracy and fraud. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and keeping in view the seriousness of the offences, no exceptional circumstances is made out for grant of anticipatory bail. Hence the bail petition is hereby dismissed. However, it is made clear that any opinion expressed herein would not be considered as an expression on the merits of the case. Aug 18,2009 (Rakesh Kumar Jain) RR Judge