IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc.No.M-12285 of 2011 Date of Decision : May 03, 2011. Poonam Rani .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Padam Jain, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail in criminal complaint No.34/2/09 dated 10.1.2009 titled as Rakesh Kumar versus Poonam Rani filed under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act which is pending in the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Jalandhar, in which the petitioner has been declared a proclaimed offender. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and after going through the material on record, I do not find it a fit case to grant anticipatory bail as the petitioner despite service of notice effected upon her through different modes, has been deliberately evading the court proceedings. The prayer for anticipatory bail is accordingly declined. However, keeping in view the attending circumstances including the fact Crl.Misc.No.M-12285 of 2011 [2] that the petitioner is a woman, it is directed that in case she surrenders before the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Jalandhar within a period of one week and applies for her release on regular bail, such an application shall be considered sympathetically and dispose of within a period of two days. Dasti. May 03, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE