IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.69796-M of 2006 Date of Decision: 20.3.2007 Manmeet Singh ....Petitioner. Versus State of Punjab and others. ...Respondents. CORAM : Hon'ble Mr. Justice S.S.Saron. Present:- Mr.Kanwaljit Singh,Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Gurinder Singh Bhandari, DAG Punjab for the respondents. **** S.S.SARON, J.(ORAL) By way of the present petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (`Cr.P.C.' for short) indulgence of this Court is sought for issuing directions to respondents No.1 to 3 to arrest the accused persons in case FIR No.138 dated 24.8.2006, registered at Police station Model Town, Ludhiana, for the offence under Section 307 of Indian Penal Code read with section 25 of the Arms Act. The afore mentioned FIR has been registered on the statement of Manmeet Singh son of Baldev Singh. It is alleged that on 23.8.2006 at about 9:45 p.m. when the complainant along with his brother Amarjit Singh was discussing business matters with Sandeep Kumar, owner of the shop, Solan son of Joginder Singh, owner of Moga Motors reached there. He had consumed liquor and started abusing. They tried to make him Crl.M.No.69796-M of 2006 -2- understand that it was bad to abuse. However, he started abusing and fired three shots from the pistol which he took out from his waist band. One shot is stated to have hit the complainant. It has been alleged that despite the aforesaid occurrence the police was not carrying out effective investigation in the case. Learned counsel for the State on instruction from ASI Rajwinder Singh, P.S. Model Town, Ludhiana, has submitted that the police has carried out effective investigation. It is submitted that the accused Bhupinder Singh alias Solan son of Joginder Singh has been arrested in the case and the challan would be filed very shortly. In the afore said circumstances, nothing survives in the present petition. In case the petitioner has any grievance, he may approach the investigating agency. With the aforesaid observation, the present petition is disposed of. (S.S.SARON) March 20,2007 JUDGE Reema