Crl. Misc No. M-21808 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc No. M-21808 of 2009 Date of decision : 11.08.2009 Sukhwinder Singh ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab ....Respondent BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. L.M. Gulati, Advocate for the petitioner. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) This is a petition seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered against the petitioner under Sections 222, 223, 224, 225, 120-B IPC vide FIR No. 274 dated 10.07.2009 at police station Civil Lines, Amritsar. The allegations in the FIR are that one Chetan Bhalla @ Honey undertrial accused in a case under Section 302 IPC escaped from the judicial custody in connivance with the police officials. Resultantly, the instant FIR was registered on the statement of SI Tarsem Lal. Learned counsel for the petitioner has argued that duty of the petitioner was not with undertrial at the relevant time when he allegedly escaped. Thus, petitioner cannot be held liable for the same. This fact can be verified from the jail records. Learned counsel has also argued that the petitioner being a government servant, there is no chance of his fleeing from the justice. Thus, he deserves to be granted the concession of anticipatory bail. I have heard counsel for the petitioner. Crl. Misc No. M-21808 of 2009 2 A perusal of the allegations levelled in the FIR show that same are serious in nature. The undertrial accused of an offence under Section 302 IPC escaped while in judicial custody. This allegedly happened due to connivance of police officials. I am, thus, of the considered view that petitioner is not entitled to concession of anticipatory bail keeping in view the nature of crime. In fact custodial interrogation of the petitioner may be required to enable the investigating agency to unravel the entire conspiracy. I thus, find no merit in the petition. The same is hereby dismissed. 11.08.2009 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE