IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc.No.M-15609 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision : May 20, 2011. Balwinder Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.Malkeet Singh, 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 case FIR No.46 dated 1.4.2011 registered at Police Station Chamkaur Sahib, District Ropar, under Sections 304/498-A/34 IPC. As per the allegations contained in the FIR, the sister of the complainant got married with the petitioner about 1½ years back and she was thrown out of her matrimonial house when she was pregnant. The father of the complainant convened a panchayat in order to resolve the matrimonial dispute so that his daughter may settle down in her matrimonial house. The officials of police post Bela also made an attempt to resolve the dispute and called both the parties in the police post. The Crl.Misc.No.M-15609 of 2011 [2] petitioner is alleged to have manhandled his father-in-law Bhag Singh in the public view outside the police post, due to which he (Bhag Singh) fell down and suffered heart attack. The FIR specifically recites that it was in the personal knowledge of the petitioner that deceased was a heart patient. Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner and considering the nature of the allegations contained in the FIR, i.e., a matrimonial dispute and throwing out the sister of the complainant from her matrimonial house, coupled with the allegation that the petitioner manhandled his father-in-law, I do not find any ground to grant pre-arrest bail to the petitioner. The petitioner has referred to a decision of this Court in Raja Ram and others versus State of Haryana (1987 (2) RCR (Criminal) 429, in order to contend that no prima-facie case under Section 304 IPC is made out. That was the view taken by this Court while deciding the Criminal Appeal. Suffice it to mention that at this stage there is no cogent reason to outrightly observe that no case under Section 304 IPC is made out. Dismissed. May 20, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE