CRM No.M-3196 of 2011 (O&M) -1- ***** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM No.M-3196 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision:28.02.2011. Amrik Singh and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr. A.S.Kalra, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Ram Lal Gupta, Addl. A.G., Punjab, for the respondent. ***** RAKESH KUMAR JAIN, J. This is a petition filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [for short “Cr.P.C.”] for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners in a case registered vide FIR No.76, dated 13.07.2009, under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [for short “IPC”], at Police Station Banur, District Patiala. In brief, the petitioners are booked in the aforesaid case and were on bail. On 10.01.2011, they did not appear before the Trial Court, rather an application was filed by one of the co-accused Kartar Singh seeking exemption from his personal appearance as well as of the other co-accused on the ground that they have been taken in illegal custody by the Police of Police Station Banur on the pretext of a false case registered under Sections 302/211/182/34 of IPC vide FIR No.3 dated 06.01.2011. However, vide order dated 12.01.2011, the learned Trial Court found the reason assigned in the application for exemption from personal appearance to be false and cancelled the bail bonds and surety bonds and issued non-bailable warrants, as a result of which CRM No.M-3196 of 2011 (O&M) -2- ***** the present anticipatory bail application has been filed. Notice in the application was issued, pursuant to which the State of Punjab has put in appearance. I have heard both the learned counsel for the parties and perused the available record but I am not impressed with the arguments raised by learned counsel for the petitioners for granting them anticipatory bail because they did not approach the Trial Court with clean hands in their application seeking exemption from personal appearance. In view of the above, the present application is found to be without any merit and the same is hereby dismissed. February 28, 2011 (RAKESH KUMAR JAIN) vinod* JUDGE