IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc.-M No.33230 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision: November 03, 2011 Jagdish Parshad ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab & another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH 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? Present: None for the petitioner. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. Having filed this petition, no one appears to argue the matter. Case has been called twice. It is already 11.30 A.M. The petitioner has prayed for quashing of FIR No.83 dated 9.5.1997 under Section 420 IPC of Police Station, Moga, besides challenging the order dated 26.4.2011 declaring the petitioner as a proclaimed offender. The story set up by the petitioner is that he was posted in District Ferozepur in the year 1991, where an encounter took place in which one Ranjit Singh @ Tunda was killed in Faridkot District. On account of some dispute in regard to the award announced for the arrest of Tunda (now dead), the difference arose between the petitioner and the then Senior Superintendent of Police Shri Swaran Singh. The petitioner claims that he was taken away by the officers of the Faridkot District to some unknown place, due to which his family members got worried. They had then met the Minister at the Centre when the matter was referred to Governor, Punjab, who sent the wife Criminal Misc.-M No.33230 of 2011 (O&M) : 2 : of the petitioner to Director General of Police. On intervention of the high officials, the petitioner was released and thereafter they left for Jaipur without disclosing their whereabouts. On this basis, the petitioner claims that he had shifted from Rajasthan to Delhi and as such could not be served properly when he was declared proclaimed offender in FIR No.83 dated 9.5.1997. To me, this appears to be a story coined by the petitioner. The incident relied upon by the petitioner is of 1991. The proceedings against the petitioner were initiated in the year 1997 and have continued till 2011. The petitioner really cannot make out a case for not attending the court proceedings on the grounds as alleged. The situation in the State of Punjab has now improved for quite some time and so the petitioner cannot justify his action in not attending the court proceedings, which were initiated against him. No case for quashing the order declaring the petitioner as proclaimed offender, thus, is made out. It is certainly not a fit case for quashing the FIR at the instance of a person, who has no respect for law and has failed to appear before the court for all these years. Dismissed. November 03, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE