CRM No.M-17601 of 2011(O & M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ***** CRM No.M-17601 of 2011 (O & M) Date of decision : 6.7.2011 Gurdeep Singh .........Petitioner Vs. State of Punjab ........Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present : Mr. R.S.Athwal, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr.P.S.Sidhu, Addl.AG, Punjab ----- Rakesh Kumar Jain, J. (Oral) : CRM No.31504 of 2011 Allowed as prayed for. CRM No.M-17601 of 2011 This petition is for regular bail in a case FIR No.9 dated 11.1.2011 under Sections 8 and 9 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and under Section 165A of the IPC registered at Police Station Laddowal, District Ludhiana. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that Section 165A of the IPC has been deleted. He further submits that the co- accused of the petitioner who were apprehanded while offering ` 18 lakhs as bribe to the Investigating Officer, have already been released on bail. In this regard he has referred to an order of this Court in 'Ram Chander Pannu v. State of Punjab' decided on 2.6.2011 in which Ram Chander Pannu, who was one of the person who was CRM No.M-17601 of 2011(O & M) -2- apprehanded at the spot has been granted regular bail by this Court. His bail application was dismissed only on the ground that he was the mastermind of the said offence. Be that as it may be, since the petitioner has not been apprehanded on the spot and the persons apprehanded on the spot had been released on bail, the present petition deserves to be allowed. Hence, the present petition is allowed. The petitioner is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail bonds to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate, Ludhiana. (RAKESH KUMAR JAIN) JUDGE 6.7.2011 akm