CRM-M-18767-2011 (O&M) [ 1 ] CRM-M-17375-2011 (O&M) CRM-M-13670-2011 (O&M) ::::::::: IN TH E HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (1) CRM-M-18767-2011 (O&M) Date of decision:02.08.2011. Rohit Mahajan ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent (2) CRM-M-17375-2011 (O&M) Date of decision:02.08.2011. Kamalpreet Singh @ K.P. ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent (3) CRM-M-13670-2011 (O&M) Date of decision:02.08.2011. Karan Mahajan ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr. B.S. Sra, Advocate, for the petitioner(s) in CRM-M-18767-2011 & CRM-M-13670-2011. Mr. Premjit S. Hundal, Advocate, for the petitioner in CRM-M-17375-2011. Mr. A.S.Rai, DAG, Punjab. ***** Rakesh Kumar Jain, J. (Oral) This order shall dispose of three petitions bearing CRM-M-18767- 2011 titled as `Rohit Mahajan Vs. State of Punjab', CRM-M-17375-2011 titled CRM-M-18767-2011 (O&M) [ 2 ] CRM-M-17375-2011 (O&M) CRM-M-13670-2011 (O&M) ::::::::: as `Kamalpreet Singh @ K.P. Vs. State of Punjab' and CRM-M-13670-2011 titled as `Karan Mahajan Vs. State of Punjab' wherein all the petitioner(s) have prayed for pre-arrest bail in a case registered vide FIR No.58 dated 04.03.2011, under Sections 420, 465, 467, 468, 472, 120-B of IPC at Police Station `A' Division, District Amritsar City. The aforesaid FIR has been registered by Nick Shelley, Immigration Liason Officer, British High Commission, New Delhi with the Commissioner of Police, Jalandhar with the allegation that some students have applied for study visa at the British High Commission, New Delhi with false bank statements obtained from the Canara Bank, Kot Badal Khan, P.S. Nurmahal, Tehsil Philaur, District Jalandhar. Learned counsel for the petitioner(s) submits that the petitioners are the agents of various universities/schools/colleges of England and are only providing their expertise for the purpose of preparing documents of the prospective students who intend to take up studies in the universities/colleges/ schools in England by charging fixed remuneration and are not involved in any kind of cheating or forgery. It is also submitted that all the documents have been prepared by the students themselves who had applied for study visa and the petitioners have no role to play. Learned State Counsel, however, on instructions from ASI Gurmeet Singh, submits that the statements of the students, who had applied for study visa and have been cheated by the petitioner(s), have been recorded under Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 who have alleged that besides the fee which is usually charged by the petitioners of `20,000/-, they had also asked for `40,000/- for the purpose of facilitating bank statements as the bank statements of the students were not up to the mark for the purpose of getting admission. It is alleged that the bank statements have been prepared by the petitioners which were attached by them with the applications for seeking visa and have been found to be false by the British High Commission. I have also seen one of the statements of accounts of Vikas Anand in whose account a sum of `6,00,000/- is shown to have been transferred on 3 CRM-M-18767-2011 (O&M) [ 3 ] CRM-M-17375-2011 (O&M) CRM-M-13670-2011 (O&M) ::::::::: dates consecutively, whereas the Branch Manager of the Canara Bank, Kot Badal Khan has written a letter on 07.09.2010 to the Economic Offence Wing, Jalandhar City, Jalandhar intimating that “we hereby confirm having verified our books of accounts/documents (i.e. statement of accounts, certificate of balance, education loan sanction letter) and found that the referred documents have not been issued by our branch/bank”. In view of the aforesaid, it is apparent that the bank statements of all the students have been prepared from the same bank in the same fashion and is apparently a handiwork of the present petitioners who have charged a separate amount for the same. In view thereof, I find that it is a fit case for custodial interrogation of the petitioners in order to unearth such type of activities which might have been carried out by them in the past as well. Hence, all the three petitions are hereby dismissed being denuded of any merit. A photocopy of this order be placed on the file of other connected cases. August 02, 2011 (Rakesh Kumar Jain) vinod* Judge