IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc.No. M- 8822 of 2010 Date of decision:- 26.4.2010 Mandeep Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present:- Mr. S.K. Bansal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, AAG Punjab. RAM CHAND GUPTA J.(Oral) The present petition has been filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. for grant of anticipatory bail by the petitioner in case FIR No.318 dated 2009 dated 25.12.2009, under Sections 420,467,468,471 and 120-B IPC, registered at Police Station Shimlapuri, District Ludhiana City. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the whole record carefully. The allegations against the petitioner-accused are serious in nature. He alongwith his father and mother obtained Rs.39.5 lacs alongwith gold ornaments 42 tolas from the complainant for sending the complainant abroad. However, complainant was not sent abroad and when he demanded money back, applicant alongwith co-accused had taken away the complainant in a car, which was stopped at a lonely place where another car was also standing. Three masked persons got down the car. Applicant-appellant alongwith his father and mother came out of the car and pulled Lakhwinder Singh out of the car and all of them gave him beatings. In the meantime another car was seen coming and hence, complainant was left by the accused and he ran away. It has been contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that he has been falsely implicated in this case and that in fact an agreement of Rs.9,00,000/- was executed in favour of the applicant by the complainant and Criminal Misc.No. M- 8822 of 2010 -2- when he filed suit for recovery of the amount, the present FIR has been lodged against him. It is further contended that co-accused has already been arrested. Bail application is vehemently opposed by learned counsel for the State on the plea that there are serious allegations against the petitioner- accused and hence it is not such a case, in which concession of anticipatory bail should be granted to the applicant-accused. I have considered all the facts of the case. The allegations against the petitioner-accused are serious in nature, hence, it is not such a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the accused. Hence, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition for anticipatory bail, filed by petitioner Mandeep Singh is dismissed, being devoid of any merit. April 26, 2010 ( RAM CHAND GUPTA ) vj JUDGE