IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M- 8723 of 2011 Date of decision : 14.10.2011 A.C. Karthikeyan .....Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana etc. ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH Present: Mr. Gautam Dutt, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Saurabh Mohunta, DAG, Haryana for the State. RANJIT SINGH, J. Noticing the facts in detail, this Court on 23.03.2011 directed that the PO proceedings against the petitioner be kept in abeyance. The grievance raised by the petitioner is that he was declared Proclaimed Offender without effecting service on him and he was never served at the address given in the complaint. The PO proceedings in progress against the petitioner were ordered to be kept in abeyance with liberty to the petitioner to surrender before the trial Court with further direction to the trial Court to release the petitioner on bail on furnishing bail bonds and surety bonds to its satisfaction. Counsel for the petitioner submits that complying with the directions of this Court, the petitioner had appeared before the trial Court on 09.04.2011. The petitioner has prayed for bail and has been granted bail in terms of the order passed by this Court. The petitioner Crl. Misc. No. M- 8723 of 2011 -2- has already furnished the bail bonds. Counsel for the petitioner undertakes to appear regularly before the trial court in future and would fail at his own peril. Since the petitioner is now participating in trial and the fact that he was not properly served at the address given in the complaint, no case is made out for allowing the order declaring the petitioner as Proclaimed Offender to continue. The same order is, accordingly, set aside. The petitioner, however, would continue to appear before the trial Court regularly without fail. The petitioner would be at liberty to raise all these pleas raised for quashing of the complaint and the summoning order. The petitioner may move an application seeking exemption from appearance, which shall be considered by the court concerned in accordance with law. Accordingly, the petition is disposed of in the above terms. October 14, 2011 ( RANJIT SINGH ) rts JUDGE