Crl.M.No.M-30041 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M-30041 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision:October 11, 2010 Naib Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Swarn Tiwana, Advocate for the petitioner. ...... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) Crl.M.No.53715 of 2010 Application is allowed subject to all just exceptions. Crl.M.No.M-30041 of 2010 The present petition filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.6, dated 17.1.1996, under Sections 353/186 IPC, registered at Police Station Bassi Pathana, District Fatehgarh Sahib. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and have gone through the whole record carefully, including the impugned order, Annexure P2, passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fatehgarh Sahib, vide which application filed on behalf of the present petitioner for anticipatory bail was dismissed. Allegations against the petitioner-accused are that police officials were conducting investigation in excise case registered against Harbhajan Singh s/o Karnail Singh and the present petitioner-accused and however, petitioner alongwith co-accused started querrelling with the police official and disrupted the investigation. Even the uniform of the police official was also torn and his turban also fell down. Co-accused of the petitioner, namely, Master Charanjit Singh also allegedly raised threat that Crl.M.No.M-30041 of 2010 (O&M) -2- he is having approach to senior police officers and that he is in a position to get his ballet removed. Petitioner-accused appeared before the Court and was released on bail. However, thereafter, he absented on 4.9.1996 without any sufficient cause. He was declared proclaimed offender on 16.4.1998. Hence, he remained absconding for a period of 14 years. It is not such a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner-accused. Hence, in view of these facts, and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition filed by petitioner- Naib Singh for grant of anticipatory bail is, hereby, dismissed being devoid of any merit. 11.10.2010 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge