IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc.No.M-32282 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision : November 28, 2011. Balbir Singh .....Petitioner versus State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SURYA KANT. Present : Mr.D.S.Pheruman, Advocate, for the petitioner. -.- 1. Whether Reporters of Local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? --- Surya Kant, J. (Oral) The petitioner was on regular bail in a trial arising out of FIR No.67 dated 26.8.2007 under Section 406 IPC, registered at Police Station Harike, District Tarn-Taran. He suddenly disappeared from the Court on 8.2.2011. His counsel also did not appear nor any application to grant exemption from personal appearance was made. The trial Magistrate was left with no option but to cancel the bail bonds and issue non-bailable warrants against the petitioner. The petitioner applied for pre-arrest bail before the Additional Sessions Judge, Tarn-Taran on 8.4.2011 but even without getting any interim bail, he did not surrender before the trial Court. Meanwhile, he was declared a proclaimed offender on 12.7.2011 and CRM-M-32282 of 2011 (O&M) [2] taking that fact into consideration, the Additional Sessions Judge, Tarn- Taran dismissed his pre-arrest bail application vide order dated 20.8.2011. The petitioner kept on evading his arrest for almost two months and then approached this Court on 17.10.2011. The conduct of the petitioner, who is a former Sarpanch of the Gram Panchayat, does not warrant exercise of any discretion as it appears that the petitioner wants to prolong the decision even though the case is ripe for final arguments. I find no ground to grant pre-arrest bail to the petitioner. Dismissed. However, if the petitioner surrenders before the S.D.J.M/trial court at Tarn-Taran and seeks his release on regular bail, the trial Court shall consider his application sympathetically and decide the same within two days. November 28, 2011 (SURYA KANT) Mohinder JUDGE