IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CRM-M-26744 of 2011 Decided on 18.10.2011 Manish Kumar --Petitioner vs. State of Punjab --Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr.Balram Singh,Advocate, for the petitioner Mr. K.D.Sachdeva,Addl.A.G.Punjab RAKESH KUMAR JAIN,J: (ORAL) This is a petition for bail pending trial in a case registered vide FIR No.33 dated 17.6.2003, under Sections 420, 467,468, 471, 120-B of the IPC at Police Station, Vigilance Bureau,Amritsar. Allegation against the petitioner is that he had evaded payment of market fee amounting to `81,19,216.98. on the sale of wheat to the market committee. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he has been falsely implicated in this case because he has never received any notice from the market committee with regard to evasion of market fee which is allegedly required to be paid by him. Learned counsel for the respondent on instructons from ASI Lakhwinder Singh states that there is no record of sale of wheat in the market committee on which the market fee is to be paid. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case and also the fact that the CRM-M-26744 of 2011 -2- petitioner is an old case of heart disease and was operated upon thrice and without making any observations on the merits, the present petition is allowed and the petitioner is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail bonds to the satisfaction of the learned trial Court. 18.10.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Jain) RR Judge