IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM.M.No.18804/2011 Date of decision: 10.06.2011. Smt.Inder Kaur ............Petitioner v. State of Punjab and others ............Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr.Justice Jaswant Singh Present: Mr.Kapil Aggarwal,Advocate for the petitioner. Jaswant Singh.J.(Oral) Petitioner-Smt.Inder Kaur has approached this Court under Section 482 Cr.PC for seeking a direction to police officials- respondents 1 to 4 to entrust the inquiry/investigation of the complaint dated 3.1.2008 (P2) under Sections 418/420 IPC, lodged by the petitioner against respondents 5 to 10, to some senior police officer outside District Hoshiarpur. It is stated that an agreement to sell dated 31.10.2007 had been entered into between a Company owned by the husband of the petitioner and respondent no.6- Harpreet Singh. Earnest money of Rs.25 lacs was paid. The targetted date for registration of the sale deed was 28.2.2008. It is stated that before the Registry of the sale deed, husband of the petitioner got demarcation done and found that the land shown at the time of agreement to sell was different than the one proposed to be sold at the time of Registry. Consequently, a suit for recovery of earnest money of Rs.25 lacs was filed. A separate complaint dated 3.1.2008 was also filed against the respondents for cheating and fraud. It is stated that the petitioner and her husband are also in possession of a Video Compact Disk made during a sting operation where the private respondents have admitted their guilt. After hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner, I find no ground to direct the investigations to be referred to some other officer outside District Hoshiarpur since it is not disputed that the petitioner/ her husband and respondents have been repeatedly asked to join the inquiry/investigation being got conducted. It is also not in dispute that the husband of the petitioner has suffered a disability and is unable to move whereas the petitioner herself is a resident of Delhi and therefore, unable to appear before the investigating agency. In such circumstances, in my view no direction can be issued more so when the petitioner, if so advised, has the alternative remedy of filing a criminal complaint in accordance with law. In view of such circumstances, no directions are called for. Dismissed. 10.06.2011 (Jaswant Singh) joshi Judge