IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. -M No. 33719 of 2008 (O&M) Date of decision : February 25, 2009 Jagvir Singh alias Tiger ....Petitioner versus State of Punjab ....Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pritam Pal Present : Mr. SS Sidhu, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. KD Sachdeva, DAG Punjab Pritam Pal,J. (Oral) Petitioner has brought this petition under section 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure for seeking regular bail in case FIR No. 116 dated 8.10.2007 under sections 302, 304, 34 IPC and 25, 27, 54, 59 of Arms Act registered at Police Station Dialpura District Bathinda. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that on the day of occurrence at night time, the petitioner who is Sarpanch of the village along with other persons had chased four persons namely Sukhdeep Singh (since deceased), Rupinder singh, Deepak Chawla and Gurpreet Singh who had come to commit robbery in the petrol pump. Out of aforesaid four persons, two persons namely Deepak Chawla and Gurpreet Singh are also facing serious criminal cases as detailed in para no. 4 of the application. The petitioner is alleged to have fired from his licenced gun taking the aforesaid persons as robbers and one of the fire had hit against Sukhdeep Singh on his back. An FIR No. 120 dated 7.10.2007 under sections 382, 511 IPC and Criminal Misc. -M No. 33719 of 2008 (O&M) -2- sections 25, 54, 59 of Arms act was also registered against the aforesaid four persons. The petitioner is lodged in the jail since 5.3.2008. Till today only one witness is stated to have been examined. Thus, the trial is likely to take a long time. In the given facts and circumstances and without commenting on the merits of this case, the petitioner is ordered to be released on bail on his furnishing bail/surety bonds to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate, Bathinda. Criminal Misc. is disposed of. ( Pritam Pal ) February 25 2009 Judge 'dalbir'