In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-32758 of 2009 ..... Date of decision:8.2.2010 Birbal Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent .... Present: Mr. Ashok Giri, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Shilesh Gupta, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks regular bail in a case registered against him for the offences under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B IPC on 24.11.2007. The allegations in the FIR are that Cameron Issac Vickram and Sandeep Issac Vickram were the owners of House No.412, Ward No.11, Ranjit Nagar, Kharar, District Mohali. The petitioner is said to have produced certain persons who impersonated as owners of the aforesaid house and got a power of attorney executed in his favour on 16.3.2007. The signatures of the owners of the house are false and their photographs are also false. In fact, the owners had not come to India when the general power of attorney was registered on 19.3.2007. On the basis of the power of attorney dated 16/19.3.2007, the petitioner sold the land to one Kuldeep Singh vide sale deed dated 26.3.2007. Cr. Misc. No.M-32758 of 2009 [2] The petitioner is in custody since 24.12.2007 for a period of more than two years. The case is triable by the Court of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class. Till date no witness in the case has been examined and only charge has been framed on 6.2.2010. The trial is likely to take time. In the circumstances, the petitioner on his furnishing personal bond and two sureties to the satisfaction of trial Magistrate shall be admitted to bail. The petitioner shall surrender his passport, if any, and shall not leave the country without prior permission of the trial Court. The criminal miscellaneous petitions stands disposed. February 8, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*