Crl.M.No.M-33569 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M-33569 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: November 18, 2010 Tarsem Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.F.S.Virk, Advocate for the petitioner. ..... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) Crl.M.No.59642 of 2010 Application is allowed subject to all just exceptions. Crl.M.No.M-33568 of 2010 The present petition filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.163, dated 16.7.2010, under Sections 420, 406, 120-B IPC, registered at Police Station Patran, District Patiala. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and have gone through the whole record carefully, including the impugned order passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala, vide which application filed on behalf of the present petitioner for anticipatory bail was dismissed. Brief allegations are that petitioner is closely related to co- accused. His daughter and co-accused Rajwinder Kaur was married with co-accused Harpal Singh. Co-accused Jaswant Singh is son of present petitioner. Petitioner alongwith his son and co-accused Jaswant Singh, and accused Harpal Singh and his father had first visited the complainants and told them that they were in a position to send their sons to Australia as daughter of present petitioner and his son-in-law were settled there and on that pretext they had taken Rs.8.5 lacs from the complainants. However, neither sons of complainants were sent abroad nor amount was returned. Crl.M.No.M-33569 of 2010 (O&M) -2- Rather sons of complainants were taken from Delhi to Indonesia and tried for taking fake visa for Australia. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that no specific allegation has been attributed to the present petitioner accused. However, all the accused are closely related. Allegations are that the present petitioner accused in connivance with co-accused cheated the complainants and to the tune of Rs.8.5 lacs. These types of incidents are on increase in State of Punjab. FIR was registered after thorough enquiry. On similar facts, application for anticipatory bail of co-accused-Bhupinder Singh has already been dismissed by this Court. Hence, it is not such a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner-accused. In view of these facts, and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition filed by petitioner-Tarsem Singh for grant of anticipatory bail is, hereby, dismissed being devoid of any merit. 18.11.201 0 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge