Crl. Misc. No. M-29643 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M-29643 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision: January 21, 2010 Raghvir Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GURDEV SINGH Present: Mr. Sunil Chadha, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. APS Brar, Sr. DAG, Punjab. GURDEV SINGH, J. This petition by Raghvir Singh @ Billa under Section 438 of Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail in FIR No. 84 dated 6.10.2009 registered at Police Station Behram, District Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, under Sections 364, 406 and 420 IPC. Interim anticipatory bail was granted to the petitioner after he agreed to pay Rs. 2 lacs to the complainant. According to the counsel for the petitioner, he has brought a draft of Rs. 2 lacs with him for payment to the complainant. The position would have been different if there would have been allegations only of the payment of amount by the complainant to the petitioner for sending his nephew abroad. It is narrated in the FIR that a sum of Rs. 3.50 lacs were received by the petitioner himself for sending that boy to Italy and instead of sending him to that country he was sent to Malli, an African country, alongwith other boys. As per the complainant, he received a message from his nephew that he and other boys were being Crl. Misc. No. M-29643 of 2009 2 detained in a room and they are not being provided meals and are being harassed and tortured by the persons of the accused. It is a case where nephew of the complainant has not only mentally suffered but the petitioner managed to send this nephew to an African country where he was tortured. When such are the facts, no ground is made out for releasing the petitioner on anticipatory bail. The petition is dismissed accordingly. January 21, 2010 (GURDEV SINGH ) prem JUDGE