IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P. No. 12162 of 2007 Date of Decision : January 22,2008 Raghbir Singh ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE T.P.S. MANN Present : None for the petitioner. Ms. Charu Tuli, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for respondents No. 1 to 5 Mr. Manish Kumar Singla, Advocate for respondents No. 6 and 7. M.M. KUMAR, J. The petitioner has approached this Court for issuance of direction to respondents No. 1 and 2 to enquire into the matter by a senior officer, not below the rank of Inspector General of Police, with a further prayer for direction to respondents No. 1 and 2 to suitably compensate the petitioner for the harassment meted out to him and his family members by Deputy Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sangrur Pritpal Singh Thind-respondent No.4 and Inspector Harinder Singh-respondent No.5. The petitioner has also prayed that direction be issued to respondents No. 1 and 2 to register FIR against respondents No. 4 to 7 for conniving and trying to falsely implicate the petitioner in a false case. The petitioner has levelled allegation that the police of Police Station Bhawanigarh raided his house on 12.7.2007 on the instructions of SHO C.W.P. No. 12162 of 2007 -2- Bhawanigarh-respondent No.5 and insulted all the family members with rude behaviour. The petitioner was summoned again by SHO Bhawanigarh Harinder Singh on 21.7.2007 and he went to the PoliceStation along with Sarpanch of village Rajpura Bhagwant Singh Lambarbar and Jasbir Singh. There are allegations of demand of illegal gratification and a number of other such allegations. Respondents No. 1 to 5 have filed their reply disclosing the dispute that agreement was got executed by respondents No. 6 and 7 with the respondent No.8 for purchase of some land on 26.12.2006. The detailed version has been disclosed with regard to the aforementioned agreement. FIR No. 125 dated 29.8.2007 had been registered at Police Station Bhawanigarh against the petitioner along with others under Section 420/465/467/468/471, 120-B IPC. Even the petitioner has filed Crl. Misc. No. 46107-M of 2007 for quashing of the aforementioned FIR, which is posted for hearing on 28.4.2008. After hearing learned counsel for the respondent and perusing the pleadings, we are of the considered view that the petitioner, who has already been arrested in the aforementioned FIR, cannot be granted any relief in the present petition once FIR has been registered, disclosing the cognizable offence alleged to have been committed by him along with others. Moreover, the proceedings under Section 482 Cr.P.C. in Crl. Misc. No. 46107-M of 2007 have already been initiated by the petitioner along with others. There is no ground to interfere. Dismissed. ( M.M. KUMAR ) JUDGE ( T.P.S. MANN ) JANUARY 22, 2008 JUDGE satish