Crl.M. No. M-4206 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.M. No. M-4206 of 2009 Date of decision : 18.3.2009. ... Veena ................ Petitioner vs. State of Punjab .................Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice K.C. Puri Present: Sh. S.S. Chadha, Advocate for the petitioner. Sh. P.S. Bajwa, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab ... K.C. Puri, J. (Oral) Veena-petitioner has applied for grant of regular bail in FIR No. 155 dated 1.10.2008 under Sections 343, 506, 376, 120-B IPC, registered at Police Station City Ferozepur. As per allegation of the prosecution, prosecutrix aged about 18-19 years has stated that she has passed 7th class and was working with Mehta PCO, Udham Singh Chowk, Ferozepur, where Rekha r/o Atta Basti, Ferozepur, was also working. Rekha introduced the prosecutrix with the applicant. It is further alleged that on 5.9.2008 at about 12.30 P.M. Veena called prosecutrix and introduced her with Ranjit Singh Saini r/o Chandigarh and told the prosecutrix that he Crl.M. No. M-4206 of 2009 -2- will arrange for a job. The prosecutrix told that she shall narrate this fact to her parents but Veena told her that she herself would narrate this fact. Upon Veena's pressure, the prosecutrix accompanied Ranjit Singh Saini, who firstly took her in his white colour car to Faridkot in a Hotel of Honda Agency, near bus stand and bolted the room and committed rape upon her against her wishes. She was kept there till 7.9.2008 and thereafter he took the prosecutrix to Vaishno Devi and brought her back on 9.9.2008 at Ludhiana and again committed rape upon her in a room of hotel. On 11.9.2008 at about 7.00 in the morning, when Ranjit Singh Saini had gone to bathroom, the prosecutrix ran away from there and reached bus stand Ludhiana and rang up her parents. Because of insult they have not talked to anyone. It is further alleged that the abovesaid person including the applicant, have threatened the prosecutrix and her parents. The applicant is in custody since 1.10.2008. The allegation against the petitioner is that she introduced the prosecutrix with Ranjit Singh Saini, the main accused. So, without commenting upon the merits of the case, the application for grant of bail stands accepted. Bail to the satisfaction of the trial Court. ( K.C. Puri ) 18.3.2009. Judge chug