C.R.M. No.M-1610 of 2011 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.R.M. No.M-1610 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision 20.01.2011 Ram Kumar …Petitioner Versus State of Haryana …Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY TEWARI -.- Present: Mr. V.K. Jindal, Advocate for the petitioner. *** AJAY TEWARI, J. (ORAL) This petition has been filed for anticipatory bail in a case bearing FIR No.22 dated 31.07.2009, under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B IPC and 13(1)(i) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, registered at Police Station Vigilance Bureau, Haryana, Rohtak. Earlier I dismissed the anticipatory bail petition filed by the Tehsildar vide order dated 07.01.2011 in Crl. Misc. No.M-472 of 2011. The present petition has been filed by Ram Kumar whose case is that he was given additional charge of this Tehsil only for a period of 20 days and he was working there as a Naib Tehsildar. When I pointed out to learned counsel for the petitioner that I had C.R.M. No.M-1610 of 2011 (O&M) -2- dismissed the petition of the Tehsildar, he stated that at that time relevant standing instructions for sanctioning mutations had not been placed on record which have just now been extracted in the petition and as per which the only duty of the petitioner was to compare the Padat Sarkar as well as Padat Patwar of mutation and then sanction the mutation. Even though these may have been the duties mentioned in the standing instructions, yet the fact remains that some land had been declared surplus in the hands of the big land owner which earlier had been mutated in the name of the provincial Government and even a quick perusal of the previous record would have revealed this fact. The argument that petitioner had only sanctioned the mutation on the basis of the report of Patwari and Kanungo and that he was only the sanctioning authority is too thin to be believed because the fact remains that the Government was defrauded on record. For these reasons and the reasons mentioned in Crl. Misc. No.M-472 of 2011, this petition is dismissed. ( AJAY TEWARI ) January 20, 2011 JUDGE ashish