CRM-M-20552-2011 (O&M) - 1 - ***** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-20552-2011 (O&M) Date of decision:12.07.2011. Satnam Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr. P.S.Ghuman, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RAKESH KUMAR JAIN, J. This is a petition for grant of pre-arrest bail to the petitioner in a case registered vide FIR No.306 dated 06.11.1996, under Sections 279, 337, 338, 427 of IPC, Police Station Kotwali, Patiala. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has been summoned through non-bailable warrants though the offence under which he is facing trial is bailable. However, the learned Court below, while dismissing anticipatory bail application of the petitioner, has passed the following order: - “Applicant/accused remained absent for a decade and in fact he has abandoned the proceedings. Further, learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that it was summons case and does not fall within the ambit of sub section (4) of Section 82 Cr.P.C., therefore, he could not be declared proclaimed offender. To support this contention, he placed reliance, upon judgment in case Satinder Singh versus The State of U.T.-2011(2) RCR (Criminal) 89 (P&H). Instant CRM-M-20552-2011 (O&M) - 2 - ***** case is also pertains to bailable offence. However, applicant remained absent for a decade. In this view of the matter, this application is disposed of with a direction to applicant to surrender before the learned Trial Court on or before 11.07.2011, the date already fixed, and to move an application for regular bail and trial court shall consider his regular bail and shall dispose of the same within three days. Till the decision of the regular bail, if so filed, operation of the order 23.04.2011 shall continue.” After hearing learned counsel for the petitioner, I do not find any error in the order passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Patiala. Hence, the present petition is hereby dismissed. July 12, 2011 (RAKESH KUMAR JAIN) vinod* JUDGE