IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.Misc.No.M-33101 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision : 15.12.2009 Devi Chand and others ....Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and another ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MAHESH GROVER .... Present: Mr. Parminder Singh, Advocate for the petitioners. Ms.Shalini Attri, DAG, Haryana for respondent No.1. Mr.Sumid Gupta, Advocate for respsondent No.2. .... MAHESH GROVER, J. Crl.Misc.No.59744 of 2009 Crl.Misc. is allowed as prayed for. Crl.Misc.No.M-33101 of 2009 This is a petition under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for release of the petitioners in terms thereof in a complaint case initiated on the complaint of respondent No.2. In the complaint the petitioners are alleged to have forged the signatures of the complainant and two other persons in the resolution book of the panchayat and on the basis of such resolution Crl.Misc.No.M-33101 of 2009 (O&M) -2- they are said to have withdrawn certain amount and misappropriated the same. Learned counsel for the petitioners states that the allegations against the petitioners are actually an abuse of the process of law and they have been falsely implicated on account of factional rivalry in the village. It is stated that the petitioners are habitual of forging the signatures and number of complaints are pending against them. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, the instant petition is disposed of with the directions that the petitioners shall submit themselves to the jurisdiction of the learned trial court on or before the next date of hearing and in such an event they shall not be arrested subject to their furnishing undertaking that they shall not commit any default and also on their furnishing bail bonds to the satisfaction of the trial court which shall also be free to impose any condition which may be deemed fit in the circumstances of the case considering the fact that the petitioners are alleged to have misappropriated the public money. 15.12.2009 (MAHESH GROVER) JUDGE dss