Criminal Misc. No .M-36272 of 2011 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No .M-36272 of 2011 Date of decision: 19.12.2011 Tilak Raj Singh ......Petitioner Vs. State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM:-HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE L.N. MITTAL. Present: Mr. A.S. Manaise, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. R.S. Rawat, AAG, Punjab. *** L.N. MITTAL, J. (Oral). Accused Tilak Raj Singh has filed this petition for anticipatory bail in case FIR No.136 dated 15.06.2011 under Section 420 IPC registered at Police Station Civil Line Batala, District Gurdaspur. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the case file. According to prosecution version, the petitioner took advance amount of Rs.11 lacs from the complainant-a commission agent with promise to sell paddy crop on the shop of the complainant, but did not sell the paddy crop on the shop of the complainant. The petitioner then issued cheque of Rs.5 lacs which was dishonoured. Learned counsel for the petitioner contended that infact, the petitioner paid Rs.8 lacs in installments to the complainant for sending the petitioner's son abroad and the complainant had facilitated bank loan for the petitioner and obtained cheque book but the petitioner's son was not sent Criminal Misc. No .M-36272 of 2011 -2- abroad nor petitioner's money was returned and the cheque book has been misused by the complainant. Learned State counsel on instructions from ASI Nirmal Singh stated that FIR has been registered after enquiry and no such version as now contended by counsel for the petitioner was put forward during enquiry. It was also contended by the learned counsel that the petitioner even affixed his signature in accounts book of the complainant regarding taking of advance amount of Rs.11 lacs. Keeping in view the aforesaid, but without expression of any opinion on merits of the case, I do not find it to be a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Dismissed. December 19, 2011 (L.N. MITTAL) harjeet JUDGE