IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ***** CRM-M-25574 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision:25.08.2011 Gopal Dass . . .Petitioner Versus State of Punjab . . . Respondent ***** CORAM: HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN ***** Present: Mr.Chandan Singh Rana, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RAKESH KUMAR JAIN, J (ORAL) CRM No.45267 of 2011 Application is allowed as prayed for. CRM-M-25574 of 2011 This is a petition for pre-arrest bail in a case registered vide FIR No.80 dated 20.05.2011 under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 & 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’) at Police Station Division No.6, District Ludhiana. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he is a bona fide purchaser of the property in dispute and submits that he had paid `2 lacs at the time of agreement to sell (Annexure P-2). The learned Court below has dismissed the bail application on the ground that the forged power of attorney was produced for its registration by Gopal Dass (petitioner) and Numberdar Sarabjit Singh, who has identified the parties, revealed that he did all that at the asking and instance of Gopal Dass (petitioner) in whose favour the forged power of attorney was got registered. Moreover, I have found from the agreement to sell that the total sale consideration and payment of earnest money is conspicuously absent and it appears prima facie that the petitioner is actively involved in this forgery. In view thereof, I do not find it to be a fit case for grant of bail. Hence, the present petition is hereby dismissed. (RAKESH KUMAR JAIN) AUGUST 25, 2011 JUDGE Vivek