Crl. W.P. No. 437 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. W.P. No. 437 of 2009 Decided on : 15-07-2009 Imarti ....Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana ....Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MAHESH GROVER Present:- None for the petitioner Mr. Ajay Singh Ghangas, DAG, Haryana. MAHESH GROVER, J The instant petition has been received by way of a complaint addressed to Hon'ble the Chief Justice which was ordered to be taken as criminal petition and notice of motion was issued. Reply has been filed in the Court today and the same is taken on record. It has been stated in the reply that the petitioner has been arrested in a case. It has been specifically stated in para no.2 as follows:- “2. As per facts, on 24.3.2009 at about 11:40 PM when the police party headed by SI Ram Singh received a secret information regarding presence of 4-5 boys at Bus Stand Juglan alongwith one car and tractor for looting the passers a raid was conducted and four persons namely Raj Pal, Satbir, Daya Nand @ Nanha and Sanjay were apprehended at the spot whereas the fifth person namely Vinod succeeded in fleeing away, who was arrested on 25.3.2009. A case FIR no.339 Crl. W.P. No. 437 of 2009 2 dated 25.3.2009 under section 399/402 IPC and 25/54/59 of Arms Act was registered against all the above named accused at Police Station Sadar Hisar. Accused Vinod ( son of the petitioner) and co-accused made disclosure statements to the effect that they have stolen various tractors and they can get recovered the same. On the basis of their confessional statements all the accused got recovered six stolen tractors. All the accused including the son of the petitioner were produced before the court of Illaqa Magistrate on 25.3.2009 and were remanded to police custody. 3. That it is worth mentioning that as per the disclosure statement of Vinod Kumar son of the petitioner he is facing sentence of 7 years in the Jail in a case registered under Section 399/402 . He was released on parole from 25.11.2008 to 24.12.2008 and during that period he used to involve in criminal activities and alongwith his co-accused committed theft of 3 tractors on 7.12.2008, 13/14.12.2008 and 22.12.2008. Further he was released on parole from 14.2.2009 to 29.3.2009 and during this period he alongwith his co-accused committed of 4 tractors on 21/22.2.2009, 2/3.3.2009, 11/12.3.2009 and 16/17.3.2009 and he was apprehended on 25.3.2009 in the above noted case. All this shows that Vinod Kumar accused is a habitual offender and he is indulging of theft and looting cases as is shown in the Annexure R-1.” A perusal of Annexure R-1 reveals that the son of the petitioner is wanted in as many as 20 cases. Crl. W.P. No. 437 of 2009 3 In this view of the matter, it is obvious that the petitioner's complaint is without any basis and substance. Dismissed in view of the reply submitted before this Court. July 15, 2009 (Mahesh Grover) rekha Judge