IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-36699 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision: 07.12.2011. Jagjit Singh Mann ..Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ..Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. J.S. Dadwal, Advocate, for the petitioner. NAWAB SINGH, J. (ORAL) By judgment dated October 18th, 2011 passed by this Court in Criminal Misc. No. M-11428 of 2010 (O&M) titled-'Jagjit Singh Mann vs. State of Punjab and another', First Information Report No.70 dated May 8th, 2007, under Sections 420, 465, 471, 494, 498-A/120-B of Indian Penal Code, Police Station Islamabad, District Amritsar was quashed qua Jagjit Singh Mann-petitioner. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has urged that in view of the aforesaid order, petitioner filed application (Annexure P-2) before the trial Magistrate to release his passport. But the trial Magistrate listed the application for the date fixed, that is, January 9th, 2012. 3. The solitary submission made by learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner is a British citizen. He immediately needs his passport as his wife is ill and is in England. So, the trial Magistrate be directed to dispose of the application at the earliest. 4. Submission being convincing, trial Magistrate is directed to prepone the case and pass the appropriate order in accordance with law on receipt of this order under intimation to this Court. 5. A copy of this order be given Dasti (by-hand) to learned counsel for the petitioner under the signatures of Court Secretary. 07.12.2011 (NAWAB SINGH) neetu JUDGE