IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No. 14599 of 2007 Date of decision: 14.03.2011 Ram Pal .....Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana and others ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH Present: Mr. R.S. Hooda, Advocate and Mr. K.D.S. Hooda, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Shruti Jain, AAG, Haryana for the State. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. On 04.10.2008, having regard to the averments made in the petition and the application filed by the petitioner before this Court, the Division Bench of this Court passed the following order:- “ Mr. Nehra states that Superintendent of Police, Hisar has passed an order dated 01.10.2008 directing to SHO, Police Station, Barwala and Deputy Superintendent of Police, Hisar to take necessary preventive and protective action to prevent the private respondents from assaulting the Sat Lok Ashram, Barwala. It has also been directed to ensure to maintain law and order, peace and tranquility. In view of the above, no further orders are called in the present application. C.M. is disposed of.” Civil Writ Petition No. 14599 of 2007 -2- Counsel for the petitioner says that the petitioner always remained under threat while appearing before the Courts at Rohtak, where a case against him is in progress. The counsel has otherwise very fairly stated that ever since the date of application filed by him, where the petitioner has been granted personal exemption from appearing in the Court, no untoward incident has happened. Needless to mention that it is the responsibility of the State to protect the life, liberty and property of the citizens of this country. The petitioner is also as good a citizen of this country as others are and need to be protected if his life and liberty is under threat. Accordingly, similar orders are passed for Superintendent of Police, Rohtak to consider the prayer of the petitioner for grant of protection to him if the Superintendent of Police considers that life of the petitioner is under any threat. The Superintendent of Police will ensure by issuing appropriate direction to the police station concerned and also to the officers like DSP that no harm comes to the life and liberty of the petitioner. The petitioner is at liberty to approach any appropriate forum if there is any threat advance to his life and liberty. The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. March 14, 2011 (RANJIT SINGH ) rts JUDGE