IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH Criminal Writ Petition No.821 of 2008 Date of Decision: October 03, 2008 Sukhdev Singh .....PETITIONER(S) VERSUS State of Punjab .....RESPONDENT(S) . . . CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAI LAMBA PRESENT: - None for the petitioner. Mr. H.S. Brar, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. . . . AJAI LAMBA, J (Oral) A telegram has been treated as a petition. In the petition, it has been alleged that Meeta Singh, S. Piara Singh, Baldev Singh, Massa Singh, Gurjant Singh and Mehtab Singh have been taken in illegal custody on 8.8.2008 during the evening hours from Ajnala by police party led by Gurbhinder Singh, Station House Officer, Police Station, Raja Sansi, District Amritsar, and have not been produced in any Court of law till the date of sending the telegram. Reply by way of affidavit of Balkar Singh, PPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sub-Division, Sadar, Amritsar, has been filed in Court which is taken Crl. W.P. No.821 of 2008 [2] on record. In Para 5 of the reply, it has been pointed out that on 8.8.2008 at about 12.05 P.M., at the Naka point near airport on Amritsar-Ajnala road, a vehicle driven by Hira Singh alongwith others came from Amritsar. They were signalled to stop at the Naka, however, they dashed against the barricade with intention to run over the police party. Gurvail Singh, Assistant Sub Inspector, sustained serious injuries and was shifted to hospital where he succumbed to injuries on 11.8.2008. Section 302 IPC was added in FIR No.107 dated 8.8.2008 under Sections 307, 120-B, 148, 149 IPC, Police Station, Raja Sansi. On 10.8.2008, Amrit Sarup, Sub Inspector, Police Station, Raja Sansi, arrested Baldev Singh, Piara Singh, Mehtab Singh, Meeta Singh, Gurjant Singh and Gurbhej Singh and produced them before the Illaqa Magistrate on 11.8.2008. They were remanded to police custody till 14.8.2008 whereafter they are in judicial custody. In view of the reply, no further directions need be issued. The petition is disposed of. (AJAI LAMBA) October 03, 2008 JUDGE avin