IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No.M-22178 of 2008 Date of decision : 21.10.2008 Tilak Raj Tak .....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Mr.A.S.Kalra, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Manjari Nehru, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for respondent-State. **** S. D. ANAND, J. The learned counsel for the petitioner does not dispute that the petitioner had initially been declared as proclaimed offender. The State counsel is not in a position to contest the averment on behalf of the petitioner that two sons of the latter died in the meantime and he has been allowed bail in case FIR No. 115 dated 9.6.2007 under Sections 406/420 IPC, Police Station Sahnewal, Ludhiana by a Coordinate Bench of this Court (Sham Sunder, J.), vide order dated 3.10.2008 passed in Criminal Misc. No. M-22685 of 2008. Further, the petitioner has been in custody since 28.1.2008. Without expressing any opinion on merits, the petitioner is ordered to be released on bail to the satisfaction of the learned Trial Court. October 21, 2008 (S.D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE