IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. -M No. 29380 of 2008 (O&M) Date of decision : November 14, 2008 Mahavir Parshad ....Petitioner versus State of Punjab ....Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pritam Pal Present : Mr. PK Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. IPS Sidhu, Sr. DAG Punjab Pritam Pal,J. (Oral) Petitioner has brought this petition under section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for seeking anticipatory bail in case FIR No. 155 dated 9.8.2008 under sections 7 of the Essential of Commodities Act registered at Police Station Sadar Rajpura District Patiala. As per allegations of the prosecution, the petitioner in connivance with the co-accused is indulging in manufacturing the diesel by mixing mobile in the kerosene oil of blue colour. For that, on 9.8.2008, petitioner had sent his servant Dinesh Kumar along with Lakhwinder Singh driver to arrange for the kerosene oil from the depot of Vijay Kumar at Patiala. On a tip of, the police had intercepted the vehicle being driven by Lakhwinder Singh in which Dinesh Kumar employee of the petitioner was sitting. From the said vehicle, 8 drums of kerosene oil were recovered. Criminal Misc. -M No. 29380 of 2008 (O&M) -2- Now the contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that, in fact, the petitioner is not named in the FIR and that he has no nexus at all in the commission of crime in any manner. However, this contention has been refuted by learned State counsel wherein he states that, in fact, the petitioner is known as Jain Baltana. He then also made reference to his extra judicial confession before Om Parkash before whom he gave his name as Mahavir Parshad resident of Baltana. At this stage, without commenting on the merits of the case and taking into consideration the seriousness and the gravity of the offence, I do not find it to be a fit case for granting anticipatory bail. Dismissed. ( Pritam Pal ) November 14, 2008 Judge 'dalbir'