In the Punjab and Haryana High Court, at Chandigarh. CRM-M-20216 of 2011 Decided on Aug 02,2011 Satnam Singh --Petitioner vs. State of Punjab and another --Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr.Sukhjit Singh,Advocate, for the petitioner Mr.A.S.Rai,DAG,Punjab Rakesh Kumar Jain,J:(Oral) This is a petition under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short,'Cr.P.C') for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in a case registered vide FIR No.21 dated 26.2.2011 under Sections 363,366 of IPC at Police Station, Sadar Khanna, District Ludhiana. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that though Harpreet Kaur was 17 years and a few days old at the time of commission of the alleged offence but she was already married with the petitioner and is five month's pregnant. In this regard, he refers to an order of this Court passed in CRM-M-19805 of 2011 decided on 20.7.2011, whereby a petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C was filed by mother-in-law of Harpreet Kaur for seeking her custody as she was lodged in State Protective Home (Nari Niketan), Jalandhar since June 26,2011. He further refers to an order passed in CRM-M-6821 of 2011 by which both the petitioner and Harpreet Kaur filed a petition in this Court for seeking protection for their lives and liberty which was disposed of on 4.3.2011. Without commenting anything on the merits of this case, CRM-M-20216 of 2011 -2- the present petition is allowed and the petitioner is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail bonds to the satisfaction of the learned trial Court. August 02,2011 (Rakesh Kumar Jain) RR Judge