IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc No. M-5573 of 2009 Date of decision : 24.04.2009 Balbir Singh ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab and another ....Respondents BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Gaurav Jeet Singh, Advocate for Mr. R.S. Bajaj, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Shailesh Gupta, DAG Punjab. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) This is a petition for grant of anticipatory bail in a case registered against the petitioner under Section 406/420 IPC at police station Bilga, District Jalandhar. Learned counsel for the State has opposed the grant of bail of the petitioner on the ground that recovery is yet to be effected from the petitioner and he is required for custodial interrogation. Learned counsel for the State, on instructions from ASI Amarjeet Singh, who is present in Court submits that there is another case registered against the petitioner on similar allegations in which he has been declared a proclaimed offender but was arrested later on. Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, I do not find it a fit case for grant of concession of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. The custodial interrogation of the petitioner may be necessary to take the investigation to his logical end. Moreover, recovery is yet to be Crl. Misc No. M-5573 of 2009 -2- effected from the petitioner. The petition is devoid of merit and is dismissed as such. 24.04.2009 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE