Criminal Misc. No. M-4195 of 2009 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh. Criminal Misc. No. M-4195 of 2009 Date of Decision: 11.10.2010 Amarjit Singh Dhaliwal …Petitioner Versus State of Punjab …Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: Mr. A.S. Sullar, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Raghbir Chaudhary, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, for the respondent. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) The present petition has been filed under section 482 Cr.P.C. seeking quashing of the impugned order dated 14.12.1999 (Annexure P1) vide which the petitioner was declared as a Proclaimed Offender in case FIR No. 184 dated 23.9.1999 registered at Police Station Jagraon, District Ludhiana, under Sections 302, 210, 148 and 149 IPC. Learned counsel for the State has submitted that the petitioner has surrendered in the Court on 11.8.2009 and thereafter he has been released on regular bail and the trial is proceeding against him. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that even though the prayer made in the present petition stands infructuous, but since the matter pertains to the year 1999, the trial Court be directed to conclude Criminal Misc. No. M-4195 of 2009 2 the trial at the earliest as the co-accused of the petitioner has already been acquitted. Learned counsel for the State has no objection thereto. Accordingly, the present petition is disposed of by directing the trial Court to conclude the trial of the case within a period of nine months, from the date of the receipt of a certified copy of this order. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge October 11, 2010 “DK”