Crl.M.No.M-26131 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M-26131 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: September 8, 2010 Kallu Khan and another .....Petitioners v. Jafruddin .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Jai Singh Yadav, Advocate for the petitioners. ..... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) The present petition filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in complaint case No.1608 of 2001, dated 5.12.2001, under Sections 392, 406, 420, 468, 471, 506, 467, 120-B IPC, pending in the Court of Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Ferozepur Jhirka, in which petitioners have been summoned to face trial for commission of offence under Section 420 IPC. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioners and have gone through the whole record carefully. The present complaint is of the year 2001. Summoning order was passed on 18.4.2006. Since then the petitioners are evading appearance before learned trial Court. Proceedings for declaring the petitioners proclaimed offenders have been initiated by learned trial Court and thereafter they filed a petition for anticipatory bail before learned Additional Sessions Judge and as the same was dismissed, petitioners are before this Court. It has been observed by learned Additional Sessions Judge after going through the file of the trial Court that petitioners had the knowledge of the proceedings from the very beginning and however, they intentionally did not appear before the Court and delayed the proceedings and hence misused the process of law. Hence, it is not such a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner-accused. Crl.M.No.M-26131 of 2010 (O&M) -2- Hence, in view of these facts, and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition filed by petitioners- Kallu Khan and Deen Mohammad alias Dinu Khan for grant of anticipatory bail is, hereby, dismissed being devoid of any merit. 8.9.2010 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge