IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH ***** CRM-M-24312 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision:11.08.2011 Jatinder Kumar . . .Petitioner Versus State of Punjab . . . Respondent ***** CORAM: HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN ***** Present: Mr.R.K.S. Brar, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RAKESH KUMAR JAIN, J. This is a petition for bail in a pending trial case registered vide FIR No.123 dated 13.10.2010 under Sections 170, 219, 419, 466, 467, 468, 469, 471 & 120B of the Indian Penal Code,1860 (for short ‘IPC’) at Police Station Sadar Muktsar Sahib, District Sri Muktsar Sahib. The FIR is registered on the complaint of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sri Muktsar Sahib, in which he has alleged that bailable warrants of the accused were issued in a case titled Girdhar Sales Versus Sunndera Cement bearing file No.4 dated 8.1.2010 under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act but the Ahlmad instead of issuing bailable warrants issued non-bailable warrants of arrest of the accused which though were neither issued by the Court nor the order bears the signature of the Presiding Officer. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has already rendered 14 years of service and has unblemished record, who has been arrested just on the suspicion of forging signature of the Presiding Officer on the warrants of arrest. He further contends that the expert report cannot be relied upon as it is not possible to give report about the initials of any person. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner in detail and keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case in which the bailable warrants have been converted into non-bailable warrants and the signature of the Presiding Officer has been forged which is, prima facie, proved by handwriting expert, I do not fit it to be a fit case for grant of bail and hence, the same is hereby dismissed. (RAKESH KUMAR JAIN) AUGUST 11, 2011 JUDGE Vivek