Crl.M.No.M-8103 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M-8103 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: May 18, 2010 Harnesk Singh Ex-Sarpanch and others .....Petitioners v. State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Paramjit Batta, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr.Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, AAG, Punjab. ...... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) The present petition filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioners in case FIR No.26, dated 27.2.2010, under Sections 307, 436, 427, 353, 186, 148 and 149 IPC and under Sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act, 1959, registered at Police Station Bagh Purana, District Moga. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the whole record carefully. Brief allegations against petitioners-accused are that they alongwith some other persons gathered at bus- stand Bagapurana and that petitioner-Harnek Singh, Ex Sarpanch was heading the said gathering. They were armed with Dangs, Sotteys and fire arms. They put on fire A.C. Bus of Orbit Company. They also fired on police party. They also damaged Bus No.PB-10CA-8545, which was standing at the backside of the above said bus of Orbit Company. They also set traffic post and motor cycle bearing No.-PB-04J-2385 of an employee on fire. They raised slogans against the Government. They also damaged one PRTC company bus bearing No.PB- 11Z-5768 and when additional police force came there, they slipped from there. It has been contended by learned counsel for the petitioners that Crl.M.No.M-8103 of 2010 (O&M) -2- allegations are vague in nature and the same cannot be deemed to be correct, as some of the petitioners are of advance age. Further contended that petitioners are followers of Dera Sacha Sauda and they have been falsely implicated in various other cases by the State. Bail application has been vehemently opposed by learned State counsel, on instructions form Partap Singh, S.I., on the plea that petitioners have been specifically named in the FIR and that they have been identified by two police officials, namely, Suraj Pal, ASI and Charanjit Singh, H.C. and by one Jaswinder Singh of adjoining village. It is also stated that they set on fire a bus while passengers were sitting in it and that police had to use force to save the passengers. It is also contended that 427 rounds were also fired by the police to disperse the crowd. Allegations against the petitioners-accused are serious in nature. Hence, it is not such a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioners-accused. Hence, in view of these facts and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition filed by petitioners- Harnek Singh, Ex Sarpanch, Binder @ Ravinder Kumar, Darshan Singh Panch, Sukhdev Singh, Bhatti Daggi Wala and Ruldu for grant of anticipatory bail is dismissed being devoid of any merits. 18.5.2010 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge