Criminal Misc.No.M-12828 of 2010 1 IN THE PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc.No.M-12828 of 2010 Date of decision:-11.08.2010 Baldev Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab .....Respondent Present: Mr. S.S. Gill, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. V.P.S. Sidhu, AAG, Punjab. ..... S.S. Saron, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. Petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail in a case registered against him on 18.3.2010 under Sections 336 IPC and Sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act at Police Station, Sadar, Patiala. The FIR has been registered on the statement of Smt. Renu Singla, who is the Principal of Deaf, Dumb and Blind School situated in village Safdipur District Patiala. It is alleged by her that on 17.03.2010 on 10.15 p.m., Baldev Singh-petitioner fired some shots on the wall of the School with the rifle he was carrying. The children got scared and the complainant took all the children inside the classrooms. Information was given to the Control Room and after some time Smt. Balwinder Kaur, ASI, Incharge Police Post, Urban Estate, Patiala reached there before whom Smt. Renu Singla- complainant made her statement. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the FIR has been registered at the instance of Ex. Akali MLA, to implicate him in this false case. Earlier his wife had implicated him in FIR No.475 Criminal Misc.No.M-12828 of 2010 2 dated 25.10.2007, registered at Police Station Kotwali, Patiala regarding dispute of land. In the said case the petitioner and others had been acquitted by the Court vide order dated 18.8.2009. It is submitted that no gun shot was fired on the wall of the School. Learned counsel for the State on instructions has submitted that supplementary statement of Smt. Renu Singla- Complainant has been recorded on 7.8.2010 and she has stated that the petitioner did not hit the wall of the School and he fired in the air only. It may be noticed that FIR has been registered for the offence under Sections 336 IPC, which is a bailable one. The offence under Section 25 of Arms Act is, however, non-bailable. In any case keeping in view the supplementary statement of the complainant, it would be just and expedient that interim bail granted on 4.5.2010 is made absolute. Ordered accordingly. Crl. Misc. No.M-12828 of 2010 stands disposed of. (S.S.SARON) JUDGE 11.08.2010 sharmila