IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.Misc.No.M-28897 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision : 21.9.2011 Gurcharan Singh and others ....Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MAHESH GROVER .... Present: Ms.Kamana Kapoor, Advocate for the petitioners. ..... MAHESH GROVER, J. This is a petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. praying for appropriate directions to respondents No.1 to 4 to register an FIR against respondents No.5 to 10 for committing an offence under Sections 406 and 420 IPC. At the backdrop of the concern of the petitioners there is an agreement to sell entered into between the petitioners and respondent No.5 to 10 in the year 2006. A suit for specific performance also ensued on the refusal of the aforesaid respondents to register the sale deed. The suit was filed in the year 2007. The instant grievance alleging that the petitioners have been duped has been made in the year 2011. I am of the opinion that it will not be appropriate to accept the prayer of the petitioners and give any such direction which could Crl.Misc.No.M-28897 of 2011 (O&M) -2- have the result of registering an FIR against the said respondents for the simple reason that the petitioners have already taken recourse to one remedy which was available to them at the nearest point of time in the year 2007. The agreement to sell is of the year 2006 and it is too late in the day to give any such direction which the petitioners prayed for. However, the petitioners are at liberty to take any other remedy that may be available to them under the law. Dismissed. 21.9.2011 (MAHESH GROVER) JUDGE dss