In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-3765 of 2010 ..... Date of decision:15.3.2010 Rajesh and another .....Petitioners v. State of Punjab and others .....Respondents .... Present: Mr. Puneet Singla, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. V.P.S. Sidhu, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. The petitioners seek pre-arrest bail in a case registered against them on 29.11.2008 for the offences under Sections 324, 452, 323, 427, 148, 149 and 120-B IPC at Police Station Bilga, District Jalandhar. The FIR has been registered on the complaint of Smt. Surinder Kaur, who stated that she has two sons Santokh Lal and Aman Deep. Aman Deep is a barber. He on 26.11.2008 returned to Village Pawadhera after appearing in the office of S.D.M. Phillaur. On 27.11.2008, at about 11.30 a.m., Aman Deep was relaxing in his room and the complainant Surinder Kaur had returned back to her home after doing household chores in the house of Ajit Singh. After some time Jiwan Singh, who had quarreled with Aman Deep on two occasions and a case was also registered in this regard suddenly came from outside the street. He pushed the gate and entered the house of the complainant along with 6-7 other boys. They were all armed with sharp edged weapons, bat and `Saria'. Jiwan Singh was mentioning the Cr. Misc. No.M-3765 of 2010 [2] names of his companions as Rajesh (petitioner No.1) and Sonu (petitioner No.2). He has raised a `Lalkara' and said that Aman Deep be taught a lesson for quarreling with him. Aman Deep locked the door of his house from inside but despite the complainant stopping them, Jiwan Singh and his companions pushed opened the door and entered the room. Jiwan Singh gave two dasti Kirpan blows on Aman Deep first on his left arm muscle and second on the joint of his right left hand as he had raised his hand to protect himself. Rajesh (petitioner No.1) attacked with the dasti Kirch on the person of Aman Deep which hit on the right side of his face. Sonu (petitioner No.2) gave a dasti rod blow on the left side of the neck of Aman Deep. Thereafter, another companion of Jiwan Singh gave a blow on the face of Aman Deep. Rajesh (petitioner No.1) is attributed a blow with a Kirch on the right cheek of Aman Deep and Sonu (petitioner No.2) is attributed a blow with a rod on the neck of Aman Deep. Besides, they had forcibly entered the house of the complainant-Surinder Kaur along with Jiwan Kumar. Learned counsel for the State submitted that the custody of the petitioners is required for the purpose of investigation. Besides, it is stated, on instructions from HC Kulwant Singh, Police Station Bilga, that Sonu (petitioner No.2) has gone abroad. In the circumstances, no ground for grant of pre-arrest bail is made out. The criminal miscellaneous petition is accordingly dismissed. March 15, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*