IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.Misc.No.73546 -M of 2006 DATE OF DECISION: DECEMBER 18, 2006 Hari Singh ...PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Punjab ...RESPONDENT CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr.Kanwaljit Singh , Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.N.S.Gill, AAG, Punjab. ... Petitioner Hari Singh has filed this petition under Section 439 Cr.P.C. for grant of regular bail in case FIR No.166 dated 2.8.2003 registered under Section 420 IPC at Police Station Jagraon, District Ludhiana. I have heard the counsel for the parties and gone through the contents of the FIR. In the aforesaid case, the petitioner is named as an accused along with his sons Sadhu Singh and Nirmal Singh. The allegation is that the accused had taken a loan from the bank after mortgaging the land. Subsequently, the said land was sold. As far as the petitioner is concerned, counsel for the petitioner, while referring to the document (Annexure P-3), contends that the petitioner has deposited the entire amount of loan taken by him. Counsel further contends that the petitioner, who at one point of time was declared proclaimed offender, is in custody since 27.8.2006. In this case, a supplementary challan is to be filed and the same has not yet been filed. The trial is going to take a long time. Keeping in view the aforesaid facts, I deem it appropriate to grant regular bail to the petitioner, and he is accordingly ordered to be released on bail to the satisfaction of the trial Court. December 18, 2006 (SATISH KUMAR MITTAL) vkg JUDGE