Criminal Misc. No. M-9256 of 2008 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH **** Criminal Misc. No. M-9256 of 2008 (O&M) Date of Decision:10.04.2008 Harjit Singh Sandhu and another .....Petitioners Vs. State of Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present:- Mr. Navkiran Singh, Advocate for the petitioners. **** RAJESH BINDAL J. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners had earlier approached this Court by filing C.W.P. No. 20026 of 2005 along with Geeta wife of Gomti and her husband Ayodhya Prasad. Geeta is working as maid servant in the house of the petitioners. The prayer in the writ petition was for a direction to the official respondents to register FIR on the basis of the complaint annexed with the writ petition. The accused therein were Harjit Singh son of Bahadur Singh, Gurdeep Singh son of Ishar Singh and Talwinder Singh son of Sarup Singh. However, the writ petition was disposed of with a direction to the petitioners therein to present complaint before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patiala. After the complaint was filed, the accused were summoned by the Court vide order dated 10.12.2007. Thereafter, a complaint has been filed by brother-in-law of Harjit Singh and father of Gurdeep Singh, the accused in the complaint filed by maid servant of the petitioners alleging offence committed under Section 420 IPC read with Section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 to the police. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that there are totally false allegations in the complaint. The same has been filed just to pressurize the petitioners not to proceed with the complaint already filed against them. The prayer in the present petition is that in case the respondents want to arrest the petitioners, ten days' notice be given so as to enable them to take their remedies in accordance with law. Criminal Misc. No. M-9256 of 2008 (O&M) -2- Keeping aforesaid facts in view, without issuing notice to the respondents, it is directed that in case the petitioners are required to be arrested in a complaint filed by Rajinder Singh, son of Sarwan Singh and Ishar Singh under Section 420 IPC and Section 3 of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, the petitioners be given notice of 7 days before their arrest. The petition is disposed of accordingly. April 10, 2008 ( RAJESH BINDAL ) renu JUDGE