Crl.M.No.M-18887 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M-18887 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: July 6, 2010 Hardeep Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab and another .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Suresh Goyal, Advocate for the petitioner. ...... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) The present petition filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in complaint case No.48, dated 31.1.2007, under Sections 323, 506 IPC, and Section 3 of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities)Act, 1989, whereby the petitioner has been summoned vide order dated 19.1.2010 by learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barnala. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and have gone through the whole record carefully. Brief allegations against the petitioner-accused are that he caught hold beard of the complainant and slapped on his face in the presence of witnesses at a public place. He called him as `Kutta Chamiar' and said that `Kuttiaya, Chamaiara', the Government had given the facility and he was going above them and that earlier persons like `Chamiar' used to work in their houses and used to make their both ends meet by doing menial work and that now they were trying to become equal with him, i.e., the petitioner-accused, who belongs to a forward class, i.e. Jat Sikh. There is specific bar for releasing the accused on anticipatory bail for offence punishable under Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities)Act, 1989. Hence, it is not such a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner- Crl.M.No.M-18887 of 2010 (O&M) -2- accused. Hence, in view of these facts, and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition filed by petitioner- Hardeep Singh for grant of anticipatory bail is, hereby, dismissed being devoid of any merit. 6.7.2010 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge