IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl. Misc. No. 8496-M of 2007 DATE OF DECISION : 09.02.2007 Jarnail Singh and others .... PETITIONERS Versus Ministry of External Affairs and others ..... RESPONDENTS CORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr. Vikram Bali, Advocate, for the petitioners. * * * This joint petition has been filed by eight petitioners under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for transfer of the investigation in eight different cases, mentioned in the petition. All those eight cases are regarding difference occurrences. The complainant as well as the accused and place of occurrence are different in all those cases. In view of this, I am of the opinion that this joint petition is not maintainable. At this stage, counsel for the petitioners submits that this petition be considered only on behalf of petitioner No.1 and regarding petitioners No.2 to 8, he submits that they may be permitted to withdraw this petition with liberty to file fresh individual petitions. Petition qua petitioners No.2 to 8 is dismissed as withdrawn with the aforesaid liberty. I have heard counsel for petitioner No.1 for the transfer of investigation in case FIR No. 69 dated 7.3.2006 under Sections 406, 420 and 364 IPC, registered at Police Station Balachaur, District Nawanshahar. In this case, after the investigation, the challan has been filed and the case is Crl. Misc. No. 8496-M of 2007 -2- before the court. At this stage, I do not find any ground to transfer the investigation to CBI merely on the ground that the Home Ministry has taken note of such kind of offences committed in India. Dismissed. February 09, 2007 ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL ) ndj JUDGE