In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-3540 of 2009 ..... Date of decision:23.3.2009 Gurcharan Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab and others .....Respondents .... Present: Mr. Kehar Singh Hissowal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Sudhir Nehra, Additional Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. This petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (`Cr.P.C.' - for short) has been filed for directing the official respondents to take action against private respondents, who it is alleged had put the car of the petitioner on fire. It is submitted that despite the fact that FIR No.183 dated 13.9.2008 has been registered at Police Station Sadar, Ludhiana, the Police is not taking action against the guilty and is rather compelling the petitioner and his family members to effect a compromise. It has been alleged that on 12.9.2008 at about 11.30 p.m. the private respondents put on fire the Icon Ford car of the petitioner. The said car had been parked outside the house of the petitioner. The petitioner was informed by some one that his car had been put on fire. The petitioner and his uncle came at the spot and saw that the car was burning. A day earlier to the occurrence an incident had occurred between the petitioner and the private respondents in which the Cr. Misc. No.M-3540/2009 [2] private respondents were proceeded against under Sections 107 and 151 Cr. .C. It has been alleged that despite the FIR reg istered no action has bee taken. A copy of the petition was given to the learned State counsel so as to enable him to seek instructions in the matter. Today, when the case was taken up for hearing, reply by way of affidavit of Parampal Singh, PPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Rural, Ludhiana City, Ludhiana has been filed. It has been stated that the petitioner had raised a suspicion against respondents No.4 to 7 for setting his car on fire. The reason for the suspicion was that the petitioner had a fight with respondents No.4 to 7 on 11.9.2008. The matter was investigated. From the investigation that had been conducted, no fact came to light which could show the involvement of respondents No.4 to 7 against whom suspicion had been raised. Efforts were made to trace out the real culprits, however, despite best efforts, no positive result could be gathered and an untraced report has been prepared which is to be filed. In the afore-noticed circumstances, the petitioner may raise his grievance before the learned Area Magistrate in accordance with law. The criminal miscellaneous petition is accordingly disposed of. March 23, 2009. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*