IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. M. No.5436-M of 2010 Date of Decision:1.4.2011 Lal Hussain .... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others .... Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present: Mr. A.S. Kalra, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Brar, A.A.G. Punjab. **** 1.Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2.To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3.Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? NIRMALJIT KAUR, J.(Oral) The present petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed for issuance of direction to respondents No.2 and 3 to file supplementary challan under Section 173(8) Cr.P.C. against the main culprits respondents No.4 and 5 namely Alamgir and Ladda. Upon notice, reply by way of affidavit of Balbir Singh PPS, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kartarpur Sub-Division, District Jalandhar, has been filed. As per the said reply, after the registration of the case the statement of Lal Hussain, petitioner was recorded, in which he stated that his son was murdered by Jaspal @ Gora and Bittu Gujjar alongwith unidentified person, who were the friends of his deceased son Liyakat Ali with whom they used to meet and because the relations between his son Liyakat Ali and those persons became strained, they murdered him. After completition of investigation, final report dated 26.11.2009 under Section 173 Cr.P.C. was submitted in the Court against Jaspal @ Gora. However, a supplementary report under Section 173 Cr.P.C. dated Crl. M. No.5436-M of 2010 -2- 19.5.2010 was also submitted in Court against Bittu Gujjar son of Kasim Din. During enquiry Manjit Singh @ Ladda was found innocent and he was discharged and the final reports only against the real culprits namely Bittu Gujjar and Jaspal Singh @ Gora was submitted. It is further submitted in the reply that story regarding the involvement of Alamgir is put forth for the first time in the present petition. None of the witnesses have come forward to corroborate this story during the course of investigation of this case. Investigation is over. Challan has already been filed against the accused persons. Moreover, it is always open to the prosecution to move appropriate application for summoning an additional accused in case any clinching and sufficient evidence is brought before the Court involving the additional accused. Hence, no further order is required to be passed at this stage. Accordingly, the present petition is disposed of in the above terms. 1.4.2011 ( NIRMALJIT KAUR ) rajeev JUDGE