In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-35886 of 2009 ..... Date of decision:24.2.2010 Ram Lal .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent .... Present: Mr. Raman Mohinder, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. V.P.S. Sidhu, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. Mr. P.S. Dhaliwal, Advocate for the complainant. ...... S.S. Saron, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail in a case registered against him for the offences under Sections 420, 468 and 471 IPC. The dispute in the present case is between two brothers. The complainant-Nirmal Chand who is brother of the petitioner has alleged that the petitioner has installed an electricity meter in the joint house of the petitioner and the complainant by forging the signatures of the complainant- Nirmal Chand. Learned counsel appearing for the complainant has submitted that the case against the petitioner is clearly made out as the Hand-writing Expert has given a report in which it is stated that the signatures of Nirmal Chand-complainant are forged. According to the petitioner, the complainant-Nirmal Chand is an employee of the Electricity Department and has been taking the benefit Cr. Misc. No.M-35886 of 2009 [2] of concession of 100 units of electricity from the Electricity Board on the premise that the electricity meter is in his name. The case against the petitioner is to be established after evidence has been led. Leaned counsel for the State, on instructions from HC Jatinderpal Singh, Police Station Kotwali, Patiala, has submitted that the petitioner has joined the investigation and nothing is to be recovered from him. It is submitted that his custody is not required for the purposes of investigation. In the circumstances, the interim bail granted on 18.12.2009 is made absolute. The criminal miscellaneous petition stands disposed of. February 24, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*