IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M- 4900 of 2008 Date of decision:-6.5.2008. Roop Lal ...Petitioner. Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Sharma, Advocate for Mr. D.K. Bhatti, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. A.S. Brar, DAG, Punjab. RAJESH BINDAL J. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that as per the allegations in the FIR registered on the complaint of Gurbaksh Kaur, her daughter Neelam had left the house on 23.12.2007 at about 10.00 a.m., after informing her elder sister that she was going to the Birthday of her friend. When she did not return till evening, FIR in question was lodged with the allegation that the petitioner alongwith other family members had abducted the daughter of the complainant. Paras Ram another eye witness, whose statement was also recorded on 25.12.2007, stated that he had seen the daughter of the complainant along with accused while boarding a bus. The submission is that with these allegations no case of abduction can be made out as the daughter of the complainant had left the home on her own volition and even allegedly accompanied the petitioner and other family members while travelling in a bus. No hue and cry was raised. It is further submitted that the entire family of the petitioner has been involved in the incident. The whereabouts of sons of the petitioner Manjit and Jasbir alias Shera are also not known. Criminal Misc. No. M- 4900 of 2008 -2- Without opining on the merits of the controversy, the present petition is disposed of and it is directed that pending trial, the petitioner shall be released on bail to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate, Jalandhar. May 6, 2008 (RAJESH BINDAL) ritu-II JUDGE