IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc No. M-11205 of 2009 Date of decision : 24.04.2009 Jagmohan Singh ....Petitioner V/s State of Punjab ....Respondent. BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Kunal Dawar, Advocate for the petitioner. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was facing trial in a case registered against him under Sections325, 323, 354, 506, 148 & 149 IPC at Police Station Banga, District Nawanshahar, Punjab. He submits that after the registration of the FIR, petitioner was regularly appearing before the trial court and was granted bail also. According to the counsel, all the offences alleged in the FIR are bailable in nature. Learned counsel further submits that petitioner had to go to South Korea to earn his livelihood and thus he absented from the trial on 11.03.2003 onwards. He was declared a proclaimed offender on 29.04.2004. According to the counsel, trial of the case is still pending and the petitioner has came back to India and wants to submit to the process of law and face trial. However, the order of proclamation Annexure P-5 stands in his way. Under the circumstances, the petition is disposed of and it is directed that in case, the petitioner surrenders before the trial court within a Crl. Misc No. M-11205 of 2009 -2- week of receipt of certified copy of this order, his bail application shall be decided within a week thereafter. In that event, arrest of the petitioner shall remain stayed till the decision of his bail application. 24.04.2009 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE