Crl. Misc. No. M – 4982 of 2010 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -.- Crl. Misc. No. M – 4982 of 2010(O&M) Date of decision:- 17.3.2010 Dr. Sumeet Sofat ... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana & Anr. ... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GURDEV SINGH Present:- Mr. R.S.Ghuman, Advocate, for the petitioner. Gurdev Singh, J (oral) Petitioner - Dr. Sumeet Sofat has filed this petition under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for the grant of anticipatory bail in FIR No. 149 dated 19.7.2009 registered under Sections 307, 341, 182 and 120-B IPC and Section 25 of the Arms Act, which was previously registered under Sections 395 and 397 IPC and 25 of the Arms Act, at Police Station Chandimandir, District Panchkula. In fact this FIR was got registered by the petitioner himself as a complainant. However, it has come out that he is being arrested in that FIR as an accused. Similar petition was filed before this Court (Crl. Misc. No. M – 26617 of 2009), which was decided on 4.11.2009. A detailed order was passed at that time incorporating the grounds on which the anticipatory bail was declined to the petitioner. According to learned counsel for the petitioner, there are change in the circumstances, since the dismissal of the previous petition. According to him the following are those circumstances:- Crl. Misc. No. M – 4982 of 2010 -2- (i)The eye-witness; namely Ravinder Kumar has given his affidavit, who has supported the contentions of the petitioner; (ii)He made a representation to the DGP, Haryana for reinvestigation of the case; (iii)One of the persons named as an accused has been allowed regular bail by this very Court. Keeping in view the reasons given in the order dated 4.11.2009 while refusing anticipatory bail to the petitioner, the above circumstances cannot be stated to be such a change in the circumstances so as to justify granting him anticipatory bail. The petition is dismissed accordingly. March 17, 2010 (Gurdev Singh) tripti Judge