In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-33479 of 2009 ..... Date of decision:7.1.2010 Jaspal Chand .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent .... Present: Mr. Manjit Singh Uppal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. V.P.S. Sidhu, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The FIR in the case has been registered on the complaint of Dev Raj, who is the father of the prosecutrix. It is alleged by the complainant-Dev Raj that his daughter aged 17 years and 5 months was sent to the house of his in-laws with his mother-in-law Swaran Kaur for doing a Beauty Parlour course. The brother-in-law of the complainant, namely, Jaspal Chand developed illicit relations with his minor daughter. The complainant came to know about this after his daughter had completed the Beauty Parlour course. They came to know of the illicit relations when the prosecutrix was brought back to the village. However, in August 2006 the mother-in-law of the complainant fell ill and on this pretext Jaspal Chand (petitioner) took the prosecutrix to his village. Thereafter, on 20.8.2006, Jaspal Chand (petitioner) ran away with the prosecutrix with the intention Cr. Misc. No.M-33479 of 2009 [2] of marrying her. The in-laws of the complainant did not inform him about the same. On 10.10.2006, the complainant went to the village of his in-laws for bringing back his daughter and there he came to know that the petitioner had run away with his daughter. When the complainant asked about his daughter then no satisfactory reply was given by his in-laws. On 12.10.2006, Amarjit Singh-brother-in-law of the complainant lodged report with the Police of Police Station Koom Kalan regarding the fact that Jaspal Chand (petitioner) was missing, however, no reference was made to his daughter. Then the complainant became sure that his brother-in-law Jaspal Chand has run away with the daughter of the complainant with the intent to marry her and this was in the knowledge of his mother-in-law Swaran Kaur, father-in-law Banarsi Dass and brother-in-law Amarjit Singh. The matter was not reported to the Police for the fear of shame to the complainant. However, the in-laws of the complainant told him to do whatever he wanted to do and they would not return the girl back. Accordingly, the FIR was got registered on 7.5.2007. The petitioner, it is stated, in fact, solemnized his marriage with the daughter of the complainant in August 2006. They started living somewhere in Himachal Pradesh. In November 2006 the daughter of the complainant gave birth to a baby boy, namely, Karan alias Chirag. In the month of February 2009 the parents of the daughter of the complainant were informed about the marriage and they sought their permission to come back. The complainant told the petitioner to come back and told him that they had no grudge against him and they wish to see their daughter and grand-son. Hearing this, the petitioner and the daughter of the complainant came back but the complainant had informed the Police which Cr. Misc. No.M-33479 of 2009 [3] arrested him. Earlier, he was declared PO on 6.10.2007. Thereafter, he was arrested on 5.2.2009 and since then he is in custody. The trial in the case is likely to take time. There are 8 PWs in the case and only one has been examined so far. Keeping in view the nature of allegations and the case against the petitioner, it would be just and expedient that he is admitted to bail. The criminal miscellaneous petition is allowed. The petitioner on his furnishing personal bond and surety to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ludhiana shall be admitted to bail. January 7, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*