Crl.M.No.M 4228 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M 4228 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision: March 12, 2010 Sukhwinder Chand .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab ......Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.Randeep Singh Rana, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, AAG, Punjab. ...... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) The present petition filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.148, dated 4.7.2009, under Sections 365/323/506/149 IPC, registered at Police Station Bhawanigarh, District Sangrur. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the whole record of the case. Brief allegations against the present petitioner-accused are that he alongwith seven other accused had taken away wife of the complainant forcibly while complainant was not in the house and his wife was alone in the house and she was recovered on the next day. It has been contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that he has been falsely implicated in this case and, in fact, he was present in his office and certificate in this regard has also been issued by his immediate superior officer. Bail application has been vehemently opposed by learned State counsel, on instructions from ASI Rajinder Kumar, on the plea that all the co-accused are absconding and that there is only half an hour driving distance between the office of petitioner and the house of the complainant Crl.M.No.M 4228 of 2010 (O&M) -2- and 5 to 10 minutes of walking distance between the office of the petitioner and place where the wife of the complainant was taken after abduction. Hence, it is contended that allegations against the petitioner are serious in nature and he is not entitled for extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail. Hence, in view of these facts, and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, I am of the view that it is not a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner. The application for anticipatory bail filed by petitioner-accused Sukhwinder Chand is, hereby, dismissed being devoid of any merit. 12.3.2010 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge