Crl. Misc. No.M-6424 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl. Misc. No.M-6424 of 2011 Date of Decision: 01.03.2011 Gurej Singh ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ....Respondents CORAM : Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present:- Mr. R.K. Girdhar, Advocate for the petitioner. ***** 1. Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest ? ** NIRMALJIT KAUR, J. (ORAL) This is a petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C for issuance of directions to respondents No.1 and 2 to hand over the investigation of the case FIR No.120 dated 17.09.2010 under Sections 419/420/465/467/468/471/120-B IPC registered at Police Station Sadar Malout to the Crime Branch with a further prayer for issuance of direction to the official respondents to take action against the accused persons in accordance with law and to complete the investigation within a stipulated period and to submit report under Section 173 Cr.P.C before the Illaqa Magistrate. The limited prayer made by learned counsel for the petitioner is that the FIR was registered way back on 17.09.2010. In spite of that, the matter has not been investigated as yet and no final report has been submitted. In view of the above, the present petition is disposed of with a Crl. Misc. No.M-6424 of 2011 2 direction to the Investigating Officer to complete the investigation as expeditiously as possible, preferably with three months from the receipt of a copy of this order and submit his final report in accordance with law. (NIRMALJIT KAUR) 01.03.2011 JUDGE gurpreet