Criminal Misc. No. M-12005 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-12005 of 2011 Date of decision: 30.5.2010 Davinder Singh @ Banta ...Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. G.S. Sandhu, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Manjari Nehru, Additional Advocate General, Punjab. Rajan Gupta, J. (Oral) This is a petition filed under Section 439 Cr.P.C. seeking regular bail in a case registered against the petitioner vide FIR No. 267 dated 09.10.2010 under Sections 420/467/468/471/201/120-B IPC at Police Station City Barnala. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been in custody since 11.10.2010, investigation of the case has been completed and challan presented before the competent court of jurisdiction. He submits that case is triable by Magistrate and thus no useful purpose would be served by detaining the petitioner in custody any longer. Learned State counsel has opposed the prayer for bail on the ground that allegations against the petitioner are serious. Criminal Misc. No. M-12005 of 2011 2 Keeping in view the aforesaid contentions, period of incarceration of petitioner and the fact that case is triable by Magistrate, I am of the considered view that no useful purpose would be served by detaining the petitioner in custody any longer. Without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, I deem it appropriate to grant regular bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the petition is allowed and petitioner is ordered to be enlarged on bail to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate, Barnala. This, however, will be subject to heavy surety and/or any other condition(s) which the trial court may deem fit to impose. 30.05.2011 (RAJAN GUPTA) AJAY JUDGE