Crl.M.No.17861-M of 2010 #1# IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.M.No.17861-M of 2010 Date of Order: 29.11.2010 Sandeep Gupta .....Petitioner Vs. State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASWANT SINGH Present: Mr. Sachin Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, AAG, Punjab. Mr. K.D. Sachdeva, Advocate for the complainant. JASWANT SINGH, J (ORAL) Husband of the complainant-wife has moved the instant petition under Section 438 Cr.P.C for grant of anticipatory/pre arrest bail in case FIR No.158 dated 28.4.2010 under Sections 406/498-A IPC, P.S Kotwali, Patiala. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that before the solemnization of their marriage, both (petitioner as well as complainant) were divorcees. It is further submitted that the marriage was not consummated on account of certain injury marks on the parts of body of the complainant-wife and within two months of the marriage, petitioner- husband had moved the courts for annulment of the marriage. It is further submitted that the present FIR is counter blast to the proceedings initiated by the petitioner. It is submitted that most of articles of istridhan has been returned and another sum of Rs.6 lacs has been paid to the complainant-wife Crl.M.No.17861-M of 2010 #2# by the parents of the petitioner before this Court in separate proceedings. Learned state counsel, on instructions from ASI Sukhwinder Singh, concedes that most of the articles of istridhan besides Rs.6 lacs have been received by the complainant side, however, the remaining gold articles are yet to be recovered. Keeping in view the fact that some of the gold articles still remain to be recovered, I find no good ground to extend the concession of anticipatory/pre arrest bail to the petitioner as custodial interrogation would be necessary. Dismissed. November 29, 2010 ( JASWANT SINGH ) manoj JUDGE