CRM No. M 29377 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- CRM No. M 29377 of 2010 Date of decision: 05.10.2010 Sudagar Lal ........ Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others .......Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur -.- Present: Mr. N S Sodhi, Advocate for the petitioner -.- 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 3. Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest? Nirmaljit Kaur, J. (Oral) This is a petition under Section 438 Cr.P.C. for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in complaint case No. 2112/2/2009 dated 18.07.2008, under Section 138 of Negotiable Instrument Act, titled as Dinesh Kumar v. Sudagar Lal, pending in the Court of Shri Avtar Singh Barda, J/.M.I.C, Jalandhar. The petitioner was on anticipatory bail. Thereafter, he was required to appear before the trial Court on 22.04.2010. However, on the said date, he was absent. Thereafter, he continued to remain absent till he was declared proclaimed offender. Learned counsel for the petitioner has vehemently contended that the petitioner was declared proclaimed offender even though the CRM No. M 29377 of 2010 2 petitioner was never served or made aware of the proceedings as the same were being served on a wrong address. The said argument does not help the petitioner as he was aware of the proceedings pending before the Court. It is his own argument that the petitioner had noted a wrong date. It was incumbent upon the petitioner to subsequently find out the correct date after he came to know about it as he must have contacted his advocate or came to the Court on the date noted by him, whereas, the petitioner simply did not care. No ground to extend the concession of anticipatory bail. Dismissed. However, in case, the petitioner appears and files his application for grant of regular bail before the trial Court within 10 days from today, the same shall be decided within five days. (Nirmaljit Kaur) Judge October 05, 2010 mohan