CRM No. M 19619 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- CRM No. M 19619 of 2010 Date of decision: 28.02.2011 Shingara Ram ........ Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others .......Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur -.- Present: Mr. J S Saneta, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. Amit Rana, DAG, Haryana for the respondent - State Mr. Sandeep Kumar, Advocate for respondents No. 5 to 8 -.- 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Nirmaljit Kaur, J. (Oral) This is a petition under Section 482 Cr.P C for directing the official respondents to trace out the missing daughter of the petitioner namely, Deepo Rani since July 2009, who has either been killed by the private respondents or has been sold to some unknown person for the sake of money, and to take the appropriate legal action against the private respondents. Short reply by way of affidavit of Ashok Kumar, Additional Superintendent of Police, Yamuna Nagar on behalf of respondents No. 1 to CRM No. M 19619 of 2010 2 4. As per the reply, a complaint was marked to SHO, Police Station, Chhapper for enquiry and report. During the enquiry, the petitioner was contacted but he stated that his complaint be read as his statement. Thereafter, statements of Phool Chand, Sukhchain Singh, Smt. Guddi, Sukhdev Singh were recorded and joint statements of several persons namely Basant Kumar, Niranjan Singh, Om Parkash, Joginder Singh, Dayal Singh, Bhoora Ram, Avtar Singh and Om Parkash was also recorded. All these persons stated that the wife of respondent No. 5 used to leave the house of respondent No. 5 of her own free will and used to come back after some days. But last time on 12.08.2009, she left for going to Chhapper but did not return. Thereafter, the SHO sent his report to the higher officers for further necessary action. However, the higher officers did not agree with the report submitted by SHO, P S Chhapper and directed him to register FIR against respondents No. 5 to 8. Accordingly, FIR No. 131 dated 06.08.2010 under Section 498-A, 365 IPC was registered in Police Station Chhapper. Thus, FIR stands registered against the accused persons. After registration of the FIR, the investigation is going on. In view of the above, the present petition is disposed of with direction to the Investigating agency to complete the investigation as expeditiously as possible and make sincere efforts to trace the missing girl and submit final report as expeditiously as possible. (Nirmaljit Kaur) Judge 28.02.2011 mohan