IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-1187 of 2008 (O&M) Date of Decision:25.04.2008 Nirmal Singh @ Billu .....Petitioner Vs. State of Haryana .....Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present:- Mr. Kanwaljit Singh, Senior Advocate with Mr. G.S.Ghuman, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Navneet Singh, AAG, Haryana. **** RAJESH BINDAL J. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the FIR was registered on 08.04.2007 on the basis of recovery of an abandoned car on G.T.Road in front of Ethnic India, Rai in which 272.5 kg of poppy husk was found. The front glass and metelled net outside radiator of the car was already broken. From the car, one mobile phone was found which does not belong to the petitioner. The petitioner was arrested on 16.4.2007 with the allegation that he had come near the place from where the car met with an accident to look for the same on 16.4.2007. The car belongs to one Jogender Kaur, aunt of another accused in the FIR, namely, Sunny. The contention is that the petitioner has been falsely implicated otherwise he had no connection whatsoever with the abandoned car and there is no likelihood of petitioner's visiting the place where the car was left after the incident to look for the same specially in case the poppy husk was there in the car. There was no reason to leave the car abandoned even after incident as the poppy husk would have been removed immediately. Statement of Jogender Kaur was recorded much after the arrest of the petitioner on 5.8.2007 stating that the car was taken by her nephew, Sunny and his friends Billa and Nirmal Singh, petitioner. Be that as it may, without recording any finding on the merits of the controversy, it is directed that pending trial the petitioner shall be released to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sonepat. The petition is disposed of. April 25, 2008 ( RAJESH BINDAL ) renu JUDGE