IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Writ Petition No. 695 of 2009 Date of decision : October 28, 2009 Tinderjit ....Petitioner versus State of Punjab ....Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice L.N. Mittal Present : Mr. Mohit Jaggi, Advocate, Amicus Curiae for the petitioner Mr. Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, AAG Punjab L.N. Mittal, J. (Oral) Criminal Misc. No. 482 of 2009 The application is allowed and annexed affidavits of the petitioner and his father are taken on record subject to all just exceptions. Criminal Writ Petition No. 695 of 2009 Telegram sent by Tinderjit Singh to Hon'ble the Chief Justice has been registered as the instant criminal writ petition. It has been alleged in the statement that in case Piara Singh versus Jagdish Kaur, stay order was made absolute but Kulwant Singh SHO of Police Station, Mahilpur picked up petitioner's father Piara Singh in the morning of 4.6.2009 and threatened to get executed sale deed in favour of Gian Singh (paternal uncle of the petitioner). Petitioner's father was apprehending maltreatment at the hands of aforesaid SHO and also false implication. Criminal Writ Petition No. 695 of 2009 -2- In reply filed on behalf of State, it has been asserted that FIR No. 203 dated 3.11.2008, under sections 448, 454, 380, 411 IPC, Police Station Mahilpur, District Hoshiarpur was registered against the petitioner and others and in that case they were arrested and released on bail by Magistrate and challan has already been presented which is pending in court. No other case has been registered against the petitioner and his father in Police Station Mahilpur. It has been asserted that Kulwant Singh SI, the then SHO of Police Station Mahilpur did not raid the house of the petitioner on 4.6.2009 nor picked up the petitioner's father Piara Singh nor threatened him to get executed any sale deed. All averments in the telegram have been controverted. Affidavits of petitioner and his father have been placed on record affirming that petitioner's father Piara Singh was picked up by SHO Kulwant Singh on 4.6.2009 in the morning and he was pressurised to transfer his land in favour of Gian Singh. Petitioner's father was kept in illegal detention and threatened with maltreatment if he did not transfer the land in favour of Gian Singh. Petitioner's father was released on the same day in the evening. Rejoinder to the aforesaid affidavits have also been filed controverting the aforesaid averments in the affidavits. Since according to the affidavits of petitioner and his father, petitioner's father was released from alleged illegal detention on the same day in the evening, the instant petition is disposed of as having been rendered infructuous without meaning to express any opinion on the disputed contention as to whether the petitioner's father was at all detained Criminal Writ Petition No. 695 of 2009 -2- or not. The petitioner and his father shall be at liberty to avail any other remedy for any other relief, in accordance with law. ( L.N. Mittal ) October 28, 2009 Judge 'dalbir'