IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Criminal Misc.8472-M of 2008 DATE OF DECISION : NOVEMBER 19, 2008 DHARMINDER KUMAR ....... PETITIONER(S) VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB & ORS. .... RESPONDENT(S) CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAI LAMBA PRESENT: Mr.Devinder Kumar, Advocate, for the petitioner(s). Mr. Abhishek Chautala, AAG, Punjab. AJAI LAMBA, J. (Oral) This petition under Section 482, Code of Criminal Procedure, seeks directions for registration of FIR against respondent No.4-Swinder Singh Dhillon, Station House Officer, Police Station, Division No.5, Ludhiana, and thereafter, for handing over the investigation to some independent agency outside District Ludhiana. Reply has been filed by way of affidavit of Bhupinder Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sarabha Nagar, Ludhiana, on behalf of respondents No.1 to 3. It transpires that the petitioner had filed an application dated 14.3.2008 before the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Ludhiana Range, Ludhiana. A complaint was also made to the Punjab State Human Rights Commission on 25.4.2008. The matter was marked for inquiry to the Criminal Misc.8472-M of 2008 2 deponent through whom the reply has been filed. Both the parties were joined in the inquiry. No substance has been found in the allegations levelled by the petitioner. Senior Superintendent of Police, Ludhiana, thereafter, sent a copy of the report to the Additional Director General of Police, IVC-cum-HR Punjab, Chandigarh. This petition is disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to avail alternate remedies. November 19, 2008 ( AJAI LAMBA ) Kang JUDGE