IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-38435-2011 (O&M) Date of decision:20.12.2011 Ramesh Kumar ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr. D.K.Bhatti, Advocate, for the petitioner. ***** RAKESH KUMAR JAIN, J. (Oral) This is a petition for grant of pre-arrest bail in a case registered vide FIR No.129 dated 09.11.2011, under Sections 406 & 420 IPC at Police Station Maqsudan, District Jalandhar. The allegation against the petitioner is that he had taken money from the complainant for sending him to Italy. On 06.07.2003, he was taken to Moscow where he was arrested at the border of Ukraine. A case was registered against him in which he was convicted and sentenced for 14 months and was then deported back to India on 22.05.2004. The complainant had asked the petitioner to return his money, on which he gave him a cheque of `1 lac on 26.08.2011 which was dishonoured. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the cheque was given on account of a loan taken by the petitioner from the complainant but as per the allegation of the complainant, the petitioner is liable to return `6.5 lac which he had taken from him to send them to Italy but because of the cheating of the petitioner, he was landed up in jail in Ukraine and suffered a sentence of 14 months. Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of this case, I do not find it to be a fit case for grant of bail. Hence, the present petition is hereby dismissed. December 20, 2011 (RAKESH KUMAR JAIN) vinod* JUDGE