Crl.M.No.M-27112 of 2010 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. Crl.M.No.M-27112 of 2010 (O&M) Date of Decision:September 15, 2010 Davinder Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.C.L.Verma, Advocate for the petitioner. ...... RAM CHAND GUPTA, J.(Oral) Crl.M.No.48348 of 2010 Application is allowed subject to all just exceptions. Crl.M.No.M-27112 of 2010 The present petition filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.59, dated 13.7.2010, under Section 498-A IPC, registered at Police Station Dabba, District Ludhiana. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and have gone through the whole record carefully, including the order passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Ludhiana, vide which application filed on behalf of the present petitioner for anticipatory bail was dismissed. There are specific allegations of mental harassment as well as of physical cruelty being committed upon the complainant by the petitioner- accused being husband. Though the marriage was solemnised with the consent of both the parties, however, as per allegations demand of dowry started just after few days of marriage. Rs.30,000/- were paid by the parents of the complainant. For some days there was peace in the house and again demand of car and money started. The complainant became pregnant in February 2008. However, her child was got aborted by the petitioner without her consent after administering some medicines. On 25.5.2008, Crl.M.No.M-27112 of 2010 (O&M) -2- petitioner-husband and other family members gave beatings to her and turned her out of the house. She got treatment from Civil Hospital, Ludhiana. She had given an application against the accused to the police. However, compromise was effected in the Panchayat in which it was promised that no such act would be committed in future. She again went to the house of her in-laws, however, their behaviour did not change. Due to intervention of Panchayat separate house was also taken by the petitioner. On 3.6.2010 in the presence of Muskan, cousin of complainant, petitioner came in a drunken condition and sat on the complainant and squeezed her neck and tried to kill her. Muskan raised alarm due to which neighbours collected there and hence she could be saved. She got treatement from Civil Hospital, Ludhiana. No action was taken on the complaint by the police. She made complaint before the Commissioner of Police. Matter was got investigated by Assistant Commissioner of Police and only thereafter the present FIR was lodged against the petitioner-accused. Hence, in view of the serious allegations against the petitioner- accused, it is not such a case in which extraordinary relief of anticipatory bail should be granted to him. Hence, in view of these facts, and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the present petition filed by petitioner- Davinder Singh for grant of anticipatory bail is, hereby, dismissed being devoid of any merit. 15.9.2010 (Ram Chand Gupta) meenu Judge