CRM-M-31143-2011 (O&M) [ 1 ] :::::::: IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-31143-2011 (O&M) Date of decision:14.10.2011 Joginder Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr. L.MGulati, 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.32 dated 25.01.2003, under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 IPC at Police Station Sultanwind, District Amritsar. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been appearing before the learned Trial Court since 2003 but on 29.08.2011, when the case was adjourned to 12.09.2011, inadvertently, he was conveyed the next date as 12.10.2011. He further submits that as soon as he came to know that non-bailable warrants have been issued against him, he moved an application for pre-arrest bail which has been dismissed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Amritsar on 07.10.2011 in which it has been ordered that if the petitioner surrenders before the learned Court within 5 days, his application, if so filed, shall be decided by the learned Trial Court within 7 days. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that insofar as the order dated 07.10.2011 is concerned, he has no grievance with it except for the period of decision of his bail application by the learned Trial Court within 7 days. He further submits that the learned Trial CRM-M-31143-2011 (O&M) [ 2 ] :::::::: Court may be directed to decide his bail application, if so filed, on the same day. Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the present case much-less the fact that the petitioner has been appearing before the learned Trial Court since 2003 and as projected by him before this Court, he has jumped the bail once that too because of communication gap, the order dated 07.10.2011 is hereby modified to the effect that in case of surrender by the petitioner before the learned Trial Court, his bail application, if so filed, shall be decided by it on the same day in accordance with law. October 14, 2011 (RAKESH KUMAR JAIN) vinod* JUDGE