Crl. Misc No. M-23976 of 2009 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc No. M-23976 of 2009 Date of decision : 22.09.2009 Duli @ Haji ....Petitioner V/s State of Haryana ....Respondent BEFORE : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr. Satish Chaudhary, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Tarun Aggarwal, Sr. DAG Haryana. Ms. Monisha Lamba, Advocate for the complainant. RAJAN GUPTA J. (ORAL) This is a petition for pre-arrest bail in a case registered against the petitioner under Sections 420, 406, 506, 294, 34 IPC at Police Station Camp Palwal vide FIR No. 291 dated 13.07.2009. Learned counsel for the petitioner has argued that money was not entrusted to the petitioner but to one Sunil Raghav. According to the counsel, offence under Section 294 IPC is bailable and other offences are not made out against the petitioner. Learned counsel for the State has, however, opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner. He submits that there are direct allegations against the petitioner. He alongwith other co-accused not only duped the complainant of sum of Rs. 1,06,000/- on the inducement, he will teach occult science to his daughter aged 14 years but also misbehaved with Crl. Misc No. M-23976 of 2009 2 her. Learned counsel submits that custodial interrogation of the petitioner is necessary for taking the investigation to its logical end. I have heard counsel for the parties and given careful thought to the facts of the case. The allegations in the FIR are that the petitioner posed as a correspondence of the news channel Aaj Tak and claimed that he had high connections with officers and politicians in haryana. He took Rs. 1,06,000/- from the complainant with the inducement, he would teach occult to his daughter. He also misbehaved with his daughter due to which Section 294 IPC was included in the FIR, certain allegations of obscenity being there. Keeping in view the fact that allegations in the FIR are serious in nature and custodial interrogation of the petitioner may be required for the purpose of taking the investigation to its logical end, I find no merit in the present petition and the same is dismissed as such. 22.09.2009 (RAJAN GUPTA) Ajay JUDGE