In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-36032 of 2009 ..... Date of decision:22.9.2010 Kewal Sharma .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent .... Present: Mr. Pardeep Rajput, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. T.S. Salana, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail in a case registered against him as mentioned in the head note of the petition. The FIR has been registered on the complaint of Prem Sharma wife of Madan Mohan Sharma. The complainant Prem Sharma has deposed an affidavit dated 14.8.2003 (Annexure-P.3) in which she has stated that two unknown persons came to her house on 10.5.2003 and represented that they were employees of the Electricity Board. The complainant lodged a complaint against them on the basis of which the present FIR was registered. It is stated by the complainant that the persons were not known to her personally and at the behest of some persons, she named Junior Engineer Kewal Krishan and Assistant Lineman Charanjit Singh. It is stated that due to misunderstanding she had lodged the complaint against the two persons. The petitioner Kewal Sharma is a Junior Engineer in the Cr. Misc. No.M-36032 of 2009 [2] Electricity Board and he is alleged to have gone to the house of the complainant and asserted that there was a balance of `32,000/- due since 1998 from the complainant. The petitioner is alleged to have stated that either amount be paid or the connection would be disconnected. He further manhandled the daughter-in-law of the complainant by holding her arm. A cheque of `32,000/- was given by Raju Bedi. It is stated that the petitioner and the other person were drunk and had abused and misbehaved with the complainant. In view of the affidavit (Annexure-P.3) the complainant has now virtually turned hostile from her stand. The petitioner was granted interim bail vide order dated 8.1.2010. In consequence of the said order he has appeared before the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Amritsar and has been admitted to bail on 28.1.2010. The trial in the case is going on. In the circumstances, the interim bail granted on 8.1.2010 is made absolute. The criminal miscellaneous petition stands disposed of. September 22, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*