CRM No. M 21063 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- CRM No. M 21063 of 2010 Date of decision: 28.09.2010 Paramjit Kaur ........ Petitioner Versus State of Punjab .......Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur -.- Present: Mr. Lalit K Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner Mr. K S Pannu, DAG, Punjab for the respondent State -.- 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 3. Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest? Nirmaljit Kaur, J. (Oral) This is a petition under Section 439 Cr.P.C. for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No. 17 dated 08.02.2005 under Sections 302, 201 and 120-B of Indian Penal Code, registered at Police Station Kotwali, Nabha. It is stated by the learned counsel for the petitioner that Ujjagar Singh died leaving behind four daughters. One of them was Avtar Kaur who was unmarried. The other daughter, namely, Apanjit Kaur got registered the present FIR against her third sister, namely, Paramjit Kaur qua disappearance of said Avtar Kaur, who has not been found till date. This Court vide order dated 24.10.2005 passed in CRM M 13731 M of 2005 CRM No. M 21063 of 2010 2 directed the State to constitute a Special Investigating Teem to investigate the said FIR. After due investigation, the cancellation report was submitted. Thereafter, a protest petition was filed by complainant Apanjit Kaur. On the basis of the aforesaid protest petition, the cancellation report was rejected. The petitioner is in custody since 12.12.2008 and since then only two witnesses have been examined. Almost 10 months have passed since the passing of the last order vide which the bail petition was dismissed as withdrawn. Taking into account the totality of the facts and circumstances of the present case as well as the fact that the trial is proceeding at such a slow pace, it is ordered that the petitioner shall be released on bail to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate/Trial Court, Patiala. (Nirmaljit Kaur) Judge September 28, 2010 mohan