IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CRM-M-34163 of 2011 Decided on 14.12.2011 Kamaljit Kaur --Petitioner vs. State of Punjab --Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAKESH KUMAR JAIN Present: Mr.Rajiv Kataria,Advocate, for the petitioner Mr.A.S.Rai, DAG, Punjab RAKESH KUMAR JAIN,J: (ORAL) This is a petition for bail pending trial in a case registered vide FIR No.263 dated 13.8.2001, under Sections 494 and 498-A of the IPC at Police Station Division N.6, Ludhiana. The FIR is registered by one Kulwant Kaur against her husband Gurbakash Singh @ Bakshi and the petitioner in which she has stated that both of them have illicit relations from the last four years. She has also levelled allegations against her husband for demand of dowry. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that she was granted anticipatory bail but she absented from the trial on 06.4.2002 and her bailbonds were cancelled. She was thereafter summoned through warrants and was declared proclaimed offender and is in custody from 07.7.2011 after her arrest. He submits that she is an old lady of 58 years and has been thrown out of her matrimonial home by her son because of the allegations made against her. It is further submitted that co-accused Gurbakash Singh @ Bakshi who had jumped bail and was arrested later on has already been released on bail by this Court vide CRM-M- 4862 of 2011 on 15.7.2011. CRM-M-34163 of 2011 -2- Learned counsel for the State, however, submitted that the petitioner had absented from the Court for a long period of eight years, therefore, she does not deserve the concession of bail. I have heard the learned counsel for the parties and have perused the record. Insofar as the allegations against the petitioner are concerned, the same at the most, constitute an offence under Section 494 of the IPC which is bailable. It is pertinent to mention here that the co-accused of the petitioner namely Gurbakash Singh @ Bakshi, who had once jumped bail but was later on arrested, has already been released on bail by this Court on 15.7.2011. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case but without making any observations on the merits, the present petition is allowed and the petitioner is directed to be released on bail on her furnishing bail bonds with two local heavy sureties to the satisfaction of the learned trial Court. 14.12.2011 (Rakesh Kumar Jain) RR Judge