IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. 32303 of 2008 (O&M) Date of decision : April 21, 2009 Malkiat Singh and another ....Petitioners versus State of Punjab ....Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Pritam Pal Present : Mr. Gurnam Singh, Advocate for the petitioners Mr. Abhishek Chautala, AAG Punjab Mr. MS Joshi, Advocate and Mr. Arvind Thakur, Advocate , for the respondent no. 2 Pritam Pal,J. (Oral) Petitioners have brought this petition under section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for seeking anticipatory bail in criminal complaint titled as “Gulzar Singh vs Malkiat Singh and others” under sections 302, 34 IPC, Police Station Sadar Rajpura, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Rajpura, District Patiala. Admittedly both the petitioners were juvenile at the time of alleged occurrence and now they have already been admitted to regular bail in this case, so no further action is called for in the matter. However, Mr. Joshi, learned counsel for respondent no. 2 – complainant states that the petitioners might be juvenile at the time of alleged occurrence which had taken place in the year 2004 but now they have attained the age of majority and they have already been charged for the offence punishable Criminal Misc. No. 32303 of 2008 (O&M) -2- under section 302 IPC. It is also stated by learned counsel for the complainant that both the petitioners are now pressurizing the complainant for arriving at a compromise in this case. This petition is now finally disposed of with a direction that the petitioners shall file an undertaking before the trial court that they would not interfere with the smooth trial of this case and will also not threaten to any of the witnesses of this case. However, in case the petitioners were found to have interfered with the evidence of this case in any manner, the complainant would be at liberty to initiate proceedings against them, in accordance with law. ( Pritam Pal ) April 21, 2009 Judge 'dalbir'