CWP No. 23014 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH CWP No. 23014 of 2011 Date of decision December 13, 2011 Sukhwinder Singh ....... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ........Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present:- Mr. Simranjit Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. **** 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest? K. Kannan, J (oral). 1. The petitioner's grievance is that he is attempting to prosecute cases for offence under Section 138 and for some property disputes which have come about when he had undertaken some steps to sell his property but the purchaser is securing the assistance of the police and has obtained some document purporting to be a compromise by practice of fraud and coercive methods. The petitioner in effect wants to characterize the compromise allegedly procured by the private respondents as one brought out by threat and coercion with the assistance of the police. The appropriate remedy is through registering a complaint for any criminal offence said to have committed by the private respondent with the connivance of the police under the relevant provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code. If the compromise alleged to have been entered into was brought out by threat and coercive methods as alleged by the petitioner, again, it will still give a scope to the petitioner to resort to an appropriate legal remedy for setting aside the said document through a civil suit. In the guise of attempting to secure protection for life and liberty, he cannot have CWP No. 23014 of 2011 2 documents to which he has been a privy to be assailed. The petitioner will have independent protection in the manner referred to above and I do not think that this is a case where remedy under Article 226 of the Constitution is appropriate. 2. The writ petition is disposed of with the above observations. (K. KANNAN) JUDGE December 13 , 2011 archana