IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.Misc.No.M-36866 of 2010 DATE OF DECISION: January 05, 2011 Dharmender …..Petitioner versus State of Haryana .....Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJAN GUPTA Present: Mr.Anuj Balian, Advocate for the petitioner Mr.Arshwinder Singh, DAG, Punjab .. RAJAN GUPTA, J.: (Oral) This is a petition under section 438 Cr.P.C. seeking pre-arrest bail in a case registered against the petitioner under sections 420/467/468/471 IPC vide FIR No.521 dated 20.11.2010 at police station Ambala Cantt. Learned counsel for the petitioner has argued that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. According to him, certain fictitious documents were prepared by the complainants to implicate the petitioner. Learned State counsel has, on the other hand, opposed the prayer for grant of pre-arrest bail. I have heard learned counsel for the parties. A perusal of the FIR shows that allegation against the petitioner is that he executed an agreement with the complainants for selling 23 acres of land to them at the rate of Rs.5 lacs per acre of which he was not owner and took Rs.19 lacs as earnest money. It is alleged that Crl.Misc.No.M-36866 of 2010 - 2 - the petitioner misappropriated this amount of Rs.19 lacs. It appears that in respect of the same land he had earlier entered into an agreement to sell with some other person (s). Even a civil suit regarding the land is pending in a court at Chandigarh which was not disclosed to the complainants. In view of the nature of allegations levelled in the FIR, the petitioner is not entitled to concession of pre-arrest bail. The petition is, thus, devoid of merit and is hereby dismissed. January 05, 2011 ( RAJAN GUPTA ) pc JUDGE 2