Parminder Kaur v. State Of Punjab
CRM-M-2562-2025
IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-2562-2025 Decided on: 21.05.2025 Mrs. Parminder Kaur
...Petitioner
Versus
State of Punjab
...Respondent
CRM-M-5698-2025 Gurpreet Singh alias Gurprit Singh
...Petitioner
Versus
State of Punjab
...Respondent
CORAM:
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANOOP CHITKARA
Present:
Mr. A.P.S. Shergill, Advocate and Ms. Harkiran Bajwa, Advocate for the petitioner(s).
Mr. Akshay Kumar, AAG, Punjab.
Mr. Manpreet Singh Dhaliwal, Advocate for the complainant.
**** ANOOP CHITKARA, J.
FIR No.
Dated Police Station Sections 22.11.2024 City Moga 419, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471, 120B IPC and 506 IPC 1.
This order shall dispose of two petitions as mentioned above. For the sake of brevity facts have been taken from CRM-M-2562-2025 titiled as Mrs. Parminder Kaur vs. State of Punjab.
2.
The petitioner(s) incarcerated in the FIR captioned above had come up before this Court under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, [BNSS], seeking regular bail.
3.
In paragraph 23 of the bail petition, the accused declares that he has no criminal antecedents.
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CRM-M-2562-2025 4.
Petitioners' counsel submits that civil proceedings are going on and currently petitioners are on interim bail, granted vide a detailed order dated 21.03.2025 (in CRMM-2562-2025) and 03.04.2025 (in CRM-M-5698-2025) passed by coordinate Bench of this Court. On instructions, counsel further submits that petitioners would fully cooperate in case further investigation is ordered and he would not repeat the offence and would not involve himself in the offence where sentence is more than seven years and if he does so, he has no objection if State files application for cancellation of bail before the trial Court. The petitioners' counsel prays for bail by imposing any stringent conditions and contends that further pre-trial incarceration would cause an irreversible injustice to the petitioners and their family.
5.
The State's counsel opposes bail and refers to the reply. Counsel for the complainant submits that a NRI lady was cheated and a massive amount of land was fraudulently transferred. Complainant's counsel further submits that in the photograph, original land owner was not there and it is a open and shut case of cheating and impersonation. Complainant's counsel further submits that they are least interested in petitioners' custody but their primary objective is restoration of lawful rights which they were deprived of.
6.
Given the above arguments, let the investigator conduct the investigation, if not conducted already qua all the documents which were forged if any. It is clarified that in the further investigation, it shall be permissible for the complainant as well as the accused to handover their documents to the investigator, which shall be duly investigated. 7.
Both the petitioners are granted interim bail after a custody of more than three months and both are senior citizen. As such, no ground is made out to cancel interim bail. 8.
Given above, petitions are allowed and orders dated 21.03.2025 (in CRM-M2562-2025) and 03.04.2025 (in CRM-M-5698-2025) are made absolute. All pending applications, if any, stand disposed of.
(ANOOP CHITKARA) JUDGE 21.05.2025 anju rani Whether speaking/reasoned: Yes Whether reportable:
No.
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