High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCRM-M/5027/2020allowed

Rohit @ Raman v. State Of Haryana

2020-03-06Mr. Justice Gurvinder Singh Gill2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH CRM-M-5027-2020 Date of decision:6.3.2020 ROHIT @ RAMAN .....Petitioner

Versus

STATE OF HARYANA .....Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE GURVINDER SINGH GILL

Present:

Mr. Aditya Dassaur, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Ashok Singh Choudhary, Addl. A.G., Haryana assisted by SI Rajdeep Prashad.

**** GURVINDER SINGH GILL , J. (ORAL)

1. The petitioner has filed this petition seeking grant of regular bail in a case registered against him vide FIR No.353 dated 30.8.2019 under Sections 420, 489-A, 489-B, 489-C IPC at Police Station Hisar City, District Hisar.

2. It is the case of prosecution that pursuant to receipt of secret information on 30.8.2019 the police apprehended the petitioner who was riding a scooter and from whose possession fake currency notes of `24,60,000/- were recovered. It is further the case of prosecution that pursuant to disclosure statement made by the petitioner, fake currency notes worth `1,20,000/- were also recovered from his house.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that he has falsely been implicated in the present case and that in any case even if the allegations as levelled in the FIR are taken to be correct, it is only an offence under GAURAV SOROT 2020.03.06 18:24 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document

( 2 ) CRM-M-5027-2020 Section 489-C which would be attracted and no offence under Section 420, 489-A and 489-B is made out.

4. Opposing the petition, learned State counsel has submitted that since huge amount of fake currency notes were recovered from the petitioner, no case for grant of bail is made out. It has however informed that the petitioner is not involved in any other case and that till date not even a single PW out of cited 9 PWs has been examined.

5. I have considered rival submissions addressed before this Court. It would certainly be debatable as to whether offence under Section 420, 489-A and 489-B IPC would be attracted in the present case or not. In any case since the petitioner has been behind bars since the last about 6 months and till date not even a single PW out of cited 9 PWs has been examined and that the petitioner is not even wanted in any other case, further detention of the petitioner will not serve any useful purpose as the conclusion of trial is likely to take some time.

6. The petition, as such, is accepted and the petitioner is ordered to be released on regular bail on his furnishing bail bonds/surety bonds to the satisfaction of learned trial Court/Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate concerned.

( GURVINDER SINGH GILL) 6.3.2020 JUDGE Gaurav Sorot Whether reasoned / speaking?

Yes / No Whether reportable?

Yes / No GAURAV SOROT 2020.03.06 18:24 I attest to the accuracy and integrity of this document