High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCRM-M/658/2018disposed of

Seema Rani v. State Of Haryana And ORS.

2018-11-12Mr. Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan2 pages

CRM-M-658-2018 -1IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-658-2018 Date of decision: 12.11.2018 Seema Rani ... Petitioner Vs.

State of Haryana and others ... Respondents

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ARVIND SINGH SANGWAN

Present:

None for the petitioner.

Mr. Naveen Sheoran, DAG, Haryana.

Ms. Gunjan Gera, Advocate for Mr. Arvind Rajotia, Advocate for respondent No.4.

******* ARVIND SINGH SANGWAN, J. (ORAL) Prayer in this petition is for issuance of directions to respondents No.1 to 3 to hand over the investigation of FIR No.484 dated 13.09.2017 under Sections 379, 420 IPC, registered at Police Station Gohana City, District Sonepat, to some other independent agency.

As per allegations in the FIR, the petitioner is maintaining an account in Punjab National Bank, Branch Gohana, District Sonepat and an ATM card bearing No.6070935002305844 was issued fraudulently in the name of some other person namely Vishant Sharma, resident of U.P. and some amount has been withdrawn from her account. It is stated in the petition that the police is not properly investigating the matter.

CRM-M-658-2018 -2Affidavit of Deputy Superintendent of Police, Gohana is on record and in this affidavit, it is stated that the investigation is being carried out in a proper manner and during the investigation, the CCTV footage of the camera installed in the ATM was obtained but the person could not be recognized due to low quality of the footage. It is further stated that with regard to identity of said Vishant Sharma, no record was found with the bank and one person namely Dalip, resident of Chhapra in Bihar was joined in the investigation but he himself was found to be victim of same fraud, as from his account also, money was fraudulently withdrawn. It is also stated that investigation is still going on.

Learned State counsel, on instructions from ASI Dal Singh, has submitted that the police, after completing the investigation, has found this case as 'not traced' and the untraceable report will be submitted before the trial Court within a period of 08 weeks from today. In view of the above, this petition is disposed of. Liberty is granted to the petitioner to approach the trial Court, if so advised. [ ARVIND SINGH SANGWAN ] 12.11.2018 JUDGE vishnu Whether speaking/reasoned : Yes/No Whether Reportable : Yes/No