High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCRM-M/68824/2025dismissed

Sunil v. State Of Haryana

2026-02-25Mr. Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj11 pages

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Succinctly stated, the case of the prosecution, as emerging from Complaint No. 537-Peshi dated 28.05.2025, submitted by complainant Satender Singh and received from the office of the Superintendent of Police, Panipat, upon inquiry conducted by the Special Detective Cell, Panipat, is that the complainant is the proprietor of a concern known as Real Rugs Firm and is also a co-owner, in partnership with Azad Singh son of Baldev, of a factory premises situated at Panipat. In April 2015, the said factory premises was let out on rent to the petitioner-accused, Sunil, who commenced operations therein under the name and style of "Real Carpet".

It is alleged that in December 2022, the petitioner-accused approached the complainant and represented that he had secured a bulk purchase order from Germany and required financial assistance in the nature of working capital to execute the said order. The petitioner-accused is stated to have requested that the complainant and his partner, Azad Singh, stand as guarantors to enable him to avail a bank credit facility. He assured them that the entire bank liability would be repaid within a period of approximately one and a half to two years to which the complainant consented. Acting upon such representation, and on the basis of the purchase order produced by the petitioner-accused, UCO Bank, G.T. Road, Panipat, in February 2023, sanctioned a credit limit of Rs.1.

5 crores in favour of the petitioner-accused but only after the complainant and Azad Singh offered the aforesaid factory premises as collateral security/guarantee to secure the said bank facility. However, according to the prosecution, the petitioner-accused deposited only a sum of Rs.28,50,000/- towards repayment of the sanctioned limit during the period extending from February 2023 to March 2024.

+ proceedings were initiated by the bank and a notice was issued to the petitioner-accused. In response thereto, the petitioner-accused is stated to have conveyed, through an e-mail dated 20.08.2024, his inability to repay the outstanding loan amount. 0 .6 $

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