Sukhchain Singh @ Chaini vs State Of Punjab

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2022 Supreme(P&H) 1243

JASGURPREET SINGH PURI
Sukhchain Singh @ Chaini – Appellant
Versus
State Of Punjab – Respondent

Advocates:
Mr. Amarbir Singh Salar, Advocate, for the Appellant; Mr. Randhir Singh Thind, DAG, Punjab., for the Respondent.

JUDGMENT

ORDER

Jasgurpreet Singh Puri, J (Oral). - The present petition has been filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR bearing No.18 dated 29.01.2021, under Sections 420, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code, registered at Police Station Sadar Kotkapura, District Faridkot.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is in custody from 18.03.2021; the investigation of the case is already complete; the challan has been presented under Section 173 Cr.P.C. before the learned competent Court on 13.05.2021 and thereafter charges have been framed on 26.07.2021. He has submitted that it is a case where the allegations against the petitioner were that he alongwith some other co accused had taken some amount of money for conducting a committee and the same was not returned back to the complainant. Learned counsel for the petitioner has further submitted that the complainant alongwith some other complainants has falsely implicated the petitioner in the said FIR and at the most, it is a case of dispute of civil liability if any and since the petitioner has faced incarceration of more than 09 months,

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