Rana Chawla vs State of Punjab - 2023 Supreme(P&H) 593

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2023 Supreme(P&H) 593

KARAMJIT SINGH
Rana Chawla – Appellant
Versus
State of Punjab – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. Nithin Thatai, Advocate, for the Appellant; Mr. M.S. Nagra, AAG Punjab., for the State; Mr. Atul Goyal, Advocate, for the complainant. ;

Judgment

Karamjit Singh, J. - The present petition has been filed by the petitioner under Section 438 Cr.P.C. seeking anticipatory bail in case having FIR No. 51 dated 29.03.2022, registered under Section 306 IPC at Police Station Sadar, Ludhiana.

2. The allegations in a nutshell are that there were business dealings between the petitioner and deceased Parminder Pal Singh and that the petitioner owed huge amount to the deceased, which was taken by the petitioner from the deceased on a number of occasions. That when deceased time and again asked the petitioner to return the borrowed amount, he refused to do so on one ground or the other and as such the deceased got upset and committed suicide by hanging himself in his room on the night of 28.03.2022 and the complainant (his wife) came to know about the same the next morning.

3. The counsel for the petitioner inter alia contends that the petitioner is falsely implicated in the present case and there was no dispute between the petitioner and the deceased with regard to money transactions as has been alleged in the FIR. The counsel for the petitioner further submits that in the FIR, there are only general allegations that petitioner and o

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