SANJAY VASHISTH, J.

1. Petitioner – Kulwant Singh, aged 56 years, has filed instant petition under Section 438 Cr.P.C., for seeking concession of anticipatory bail, because, he has been declared ‘proclaimed offender’ for his non-appearance in bailable & non-cognizable offence arising from complaint case bearing No. COMA-1333-2013, dated 27.05.2013, titled as, “Karamjit Kaur vs. Kulwant Singh”, under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (in short ‘NI Act’), registered before Ld. JMIC, Rajpura.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that for an amount of Rs.3.00 lakhs, one cheque issued by the petitioner got bounced resulting into the filing of the complaint under Section 138 of the NI Act at the instance of respondent No.2.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner further contends that petitioner never received any notice in the complaint. Even, the bailable and non-bailable warrants were also never served upon the petitioner. Thus, having no knowledge of the pendency of the complaint, he could not appear before the Court, though, there was no such intention to run away from the process of law.

4. On being asked by the Court, Ms. Khushika Setia, learned counsel for th