IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM-M-57843-2025 (O&M) Date of decision: 15.10.2025 Jagmohan Singh ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMAN CHAUDHARY *****

Present : Mr. Namish Sodhi, Advocate for the petitioner *****

AMAN CHAUDHARY, J. (ORAL)

1. The present petition has been filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. for quashing of orders dated 13.08.2025 and 26.09.2025 passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, SBS Nagar, vide which the bail of the petitioner stands cancelled and his bail/surety bonds were forfeited in trial No.SC-5-2019 in FIR No.117 dated 08.10.2018, under Sections 395 and 411 of IPC registered at Police Station Rahon.

2. Learned counsel submits that the petitioner was arrested in the FIR and granted regular bail vide order dated 22.01.2019, whereafter, he continued to appear before the trial Court but for 13.08.2025 as he had noted down the wrong date as 23.08.2025, leading to cancellation of his bail and forfeiture of bail/surety bonds to the State and non-bailable warrants had been issued for 26.09.2025, however, the same were received back unexecuted and again issued for 11.11.2025. He is ready and willing to join the proceedings on or before the next date of hearing and prays for grant of one opportunity for him to surrender before the trial Court, even if the same is subject to costs.

3. Notice of motion.

4. At the asking of the Court, Ms. Gagandeep Kaur, DAG Punjab accepts notice on behalf of respondent-State and submits that the non-bailable warrants have been rightly issued against the petitioner, as he had absented from the proceedings.

5. No order prejudicial to the rights of the private respondent is being proposed to be passed by this Court, thus, there is no requirement of impleading him as party.

6. Heard.

7. The very purpose of issuance of warrants of arrest, is to compel and secure the presence of the accused to face trial and establish the rule of law, as also to ensure finalization of the proceedings.

8. This Court in CRM-M-36490-2022, titled as Major Singh vs. State of Punjab, decided on 15.09.2022, CRM-M-38277-2022, Surjit Singh vs. State of Punjab, dated 26.08.2022 and CRM-M-39000-2022, titled as Raghav vs. State of Punjab, decided on 09.09.2022, had set aside the orders of non-bailable warrants.

9. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, judgments referred to hereinabove, the readiness and willingness of the petitioner to surrender and join the proceedings, which was incumbent upon him for the culmination of the same, the present petition deserves to be and is allowed, in the interest of justice, so as to facilitate expediting the trial and for taking it to its logical end.

10. As a consequence of the aforesaid, the impugned orders dated 13.08.2025 and 26.09.2025 are set aside and the petitioner is directed to surrender before the learned trial Court on or before 11.11.2025 and deposit Rs.10000/- as costs with the Punjab and Haryana High Court Employees Welfare Association, having account No.37167209613, High Court Branch, SBI, Chandigarh, on furnishing bail/surety bonds, the trial Court shall release him on bail subject to its satisfaction. He is also directed to furnish an undertaking by way of an affidavit that he will appear on each and every date of hearing before the learned Appellate Court, unless specifically exempted by the Court. He shall not leave the country without prior permission of the Court. The trial Court may impose any other condition that it may deem appropriate in the facts and circumstances of the present case.

11. The present petition is accordingly allowed.

12. Before parting with this order, it is made abundantly clear that in case the petitioner does not adhere to the aforesaid, the present petition shall be deemed to have been dismissed without any reference to this Court.

(AMAN CHAUDHARY)

JUDGE

15.10.2025 M.Kamra