IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH

C.W.P. No. 7192 OF 2007

Date of Decision: March 5, 2008

Nirmal Singh Kahlon

...Petitioner

Versus

State of Punjab and others.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE T.P.S. MANN

Present:

Mr. Ashwani Kumar Chopra, Senior Advocate with

Ms. Rupa Pathania, Advocate,

for the petitioner.

Mr. Rupinder Khosla, Addl. AG, Punjab with

Ms. Charu Tuli, Sr. DAG, Punjab,

for the respondents.

M.M.KUMAR, J.

The instant petition is directed against the order dated

7.5.2007 (P-8), passed by the Special Judge, Rupnagar, rejecting the

application filed by the petitioner for dropping the proceedings of

case FIR No. 11, dated 16.5.2002, under Sections 420, 467, 471, 120-

B IPC and Section 13(1)(d) read with Section 13(2) of the Prevention

of Corruption Act, 1988 (for brevity, `the Act'), registered at Police

Station Vigilance Bureau, Flying Squad-I, Mohali.

The petitioner Nirmal Singh Kahlon was inducted as a

Cabinet Minister in the Akali Dal Government during the period 1997

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to 2002. The petitioner has alleged that the Congress Chief Minister,

Capt. Amarinder Singh, assumed his office and launched a driv