VINOD KUMAR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure praying for quashing of the order by which the Petitioner was declared as a proclaimed offender in a case registered vide FIR No. 9 dated 10.2.2009 under Sections 406/420/120B Indian Penal Code at Police Station Gardhiwal, Distt. Hoshiarpur.

(2.) LEARNED Counsel for the Petitioner has referred to Section 82 of the Code to state that the procedure prescribed therein has not been followed and, therefore, the proclamation and the consequent order deserve to be quashed.

(3.) MR . Arun Takhi, Advocate, who has appeared for the complainant, has stated that the Petitioner is concealing the material facts from this Court. On 16.12.2009 the prayer of the Petitioner for pre -arrest bail was declined by passing the following order: