VIKRAM SHARMA Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The present petition has been filed under Section 438 Cr.P.C. for the grant of anticipatory bail in FIR No. 0149 dated 11.10.2020 under Sections 420, 506, 120-B IPC registered at Police Station Arniwala, district Fazilka.

(2.) Briefly stated, the case of the prosecution is that in the year 2017 the petitioner and the complainant met in the election office of a political leader; the petitioner projected to the complainant that he had close links with senior political leaders/authorities; thereafter, when the complainant's mother was unwell, the petitioner used his authority to get her treatment from PGIMER, Chandigarh; after the complainant's mother had recovered, the petitioner told the complainant that he could procure mining licences for the complainant; taken in by the promises made by the petitioner, for procurement of mining licences, the complainant and his associate Sanjeev Kumar paid to the petitioner a total amount of Rs. 25.25 lakhs, the details of which are given below:-

(3.) It is further the case of the prosecution that the petitioner also obtained from the complainant two blank signed stamp papers on the pretext that the same were required to be submitted for the procurement of the mining licences; no mining licences were procured by the petitioner and when the complainant sought return of his money, the petitioner threatened to use the aforesaid blank signed stamp papers to lodge cases of forgery against the complainant.