HATISH KUMAR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS order shall dispose of the present petition filed under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure seeking the concession of pre -arrest bail to the petitioner in case FIR No. 62 dated 11.4.2014, under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (originally registered under Sections 304 -B/34 of the Indian Penal Code) at Police Station City Jagraon, District Ludhiana.

(2.) COUNSEL for the parties have been heard.

(3.) LEARNED State counsel would vehemently oppose the present petition seeking anticipatory bail by contending that during the course of investigation, it had been found that on the intervening night of 10/11.4.2014, a number of messages had been exchanged between mobile No. 98550 -84493 i.e. of Shweta Singla and mobile No. 84372 -03277 which was in the name of Gaurav Goyal, brother of Shweta Singla but was actually being used by the present petitioner, namely, Hitesh Kumar Jindal. Learned State counsel, during the course of hearing, has referred to the transcript of such messages i.e. 39 SMS since 3.30 p.m. from mobile number of Shweta Singla to the present petitioner and likewise, 70 messages and 26 outgoing calls from Hitesh to Shweta Singla. As per such messages, the present petitioner was allegedly pressurizing and coercing deceased Shweta Singla to disclose to her husband Sahil Singla as regards their relationships. State counsel would further apprise the Court that during the course of investigation, even the laptop of deceased Shweta Singla had been examined by the State Cyber Laboratory, Mohali and after opening a certain folder some photographs were retrieved which showed deceased Shweta Singla and the present petitioner in a compromising position.