Mehtab Singh vs State Of Punjab And Another on 19 February, 2021
The petitioner further states that Chanchal Singh, an accused in
this FIR approached this Hon'ble High Court by way of filing CRM-M
No.11262 of 2019 titled as Chanchal Singh vs. State of Punjab, with the
prayer to direct the respondents - State to conclude the investigation in above
FIR in a time bound manner. This Hon'ble High Court vide order dated
12.03.2019 (Annexure P-3A), directed respondent No.1 to file status report
on next date of hearing. Thereafter, the Deputy Superintendent of Police,
Sub- Division Sri Hargobindpur, filed the status report dated 15.10.2019
(Annexure P-4) stating that after receiving the order dated 24.09.2010
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passed by the Court of Ld. SDJM Batala, the Investigation Officer has
properly indexed the cancellation report and after compliance of the above
said order, the cancellation report was submitted in the Ld. Trial Court on
10.10.2019. However, vide order dated 17.01.2020 (Annexure P-5), the Ld.
Trial court returned the cancellation report for further investigation. The
Investigating Agency re-investigated the matter and found the allegations in
the FIR false. The Station House Officer, Police Station Ghuman through
application dated 05.06.2020 requested the Ld.Trial Court to approve the
cancellation report. Thereafter, due to Covid pandemic, further proceedings
in the Trial court could not take place.