JUDGMENT Mr. Naresh Kumar Sanghi, J.:- Prayer in this petition is for grant of anticipatory bail to petitioner Tarun Kumar who has been booked for having committed the offences punishable under Sections 138 and 139 read with Section 141 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, in a complaint case No. 50434 of 2010 titled as “Raj Kumar Versus M/S.D.D. Merchant Bankers Ltd. & Ors”, pending adjudication before the learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Chandigarh. 2. Learned counsel contends that the petitioner was declared proclaimed offender and if he appears before the court below then he might be taken into custody, therefore, anticipatory bail be granted to him. 3. In support of his contention, learned counsel for the petitioner has placed reliance on Pawan Moudgil Versus State of Punjab, 1994(4) R.C.R. (Criminal) 829. 4. I have heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and with his able assistance gone through the material available on record. 5. Concededly, the petitioner had not yet appeared before the court below and in spite of exhausting all the remedies his presence could not be secured, therefore, he was declared as proclaimed offender. The offence still remains bailable. Learned Additional Sessions Judge, Chandigarh, in his order dated 22.11.2013 has also noted down this fact. So far as the judgment relied upon by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the same is not applicable to the facts and circumstances of the case in hand. In Pawan Moudgil’s case (supra), the accused had absented himself after grant of bail, therefore, in that case the offence had become non-bailable. 6. No ground for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner is made out. 7. Dismissed. ---------0.B.S.0------------