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2024 DIGILAW 370 (PNJ)

Vijay Mahajan v. State of Punjab

2024-02-07

KULDEEP TIWARI

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JUDGMENT Kuldeep Tiwari, J. (Oral) Through this second petition, the petitioner, an affluent property dealer, again craves for indulgence of this Court, for him being enlarged on regular bail, in case FIR No.30 dated 24.02.2016, under Sections 494, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120B of the IPC, registered at P.S. Division No.4, Ludhiana. 2. The petitioner has, in order to escape from the clutches of law, used all dilatory tactics and made false assurances, which unfortunately resulted in his remaining successful too, to some extent, inasmuch as, consequent upon his arrest in the present FIR, he enjoyed liberty either through reaping the concession of interim anticipatory bail, or, interim bail. 3. Since the present case has a chequered history, therefore, before proceeding to gauge the merits of the instant petition and penning down any opinion, it would be apt to initially enumerate the factual backdrop of the case. 4. The genesis of the prosecution case is embodied in the complaint made by one Sonika Mahajan, wife of the petitioner, (hereinafter referred to as the 'complainant'), on the allegations that, the petitioner had, during subsistence of his first marriage with her, solemnized second marriage with one Neha. She further alleged that the petitioner had even forged her income tax returns and used the same in the proceedings of their matrimonial cases.