{"id":194955,"date":"2009-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kartar-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-on-20-august-2009"},"modified":"2018-10-02T22:59:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:29:48","slug":"kartar-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-on-20-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/kartar-singh-vs-state-of-punjab-on-20-august-2009","title":{"rendered":"Kartar Singh vs State Of Punjab on 20 August, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n
Kartar Singh vs State Of Punjab on 20 August, 2009<\/div>\n
Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)                         -1-\n\n      IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA\n                   AT CHANDIGARH\n                         ****\n                            Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)\n                                     Date of Decision:20.8.2009\n\nKartar Singh\n                                                           .....Petitioner\n            Vs.\n\nState of Punjab\n                                                           .....Respondent\n\n\nCORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARBANS LAL\n\nPresent:-   Mr. A.S. Kalra, Advocate for the petitioner.\n\n            Mr. Arshvinder Singh, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab.\n                         ****\nJUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n
HARBANS LAL, J.\n<\/p>\n
            This petition has been moved by Kartar Singh under Section<\/p>\n
482 of Cr.P.C for quashing of FIR Annexure P.1 bearing No.32 dated<\/p>\n
24.5.1996 registered under Sections 13(1) C read with Sections 7, 13(2) of<\/p>\n
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (hereinafter to be referred as `the Act’),<\/p>\n
409, 465, 466, 471, 120-B of IPC at Police Station Vigilance Bureau,<\/p>\n
Patiala as also the proceedings including the charge order\/ charge-sheets<\/p>\n
Annexures P2, P3, P3\/A P3\/B and P3\/C passed by the learned Special<\/p>\n
Judge, Ludhiana on the ground that the petitioner has been exonerated of<\/p>\n
the charges against him in the departmental inquiry conducted by District<\/p>\n
Development and Panchayat Officer, Sangrur and approved by Divisional<\/p>\n
Deputy Director Rural Development and Panchayats, Patiala vide his order<\/p>\n
dated 21.12.2001 Annexure P.4.\n<\/p>\n
            In the reply filed by the respondent- State, it has been inter-alia<\/p>\n
pleaded that in fact the petitioner while working as Panchayat Secretary for
\n Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)                       -2-\n<\/p>\n
the areas of Village Bonkar Gujran, Dholewal, Machhiyan Khurd and<\/p>\n
Jhugian Kader falling in Mangat Block had received the grant of<\/p>\n
Rs.50,000\/- for Gram Panchayat Bonkar Gujran, Rs.1,25,000\/- for<\/p>\n
Dholewal, Rs.1,90,000\/- for Machhiyan Khurd and Rs.80,000\/- for Jhugian<\/p>\n
Kader in connection with levelling of land under Jawahar Rozgar Yojna to<\/p>\n
be carried out in District Ludhiana. The said amount was utilised in a bogus<\/p>\n
way by him.     The expenditure was shown in writing for levelling the<\/p>\n
panchayat land but such work has not been found to have been done or that<\/p>\n
if done was very little at some places. Under the said scheme, the amount<\/p>\n
received was misappropriated by preparing forged record with bad intention<\/p>\n
in connivance with the officers\/ employees. After getting information from<\/p>\n
some reliable sources, the matter was investigated and the FIR in question<\/p>\n
was registered. The challan was presented in the Court in the year 2000.<\/p>\n
During the inquiry of this case, 30 witnesses gave statement that no work of<\/p>\n
levelling the land was done. The payments were also withdrawn from the<\/p>\n
bank by the accused personally and no payment was made through cheque<\/p>\n
though it is mandatory in a Government grant. Labourers shown to have<\/p>\n
been paid were also fake. Muster rolls have also been forged. The trial<\/p>\n
Court has framed the charges in May, 2002. The case is pending in the<\/p>\n
Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Ludhiana for adjudication.<\/p>\n
Now the petitioner after 12 years of registration of the said case, has filed<\/p>\n
this petition on false grounds. Indeed, the petitioner did not use the amount<\/p>\n
of grant for the purpose it was issued. The Department conducted the<\/p>\n
inquiry after registration of the case and report was submitted in the year<\/p>\n
2001, i..e, after five years of registration of the case. During this long<\/p>\n
period, the facts can be manipulated and defaults can be rectified. The
\n Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)                        -3-\n<\/p>\n
persons named in preliminary submissions, in their statements have stated<\/p>\n
before the Investigating Officer that the funds were misappropriated by the<\/p>\n
petitioner and his co-accused. Moreover, the departmental inquiries are no<\/p>\n
ground to quash the FIR.           The matter was only relating to the<\/p>\n
misappropriation of funds by the petitioner by not utilising the same for the<\/p>\n
purpose, these were granted. The Department took 5 years for concluding<\/p>\n
the inquiry. Lastly, it has been prayed that this petition may be dismissed.<\/p>\n
            I have heard the learned counsel for the parties, besides<\/p>\n
perusing the record with due care and circumspection.<\/p>\n
            Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted with full force that<\/p>\n
the Inquiry Officer after giving full opportunity to the parties arrived at the<\/p>\n
conclusion that the petitioner did not embezzle any amount of the grant<\/p>\n
given to the Gram Panchayat of Bonkar Gujran, Dholewal, Machhiyan<\/p>\n
Khurd and Jhugian Kader. That the Divisional Deputy Director considered<\/p>\n
the findings of the Inquiry Officer very minutely and came to the conclusion<\/p>\n
that the petitioner has been rightly found innocent by the Inquiry Officer<\/p>\n
and no misappropriation by the petitioner of any government grant was<\/p>\n
found to have taken place. Thus, the petitioner having been exonerated<\/p>\n
during inquiry, the FIR in question as well as the subsequent proceedings<\/p>\n
are liable to be quashed. He further puts that the F.I.R qua the co-accused<\/p>\n
Davinder Singh has been quashed by this Court vide order dated 20.1.2006<\/p>\n
Annexure P5. To buttress this stance, he has sought to place abundant<\/p>\n
reliance upon the observations rendered in re: V.B. Raikar v. State by<\/p>\n
Karnataka Lokayukta Police, Madikeri, Kodagu District, 2004(2)<\/p>\n
Recent Criminal Reports (Criminal) 150, PS Rajya v. State of Bihar,<\/p>\n
1996(3) Recent Criminal Reports (Criminal) 261 and Saran Singh Jaggi
\n Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)                       -4-\n<\/p>\n
v. State of Punjab, 1995(1) Recent Criminal Reports (Criminal) 624.<\/p>\n
             As against this, the learned State Counsel reiterating the<\/p>\n
averments enshrined in the reply urged that in view of the observations<\/p>\n
rendered in re: Sat Pal Joshi v. State of Punjab,<\/a> 2007(3) Recent Criminal<\/p>\n
Reports (Criminal) 193, this petition is liable to be dismissed.<\/p>\n
             On giving a deep and thoughtful consideration to the rival<\/p>\n
contentions, the view I am disposed to take is that the contentions raised by<\/p>\n
learned counsel for the petitioner are unsustainable for the discussion to<\/p>\n
follow hereunder:\n<\/p>\n
             It is apt to be borne in mind that the FIR came into being in<\/p>\n
May, 1996.      There is no gainsaying the fact that the Department had<\/p>\n
conducted the inquiry after registration of the case.       The report was<\/p>\n
submitted in 2001, which is obviously after 5 years of registration of the<\/p>\n
case. The possibility of manipulations or rectifications of defaults during<\/p>\n
this interregnum cannot be ruled out. The core issue to be decided herein is<\/p>\n
as to whether in the wake of exoneration of an employee during inquiry<\/p>\n
proceedings, the FIR as well as subsequent proceedings can be quashed. Of<\/p>\n
course, in the authorities relied upon by the learned counsel for the<\/p>\n
petitioner, it has been held that if an accused is exonerated in departmental<\/p>\n
proceedings and the charges in the departmental proceedings and the<\/p>\n
criminal proceedings are one and the same, then nothing remains to be<\/p>\n
proceeded against him in the criminal proceedings. These authorities and<\/p>\n
the principles laid down therein are inapplicable to the facts of this case.<\/p>\n
The powers of proceeding by the High Court under Section 482 of Cr.P.C<\/p>\n
are very wide and the very plenitude of the power requires great caution in<\/p>\n
its exercise.   The inherent power should not be exercised to stifle a
\n Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)                      -5-\n<\/p>\n
legitimate prosecution. It would not be proper for the High Court to analyse<\/p>\n
the case of the complainant in the light of all probabilities in order to<\/p>\n
determine whether a conviction would be sustainable and on such premises<\/p>\n
arrive at a conclusion that the proceedings are to be quashed. It would be<\/p>\n
erroneous to assess the material before it and conclude that the complaint<\/p>\n
cannot be proceeded with as observed by the Supreme Court in State of<\/p>\n
Orissa and another v. Saroj Kumar Sahoo, 2006(1) Recent Criminal<\/p>\n
Reports (Criminal) 324. As per averments in the reply, during the inquiry<\/p>\n
of this case, as many as 30 witnesses had given statements that no work of<\/p>\n
levelling the land was done. The payments were also withdrawn from the<\/p>\n
bank by the accused- petitioner personally and no payment was made<\/p>\n
through cheque though it is mandatory in a Government grant.            The<\/p>\n
labourers shown to have been paid were also fake. Furthermore, bogus<\/p>\n
muster rolls have been prepared. Vide order dated 8.5.2002 Annexure P.2,<\/p>\n
the learned Special Judge, Ludhiana observed that “I am of the opinion that<\/p>\n
there are sufficient grounds to frame a prima-facie charge against the<\/p>\n
accused and accordingly a prima-facie charge under Sections 120-<\/p>\n
B\/409\/467\/471 of IPC and 13-(1)(d) read with Section 13(3) of the<\/p>\n
Prevention of Corruption Act have been framed to which they did not plead<\/p>\n
guilty and claimed trial.”   Vide Annexures P3, P3\/A, P3\/B, P3\/C, the<\/p>\n
petitioner along with others has been charge-sheeted. It is the material<\/p>\n
collected during the investigation and evidence led in Court, which decides<\/p>\n
the fate of the accused person. During investigation, as noted supra, it was<\/p>\n
found that the work for which the amount was withdrawn from the bank has<\/p>\n
not been done. In re: Shyam Sunder Mathur v. State of Rajasthan,<\/a> 1998<\/p>\n
(4) Recent Criminal Reports (Criminal) 819, it has been held that “merely
\n Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)                      -6-\n<\/p>\n
because the accused has been exonerated in the departmental inquiry is no<\/p>\n
ground to discharge him in a criminal case registered under the Corruption<\/p>\n
Act. The finding recorded in the departmental inquiry is not relevant under<\/p>\n
Sections 40 and 42 of the Evidence Act and such evidence must be regarded<\/p>\n
as irrelevant.” In the case at hand, as already noticed, the charge has been<\/p>\n
framed against the petitioner on the basis of the material collected during<\/p>\n
investigation. The same was submitted to the Court with the report under<\/p>\n
Section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.\n<\/p>\n
            In Annexure P.4, it has been observed by the Divisional Deputy<\/p>\n
Director Rural Development and Panchayat, Patiala that “Therefore, I<\/p>\n
understand that Sh. Kartar Singh Panchayat Secretary has performed his<\/p>\n
duty as per rules and no fault of his has been established by the Sarpanches<\/p>\n
of the concerned panchayats and enquiry officer (District Development and<\/p>\n
Panchayat Officer, Sangrur). Therefore, it would not be proper to take any<\/p>\n
action against Sh. Kartar Singh Panchayat Secretary. Therefore, keeping in<\/p>\n
view no fault of Sh. Kartar Singh on the basis of record annexed with the<\/p>\n
enquiry report bearing No.734 dated 25.5.2000 received from the<\/p>\n
investigating officer (District Development and Panchayat Officer, Sangrur)<\/p>\n
and statements of Sarpanches of Gram Panchayat Rattangarh, Bonkar<\/p>\n
Gujran, Dholewal, Machhiyan Khurd and Jhugian Kader having appeared as<\/p>\n
witnesses, regarding finding no fault, the complaint pending against Sh.<\/p>\n
Kartar Singh Panchayat Secretary, Panchayat Samiti Ludhiana-2 is<\/p>\n
consigned to the office.”\n<\/p>\n
            As observed by the Apex Court in re: Pankaj Kumar v. State<\/p>\n
of Maharashtra & Others,<\/a> 2008(4) Recent Criminal Reports 890 (S.C.)<\/p>\n
“It would suffice to state that though the powers possessed by the High
\n Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)                       -7-\n<\/p>\n
Courts under the said provisions are very wide, but these should be<\/p>\n
exercised in appropriate cases, ex-debito justitiae to do real and substantial<\/p>\n
justice for the administration of which alone the Courts exist. The inherent<\/p>\n
powers do not confer an arbitrary jurisdiction on the High Court to act<\/p>\n
according to whim or caprice. The powers have to be exercised sparingly,<\/p>\n
with circumspection and in the rarest of rare cases where the Court is<\/p>\n
convinced, on the basis of material on record, that allowing the proceedings<\/p>\n
to continue would be an abuse of the process of Court or that the ends of<\/p>\n
justice require that the proceedings ought to be quashed.” In the instant<\/p>\n
case, the facts and circumstances enumerated hereinbefore, reflect that no<\/p>\n
rarest of rare case for quashing is made out. The litmus test is that if the<\/p>\n
FIR reveals the commission of crime and the prosecution is not barred by<\/p>\n
law and continuance of the proceedings would not amount to abuse of<\/p>\n
process of law, the FIR is not liable to be quashed. On applying this test, no<\/p>\n
case is made out for quashing of the FIR Annexure P.1 as well as the charge<\/p>\n
order\/ charge sheets, Annexures P2, P3, P3\/A, P3\/B and P3\/C.<\/p>\n
            Coming to Annexure P.5, order dated 20.1.2006 passed by this<\/p>\n
Court in Criminal Revision No.454 of 2003 – Devinder Singh v. State of<\/p>\n
Punjab, a glance through the same would reveal that Devinder Singh had<\/p>\n
posed a challenge to the order dated 8.5.2002 of Special Judge, Ludhiana. It<\/p>\n
has been observed in Annexure P5 that, “However, from the sanction<\/p>\n
granted by Director Panchayat Punjab, Chandigarh for prosecution of<\/p>\n
Devinder Singh, it would come out that this fact was never considered by<\/p>\n
the Director who appears to have given sanction just at the instance of<\/p>\n
Vigilance Bureau and after going through their file.” In the present one, the<\/p>\n
sanction accorded for prosecution is not under challenge. Thus, in my view,
\n Criminal Misc. No. M-25757 of 2008 (O&M)                  -8-\n<\/p>\n
the facts of Devinder Singh’s case can be hardly equated with the one in<\/p>\n
hand.\n<\/p>\n
             As a sequel of the above discussion, this petition stands<\/p>\n
dismissed.\n<\/p>\n
             Disposed of accordingly.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
August 20, 2009                                ( HARBANS LAL )\nrenu                                                JUDGE\n\nWhether to be referred to the Reporter? Yes\/No\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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