P&H: Grants Bail in Land Dispute, Says Case Is Essentially Civil Dispute
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted regular bail to Punit Beriwala in a Gurugram land dispute case, observing that the matter was essentially civil in nature and had been given a criminal colour.
The FIR invoked sections including cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy under the IPC, along with corresponding provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita that were referred during investigation.
According to the complainant, Chameli Devi, her agricultural land was promised for purchase by the petitioner’s company, and the transaction allegedly took multiple turns involving alternate allotment of plots, sale deeds in the name of another company, and...
