joint account with her husband, who is fugitive from law. The petitioner was taken into custody by the local police and she is behind the bars for the last 11 months without commencement of trial.

 It is an admitted fact that the petitioner was maintaining a joint account with her husband, who is fugitive from law. The petitioner was taken into custody by the local police and she is behind the bars for the last 11 months without commencement of trial. The maximum punishment provided under the statute is 3 years. It has been surfaced on the record that the signature over the cheque mismatched with the specimen signature, which ultimately dishonored.

Mere registration of criminal cases does not deprive a person from grant of bail, if he/she is otherwise entitled for the same relief.

Crl.P.495/2021

Syeda Sumera Andleeb v. The State thr. P.G. Punjab and another