2025:HHC:20315 IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Cr. MP(M) No. 1437 of 2025 Reserved on: 21.6.2025 Date of Decision: 28.06.2025. Sonia Kumari ...Petitioner Versus State of Himachal Pradesh ...Respondent Coram Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 No. For the Petitioner : M/s Arun Raj and Atul Kumar, Advocates. For the Respondent : Mr. Jitender Sharma, Additional Advocate General. Rakesh Kainthla, Judge The petitioner has filed the present petition for seeking pre-arrest bail. It has been asserted that the petitioner received a message from Police Station Sadar, District Hamirpur, HP, regarding a complaint made against her about the theft of the gold ornaments. The complaint may result in the registration of the FIR. She has served as a Safai Karamchari since 2011 and is under suspension. She 1 Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes. 2 2025:HHC:20315 has good character and no criminal antecedents except FIR No. 72 of 2025, registered against her. Hence the present petition. 2. When the petition was listed before the Court. Mr. Jitender Sharma, learned Additional Advocate General, for the respondent- State, submitted that no FIR was registered against the petitioner and there is no reasonable apprehension of her arrest. In view of this statement, the present petition has become infructuous2. 3. It was submitted that a direction should be given that a notice would be served upon her before her arrest. Such a direction cannot be issued in view of the judgment of this Court in Sant Ram Vs. State of H.P., Cr.MP(M) No. 926 of 2008, decided on 29.9.2008, and the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in State of Maharashtra Vs. Mohammad Rashid and another, 2005 (5) SC 56. 4. Consequently, the present petition fails, and the same is dismissed as having become infructuous. (Rakesh Kainthla) Judge 28th June, 2025 (Chander) 2 Gurbaksh Singh Sibbia v. State of Punjab, (1980) 2 SCC 565 and Sushila Aggarwal v. State (NCT of Delhi), (2020) 5 SCC 1