IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. M-26801 of 2008 Date of Decision: October 20, 2009 Krishan Lal … Petitioner Versus State of Punjab … Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE S.D. ANAND. Present : Mr. A.S. Manaise, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. B.B.S. Teji, Asstt. Advocate General, Punjab. S.D. Anand, J. A similar controversy was disposed of by a Coordinate Bench (Vinod K. Sharma, J.) in Criminal Misc. No.62553-M of 2006 – Harbans Lal vs. State of Punjab, decided on 15.05.2008 and the finding recorded was that the District Magistrate had no jurisdiction to pass an order under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act because the enactment aforementioned is a special Act and the general law would not be applicable. The learned State counsel has not been able to successfully resist the plea of similarity, as between that case and the present case, raised on behalf of the petitioner. Crl. Misc. No. M-26801 of 2008 The petition shall stand allowed in the light of the judgment rendered by this Court in Harbans Lal’s case (supra). October 20, 2009 ( S.D. Anand ) vkd Judge 2