Criminal Misc. No.M-27298 of 2008 -1- **** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No.M-27298 of 2008 Date of decision : 16.12.2008 Devinder Singh @ Raja .....Petitioner Versus U.T., Chandigarh and ors. ...Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Mr. Vipul Jindal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. D.D.Sharma, Advocate for the U.T.Chandigarh. S. D. ANAND, J. The only ground upon which the parole plea of the petitioner- prisoner was declined by the competent authority was that he has no permanent address in India and all his relations are residing abroad. In the context of that premise, learned counsel for the petitioner points out that petitioner has indeed given an address in the petition itself which reads as under:- “Devinder Singh, c/o Sh. Satpal Garg s/o late Shri Devinder Ram Garg, House NO. 309, Sector 7, Panchkula” There is no requirement that a petitioner-prisoner must own immovable property to able to have permanent address. The petitioner cannot, obviously, have a permanent address in India. Even as per the averment he is an NRI. Nonetheless, he has indicated the address where he would be putting up during the period of parole. The petition shall stand disposed of accordingly with a direction to the competent authority to verify the the address given by the Criminal Misc. No.M-27298 of 2008 -2- **** petitioner. If it is found during the verification that address given by the petitioner is correct, the parole plea shall be considered by the competent authority in the light of the observations made by this Court in the course of this order. If the competent authority finds that the address given by the petitioner is non-existent, it (competent authority) may pass an order to the contrary. The exercise shall be concluded within one month from today. It will be for the State counsel to communicate the order to the competent authority. Copy of the order be given to the learned State counsel under the signatures of the Court Secretary. December 16, 2008 (S.D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE