IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRM No.M 1698 of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision: 22.1.2010 Inderjit Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE HARBANS LAL Present: Mr.Sanjeev Manhas, Advocate for the petitioner *** Harbans Lal, J.(Oral) This petition has been moved by Inderjit Singh under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. for issuing directions to the respondents to allow him usual remissions as have been allowed by the Governor of Punjab under Article 161 of the Constitution of India during the period, he remained on bail during the pendency of CRA No.643-SB of 1997 in this Court in accordance with the settled proposition of law laid down in the judgment dated 5.7.2007 delivered in Criminal Writ Petition No.991 of 2006 – Jagdeep Singh vs. State of Punjab and others. I have heard the learned counsel for the petitioner. The petitioner was convicted and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for eight years by the learned trial court vide judgment/order dated 1.8.1997. He was released on bail during the pendency of the appeal. The Hon'ble High Court vide order dated 22.5.2008 reduced the sentence from eight years to four years. Presently, the petitioner is confined in Centarl Jail, Ludhiana for serving his sentence. In CRM No.M 1698 of 2010 (O&M) -2- view of Annexure P-1, the judgment dated 5.7.2007 rendered by this Court in Criminal Writ Petition No.991 of 2006 – Jagdeep Singh vs. State of Punjab and others, this petition is disposed of with a direction to the competent authority to examine the case of the petitioner and provide him the benefit of remissions announced from time to time till before 11.9.2001 and also consider his premature release case. January 22, 2010 (Harbans Lal) gsv Judge