Criminal Revision No. 855 of 2009 [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No. 16623 of 2009 and Criminal Revision No. 855 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision: 11.8.2009 Mithu Singh .. Petitioner v. State of Punjab .. Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. Nandan Jindal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. A. S. Brar, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. Rajesh Bindal J. Reply filed on behalf of the State is taken on record. This is an application for condonation of delay of 766 days in filing the present revision petition before this Court. The applicant-petitioner has been sentenced to undergo imprisonment for one year and pay fine of Rs. 5,000/- on account of his conviction under Section 61(1)(c) of the Punjab Excise Act, 1914 (for short, `the Act'). The conviction of the applicant-petitioner by learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Barnala vide judgment dated 4.6.2005 was upheld by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Barnala vide judgment dated 25.11.2006. The only ground made out in the application for condonation of delay is that the applicant-petitioner is undergoing sentence of 10 years awarded to him in the case registered against him on 12.6.1987 under the NDPS Act and he had no means to approach this Court to file the revision. Learned counsel for the State submitted that after involvement of the petitioner in NDPS Act case in the year 1987, he did not mend his ways. Subsequently, he was involved in another case under the Act vide FIR No. 156 dated 5.10.2003, in which he was convicted on 3.6.2006. Considering the conduct of the petitioner and also the fact that the present petition was filed after a delay of 766 days, I do not find any reason to condone the delay. Criminal Revision No. 855 of 2009 [2] Accordingly, the application for condonation of delay as well as the present petition are dismissed. (Rajesh Bindal) Judge 11.8.2009 mk