Criminal Misc. No.M-10522 of 2008 -1- **** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No.M-10522 of 2008 Date of decision : 24.9.2008 Buta Singh .....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent **** CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: None for the petitioner Ms. Manjari Nehru, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab **** S. D. ANAND, J. The Petitioner (Buta Singh son of Major Singh) is undergoing incarceration at District Jail, Faridkot, following his conviction under the N.D.P.S. Act, by a Lucknow Court. He is also facing trial, in a Court at Moga, for an offence under Section 420 IPC. The petitioner present a complaint before the Administrative Judge of Faridkot Sessions Division, Faridkot, in the course of a jail visit. That complaint was ordered to be taken up on judicial side. In the course of the complaint, the apprehension of the petitioner is that the moment the period of sentence awarded to him in the case under the NDPS Act is over and case under Section 420 IPC is disposed of by the Court at Moga, he would be transferred to Lucknow jail. He has made a request that he should be detained in District Jail, Faridkot, only because his aged mother would not be able to visit him in the Jail at Lucknow. It is also the plea by him that no other relation of his is living. Criminal Misc. No.M-10522 of 2008 -2- **** On his own showing, the case under Section 420 IPC is still pending in a Court at Moga. If that case ends in acquittal, the petitioner cannot avoid being transferred to the District Jail, Lucknow, from where he would appear to have been transferred to District Jail, Faridkot, for being able to face the trial under Section 420 IPC in the Court at Moga. In the light thereof, there is no force in the petition. Dismissed. September 24, 2008 (S. D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE