IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No.M-30368 of 2008 Date of decision : 20.11.2008 Darshan Singh .....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Mr. Navjinder Singh Sidhu, Advocate for the petitioner. **** S. D. ANAND, J. Criminal Misc. No.53337-2008 Allowed as prayed for. Criminal Misc. No.M- 30368-2008 The request for release on parole made by the petitioner was declined by the competent authority by noticing that he had already availed of four months parole in connection with the treatment of his wife. The impugned order does not notice that petitioner is presently requesting for agricultural parole. Notice of motion. On the asking of the Court, Ms. Manjari Nehru, learned Deputy Advocate General, Punjab accepts notice on behalf of respondents. It is common ground that a petitioner-prisoner can be granted parole twice in a year. The initial parole to the petitioner came to be granted in the context of illness of his wife which would not dis-entitle him to raise a plea for agricultural parole plea. The petition shall stand disposed of with a direction to the competent authority to pass an order within one month from today on the parole plea of the petitioner in the light of the above observations made by this Court. 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. November 20, 2008 (S. D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE