IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No.M-10516 of 2008 Date of decision : 6.11.2008 Raj Kumar .....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND Present: Ms. Meena Bansal, Advocate as Amicus Curiae for the petitioner. Ms. Manjari Nehru, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab. S. D. ANAND, J. The grievance of the petitioner is that the parole plea raised by him came to declined by the competent authority in view of the fact that he is undergoing sentence in a case under the N.D.P.S. Act. The view that a petitioner-prisoner, undergoing imprisonment on conviction for smuggling of narcotic substances, cannot be released on parole had already been negatived by a judgment rendered by this Court in Criminal Writ No. 1157 of 2006 (Sukhwinder Singh @ Titto Vs. State of Punjab) decided on 10.8.2007. The petition shall stand allowed. The competent authority is directed to pass an order afresh within a period of one from today in the light of the observations made by this Court in Sukhwinder Singh @ Titto's case (supra). 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 06, 2008 (S. D. ANAND) Pka JUDGE