In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal Misc. No.M-8945 of 2010 ..... Date of decision:17.8.2010 Ravinder Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab .....Respondent .... Present: Mr. Jagjit Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. V.P.S. Sidhu, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State. ..... S.S. Saron, J. Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail in a case registered against him for the offence under Section 15 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (`Act' – for short). The petitioner is the owner of the truck No.HR 38-D-4612 which was apprehended with the contraband on 10.11.2009. It was being driven by Mandeep Singh who had been engaged as a driver by the petitioner in September 2009. On search of the truck, 50 bags of poppy husk each weighing 35 Kgs. were recovered. Mandeep Singh was interrogated by the Police and he has not named the petitioner as one of the accused. The involvement, if any, of the petitioner is to be ascertained by the investigating authorities or the Court as the case may be. The petitioner, it is stated, has not been earlier involved in any criminal case. The petitioner was in touch with his driver till 30.10.2009 and thereafter he lost contact Cr. Misc. No.M-8945 of 2010 [2] with him and could not be contacted till the truck was apprehended on 10.11.2009. In consequence of the interim bail granted by this Court on 8.4.2010, the petitioner has joined the investigation. Learned counsel for the State, on instructions from HC Harbans Singh, Police Station Sultanpur Lodhi, District Kapurthala, has submitted that the custody of the petitioner is not required for the purpose of investigation. In the circumstances, the interim bail granted on 8.4.2010 is made absolute. The criminal miscellaneous petition stands disposed of. August 17, 2010. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*