IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRWP No. 283 of 2010 Date of decision: 26.11.2010 Manjit Singh ...Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RAM CHAND GUPTA Present: Mr.VS Rana, Advocate for the petitioner Mr.KD Sachdeva, Addl.AG, Punjab *** Ram Chand Gupta, J.(Oral) The present petition has been moved by petitioner Manjit Singh under Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 482 Cr.P.C. for his release after adding remissions granted under various circulars/ notifications issued by the Government of Punjab. Reply has already been filed on behalf of the State. I have heard the learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the whole record carefully. Admitted facts are that the petitioner was convicted in case FIR No. 328 dated 19.10.2003 registered under Section 22 of the NDPS Act at Police Station Sadar Fazilka by learned Special Judge, Ferozepur on 8.2.2007 and sentenced to undergo RI for 10 years and to pay a fine of Rs.1 lac or in default of payment of fine, to further undergo RI for one year. He filed an appeal against the said judgment, which has also been dismissed by this Court. He has undergone 6 years, 3 months and 19 days of sentence as on 1.2.2010. CRWP No. 283 of 2010 -2- In view of the reply filed by the State, after conviction of the petitioner, only two Government remissions were granted vide circulars dated 13.4.2007 and 20.10.2008 and in both these circulars, it is clearly mentioned that the convicts convicted under NDPS Act are not entitled for the grant of Government remissions as contemplated in para No.8(v) of the Government Notifications. Learned counsel for the petitioner has failed to show any of the circular, issued by the respondent-State, under which he is entitled for special remission, which has been allegedly refused to him. Even as per his own admission, the petitioner has not completed the sentence awarded to him. Hence, the present petition is dismissed being devoid of any merit. November 26, 2010 (RAM CHAND GUPTA) gsv JUDGE