Crl. Misc. No.M-4620 of 2012 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Misc. No.M- 4620 of 2012 Date of decision : 21.03.2012 Kuldeep Singh and another ......Petitioners versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIJENDER SINGH MALIK 1. Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr. J.S. Brar, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. A.S. Rai, DAG, Punjab for the State. -- VIJENDER SINGH MALIK , J. Kuldeep Singh and Harjeet Singh, the petitioners have sought regular bail in a case registered by way of FIR No. 14 dated 12.01.2012 at Police Station City Faridkot for an offence punishable under sections 22 of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 . The case of the prosecution is that some 400 tablets of Losmotil were recovered from the possession of one Jagsir Sharma, who Crl. Misc. No.M-4620 of 2012 2 has been working as a pharmacist in Modern Central Jail, Faridkot. It was disclosed by said Jagsir Sharma that the persons who supplied him with those tablets for being passed on their relation who was lodged in the said jail as a convict were the petitioners. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that no relation of the petitioner is lodged in the said jail as a convict. According to him, the only evidence against the petitioners is that of a disclosure statement of a co-accused from whom the tablets were recovered. According to him, no credibility could be attached to the said disclosure statement. According to him, there is no other independent evidence to connect the petitioners with the recovered tablets. Learned State counsel, on the other hand, has admitted that the only evidence against the petitioners is by way of the disclosure statement of the co-accused Jagsir Sharma. He also could not tell as to who is the relation of the petitioners lodged in the said jail as a convict. In this view of the matter, without commenting on the merits of the case, I find it appropriate to grant regular bail to the petitioners. Consequently, the petition is allowed. The petitioners are ordered to be released on bail on their furnishing a personal bond each in a sum of Rs.25,000/- with one surety each in the like amount to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Faridkot. 21.03.2012 (VIJENDER SINGH MALIK) dinesh JUDGE