IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-2792 of 2011 Date of decision: 08.07.2011. Jarnail Singh ..Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and others ..Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. S.K. Bawa, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Sudhir Nehra, Addl. A.G. Punjab, for the respondents – State. NAWAB SINGH, J. (ORAL) By filing this petition, petitioner seeks directions to respondents No.2 and 3 to provide protection to his life and liberty. State has filed reply. It has been stated that the petitioner was a Police official. He was dismissed by the State Government on January 31st, 1997. He is facing trial in case bearing First Information Report (for short 'FIR') No.17 dated January 17th, 2007 under Section 18 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short 'NDPS Act'), Police Station Sadar, Patiala on the accusation that he kept in his possession 410 grams of Opium. He was also convicted in FIR No.417 dated December 2nd, 2000 under Section 15 of the NDPS Act, Police Station Rajpura for keeping in possession 5 kg of Poppy Husk. It was also pleaded that petitioner was never called by the Police. There is no material evidence led by the petitioner to say that he is facing threat to his life. It appears that the present petition has been filed by the petitioner just for the sake of filing it. In view of above, no action is called for. Dismissed. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 08.07.2011 neetu