139 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 15.05.2025 Raj Kumar alias Raju ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Nirmaljeet Singh Sidhu, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Subhash Godara, Addl.A.G., Punjab.

HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J. (ORAL)

1. Petitioner has filed this petition under Articles 226/227 of Constitution of India for issuance of directions to respondents for grant of parole for a period of 08 weeks to the petitioner and for quashing the impugned order dated 09.04.2025 (Annexure P-2) passed by respondent No. 2, vide which, the case of the petitioner for grant of parole has been declined.

2. The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner has been convicted and sentenced in case bearing FIR No. 247 dated 12.10.2022 at Police Station Canal Colony, District Bathinda, under Section 15 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘NDPS Act’) to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and to pay fine of Rs. 1,00,000/-, in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year. Petitioner filed criminal appeal bearing No. C