401 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 17.03.2025

1. CRA-S-41-SB-2007 JAGDISH SINGH ....Appellant Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ...Respondent 2. CRA-S-351-SB-2007 BINDER SINGH ....Appellant Versus STATE OF PUNJAB ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. H.S. Rakhra, Advocate and Ms. Gurvinder Kaur, Advocate for the appellant.

Mr. Rishabh Singla, AAG, Punjab.

HARPREET SINGH BRAR, J. (ORAL)

1. This order of mine shall dispose of both the above mentioned appeals as both are arising from the same FIR. For the sake of brevity, facts are borrowed from CRA-S-41-SB-2007 titled as Jagdish Singh Vs. State of Punjab. 2. These appeals have been preferred against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 12.12.2006 passed by learned Judge, Special Court, Bathinda whereby the appellants were convicted and sentenced for the offence punishable under Section 15 (b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (hereinafter ‘NDPS Act’), in the case stemming from FIR No.95 dated 24.08.2004 at Police Station Sangat, District Bathinda.

3. The appellants were sentenced as mentioned below: