IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision:04.11.2025 Malkiat Singh …Appellant Versus State of Punjab …Respondent (2) CRA-D No.526-DB of 2015 (O&M)

Rajjo Bai @ Rajan …Appellant Versus State of Punjab …Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE LISA GILL HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE MEENAKSHI I. MEHTA Argued by:- Mr. D.N. Ganeriwala, Advocate and Mr. Kanisth Ganeriwala, Advocate for the appellants (in both the appeals).

Mr. Raghav Garg, AAG, Punjab for the respondent-State (in both the appeals).

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Meenakshi I. Mehta, J.

Both the above-captioned Criminal Appeals are being taken up together for discussion and adjudication as these have arisen out of the same judgment and order on sentence, handed down by learned Judge, Special Court, Ferozepur (for short ‘the trial Court’), on 01.04.2014 in the criminal case arising out of FIR No.09 dated 24.01.2013 registered at Police Station Lakho Ke Behram, under Sections 21, 25 & 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (for short ‘the Act’), whereby appellants Malkiat Singh and Rajjo Bai have been held guilty for committing the offence punishable under Section 21 of the Act and have been sentenced to undergo r