JUDGMENT Mr. Harinder Singh Sidhu, J. - Mohd. Iftkhar @ Kala - petitioner, who is undergoing imprisonment for ten years in FIR No.96 dated 26.10.2014 under Section 22 of the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 registered at Police Station Sadar Rajpura has filed the instant petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India read with Section 3 of the Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1962 praying for his release on parole for six weeks to meet his family members and that the order dated 30.10.2018 (Annexure P-1) passed by the District Magistrate, Sangrur rejecting his application for release on parole be quashed. 2. The petitioner applied for parole to meet his famiily members. The application was forwarded by the Superintendent, District Jail, Sangrur. However, the District Magistrate rejected the same relying on the report of the Senior Superintendent of Police, Sangrur that the petitioner may sell intoxicants during his parole due to which difficulty in law and order will arise. 3. Upon notice, reply has been filed by the Deputy Superintendent, Sub Jail Malerkotla supporting the impugned order. The same reasons have been reiterated. 4. Thus, the sole ground for denying the benefit of parole to the petitioner is that he may sell intoxicants during his parole due to which difficulty in law and order will arise. A Division Bench of this Court in Ram Chander vs. State of Punjab and others, 2017(3) RCR(Criminal) 340, has observed that the likelihood of committing a crime while on parole would not be a sufficient ground to decline temporary release on parole as mere likelihood of committing crime is not to be taken as apprehension of a threat to the security of the State or the maintenance of public order which constitute grounds on which parole can be denied. 5. No such eventuality has been mentioned in the present case. Besides there is no material on record to support the assertion of the respondents. 6. Consequently, the present petition is allowed. The impugned order Annexure P-1 is set aside. The respondents are directed to re-consider the case of the petitioner for grant of parole afresh in view of above observations and pass necessary orders within a period of three weeks from the date of receipt of a certified copy of this Order.