Criminal Revision No. 2256 of 2005 1 .. IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No. 2256 of 2005 Date of Decision : 16.03.2011. Sukhmander Singh & another ...... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ...... Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Sukhmander Singh and Baldev Singh, petitioners in person with Mr. S.S.Bhinder , Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Ranvir S. Chauhan, DAG, Punjab, for the respondent-State. NAWAB SINGH J. (ORAL) This revision is directed against the judgment dated November 18 th, 2005 passed by Additional Sessions Judge (Adhoc), Fast Track Court, Bathinda, whereby, he partly accepted the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated November 5 th, 2004 passed by Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Bathinda. The Additional Sessions Judge reduced the sentence of the accused- petitioners as under: - Offence Sentence Fine In default 324 IPC RI for 6 months - - 326 IPC RI for 9 months ` 500/- RI for 15 days The sentences were ordered to run concurrently. 2. At the outset, learned counsel for the petitioners has stated that he does not challenge the judgment of conviction on merits and confines his arguments only regarding quantum of sentence. The grounds pleaded are that (i). the occurrence took Criminal Revision No. 2256 of 2005 2 .. place in the year 2001; (ii). the petitioners have already faced the agony of protracted criminal proceedings spreading over a period of 10 years; (iii) they were not charged or challaned in any case prior to or after registration of the present case. 3. The aforesaid circumstance justify the request made. Hence, this Court upholds the conviction of the petitioners but reduces the sentence to the period already undergone by them. 4. The revision is accepted partly as indicated above. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 16.03.2011 som