Criminal Revision No. 356 of 2006 1 .. IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No. 356 of 2006 Date of Decision : 16.03.2011. Gurmail Singh & others ...... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ...... Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. Harsh Aggarwal , 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 February 9th, 2006 passed by Additional Sessions Judge (Adhoc), Fast Track Court, Sangrur, whereby, he partly accepted the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated March 3rd, 2003 passed by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sangrur. The Additional Sessions Judge reduced the sentence of the accused-petitioners as under: - Offence Sentence Fine In default Gurmail Singh, Iqbal Singh and Mithu Singh alias Darshan Singh 323/34 IPC RI for 6 months - - 324/34 RI for 1 year - - 325/34 IPC RI for 1 year ` 1,000/- RI for 1 month Randhir Singh alias Dheera 323 IPC RI for 3 months - - 324/34 IPC RI for 1 year - - 325 IPC RI for 1 year ` 1,000/- RI for 1 month The sentences were ordered to run concurrently. Criminal Revision No. 356 of 2006 2 .. 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 place in the year 1996; (ii). petitioner No.1 is in his 70s; (iii). the petitioners have already faced the agony of protracted criminal proceedings spreading over a period of 15 years; (iv). they have undergone actual sentence of about 3 months; (v). they were not charged or challaned in any case prior to or after registration of the present case. 3. The aforesaid circumstances are of mitigating nature and 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 revisions are accepted partly as indicated above. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 16.03.2011 som