Crl.Rev.No.2006 of 2009 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.Rev.No.2006 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision : 11.9. 2009 Karam Singh ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MAHESH GROVER .... Present : Mr.J.S.Khiva, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.B.B.S.Teji, AAG, Punjab for the respondent. ..... MAHESH GROVER, J. Delay of 15 days in filing the revision is condoned. This revision petition is directed against the judgment of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Mansa dated 14.6.2007 and that of learned Sessions Judge, Mansa dated 17.4.2009 whereby the petitioner was convicted under the provisions of Section 170, 419, 420 IPC and was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs.250/-, and in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for two weeks under Section 170 IPC, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and Crl.Rev.No.2006 of 2009 (O&M) -2- to pay a fine of Rs.500/-, and in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month under Section 419 IPC, and to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs.500/-, in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month under Section 420 IPC. All the sentences were ordered to run concurrently. At the outset, learned counsel for the petitioner contended that he does not wish to assail the impugned judgments on merit but only confines his submission to the fact that the petitioner has undergone more than 6 months out of the total imprisonment of one year and that he has been facing the agony of criminal proceedings for the last 10 years. He also contended that the allegations against him are that he was impersonating as an official of the electricity board and was checking the meters of various persons and extracting money for setting right the irregularities so detected. On the other hand, learned counsel for the State contended that there is no mitigating circumstance in favour of the petitioner so as to warrant any lenient view. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and noticing the fact that the petitioner has undergone more than 6 months out of the total period of sentence of one year and also noticing the fact that he has faced the ordeal of criminal proceedings for 10 long years, I deem it appropriate to reduce the sentence of the petitioner to that of already undergone and to enhance the amount of fine to Rs.5,000/-. Ordered accordingly. The net result is that the conviction of the petitioner shall Crl.Rev.No.2006 of 2009 (O&M) -3- remain intact and the sentence is reduced to already undergone. The amount of fine is enhanced to Rs.5,000/- which shall be deposited before the learned trial court within three months and failure to do so shall result in automatic revival of sentence of the petitioner which he shall be liable to undergo. The fine if deposited shall be forfeited to the State. With the modification in the quantum of sentence as indicated above, the petition is disposed of. 11.9.2009 (MAHESH GROVER) JUDGE dss