Criminal Revision No. 2238 of 2002 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh. Criminal Revision No. 2238 of 2002 Date of Decision: 23.4.2010 Jagjit Singh …Petitioner Versus State of Punjab …Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: None for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Bhullar, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab, for the respondent. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) Petitioner Jagjit Singh was tried in a case FIR No. 81 dated 3.6.1993, registered at Police Station City, Khanna, under Section 25 of the Arms Act, 1959 (hereinafter referred to as “1959 Act”). The Court of Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Khanna, vide its judgment dated 11.2.1999, held the petitioner guilty for the offence under Section 25(1B) (a) of the 1959 Act. Vide a separate order of even date, the petitioner was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year and to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-, in default whereof, to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two months. Aggrieved against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence, passed by the Court of Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, the petitioner had preferred an appeal. The Appellate Court, vide its Criminal Revision No. 2238 of 2002 2 judgment dated 23.10.2002, had dismissed the appeal by upholding the conviction and maintaining the sentence. Mr. J.S. Bhullar, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab, appearing for the respondent, has placed on record an affidavit of Surinder Pal Khanna, Deputy Superintendent, Central Jail, Ludhiana, wherein it is stated that the petitioner has undergone 11 months and 5 days out of one year's rigorous imprisonment awarded to him and thereafter, he was granted benefit of remissions for 25 days. On completion of sentence, the petitioner was released by the Jail Authorities as the fine was paid. Nobody is present today on behalf of the petitioner to contest his conviction. It can be safely inferred that the petitioner has accepted his conviction and sentence awarded. In these circumstances, present revision petition is disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to revive the same in case any of the grievances subsist. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge April 23, 2010 “DK”