THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.1145 OF 2005 DATED 10th FEBRUARY, 2011. BETWEEN : Shaik Sreenu Meeravali & another … Petitioners-accused and The State of A.P. … Respondent THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.1145 OF 2005 ORDER: This Criminal Revision Case is filed by the petitioners-accused challenging the judgment dated 14.07.2005 rendered in Criminal Appeal No.89 of 2003 by the learned XI Additional District and Sessions Judge, Guntur at Tenali. Heard. Initially, the petitioners were prosecuted in C.C.No.810 of 2000 for the offence under Section 326 read with 34 of Indian Penal Code by the learned II Additional Munsif Magistrate, Repalle, wherein the petitioners were convicted under Section 248 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three years and to pay a fine of Rs.1000/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for three months each. Aggrieved over the same, petitioners preferred an appeal. In appeal, the learned Additional Sessions Judge, while confirming the conviction imposed by the trial Court reduced the sentence of imprisonment from three years to one year. Challenging the same, present revision has been preferred. After arguing for sometime, the learned counsel for the petitioners by not pressing the main prayer confined his arguments only to the extent of imposition of sentence and requested the Court to show some indulgence on the petitioners. In view of the said submission, this Court is of the view that merits of the Prosecution case and impugned judgment need not be adjudicated. Admittedly, the occurrence took place in the year 1999 and for all these years the petitioners suffered humiliation and also stigma in the society. It is represented that the petitioners are the breadwinners of their respective families and have to look after the welfare their family members. In these circumstances and after lapse of all these years, this Court is of the view that there is no necessity to send the petitioners to prison. Hence, the conviction imposed by the trial Court and as confirmed by the Appellate Court is hereby confirmed. However, considering the circumstances of the case, the sentence of imprisonment imposed on the petitioners is hereby reduced to that of the period already undergone by them in prison. Further, the petitioners shall pay a fine of Rs.4,000/- each, apart from the fine amount already imposed by the trial Court, within a period of six weeks from today. On failure to pay the fine amount, petitioners shall undergo simple imprisonment for three months each. The remaining portion of the impugned judgment shall stand unchanged. With above modification, the Criminal Revision Case is disposed of. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 10.02.2011 sur