IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No.1741 of 2004 Date of Decision : 13.01.2011. Dharamvir & another ......Petitioners Versus State of Haryana ......Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. Rakesh Nehra, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Satyavir Singh Yadav, D.A.G. Haryana, for the respondent-State. NAWAB SINGH J. This revision is directed against the judgment dated August 24th, 2004 passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Jhajjar whereby he partly accepted the judgment of conviction dated July 18th, 2000 and order of sentence dated July 19th, 2000 passed by Judicial Magistrate First Class, Jhajjar. The Additional Sessions Judge however, reduced the sentence of both the accused- petitioners as under: - Offence Sentence Fine In default 457 IPC RI for 2 years ` 1000/- 3 months Accused Surinder was also convicted under Section 354 IPC and sentenced to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for 2 years and to pay a fine of Rs.1000/- with default stipulation. 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. He further submitted that the accused have faced the agony of protracted trial. Keeping in view the aforesaid mitigating circumstances, the sentence imposed upon the petitioners be reduced to the one already undergone by them. Criminal Revision No.1741 of 2004 (2) 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 revision is accepted partly as indicated above. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 13.01.2011. SN