CRR No.473 of 2011 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRR No.473 of 2011 (O&M) Date of decision: 29.04.2011 Hari Darshan ....Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK SINGH Present: - Mr. Pankaj Midha, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Preeti Chaudhary, AAG, Haryana. 1.Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2.Whether to be referred to the Reporters or not? 3.Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? ***** ALOK SINGH, J (ORAL) Petitioner was found guilty and was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months with a fine of Rs.500/- and in default of payment of fine to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 15 days for commission of offence under Section 279 IPC. He was further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months and to pay a fine of Rs.500/- and in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month for commission of offence under Section 337 IPC. He was further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two years and to pay a fine of Rs.500/- and in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months for commission of offence under Section 304-A IPC by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate , Jind, vide order dated 6.7.2010. All the substantive sentences were ordered to run concurrently. CRR No.473 of 2011 (O&M) -2- The appeal preferred by the accused/petitioner was dismissed and the order of the learned Trial Court was affirmed by the learned Sessions Judge, Jind, vide judgment dated 3.2.2011. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that he is not pressing this revision on merit and is not challenging the conviction of the accused under Sections 279/337/304-A IPC. Learned counsel has argued that this Court may enhance the compensation/fine and may consider to reduce the sentence for the period already undergone. Ms. Preeti Chaudhary, AAG, Haryana, states that petitioner/revisionist is the first time offender and no other criminal case is pending against him. She further submits that the petitioner/accused has already undergone about three months. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have perused the record. In the opinion of this Court, no useful purpose would be served by keeping the accused/petitioner in the company of hardcore criminals; reducing the sentence for the period already undergone and enhancing the fine to be paid to the injured/LRs of the deceased seems to be best option. Therefore, sentence is reduced for the period already undergone in the present case. However, fine/compensation imposed upon the petitioner is enhanced to Rs.25,000/- over and above the fine already imposed by the Trial Court out of which Rs.5,000/- shall be paid to the injured Jasvinder Singh and Rs.20,000/- shall be paid to the LRs of the deceased under Section 357 Cr.P.C. The petitioner is directed to deposit the above said amount, within one month from today, with the Trial Court. It is made clear that in case enhanced amount is not CRR No.473 of 2011 (O&M) -3- deposited, as directed above, this revision petition shall be deemed to have been dismissed. With above mentioned modification in the matter of sentence, this revision petition stands disposed of. (Alok Singh) Judge April 29, 2011 R.S.