IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No. 1970 of 2002 Date of Decision : 9.2.2011. Hargobind Singh & others ......Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ......Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. Daldeep Singh, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Ranvir S. Chauhan, DAG Punjab, for the respondent-State. NAWAB SINGH J. This revision is directed against the judgment dated September 24th, 2002 passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Bathinda affirming the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated March 7th, 2002 of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Bathinda, whereby, the petitioners were convicted under Section 11(1) of the Punjab Regulation of Colony Act and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 6 months and to pay fine of Rs.200/- with default stipulation. 2. Learned counsel urged that he does not challenge the conviction and prays for reduction of the sentence. 3. It calls for pointed notice that the this case relates to 1997 and thus, the petitioners have suffered the agony of protracted criminal proceedings spreading over a long period of 11 years. They have already actual sentence of 10 days. They are not previous convicts nor have they indulged in any criminal activity before or after registration of this case and are the only bread winners of their families. 4. The aforesaid circumstances are of mitigating nature and justify the request made. Hence, this Court upholds the Criminal Revision No. 1970 of 2002 (2) conviction of the petitioners but reduces the sentence to the period already undergone by them. 5. The revision is accepted partly as indicated above. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 9.2.2011 SN