IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No.699 of 2004(O&M) DATE OF DECISION : 27th October, 2010 Mohan Lal ...Petitioner Vs. State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR.JUSTICE A.N.JINDAL Present : Mr.D.S.Malwai, Advocate for the petitioner Mr.Amit Chaudhary, AAG, Punjab -- A.N.JINDAL,J (ORAL) This petition is directed against judgment of conviction/sentence dated 06.11.2002 passed by the trial Court convicting and sentencing the accused to undergo R.I. for one year and to pay fine in the sum of Rs.1000 /-, under Section 304-A IPC, to undergo R.I. for six months under Section 279 IPC, to undergo R.I. for one year under Section 338 IPC and to undergo R.I. for six months under Section 337 IPC. His appeal was also dismissed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fatehgarh Sahib. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner has contended that he does not challenge the conviction of the petitioner on merits and confines his arguments only on the point of quantum of sentence on the grounds that during the period of proceedings since 1997, the petitioner has been facing mental agony of the trial and a sword of sentence has been persistently hanging over his head since then, he is a poor person and ready to compensate the heirs of the deceased therefore some leniency be shown to him in the matter of sentence. Criminal Revision No.699 of 2004(O&M) -2- I have considered the submissions raised by the learned counsel for the petitioner. It is no doubt true that since the date of registration of the case, the petitioner has been facing mental stress and agony for the last more than 13 years, he is an old man of 62 years of age and is suffering from short eye sight, and one of his eyes has gone blind as per the doctors report which is placed on record as Annexure A-1; He has not repeated the offence and has already undergone one months sentence and is ready to compensate the death of the child. In these peculiar circumstances of the case, the Court needs to extend some leniency to the petitioner. Resultantly this Petition is dismissed with the modification in the sentence which is reduced to two months each for all the offences for which he was convicted without any alteration in the sentence of fine. Further, the petitioner is directed to pay compensation of Rs.50,000/- to the LRs of the deceased within three months from today, failing which the order of sentence passed by the Court below shall become operative. It is further observed that all the sentence shall run concurrently. (A.N.JINDAL) October 27, 2010 JUDGE p.singh