Criminal Revision No. 1495 of 2005 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No. 1495 of 2005 Date of Decision : 15.2.2011 Ranjit Singh and others ......Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ......Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. S.S.Sandhu, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Ranvir S. Chauhan, Addl. AG, Punjab, for the respondent-State. NAWAB SINGH J. This revision is directed against the judgment dated May 17th, 2005 passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Fatehgarh Sahib, whereby he partly accepted the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated February 14th, 2004 of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Fatehagarh Sahib. The Additional Sessions Judge reduced the sentence of accused- petitioners as under: - Offence Sentence Fine In default 452 IPC RI for 2 years ` 1000/- RI for 1 month 323 IPC RI for 6 months ` 1000/- RI for 1 month 323/34 IPC RI for 6 months ` 1000/- RI for 1 month The sentences were ordered to run concurrently. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners has urged 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 undergone actual sentence of 3 months and 17 days. They have faced the agony of protracted criminal proceedings spreading over a period of 11 years. They are not previous convicts and are the only bread winners of their families. 3. The aforesaid circumstances are of mitigating Criminal Revision No. 1495 of 2005 2 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 15.2.2011. som