Crl. Revision No. 893 of 2011 (O&M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Revision No. 893 of 2011 (O&M) Date of Decision : May 16, 2011 Mohd. Bashi ...... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana ...... Respondent **** CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK SINGH 1. Whether reporters of local news papers may be allowed to see judgement ? 2. To be referred to reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest ? Present : Mr. Ram Bilas Gupta, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ms. Preeti Chaudhary, AAG, Haryana. **** Alok Singh, J (Oral) Petitioner was found guilty and sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of one year and to pay a fine of ` 1,000/- for the commission of offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act and in default of payment of fine to further undergo simple imprisonment for 15 days by Ju- dicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Faridabad, vide order dated 9.5.2010. Aggrieved by the same, accused/revisionist preferred an appeal and the sentence was affirmed by learned Sessions Judge, Faridabad vide judgment dated 7.4.2011. 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 Section 25 of the Arms Act. Learned counsel has argued that this Court may enhance the fine and may consider to reduce the sentence for the period already undergone. Crl. Revision No. 893 of 2011 (O&M) 2 Ms. Preeti Chaudhary, Assistant Advocate General, Haryana, states that no other criminal case is pending against the accused-revisionist. He further submits that the petitioner/accused has already undergone eight months. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have perused the record. The present case was registered against the petitioner for of- fence under Section 25 of the Arms Act. The sword of Damocles is not to hangover the head of the petitioner for all times to come. He has suffered mental agony due to registration of this criminal case against him. The peti- tioner has already undergone sentence for eight months in this case. In the opinion of this Court, no useful purpose shall be served in keeping the peti- tioner in jail in the company of hard core criminals; reducing the sentence for the period already undergone and enhancing the fine seems to be best option. Therefore, sentence is reduced for the period already undergone in the present case. However, fine imposed upon the petitioner is enhanced to ` 10,000/- over and above the fine already imposed by the Trial Court. 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 of fine is not 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 May 16, 2011 Anand