THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.249 OF 2005 DATED 29th NOVEMBER, 2010. BETWEEN : Gongati Pulla Reddy ..Petitioner-accused and The State of A.P. ..Respondent THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.249 OF 2005 ORDER: This Criminal Revision Case under Sections 397 and 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) is filed by the petitioner-A.1 against the judgment, dated 25.01.2005, rendered in Criminal Appeal No.133 of 2001 by the V Additional District and Sessions Judge (Fast Track Court), Ongole, confirming the judgment of conviction and sentence passed in C.C.No.260 of 1996 on 21.06.2001 by the II Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Ongole, in which the petitioner- A.1 was convicted under section 248 (2) Cr.P.C. for the offence punishable under Sections 471, 199 and 468 IPC and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three years and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a period of six months on each count. The allegations made in the chare sheet, in brief, are that A.1 made a fictitious claim for insurance amounts basing on an unidentified dead body and that A.2 and A.3, who are the employees of a Junior College, have helped A.1 in securing false certificates and A.4, a Gram Panchayat Employee, made a false entry in the Birth Register to help the claim of A.1. Heard. After arguing for sometime, the learned counsel for the petitioner by not pressing the main prayer confined his arguments to the extent of imposition of sentence and requested the Court to show some indulgence on the petitioner. In view of the said submission, this Court is of the view that merits of the Prosecution case and impugned judgment need not be adjudicated. Admittedly, the petitioner is aged about 63 years, the crime occurred in the year 1992, crime is registered in the year 1994 and for all these years the petitioner suffered humiliation and also stigma in the society. In these circumstances, this Court is inclined to show some lenience against the petitioner. Accordingly, the conviction imposed by the trial Court as confirmed by the Appellate Court is hereby confirmed. However, considering the circumstances of the case, the sentence of imprisonment imposed on the petitioner is hereby modified to that of the period already undergone by him. The remaining portion of the impugned judgment shall stand unchanged. With above modification, the Criminal Revision Case is disposed of. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 29.11.2010 sur