IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Appeal No. 1188-SB of 2002 Date of Decision : January 25, 2010 Nirmal Singh ....Appellant Versus State of Punjab .....Respondent CORAM : HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE T.P.S. MANN Present : Mr. Kuldeep Singh Yadav, Advocate Amicus Curiae for the appellant. Mr. P.S. Grewal, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab T.P.S. MANN, J. (Oral) The appellant was tried by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fatehgarh Sahib for an offence under Section 304-B IPC and vide judgment dated 7.6.2002 he was held guilty for the said offence and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 10 years and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/-. In default of payment of fine, he was directed to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for one year. After the registration of the FIR, the appellant was arrested on 25.11.1999 and remained in custody upto 26.9.2001 when he was released on bail. He was again taken into custody on 7.6.2002, when he was convicted and sentenced by the trial Court. On 12.9.2002, when the present appeal was admitted, prayer for bail made on behalf of the Criminal Appeal No. 1188-SB of 2002 -2- appellant was declined. Similar, prayers for bail were subsequently declined on 27.3.2003 and 14.5.2004. One more application was again filed but the same was dismissed on 27.1.2006. In this view of the matter, this Court felt that the appellant might have served the entire sentence imposed upon him after taking into consideration the remissions earned by him during his stay in the jail as a convict. Learned State counsel had prayed for a short adjournment so as to obtain necessary information from the jail authorities. Learned State counsel has produced letter dated 21.1.2010 received from the Superintendent, Central Jail, Patiala wherein it stands mentioned that the appellant, after completion of his substantive sentence and availing the benefit of jail remission and the government remission, was released from the jail on 26.11.2005. The fine of Rs.5,000/- imposed upon him had already been paid in the Court. The said letter is taken on record. Learned counsel for the appellant states that as the appellant has served the entire sentence and paid the fine, the appeal has become infructuous. In view of the above, the present appeal is disposed of as having become infructuous. ( T.P.S. MANN ) January 25, 2010 JUDGE satish