IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.Revision No. 462 of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision: 9.3.2010 Baljit Kaur alias Mani ......Petitioner Vs. State of Punjab ...Respondent CORAM:- HON'BLE MRS.JUSTICE DAYA CHAUDHARY. PRESENT: Mr.Mr.Deepak Gupta, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Baljinder Singh Sra, Addl.AG, Punjab. **** ORDER The present revision petition has been filed against judgment dated 1.2.2010 passed by Addl. Sessions Judge Ludhiana vide which the appeal filed by the petitioner against judgment /order dated 20.3.2008 passed by JMIC, Ludhiana, convicting and sentencing the petitioner to undergo RI for 1 year and to pay fine of Rs.1000/- and in default of payment of fine to further undergo RI for period of ten days under Section 420 IPC has been dismissed. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that against the total sentence of 1 year, the petitioner has undergone more than 1-1/2 months of actual sentence and petitioner is not a previous convict. Moreover, she has suffered the agony of protracted trial since 2001. Learned counsel further submits that the petitioner has wrongly been convicted by the trial Court on the basis of allegation against her that she introduced her brother to the Crl.Revision No. 462 of 2010 [2] complainant and complainant gave money to the brother of the petitioner in her presence. The petitioner was neither working as agent nor the amount was paid to her. She is simply a house-hold lady and only on the basis of allegation that the amount was paid in her presence, she has been convicted and sentenced. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that petitioner is ready to compensate the complainant with some reasonable amount if her sentence is reduced to the period already undergone by her. Mr.Sra, learned counsel for the State, has also no objection in reducing the sentence of the petitioner, if some reasonable amount is given to the complainant. I have heard the arguments of learned counsel for the petitioner as well as counsel for the State and have also gone through the judgments of both the courts below. In the present case, the FIR was registered on 26.10.2001 against the petitioner and since then she is facing the protracted trial and has already suffered a lot. Moreover, the petitioner is having no criminal background as no case is pending against her and she has already undergone more than 1-1/2 months of actual sentence against total sentence of one year. Keeping in view the facts mentioned above, while maintaining the conviction of the petitioner for offence under Section 420 IPC, the sentence of the petitioner is reduced from 1 year to the period already undergone by him subject to payment of Rs.25,000/- as compensation to be paid to the complainant. The said amount be deposited in the Court of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Ludhiana within a period of one month from Crl.Revision No. 462 of 2010 [3] the date of receipt of a copy of this order which shall be disbursed to the complainant, failing which the petitioner would undergo the remaining part of the sentence. With above modification, the revision petition is disposed of. (DAYA CHAUDHARY) JUDGE March 9, 2010. raghav