IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH SHIMLA Cr. Revision No.249 of 2010 Decided on: March 25.3.2011 Jai Singh and others .. Petitioners Versus State of HP & another .. Respondents Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Surjit Singh, Judge. Whether approved for reporting?1 For the Petitioners : Mr. G.R. Palsra, Advocate. For the Respondents : Mr. P.M. Negi, Dy. Advocate General and Mr. Ramesh Thakur, assistant Advocate General. Surjit Singh, Judge (oral) Heard and gone through the record. 2. By means of this revision petition, petitioners, hereinafter referred to as accused, have challenged the judgment, dated 8.5.2006, of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Mandi, whereby they have been convicted of an offence under Sections 41/42 of the Indian Forest Act and sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for three months and to pay fine of `500/- each, as also the judgment dated 29.11.2010, of learned Additional Sessions Judge, by Whether reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? …2… which their appeal has been dismissed and the conviction and sentence maintained. 3. Case of the prosecution is that on 10.1.2003, around 9 p.m., petitioners were carrying 14 logs of a dry Cheel tree in a jeep, the length of which varied from 3’ to 6’ and the girth varied from 33” to 42”. It appears that all the logs were part of the same tree because of variation in the girth of logs. The logs were dry and, therefore, it can legitimately be presumed that either a dry tree had been felled and made into logs or these were the logs of already fallen dry tree. This kind of logs are normally used as fuel wood, because Cheel wood is not so strong that it may be used as timber. 4. Logs were being carried from one village to another, but not outside the State. The act though technically amounts to violation of Rule 11 of HP Forest Produce (Transit Land Routes) Rules, 1978, but the offence is not that serious as to call for severe punishment. The act is punishable, with imprisonment which may run upto two years or with fine upto `5000/- or with both. 5. Looking to the above stated facts and circumstances, I feel that ends of justice will be met in case the sentence of the petitioners, who are in jail since yesterday, is reduced to the sentence of imprisonment, …3… already undergone by them and fine of `500/- each. It is ordered accordingly. Revision petition stands disposed of. Cr. MP No.981/2010 Infructuous, as the main matter stands disposed of. March 25, 2011(ss) (Surjit Singh), J.