1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.596 OF 2007 Shashidharan Munnuswami Mudliyar .... Appellant. V/s The State of Maharashtra ..... Respondent. ---- Mrs. Sharmila Kaushik for the appellant. Mr. D.P. Adsule, APP for the State. ---- CORAM: V.M. KANADE, J. DATE : 15th December, 2008 P.C.: For the reasons separately recorded, the following order is passed:- O R D E R In the result, conviction awarded by the Trial Court is confirmed. However, sentence is reduced from 10 years to 5 years so far as offence under section 306 of the Indian Penal Code is concerned. Sentence of three years awarded for the offence punishable under section 498(A)(a) of the Indian Penal Code is, however, confirmed. Both the sentences are directed to run concurrently. The judgment and order passed by the Trial Court to that extent is set aside. Appellant has already undergone 2 nine and half years of sentence. Appellant be released forthwith, unless he is required in any other case. Appeal is partly allowed. (V.M. KANADE, J.)