IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No. 1550 of 2005 Date of Decision: 26.05.2011 Sanjiv Kumar ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. Pritam Saini, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Ranvir S. Chauhan, Addl. A.G. Punjab. NAWAB SINGH.J (ORAL) This revision is directed against the judgment dated July 18th, 2005 passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala, affirming the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated December 16th, 2004 of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Patiala, whereby, the petitioner was convicted and sentenced as under: Offence U/S Sentence Fine In default 279 IPC RI for six months - - 337 IPC RI for six months - - 304-A IPC RI for two years - - The sentences were ordered to run concurrently. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has urged that the petitioner does not challenge the conviction and prays for reduction of the sentence to the period already undergone by him, that is, about 3 months, on the ground that the petitioner is a patient of HIV+ and is 100% disabled person, as is gleaned from the certificate (Annexure P/1) issued by Civil Surgeon, Ambala and medical record (Annexure P/2) of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. Criminal Revision No. 1550 of 2005 -2- .. 3. The aforesaid circumstances justify the request made. Hence, this Court upholds the conviction of the petitioner but reduces the sentence to the period already undergone by him. 4. The revision is accepted partly as indicated above. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 26.05.2011 som