Criminal Revision No.317 of 2005 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No.317 of 2005 Date of Decision : 18.01.2011. Karnail Singh ......Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ......Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. Hitesh Kaplish, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Ranvir S. Chauhan, DAG, Punjab, for the respondent-State. NAWAB SINGH J.(ORAL) This revision has been filed by Karnail Singh- petitioner against the judgment dated February 2nd, 2005 passed by Sessions Judge, Kapurthala affirming the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated January 16th, 2004 of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Phagwara, whereby, the petitioner was convicted under Section 11(1) of the Punjab Regulation of Colonies Act, 1975 and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two years and to pay fine of Rs.3000/- with default stipulation. 2. Allegations, in brief, against the petitioner are that accused Rajwant Kaur (now deceased) being the owner and Karnail Singh accused-petitioner being attorney of Rajwant Kaur converted the land into plots for transfer, residential, commercial, industrial purposes. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has urged that he does not challenge the conviction and prays for reduction of the sentence. He further stated (i) that Karnail Singh was attorney of Rajwant Kaur owner of land who died during trial; (ii) He has undergone the actual sentence of about three months; (iii) that as find mention in the record of trial Court, he is 75 years old. 4. Taking into consideration the accusation against Criminal Revision No.317 of 2005 2 the petitioner and his age, this Court is of opinion that ends of justice would be met if the period of sentence is reduced to the period already undergone by him. Hence, this Court upholds the conviction of the petitioner but reduces the sentence to the period already undergone by him. 5. The revision is accepted partly as indicated above. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 18.01.2011. SN