Criminal Revision No.1679 of 2004 1 .. IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 1. Criminal Revision No.1679 of 2004 Date of Decision : 16.02.2011. Ram Piara & another ......Petitioners Versus State of Punjab ......Respondent 2. Criminal Revision No.1829 of 2004 Date of Decision : 16.02.2011. Dalip Singh ......Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ......Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. H.L.Bhatia, Advocate, Amicus curaea, for the petitioners. Mr. Ranvir S. Chauhan, D.A.G., Punjab, for the respondent-State. NAWAB SINGH J. Mr. H.L.Bhatia, Advocate, who is present in the Court is appointed as amicus curiae. This judgment shall dispose of above mentioned two Criminal Revisions arising out of judgment dated August 6th, 2004 passed by Additional Sessions Judge (Adhoc) Fast Track Court, Gurdaspur whereby he partly accepted the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated July 9th, 2002 passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gurdaspur. The Additional Sessions Judge reduced the sentence of the accused-petitioners as under: - Offence Sentence Fine In default 120-B IPC RI for 6 months ` 500/- RI for 1 month 467 IPC RI for 1 year ` 1000/- RI for 2 months The sentences were ordered to run concurrently. 2. Per report dated March 11th, 2010 of Chief Judicial Criminal Revision No.1679 of 2004 2 .. Magistrate, Gurdaspur, Ram Piara – Petitioner No.1 has expired . In view of this, Criminal Revision No.1679 of 2004 qua him stands abated. 3. At the outset, learned counsel for the petitioners has stated that he does not challenge the judgment of conviction on merits and confines his arguments only regarding quantum of sentence. He further submitted that petitioners - Mohinder Singh is in his 80s and Dalip Singh is in his 70s as on date. They have faced the agony of protracted criminal proceedings spreading over a long period of 17 years. Keeping in view the aforesaid mitigating circumstances, the sentence imposed upon the petitioners be reduced to the one already undergone by them. 4. The aforesaid circumstances are of mitigating nature and justify the request made. Hence, this Court upholds the conviction of the petitioners but reduces the sentence to the period already undergone by them. 5. The revisions are accepted partly as indicated above. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 16.02.2011. som Criminal Revision No.1679 of 2004 3 .. IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No.1829 of 2004 Date of Decision : 16.02.2011. Dalip Singh ......Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ......Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. H.L.Bhatia, Advocate, Amicus curaea, for the petitioner. Mr. Ranvir S. Chauhan, D.A.G., Punjab, for the respondent-State. NAWAB SINGH J. For orders, see Criminal Revision No. 1679 of 2004 - Ram Piara and another Vs. State of Punjab decided by order of even date (16.02.2011). (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 16.02.2011. som