In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh Criminal Revision No. 1502 of 2003 Date of decision: September 01, 2010 Saudagar Singh .. Petitioner Vs. State of Haryana .. Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice A.N. Jindal Present: Ms. Sukhpreet Kaur, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Rattu, DAG, Haryana, for the respondent. A.N. Jindal, J Assailed in this petition is the judgment dated 12.7.2003 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Ambala, dismissing the appeal filed by the accused-petitioner (herein referred as, 'the accused') against the judgment dated 15.10.2001 passed by the Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Ambala Cantt. convicting and sentencing him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months under Section 279/337 IPC, rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay fine of Rs.1000/- under Section 304-A IPC. At the very outset, without assailing the judgment of conviction, it has been submitted by the learned counsel that the petitioner being the first offender and having already undergone about four months of the substantive sentence may be dealt with leniently on the quantum of sentence. Having examined the impugned judgment, the evidence appear to have been appreciated in the right perspective. Both the courts below have returned concurrent findings of fact regarding the guilt of the accused. No illegality much less irregularity or perversity has been detected or pointed out warranting interference by this court. As such, no exception could be made to the findings returned by the courts below, at the revisional stage. Criminal Revision No. 1502 of 2003 -2- *** Now coming to the quantum of sentence, it may be observed that the occurrence took place way back in the year 1991; the petitioner has already suffered a lot due to the protracted proceedings pending against him since then; he has already undergone about few months of the substantive sentence; no bad antecedents have come on record which may be sufficient to dub him as habitual offender and he is ready to compensate the death, as such, I am of the considered opinion that ends of justice would be met if some leniency is extended to him. Consequently, this petition is dismissed with the modification in the sentence to that of already undergone by him without any alteration in the sentence of fine. However, the petitioner is further burdened to pay a sum of Rs.30,000/- as compensation to the heirs of the deceased, within four months from today, failing which this petition would be treated as dismissed in toto. Copy of the judgment be sent to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ambala for compliance. September 01, 2010 (A.N. Jindal) deepak Judge