Sentence/Sentencing – Reduction of sentence – Conviction of the appellant for offences punishable u/s. 323/34 and u/s. 325/34 – Imposition of three months imprisonment and one year imprisonment with Rs 500/- fine respectively – High Court modified the sentence of one year imprisonment with Rs 500/- fine to three months imprisonment with Rs 5000/fine – Correctness: Held: Considering the totality of circumstances, that the appellant has undergone almost 1/3rd of his sentence and that the underlying incident occurred in 2010, the period of almost 13 years gone in the trial, the appellants’ sentence is reduced to the period already undergone, one month and three days – Impugned order modified – Penal Code, 1860 – s. 323/34 and s. 325/34. [Para 5, 6]
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