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2016 DIGILAW 1616 (PNJ)

Prem Singh v. State of Haryana

2016-06-03

RAMENDRA JAIN, T.P.S.MANN

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JUDGMENT CRM No. 15520 of 2016 : Allowed as prayed for. CRM No. 15521 of 2016 : 2. The applicants namely, Naveen, Satyawan and Parveen, who stand convicted under Sections 148, 326/324/323/452/506/109 IPC and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for fours years have prayed for suspension of their sentences of imprisonment. 3. As per the custody certificates, produced by the learned State counsel, applicant Satyawan has undergone an actual sentence of two years, four months and twenty two days whereas applicant Parveen has undergone two years, two months and fifteen days. Similarly, as per custody certificate (Annexure A-10) brought on record by learned counsel for the applicants, applicant Naveen has also undergone sentence of two years and nineteen days as on 18.4.2016. 4. Final hearing of the appeal is likely to take a long time. The applicants have been sentenced to undergo term imprisonment. They have already undergone substantial portion of the sentences of imprisonment imposed upon them. Keeping in view the dictum of law as laid down in Bhagwan Rama Shinde Gosai and others Vs. State of Gujarat, AIR 1999 SC 1859 and Kiran Kumar v. State of M.P., 2002 SCC (Crl.) 1017, this Court is of the considered view that the sentences of imprisonment of the applicants needs to be suspended. 5. Resultantly, the application is accepted, sentences of imprisonment of the applicants, namely, Naveen, Satyawan and Parveen are suspended and they are ordered to be released on bail on their furnishing appropriate bail bonds to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate, Sonepat.