ORDER : 1. Leave granted. No notice is required to the respondent in view of the facts enumerated hereafter. 2. The appellant(s)-accused was convicted for the offence punishable under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 and sentenced to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for one year and to pay a compensation of Rs. 17,00,000/- (Rupees Seventeen Lakhs) to the respondent-complainant under section 357(3) of the Cr.P.C., 1973 within two months failing which he was directed to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for three months as per the order dated 11.6.2014 of the Additional Session Judge, Yamuna Nagar, at Jagadhari. The appellant preferred a Criminal Revision Petition against the said order and in terms of the impugned order dated 13.12.2017 of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana, the same has been dismissed and the appellant was directed to undergo the remaining sentence with a direction to release the sum of Rs.10,00,000/- (Rupees Ten Lakhs) deposited by the accused before the Registrar General of the High Court. 3. In terms of order dated 23.1.2018 passed by this Court, the appellant was directed to deposit the entire sum of Rs.17,00,000/- (Rupees Seventeen Lakhs) with the High Court within fifteen days and exemption from surrendering was granted subject to that condition till the matter was heard. The said amount has been deposited. 4. Mr. Subramonium Prasad, learned senior counsel appearing for the appellant had made a impassioned plea on 5.3.2018 that since the appellant has now deposited the entire amount of Rs.17,00,000/- (Rupees Seventeen Lakhs), the direction to serve the remaining sentence be set aside. He further volunteer on behalf of the appellant to donate a sum of Rs.3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakhs) for a good cause to redeem himself specially taking into consideration the time consumed in the judicial process of the trial of the case. 5. Learned senior counsel for the appellant has brought to Court today a pay order for a sum of Rs.3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakhs) bearing No. 161188 dated 07/03/2018 drawn on Oriental Bank of Commerce in favour of the “War Widows Association”. 6. 5. Learned senior counsel for the appellant has brought to Court today a pay order for a sum of Rs.3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakhs) bearing No. 161188 dated 07/03/2018 drawn on Oriental Bank of Commerce in favour of the “War Widows Association”. 6. On hearing learned counsel for the appellant(s), we are inclined to accept the request of the learned senior counsel and thus direct that the sum of Rs.17,00,000/- (Rupees Seventeen Lakhs) deposited by the appellant be released in favour of the respondent and the pay order of Rs.3,00,000/- (Rupees Three Lakhs) be transmitted by the Registry to the War Widows Association at Shaheed Bhawan, 18/1, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110067. The appellant having served the sentence of 42 days out of the one year sentence, the direction to the appellant-accused to undergo the remaining sentence as per the impugned order is set aside and the sentence modified to the period already undergone. 7. The appeal stands allowed to the aforesaid extent leaving the parties to bear their own cost.