ORDER : 1. Leave granted. 2. The appellant was a Post Master in a Gramin Dak Sevak Bank at Attur Nallur branch. FIR No. 0064 of 2013 was lodged against the appellant under Sections 406, 409 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code for misappropriation of funds and chargesheet was filed subsequently. 3. The appellant faced the trial and was acquitted of all the charges by the Additional Civil Judge & JMFC vide order dated 03.02.2015. The respondent – State preferred an appeal before the District and Sessions Judge, which was allowed and the appellant was convicted under Sections 406 and 409 of the Indian Penal Code and was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months under Section 406 IPC and rigorous imprisonment for one year under Section 409 IPC. 4. The Revision Petition filed by the appellant has been dismissed by the High Court vide impugned order dated 03.04.2024. We see no reason to interfere with the findings of conviction against the appellant. 5. Heard learned counsel for the parties at length. The appellant is a family man and has two children, has now been dismissed from service after the departmental inquiry initiated for the same offence. He has already undergone four months of incarceration. These mitigating circumstances have been pressed in his favour by learned counsel for the appellant. 6. This Court is of the view that there is no possibility of interfering with the conviction. All the same, considering the mitigating circumstances, we reduce the sentence to the period already undergone, referred above. In that view of the matter, the appeal stands partly allowed with a direction to release the appellant forthwith. 7. Pending interlocutory application(s), if any, is/are disposed of.