HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER
CRIMINAL APPEAL No.825 of 2010
JUDGMENT:
1. The appellants are convicted for the offence under Section 324 of IPC and sentenced to undergo three months rigorous imprisonment vide judgment in SC No.42 of 2009 dated 30.06.2010 passed by the Principal Sessions Judge, Medak at Sangareddy.
2. The appellants had undergone imprisonment as Under Trial Prisoners for 46 days from 01.12.2008 to 16.01.2009.
3. Learned counsel for the appellants without into the facts of the case sought interference of this Court to reduce the sentence to the period already undergone keeping in view that the conviction was recorded under Section 324 of IPC and the incident is of the year 2008.
4. The State has not preferred any appeal against the sentence of the appellants. Further, the allegation against the appellants is that they have pelted stones in a quarrel. The offence is of the year 2008 and 14 years have lapsed since. Further, the appellants have undergone nearly half of the sentence inflicted by the trial Court, this Court is of the view that the sentence of imprisonment can be reduced to the period already undergone by the appellants.
5. Accordingly, the Criminal Appeal is partly allowed reducing the sentence of imprisonment already undergone by the appellants.
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