Malkit Singh v. State of Punjab
Case brief
What is this about?
Malkit Singh v. State of Punjab, CRR-3159-2014, P&H High Court at Chandigarh, Deepak Gupta, J., 15.07.2025: sentence reduction to period already undergone (04 months 27 days actual custody) in Sections 279/338/304A IPC road-offence case (FIR No.256 dated 12.12.2005, PS Sadar Rajpura); conviction upheld, sentence modified; fines of `1,000/- (S.279), `1,000/- (S.304A) and `1000/- (S.338) maintained with four-week deposit direction before CJM, failing which complete sentence; custody certificate; no criminal antecedents; State counsel not seriously objecting; partly accepted, disposed of; not reportable.
What did the court decide?
Petition partly accepted: conviction maintained; order of sentence modified to imprisonment for the period already undergone (actual custody 04 months and 27 days); fine left unchanged, any unpaid fine to be deposited before the concerned Chief Judicial Magistrate within four weeks, failing which the complete sentence as imposed by the trial Court is to be carried out; petition disposed of.