Partly allowed
Gaddam Srinivas Yadav, Hyderabad., v. the State of Telangana, Rep Pp.
Telangana HCCRLRC/2742/2016
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
The High Court of Telangana allowed a criminal revision petition filed under CrPC Sections 397 and 401. The petitioner was convicted under Section 353 IPC for assaulting a police officer over a decade ago. While upholding the conviction due to cogent evidence, the Court, citing no criminal antecedents, modified the one-year jail sentence to a fine of Rs. 25,000.
What did the court decide?
The one-year jail sentence was altered; the petitioner is liable to pay a fine of Rs. 25,000, failing which undergoes one month of simple imprisonment.