2013 (11) TMI 858

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..... sending them behind bars after such a long period, the petitioners are stated to be first offenders and they are having no criminal background as no criminal case is pending against them, they have also undergone actual custody of 01 year 02 months and 24 days against the total sentence of three years and keeping in view the limited prayer of the petitioners as the learned counsel for the petition .....

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..... in default of payment of fine, they were ordered to further undergo rigorous imprisonment of a period of three months each. The recovered gold biscuits and foreign currency were ordered to be confiscated to the State under Section 113 of the Customs Act vide judgment dated 25.04.2000 passed by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Amritsar. Aggrieved by the said judgment of conviction and order of sent .....

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..... tence to the period already undergone. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that he does not want to contest the conviction, in case, the sentence is reduced to the period already undergone. Learned counsel also submits that the petitioners have suffered the agony of trial since the lodging of complaint i.e. 06.03.1990. The petitioner No.1 is stated to be about 88 years of age, whereas, pet .....

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