{"id":236055,"date":"2020-09-21T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=236055"},"modified":"2020-09-24T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:29:58","slug":"utt-hc-sentence-of-convict-case-under-ss-3-and-7-of-essential-commodities-act-reduced-considering-the-period-already-served-by-him-court-partly-allows-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/09\/21\/utt-hc-sentence-of-convict-case-under-ss-3-and-7-of-essential-commodities-act-reduced-considering-the-period-already-served-by-him-court-partly-allows-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Utt HC | Sentence of convict case under Ss. 3 and 7 of Essential Commodities Act reduced considering the period already served by him; Court partly allows revision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Uttaranchal High Court:<\/strong> N.S. Dhanik, J., partly allowed a criminal revision which was preferred against the Judgment and order passed by the District and Sessions Judge whereby he had confirmed the judgment and order passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate and also against the judgment and order passed by Chief Judicial Magistrate in a Criminal Case under Section 3\/7 of the Essential Commodities Act, whereby the revisionist were convicted for the offence punishable under Section 3\/7 of the Essential Commodities Act and sentenced to undergo one-year simple imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs 5,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The informant lodged an FIR alleging therein that on information, the informant came to know that two Nepali people who often smuggling the cement, compost, kerosene oil, etc from Tankpur to Nepal upon their motorcycles. The informant along with other police officials reached the Gandhi Park and seeing two persons who were tying the plastics canes in their motorcycles outside the warehouse of Naresh Chandra Gupta. Both tried to run away, but they were arrested on the spot. From the possession of the accused persons, Jaricanes were recovered and on asking regarding the said recovery, they told that they had purchased the Kerosene oil from the Naresh Chandra Gupta (present revisionist) and 20 litres kerosene oil was also recovered from the warehouse of Naresh Chandra Gupta. After investigation, the charge sheet against the accused revisionist for the offence punishable under Section 3\/7 of the Essential Commodities Act was filed. The Counsel for the revisionist, Mr. Bhuwanesh Joshi submitted his arguments only on the quantum of sentence. He submitted that the revisionist had served about 27 days in the jail and that he was a poor person and the matter relates back to the year 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court while partly allowing the revision modified and reduced the sentence to three months considering the contention that matter related back to the year 2008 and ends of justice would be sub-served if the jail sentence of the revisionist is reduced adjusting the period already undergone by him, although the sentence of the fine was enhanced from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000.[Naresh Chandra Gupta v. State of Uttarakhand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/L3n87k54\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine Utt 550<\/b><\/a>, decided on 16-09-2020]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span class=\"search-everything-highlight-color\">Suchita<\/span>\u00a0Shukla, Editorial Assistant has put this story together<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttaranchal High Court: N.S. 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