MAQSOOD Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) KUNDAN Singh, J. Heard learned Counsel for the parties.

(2.) THIS revision is directed against the judgment and order dated 15-1-83 of IHrd Additional Sessions Judge, Bijnor, dismiss ing the Appeal No. 287 of 1982 confirming the conviction under Section 7/16 Preven tion of Food Adulteration Act and sentence of 6 months' R. I. and a fine of Rs. 1,000 awarded by the Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Nagina, District Bijnor, by order dated 18-10-1982 in Criminal Case No. 401 of 1982.

(3.) 1 have given my anxious thought to the submission made on behalf of the ap plicant. It is true that the Division Bench has taken view in a case where the Sessions Judge reduced the sentence of one year to till rising of the court and in the Govern ment appeal the accused was sentenced to a fine and he was not sent again behind the bars due to elapse of time; but I am afraid of to reduce the sentence of the applicant only on the ground of delay in the decision of the case in the cases where the minimum sen tence is provided.