UNION OF INDIA Vs. DASHRATH PRASHAD DUBEY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) APPELLANT /complainant has filed the appeal for the enhancement of the sentence and also setting aside the acquittal under section 420/511 of the IPC vide judgment and order dated 26 -8 -1992 by learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Indore in Criminal Case No. 8/84 whereby the appellant was convicted and sentenced under section 279 of the Income Tax Act till rising of the court and the fine of Rs. 5,000 and in default of payment of fine further rigorous imprisonment for two months and he was acquitted from the offence punishable under section 420/511 of the IPC.

(2.) THE case of the appellant/complainant is that the respondent/ accused was the income -tax payee and the return by the accused was filed for the payment of the income -tax in the year 1972 -73. That in the return he has mentioned his income of Rs. 4,800. That it was found that the accused has wrongly shown his income and his assessable income was found to be Rs. 36,000. The accused has filed the income -tax return dated 30 -6 -1973 showing his assessable income mush less than Rs. 36,000 and as such, the complaint was filed against him before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Indore.

(3.) THE appellant is now aged about 80 years. The case is about 32 years old. The amount involved in the assessment is not exorbitant. In the aforesaid circumstances, the prayer of the enhancement of sentence is not tenable.