SATNAM SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE instant revision has been filed against concurrent findings of the Courts below convicting the petitioners for offence under Section 382 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The trial Court awarded them the sentence to undergo Simple Imprisonment for two years and to pay a fine of Rs.1000/ - each; in default of payment of fine to further undergo Simple Imprisonment for 02 days. The appeal filed by the petitioners against the judgement of conviction and sentence was dismissed.

(2.) BRIEFLY stated the facts of the case are that on 25.8.2007 Gurwant Kaur complainant and her son were returning from Majitha on a motorcycle at about 6.30 p.m. Then two youths hit their motorcycle with the motor bike of the complainant and threw them on the ground. The culprits threatened the complainant with knives to hand over her ear rings. The complainant handed over her ear rings to the accused persons. The petitioners were named in the FIR on an information of an occupant of the mini bus which came towards that place.

(3.) THE complainant appeared in the witness box and identified the petitioners to be culprits. Her statement is corroborated from the evidence of recovery of ear rings from the possession of petitioners thus clinching the matter against the petitioners. The learned Appellate Court observed as under: -