HARCHAND SINGH @ CHAND SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short, the Code) by Harchand Singh alias Chand Singh against the State of Punjab praying for the issue of a direction that the sentence passed against him in the subsequent trial be directed to run concurrently with the previous one.

(2.) THE petitioner was convicted under Section 302, Indian Penal Code, in F.I.R. No. 121 dated 21.7.1975 registered at Police Station Nihal Singh Wala and sentenced to imprisonment for life by the Additional Sessions Judge, Faridkot, by this judgment dated 18.9.1976. The appeal filed by the petitioner against the aforesaid conviction and sentence was dismissed by the High Court. While serving that sentence, the petitioner was convicted under Section 302, Indian Penal Code in Session Trial No. 82 of 1978 and was sentenced to imprisonment for life by the Additional Sessions Judge, Faridkot, on 26.2.1979. The appeal filed by the petitioner against that conviction and sentence was dismissed by this Court on 28.8.1980.

(3.) THE provision is a command of the Legislature for issue of a direction for the concurrent running of the subsequent sentence of imprisonment for life. That having not been done, it is a fit case for the direction as prayed for being issued.