Both Criminal Revision Applications are being decided by common judgment as they arise out of one and the same judgment passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge Akola District in Criminal Appeal No. 38/2006.

2. The appellant in the said appeal is the applicant in Criminal Revision Application No. 146/2011 and respondent no.1 in the said Criminal Appeal is the applicant before this Court in Criminal Revision Application No.164/2011.

3. The applicant in Criminal Revision Application No.146/2011 and the applicant in Criminal Revision Application No.164/2011 will be hereinafter referred to as "applicant" and "non-applicant" respectively. The applicant and non-applicant feel aggrieved by the judgment of the learned Additional Sessions Judge inasmuch as the applicant is aggrieved by the enhanced amount of fine imposed on him by the Appellate Court and the non-applicant feels aggrieved by reduction of substantive sentence by the Appellate Court.

4. The applicant was convicted for the offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act by the judgment and order dated 4th December, 2006 passed by the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Akot and was sentenced