1. - Stricken poverty must have led this young lad of 20 years Mohan Lal alias Hanuman Singh petitioner to earn his livelihood by committing patty thefts and breaking locks of some residential houses and commercial premises. The booty collected by the petitioner is not much. He fairly and frankly confessed his guilt in all the cases probably under the belief that Lok Adalat would give him some clemency for getting that the Lok Adalats are not meant for thefts and persons committing lurking home trespass. By that as all it may, in ten criminal cases launched by the police against him, he was convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and fine on three dates in the months of October, 1986, i.e. 14th, 15th and 18th October, N 86 by the Judicial Magistrate No. 5, Jaipur City, Jaipur. The sentences awarded in these criminal cases are under law to run consecutively. Thus for all these conviction this young lad of 20 years will have to remain in jail 17 years and 6 months and shall have to pay a total amount of Rs. 3000/- as fine.

2. Looking to the petty nature of thefts and the small amount to booty collected by the petitioner in all the thefts, it is in the interes