1. Petitioner was convicted and sentenced under Sections 411, 468, 471 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code by the Chief Judicial Magistrate Kurukshetra on 29/11/1985. Appeal filed by the petitioner was partly allowed by the Additional Sessions Judge on 5-9-1986. Conviction and sentence of the petitioner under Section 411 Indian Penal Code was set aside. Conviction under Sections 468, 471 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code was maintained. Sentence of the petitioner was reduced from three years to two years under Section 468 I.P.C. from three years to two years under Section 471 I.P.C. as also from three years to two years under Section 420 Indian Penal Code. However, the substantive sentences awarded to the petitioner were ordered to run concurrently. Sentence of fine imposed by the trial Court was maintained.

2. The prosecution story in brief is as follows :-

Satranji Lal petitioner hailed from Delhi. On 8-12-1976 he happened to go to railway station Banga. There he met its Station Master, Kedar Nath, PW-2, and misrepresented to him that he had come there to collect figures regarding booking of wagons of coarse grain under the directions of Agriculture Ministry, Government of In