SATISH KUMAR MITTAL
Balbir Singh – Appellant
Versus
State Of Haryana – Respondent
Satish Kumar Mittal, J.
1. I have heard counsel for the parties on the application under Section 389 Cr.P.C. for suspension of sentence during the pendency of appeal, filed by applicant-appellant. This is a third application for suspension of sentenced filed by the appellant. Earlier his applications were declined on 21.9.2004 and 20.11.2004.
2. The applicant-appellant has been convicted and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for five years under Section 307 IPC, out of which he has undergone one year, one month and twenty five days.
3. The period of sentence undergone by the applicant has not been disputed by the counsel for the State.
4. This is 2004 appeal and its hearing is likely to take some time. In these circumstances, in view of the law laid down by the Honble Supreme Court in Bhagwan Ram Shinde Gosai and others v. State of Gujarat, 1999(2) RCR(Crl.) 770 (SC) : 1999(4) SCC 421 and Kiran Kumar v. State of M.P., 2002 SCC(Crl.) 1017, the sentence imposed upon the applicant-appellant is suspended during the pendency of appeal subject to his furnishing bail bonds to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate, Yamunanagr.
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