O R D E R

The revision petitioner is the accused in C.C No.2/2011 on the files of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Pattambi. He was convicted by the learned Magistrate for the commission of offence under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act and sentenced to simple imprisonment for three months and fine Rs.1,50,000/- with a default clause of simple imprisonment for two months. Though the petitioner challenged the aforesaid verdict in appeal before the Sessions Court, Palakkad, the learned Additional Sessions Judge who considered the appeal, declined to interfere with the finding of conviction of the learned Magistrate. However, the tenure of simple imprisonment for three months was reduced to imprisonment till the rising of court, while retaining the fine portion as such. Aggrieved by the aforesaid verdicts of the courts below, the petitioner is here with this revision.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the revision petitioner, and the learned Public Prosecutor