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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRR-2123-2009 Date of Decision:-28.01.2025 VED PARKASH & ANOTHER ......Petitioners VERSUS STATE OF PUNJAB ......Respondent CORAM:- HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE JASJIT SINGH BEDI Present:- Mr. P.S. Dhaliwal, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Harkanwar Jeet Singh, Asstt. A.G., Punjab.

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JASJIT SINGH BEDI, J.

The present revision petition has been filed impugning the judgment dated 07.08.2009 passed by the Addl. Sessions Judge, Barnala whereby the appeal filed against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 22.01.2008 passed by the Judicial Magistrate, 1^st Class, Barnala has been dismissed.

2. The FIR in the present case came to be registered on 03.06.2004. The judgment of conviction was passed on 22.01.2008 by the Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Barnala. The appeal filed against the order of conviction was dismissed on 07.08.2009 by the Sessions Judge, Barnala. The instant revision petition was filed on 13.08.2009 and has come up for final hearing now i.e. after a period of 20 ½ years from the date of registration of the FIR.

3. Briefly, the story put forth by the prosecution was that on 30.03.2003, ASI Jaswant Singh, ASI Gur