IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

201 CRR No.1832 of 2008 (O&M)

Date of decision: 11.03.2025 Gurdeep Singh ....Petitioner Versus State of Punjab ....Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARPREET SINGH BRAR Present: Mr. Tarundeep Kumar, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Sandeep Kumar, DAG, Punjab.

HARPREET SINGH BRAR J. (Oral)

1. This revision petition has been preferred against the judgment dated 27.08.2008 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Bathinda, vide which judgment of conviction and order on quantum of sentence dated 05.10.2007 passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Bathinda, in FIR No.80 dated 27.08.2002 registered under Section 420 IPC at Police Station Nahianwala, have been upheld.

2. The petitioner was convicted and sentenced under Section 420 of IPC and was ordered to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 01 year and to pay a fine of Rs.500/- along with default mechanism.

3. The brief facts of the case are that the FIR (supra) was registered based on a complaint filed by the complainant, Baljinder Singh. The complainant alleged that, under the pretext of providing him with a job, the petitioner along with co-accused, took