IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of decision: 21.04.2026 Booli @ Gurmukh Singh and others ... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab … Respondent CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S. GREWAL Present:- Ms. Vini Rana, Advocate and Mr. Rajat Dogra, Advocate for petitioner No.1, 3 & 4.

Mr. Surinderjit Singh Nahar, AAG, Punjab.

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H.S. Grewal, J.(Oral)

1. At the very outset, learned counsel for the petitioners submits that during the pendency of the revision petition, petitioner No.2, namely, Jagir Singh expired and the proceedings qua him may be abated.

2. In view of the above, the revision petition qua petitioner No.2, namely, Jagir Singh stands abated.

3. This revision petition has been filed against the judgment dated 03.08.2007 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Ferozepur whereby the judgment of conviction and order of quantum of sentence dated 30.05.2001 passed by learned Judicial Magistrate 1^st Class, Ferozepur has been upheld, in case FIR No.124 dated 01.05.1995, under Sections 326/324/323/34 IPC, registered at Police Station Sadar Ferozepur and petitioners No.1, 3 & 4 had been convicted and sentenced to undergo imprisonment along with fine as under:-

4. The brief facts of the case are that the complainant-Inder Kaur lodged a complaint on 01.05.1995 to the effect that at about 07:00 P.M., she along with her husband-Pritam Singh, her brother-Tarlok Singh and her nephew Bagicha Singh were returning to their house after taking the fodder from the fields. When they reached near the house of Kuldip Singh, then Bachan Singh (petitioner No.4), who was armed with “Dang”, Booli @ Gurmukh Singh (petitioner No.1), who was armed with “Kirpan”, Jagir Singh (petitioner No.2), who was armed with “Takua”, Satnam Singh (petitioner No.3), who was armed with “Takua” came there. Accused-Bachan Singh raised Lalkara to catch the complainant party. Thereafter, accused-Booli gave a Kirpan blow on the right arm of the complainant. Then her husband came forward to rescue her, accused-Jagir Singh gave a ‘Takua’ blow from the reverse side on the head of her husband. Accused-Bachan Singh gave two blows with “Dang” on right and left hand of her husband. When her brother-Tarlok Singh tried to save them, accused-Satnam Singh gave a Takua blow on the left leg of Tarlok Singh. Accused-Bachan Singh also gave one blow of Daang on the forehead of her brother. Thereafter, the complainant raised hue and cry and all the accused persons ran away along with their respective weapons from the spot. The motive attributed to the petitioners is that the accused persons had kept the illicit liquor in their wheat crop and before two days of the alleged incident, when they were harvesting the wheat crop, then the tube of illicit liquor was punctured during the course of harvesting and as a grudge thereto, they inflicted injuries on the complainant party.

5. Learned counsel for petitioners No.1, 3 & 4 submits that she is not assailing the judgment of conviction on merits, rather restricts her prayer qua modification of the order of sentence to the period already undergone as the petitioners No.1, 3 & 4 have been suffering the agony of trial since 01.05.1995. She also submits that without referring to the merits of the case, she prays for reduction of sentence while taking a lenient view on the ground that they have already undergone sentence of more than 08 months and 11 days out of the total sentence of 2½ years and now they have become senior citizens.

6. On the other hand, learned State counsel opposes the prayer of the petitioners No.1, 3 & 4 by way of filing of custody certificate of petitioner No.1 dated 20.04.2026 on the ground that the learned Courts below have passed well-reasoned judgments after taking into consideration the entire evidence and the material available on record and there is no perversity or illegality in the findings returned by it.

7. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the material placed on