Automated Summary
Key Facts
The appeal challenges a 3-year imprisonment plus three strokes sentence imposed on 23/8/00, which the appellant has been serving for 16 months in remand. The court reduced the sentence to the period already served and decreased the strokes to two, ordering the appellant's release.
Holdings
The court reduced the appellant's 3-year imprisonment sentence to the period already served and decreased the three strokes to two, ordering his immediate release.
Remedies
- The prison sentence is reduced to a period served.
- The three strokes are reduced to two strokes.
Judge Name
V.V. Patel
Passage Text
- The prison sentence is reduced to a period served and the strokes to two strokes which be inflicted and the appellant be released forthwith thereafter.
- The appeal is only against the sentence of 3 years imprisonment plus three strokes passed on 23/8/00 which the appellant is serving since then. He has no previous conviction and was in remand for about 16 months before the trial ended.