Supreme Court sentenced a person to jail, says: 26 years good for 3 months of sentence is unfair

The Punjab High Court and Haryana ruled that after 26 years of lawsuits, sending a person will comply with the objectives of justice. While he has already reduced his sentence in custody, the court has made it clear that “the right to rapid and quick trial is one of the most valuable and funded rights guaranteed under the Constitution”. The decision comes in a review request that was submitted by the accused shop owner, who was only 27 years old in 1999, when color was found in the sample of pulses purchased from him. In 2007, he was convicted by his Chief Law Magistrate and sentenced to three months imprisonment with a fine of Rs 500. His appeal was rejected in 2010. Then he approached the Supreme Court, which accepted the revision of the same year and stopped his punishment. But due to the excess of pending matters, the case has remained unheard of for more than 15 years. Now 53 -year -old, he was represented by lawyer Salil Bali before the Supreme Court. The case eventually came to a hearing before the Bank of Justice Deepak Gupta, which took into account the 26 -year delay from the date of the crime to the final hearing in 1999. The court said: ‘For the past 26 years, the sword of conviction has hung on the head of the requester. It is easy to say that almost all the time was on the bail, but no one announced that the pain and trauma have such a person does not court. “The bank further stated that there is nothing in the record that shows that the requester is trying to postpone the trial or proceedings. He said the delay was entirely due to pending cases. Justice Gupta insisted:” His appeal was rejected in 2010. After the court accepted the current criminal review in 2010, due to a large number of pending cases, the file could not be listed for the final hearing, and when it was now listed for a final hearing in 2025, it was more than 15 years from the date of acceptance. “Share these story tags