LAW FOR ALL

Reduction of Sentence - Embezzlement of Rs.43,500/- - Deposited Rs.5,76,000/- for alleged embezzlement in to trial court as per order of Apex court - Appellants are aged person - not keeping good health - Apex court held that In the totality of the circumstances, therefore, we are inclined to modify the sentence awarded to the appellants suitably. Accordingly, we reduce the sentences awarded to the appellants in both the appeals to the period already undergone by them. The deposit of Rs.5,76,000/- made by the appellants in the present case will not prejudice them in so far as other cases pending against them and the said deposit shall be deemed to be compensation in terms of Section 357 Cr.PC towards embezzlement allegedly committed by the appellants and the same shall be released to the complainant-bank, if not already released. With the above modification in sentence, these appeals are partly allowed and disposed of.= Dayanand Ramkrishna Shet … Appellant(s) versus State of Karnataka … Respondent(s) = 2014(May.Part) http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/filename=41538