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2011 (7) TMI 899 - HC - Indian LawsAppeal is filed challenging only the sentences imposed on the appellant - The appellant was arrested on 24th December, 2000 and has been in custody/jail since then. There is no serious dispute that the appellant has undergone substantive period of imprisonment imposed on him by the N.D.P.S. Court - the only ground urged in support of the appeal is that in default sentences imposed on the appellant for the offences punishable under Sections 20(b)(ii) and 22 of The Act are excessive; the appellant is presently undergoing in default sentences and since the appellant is coming from poor family, he is not in a position to pay the fine amount of Rs.2 Lacs which has been imposed on the appellant - Held that: this is a fit case in which in default sentences imposed on the appellant for the offences punishable under Section 20(b)(ii) and 22 of The Act deserve to be reduced from one year simple imprisonment to six months' simple imprisonment each - Appeal is partly alloowed
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