2013 (1) TMI 924

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..... P.P. Malhotra, ASG, Ms. Sunita Rani Singh, Ms. Sonia Malhotra and B.K. Prasad, Advocates, for the Respondent. ORDER Leave granted. 2. This criminal appeal is directed against the judgment and order passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in Criminal Misc./CRM No. 62269 of 2011 in Criminal Appeal/CRA No. S-261-SB of 2010. By the impugned judgment and order, the High Cou .....

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..... suspension of sentence. The said application is rejected by the High Court by its impugned judgment and order. 5. The aforesaid order is called in question by the appellant before us in this appeal. 6. The appellant has produced the custody certificate issued by the Superintendent, Central Jail, Amritsar, dated 30-11-2012. A perusal of the said custody certificate would indicate that t .....

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..... te produced by the appellant. In our opinion, since the appeal is pending before the High Court and the possibility of the appeal is taken up for hearing in the near future is remote, the appellant is entitled for suspension of sentence during the pendency of the appeal before the High Court. 10. In the result, we allow this appeal, suspend the sentence of the appellant during the pendency o .....

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