Law: Conciliation Courts Ordinance, 1961

Section: 18

Conciliation Courts Ordinance (XLIV of 1961), S. 18 read with Sched, Part I, Section A-Cognizable case relating to offences specified in Section A, Part I of Schedule investigated by Police and taken to a criminal Court-Court has discretion to send case to Conciliation Court or to try itself. Date of hearing : 10th March 1972.                                                                                                                                         JUDGMENT SAJJAD AHMAD, J.-The petitioner, Muhammad Yaqub,. was convicted by a learned Single Judge of the Lahore High Court in original criminal jurisdiction, for offences under sections 323,.504 acid 342/34, P. P. C. He was sentenced to imprisonment for one year and a fine of Rs. 1,000, or, in default of payment, six months' R. I., under section 323, P. P. C. Under section 504, P. P. C. he was awarded a sentence of 6 months' R. I. and to pay Rs. 500, or, in default, three months' R. I. Under section 342/34, P. P. C. he was only sentenced to a fine of Rs. 100, or, in default, one .month's R. I. The sentences of imprisonment under all the 'offences were made to run concurrently. His co-accused, Muhammad Farooq, who is his younger brother, was convicted tinder section 342/34, P. P: C. but sentenced only to a fine of as. 50, or, in default, to one-week's R. I. The leniency in the sentence in his case was due to the ground that he had acted under the ' influence of his elder brother, i.e., petitioner Muhammad-Yaqub. .…