The Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted a 74 -year -old woman in the 24 -year -old Immigration Fraud case. Not only this, the court, keeping in mind the age and time, reduced the sentence to a common imprisonment of one year for two years.
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The decision was pronounced by the court of Justice Jasjit Singh Bedi, in which he clearly stated that, “The courts should make every effort to end such crimes in the beginning and not show unnecessary sympathy.”
Justice Bedi said, “Nowadays, in the desire to go abroad, people pay money to agents by taking their life’s deposited capital or loan, but many times agents either run away with money or do harassment and cheating during the journey. If a person reaches abroad despite difficulties, he has to face the possibility of return, financial pressure and mental stress.”
Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The case was revealed in 1999
The case is in the year 1999, when a woman named Charanjit Kaur in Bathinda and one of her co-accused were accused of sending them to Canada with Rs 15 lakh from Jagjit Singh and Pratap Singh. He was neither sent abroad nor returned money.
In 2008, the trial court convicted the accused under Section 420 and 120-B IPC and sentenced him to two years strict imprisonment, against which an appeal was made in the High Court.
Why did the court not give relief?
The prosecution proved the case to be “beyond suspicion” and no concrete clarification was given by the accused as to why the complainant would like to implicate them falsely. The court said that there were certain deficiencies in the investigation, but the accused cannot be benefited on the basis of these flaws.
The court also clarified that “being only aged or the case is old cannot be the basis for the guilty to be released on probation.”
Aadhaar made Supreme Court verdict in 2010
The court cited the Supreme Court’s 2010 verdict C. Muniappan vs Tamil Nadu state. In which the principle was given that poor or faulty investigation cannot become the basis for acquitting the accused in itself.