{"id":247940,"date":"2007-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ponnappan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-12-april-2007"},"modified":"2017-06-23T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T09:54:01","slug":"ponnappan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-12-april-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ponnappan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-12-april-2007","title":{"rendered":"Ponnappan vs State Of Kerala on 12 April, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Ponnappan vs State Of Kerala on 12 April, 2007<\/div>\n<pre id=\"pre_1\">       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nCrl Rev Pet No. 1616 of 2007()\n\n\n1. PONNAPPAN, EDASSERIL HOUSE,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. STATE OF KERALA,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. JOJI THOMAS, S\/O.THOMAS,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.THOMAS K.C.KUNNATHOOR\n\n                For Respondent  : No Appearance\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice K.R.UDAYABHANU\n\n Dated :12\/04\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                             K.R.UDAYABHANU, J\n\n                        ---------------------------------------------\n\n                             CRL.R.P.No.1616 of 2007\n\n                         ---------------------------------------------\n\n                    Dated this the 12th day of April, 2007\n\n\n\n\n                                     O R D E R\n<\/pre>\n<p id=\"p_1\">       The revision petitioner stands convicted for the offence under<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/doc\/1823824\/\" id=\"a_1\">Section   138<\/a>   of   the   Negotiable   Instruments   Act   and   sentenced   to<\/p>\n<p>undergo   simple   imprisonment   for   two   months   and   to   pay   a<\/p>\n<p>compensation   of   Rs.50,000\/-     to     the   complainant     vide     <a href=\"\/doc\/640437\/\" id=\"a_1\">Section<\/p>\n<p>357(3)<\/a>   of   the   Code   of   Criminal   Procedure   and   in   default,   to<\/p>\n<p>undergo simple imprisonment for three months.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">       2.    Counsel   for   the   revision   petitioner   has   only   sought   for<\/p>\n<p>modification   of   the   sentence   and   time   to   pay   the   amount   of<\/p>\n<p>compensation.     In   the   circumstances,   the   sentence   is   modified   to<\/p>\n<p>imprisonment till the rising of the court.   The rest of the sentence<\/p>\n<p>is   confirmed.     The   revision   petitioner   is   granted   six   months&#8217;   time<\/p>\n<p>from today onwards to remit the amount of compensation.  He shall<\/p>\n<p>appear before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-II, (Mobile),<\/p>\n<p>Kottayam,   on   15.10.2007   to   receive   the   sentence.     Non   bailable<\/p>\n<p>warrant,     pending,     if     any     shall     be   kept   in   abeyance   till<\/p>\n<p>15.10.2007.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\">\n<p id=\"p_3\">       The criminal revision petition is disposed of as above.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_4\">                                                               K.R.UDAYABHANU,<\/p>\n<p>                                                                          JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>csl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Ponnappan vs State Of Kerala on 12 April, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM Crl Rev Pet No. 1616 of 2007() 1. PONNAPPAN, EDASSERIL HOUSE, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. STATE OF KERALA, &#8230; Respondent 2. JOJI THOMAS, S\/O.THOMAS, For Petitioner :SRI.THOMAS K.C.KUNNATHOOR For Respondent : No Appearance The Hon&#8217;ble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ponnappan vs State Of Kerala on 12 April, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/ponnappan-vs-state-of-kerala-on-12-april-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ponnappan vs State Of Kerala on 12 April, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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