HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
CRR-1704-2025 (O&M) 2025 (O&M) 2025
Harcharan Singh vs. Harcharan Singh vs. State of State of State of Punjab
August, August,05,2025
Clarified that an application for suspension of sentence filed along with criminal revision petition challenging conviction in a criminal case is maintainable before the High Court, even if the convict has not surrendered post-conviction.
Justice Sumeet Goel said,
“A criminal revision petition against the judgments of conviction (as also an application for suspension of sentence, etc.) is maintainable before this High Court, without the petitioner-accused having surrendered or being in custody, in the absence of any rule in the extant Punjab and Haryana High Court Rules/Orders proscribing such maintainability.”*