P&H: Reduces sentence in truck attack case, cites 20 year long trial and substantive sentence already undergone
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has reduced the jail sentence of Hoshiar Singh, who had been convicted under Sections 307 and 353 of the Indian Penal Code for driving a truck towards police personnel and causing a fatal accident during a chase.
The case arose from an incident on October 28, 2006, when the appellant allegedly drove his truck at high speed towards a police checkpoint near Police Post Mundhal, ignored signals to stop, broke through barricades and fled. According to the prosecution, when police officers chased him on a government motorcycle, the truck struck the motorcycle near Police...
