NAINITAL: The Uttarakhand Excessive Courtroom has diminished the four-year jail time period of a girl from the USA caught for coming to India with out legitimate paperwork to eleven months in jail.
On a petition by US citizen Farida Malik difficult a decrease court docket judgement sentencing her to 4 years in jail, a bench of Justice R C Khulbe on Wednesday diminished her imprisonment to eleven months in jail, already served by her.
The bench additionally requested authorities to let her return to her nation as she had already spent that interval in jail.
The excessive court docket got here to the girl’s rescue after her lawyer argued that the punishment given to her by the decrease court docket was out of proportion to her crime.
It was additional stated the relations between India and america are cordial and no different crime has been dedicated by the girl throughout her keep in India.
The American girl was caught on the Indo-Nepal border through the checking of a bus by the Indian safety personnel after she was discovered travelling with out a legitimate visa.
