In Brief
In this case, Surender Singh and his brother were convicted by the Trial Court and the High Court of setting fire to a house in 2000, which caused burn injuries to the owner and resulted in the death of livestock. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions under IPC Sections 436, 429, 323 and 506 but reduced the sentence from seven years to five years. The reduction considered that eighteen years had passed since the incident, the appellant had already served approximately three years and three months, and compensation of Rs.9,00,000 had been paid to the victim's family through a village panchayat settlement.
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