Subhash Chander vs State Of Punjab on 3 September, 2013
The sentence of imprisonment for 10 years and for one year in
default on payment of fine (i.e. substantive sentence and default sentence)
stands abated on the death of the appellant but the fine of ` one lac is still
there. Identical view has been expressed by a Division Bench of Bombay
High Court in Gopala Balu Kamble Vs. State of Maharashtra, 2012 (2)
Bom CR 789: Mh JL 346, wherein, in identical circumstances fine imposed
by the trial Court has been abated.