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THE SUPREME COURT }{\b\fs24\insrsid6780779\charrsid6780779 OF FIJI
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\par }{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 s/o GUR SAMY
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\par }{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 This is an appeal against a sentence of two years' imprisonment imposed by Suva Magistrates Court on the 6th April 1978 upon conviction for embezzlement contrary to section 306(a)(ii) of the Penal Code.
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\par }{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 The appellant systematically defrauded his employer of $7,000 over a period of twenty three months.
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\par }{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 It has been submitted on his behalf that, inter alia, restitution }{\fs24\insrsid6780779 having been made a custodial sen}{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 
tence was not warranted; and that being a young first offender}{\fs24\insrsid6780779  }{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 a probation report should have been obtained.}{\fs24\insrsid2687873 
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\par }{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 As this Court pointed out in }{\fs24\ul\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 R. }{\fs24\ul\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 v. Biswas}{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779  Chandra (Cr.App. 21/78) restitut}{
\fs24\insrsid6780779 ion is a factor that may be tak}{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 en into account in mitigation, but it does not entitle an offender to buy his way out of the penalties for crime; and the circumstances of this case wer
e not such as to warrant a probation report.
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\par }{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 The sentence was correct in principle and not excessive when measured against the gravity of the offence, and the appeal is accordingly dismissed.
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\par }{\b\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 Chief Justice
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\par }{\fs24\insrsid2687873\charrsid6780779 Suva,
\par 19th May 1978.
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