The Trial Magistrate treated this statement as an admission of guilt and convicted him without recording evidence or conducting a trial. Justice Dhar held that the approach adopted by the Trial Magistrate was contrary to law. On the basis of such a statement, it was not open to the learned Trial Magistrate to record conviction.” Allowing the revision petition, the High Court set aside both the conviction recorded by the Trial Magistrate and the appellate judgment affirming it. The court remanded the matter to the Judicial Magistrate, Chadoora, directing the trial court to proceed with the complaint afresh in accordance with law.