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On a close scrutiny of the entire evidence of P.W. 4, we have no hesitation in affirming the finding of the learned trial Judge that P.W. 4 and the first accused were on inimical terms for sometime prior to the occurrence, although, they were distantly related to each other.On the date of the occurrence 16th April, 1970 at about 4 P.M. P.W. 4 Palaniandi Servai and one Kandaswamy (not examined) were returning from Kottampatti to their village, Chinnakottampatti.The distance is stated to be about one mile.Malaichamy, the first accused, accused P.W. 4 on the road.He kicked him (P.W. 4) down and attempted to spear him with a vel kambu.P.W. 1 and the deceased Subbiah went to the field house of P.W. 4 to enquire about this incident and on the way Subbiah (P.W. 3) son of Karuppiah was taken along by them.P.Ws. 1 and 3 and the deceased Subbiah found P.W. 4 weeping and after hearing about the details of the assault, the deceased Subbiah told P.W. 4 that he should make a complaint to the Police about the assault.P.W. 4 agreed.P.W. 3, Kannusamy, and deceased Subbiah accompanied P.W. 4 to the Police Station of Kottampatti.They got a complaint (Exhibit P-5) prepared by a local petition-writer at Kottampatti and P.W. 4 presented it at the Police Station before P.W. 10 the Station-Writer of the Police Station, since the SuB-1nspector was not available.They had some coffee at Kottampatti later; they were returning to their village, Chinnakottampatti, at about 2-30 P.M, along the Trichy main road.There is a diversion road branching off from the main road to the village of Chinnakottampatti, and P.W. 4 and Kannusamy parted company from the deceased Subbiah and P.Ws. 1 and 3, who were proceeding on the branch road to their village.This was at about 9 P.M. and there was undoubtedly bright moonlight at that time.It emerges from the recorded evidence that all the five accused as well as.P.Ws. 1 and 3 (the two eye-witnesses) and also P.W. 4 and the deceased Subbiah belong to the same village of Chinnakottampatti.JUDGMENT K.N. Mudaliyar, J.After killing the deceased Subbiah, the five accused returned to the road.P.Ws. 1 and 3 saw them and quietly hastened towards their village.P.W. 1 asked P.W. 3 to go to the village and inform the family of the deceased about the occurrence.P.W. 1 himself left the place to give a report to the Village Munsif, residing at Kottampatti.On the information given by P.W. 3 to the relations of the deceased, they all came crying to the scene of crime, which is about one and a half furlongs away from their house.After recording the said complaint, Exhibit P-1,' P.W. 6 accompanied by P.W. 1 and the Village Vettian, got a petromax light and reached the scene of occurrence.He saw the dead body of the deceased with multiple injuries in the garden of Kaliappan.P.W. 6 prepared the routine reports to the Police and the Magistrate and despatched them through his Vettian at 11 P.M. which were received by P.W. 10 at about 11-50 P.M. Naturally P.W. 6 continued to stay at the scene of occurrence till the arrival of the SuB-1nspector of Police (P.W. 13) on 17th April, 1970 at 10 A.M.P.W. 13 the SuB-1nspector of Police of Kottampatti Police Station was on special bandobust duty at Maduraiin connection with the visit of the Vice-President of India.P.W. 13 received from P.W. 12 an express tapal regarding the crime at about 6 A.M. on 17th April, 1970, when he Was on duty near St. Mary's High School.Dr. Abdul Gafoor Adamsa (P.W. 2) conducted the autopsy on the body of the deceased Subbiah on 18th April, 1970 at 10-45 A.M. It is unnecessary for us to elaborately describe the multiple injuries found on the body of the deceased as paragraph 6 of the judgment of the learned Sessions Judge contains all the details.Suffice it for us to observe that the deceased had received at least eight injuries which were necessarily fatal.The head was virtually severed from the body except a portion of the skin :over the right side sticking to the body.According to the doctor, death Would have been instantaneous on receipt of the injuries.The plea of the accused was one of denial.The learned Sessions Judge accepted the evidence adduced by the prosecution that the First Information Report was given within one hour after the occurrence and that Exhibit P. 1. contained the names of all the appellants.The learned Judge further found that the motive was quite sufficient for the accused to commit the offence in question.The learned Judge, while accepting the testimony of P.W. 1, found that his evidence marked under Section 288 of the Criminal Procedure Code, taken along with the evidence of P.Ws. 3: and 6, clearly established that all the five accused committed the offences charged against them and that they murdered the deceased Subbiah in cold blood.He even admits that Exhibit P-1 was read over to him.He admits further that all the recitals in Exhibit P-1 are true.He admits that he was examined in the committal Court.He further admits that Exhibit P-2 is his deposition The learned Sessions Judge records as-follows :Public Prosecutor requests the Court to mark it under Section 288, Criminal Procedure Code.Marked as requested.Exhibit P-2 was read over to the witnesses.Accused informed.P.W. 1 further stated that prior to his deposition in the committal Court he gave a statement under Section 164,, Criminal Procedure Code, in the Court of the Sub-Magistrate, Madurai.He further states that the SuB-1nspector held the inquest on the morning of the next day.P.W. 3 stated that there was bright moonlight, that all the five accused intercepted the deceased and that the second accused instigated the first accused to murder the deceased Subbiah, since the latter was supporting P.W. 4 Palaniandi as against the first accused.P.W. 3 swears that immediately the first accused dealt a cut with his aruval on the deceased, but the deceased tried to obstruct the cut and received it on his left hand.After receiving the cut the deceased Subbiah must have run for his life into the neighbouring field of Kaliappan.All the five accused chased him into the field and cut him indiscriminately as a result of which Subbiah died instantaneously.P.W. 3 was with the deceased Subbiah when the first cut was delivered by the first accused.He was standing on the side of the road near the fence and when the accused came he ran towards the village to inform the near relations of the deceased about the occurrence.No motive has been suggested against P.W. 3 as to why he should implicate the five accused-appellants.Some attempt has been made at suggesting some misunderstanding between P.W. 3 and the first accused in regard to their engagement as tope kavalkars.At any rate we find a total absence of any suggestion to P.W. 3 as to why he did implicate falsely accused 2 to 5 at all.
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On 17.03.95 at about 10.00 p.m. appellant/ accused Balakram entered into her house and committed rape on her.According to prosecutrix, she tried to shout but the appellant threatened her and said that if she disclose this incident to any one then he will desert her from the house.It is, further alleged that after half an hour of this incident, appellant/accused further committed rape on her and when she resisted, she was assaulted by the appellant.Therefore she received the injuries on different part of her body.It is further, alleged that due to the threat given by the appellant/accused she did not disclose this fact to any one for next two days.The prosecutrix was sent to medical examination.She was examined by lady doctor and examination 3 report(Ex.P-9) was prepared.Appellant/accused was arrested.He was also medically examined.As per G.S. Solanki,J.:The Sessions Judge, Betul passed the impugned judgment dated 20.09.95 in S.T. No. 85/95 by which the appellant/accused has been convicted under Section 376 of I.P.C. and sentenced to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for 7 years.Being aggrieved the appellant/accused has preferred this appeal under Section 374(2) of Cr.P.C.It is undisputed that prosecutrix Suganti bai (P.W.-1) is a sister-in-law(bhabhi) of appellant/accused 2 Balakram and witness Bhure (P.W.3) is a brother-in- law(jeth) of prosecutrix.The prosecution case in short is that husband of prosecutrix(P.W.1) was in Bhopal Jail therefore she was living separately along with her 4 years child in village Gyaraspur.After usual investigation appellant/accused was charge-sheeted.Learned Session Judge framed the charges against the appellant under Sections 451,506 Part- II,376,323 of I.P.C.The appellant abjured the guilt and pleaded that he is falsely implicated and further pleaded that prosecutrix is having illicit relation with one Ramadhar, being a near relative of prosecutrix appellant/accused objected and beaten her therefore, he was falsely implicated.After completing trial, on appraisal of evidence of record Learned Sessions Judge acquitted the appellant/ accused under Sections 451,506 Part-II,323 of I.P.C. but convicted him under Section 376 of I.P.C. and sentenced as mentioned above.Hence, this appeal.Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that trial Court failed to appreciate the evidence on record in its proper perspective and committed error in passing the impugned judgment.On the other hand learned Panel Lawyer supported the impugned judgment and finding of the trial Court.I have perused the impugned judgment, evidence and other materials on record.Prosecutrix(P.W.1) deposed that on the fateful night she was sleeping, after closing the door of her house.At about 10-11 p.m. in the night appellant/accused entered in her house after broken the door of house and caught hold her.She tried to ran away, then appellant/accused assaulted her by stick and then committed the rape on her.She further deposed that witness Bhure(P.W.3) came over there on her hue and cry and he saved her.She further deposed that she narrated the incident to Sarpanch Ramsingh and on the very same night Sarpanch sent him to Kotwar, but Kotwar was not available therefore, she lodged the report after 2-3 days.Later on she added that her brother-in-law(jeth) Bhure and father-in-law threatened her not to report the matter, therefore, she reported the matter belatedly.But this fact not found place in F.I.R., therefore explanation for delayed F.I.R. can not be said to be reliable.Soorat lal(P.W.2) is a village Kotwar.He did not support the prosecutrix therefore, he was declared hostile by the prosecution.Further, he deposed that prosecutrix came to him in the fateful night and told 5 him that appellant/accused beaten her.Bhure(P.W.3) is a brother-in-law of prosecutrix also not supported her and was also declared hostile by the prosecution.In these circumstances, only statement of prosecutrix remains on record.No doubt if statement of prosecutrix found to be truthful and there exist no circumstances which cast on shadow of doubt on her veracity, conviction can be based on single testimony of prosecutrix.Keeping in mind aforementioned principle of appreciation when I carefully peruse the cross- examination of prosecutrix, I am of the view that single testimony of prosecutrix can not be said to be reliable because prosecutrix herself stated in her examination- in-chief that at the time of incident witness Bhure(brother of appellant/accused) came over due to hue and cry made by her and he saved her.In her cross-examination, para 9, she categorically admitted that as soon as appellant entered in her house and assaulted her, she made hue and cry, therefore his brother-in-law Bhure(P.W.3) came over there and he saved her.She further deposed that immediately appellant/accused went from her house, she immediately rushed to the Sarpanch Ramsingh to 6 narrate the incident.There is material omission brought on her cross- examination from her police statement(Ex. D-1) in regard to the fact that appellant/accused entered the house after broken the door of the house.Trial Court also not believed her in regard to broken of door,therefore appellant was acquitted to the charge under Section 451 of I.P.C.On perusal of FIR(Ex. P-10) it reveals that according to prosecutrix she narrated the incident to witness Bhure, brother-in-law(jeth) of the prosecutrix after two days of the incident but in the statement before Court she deposed that Bhure came over there at the time of incident and saved her.In these circumstances, defence of the appellant/ accused appears to be probable that prosecutrix was entangle with one Ramadhar by taking the advantage of absence of her husband who was in jail.Being a near relative appellant had assaulted her and according to prosecutrix on the same night Bhure(P.W.3) brother-in-law(jeth) of the prosecutrix also saved her.This fact is also precepeted from her cross- examination, para 9 that as soon as appellant accused entered in her house he beaten her, she made hue and 7 cry and Bhure(P.W.3) came over there and saved her.In these circumstances, single testimony of prosecutrix can not be said to be reliable.Because her statement is not corroborated by medical evidence and FIR.F.I.R. appears to be product of after thought.In these circumstances, prosecution failed to prove the offence under Section 376 of I.P.C. against the appellant/accused and trial Court has committed error in not appreciating the evidence on record in its proper perspective.Thus appeal succeed.(G.S. Solanki) JUDGE 24 /01/2011 Ba 8
['Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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[Order of the Court was made by P.R.SHIVAKUMAR, J] The petitioner is the father of the detenu, viz., I.T. @ RamKumar, S/o.Thangaraj, aged about 22 years.The detenu has been detained by the second respondent by his order in No.167/BCDFGISSSV/2015 dated 27.11.2015, holding him to be a "Goonda", as contemplated under Section 2(f)of Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982, taking note of the ground case in Crime No.888of 2015 on the file of E2 Madhichiam Police Station registered for allegedoffences punishable under Sections 147, 148 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code@ 147, 148, 341, 392, 506(ii) and 302 of the Indian Penal Code r/w 34 and 397of the Indian Penal Code.The Detaining Authority, expressing subjective satisfactionthat the detenu conformed to the definition of the "Goonda" and that hispresence at large would be prejudicial to the maintenance of public order andalso expressing subjective satisfaction that it was very likely that thedetenu would come out on bail in the ground case, passed the impugned detention order.The said order is challenged in the present Habeas CorpusPetition.The submissions made by the learned Additional PublicProsecutor in reply to the above said contentions raised by the learnedcounsel for the petitioner are also heard.In Paragraph No.4 of the grounds of detention, the DetainingAuthority, expressing his subjective satisfaction regarding the possibilityof the detenu coming out on bail, made the following observation:"I am aware that Thiru.Thangaraj is in remand inthe ground case in E.2 Madhichiam P.S. Cr.No.888/2015 for the offences undersection 147, 148, 302 IPC @ Sec.147, 148, 341, 392, 506(ii) & 302 IPC r/w 34and 397 IPC at the Central Prison, Madurai; and I am also aware that his bailapplication filed in the above said ground case was dismissed by theJ.M.No.II, Madurai in Crl.I am also awarethat Thiru.M.P.No.3084/2015 dated 03.09.2015 to an accused Thiru.Pandi @ Kamma Pandi s/o Sakkarai Thevar concerned in C2 Subramaniapuram P.S. Cr.In the result, the Habeas Corpus Petition is allowed and thisCourt sets aside the order of detention dated 27.11.2015, made inNo.167/BCDFGISSSV/2015, by the second respondent, the Commissioner of Police, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Madurai City, Madurai and directs therelease of the detenu by name I.T. @ Ram Kumar, S/o.4.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai..
['Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The case of the prosecution is that the first accused is the husband of the deceased Mookkayee; the accused 2 and 3 are the parents of the 1st accused.Prior to one year from 19.11.2003, the first accused has married the deceased Mookkayee and after the marriage, both of them has lived as husband and wife in the house of the accused.All the accused have joined together and demanded dowry from the deceased in the form of jewels, cow and other articles.Since the deceased Mukkayee has not been able to brook the demand made by all the accused, she committed suicide.The complaint given by P.W.12 has been marked as Ex.On receipt of Ex.Challenge in this Criminal Appeal is to the convictions and sentences dated 20.12.2006 passed in Sessions Case No.47/2006 by the District and Sessions Court, Mahila Court, Perambalur.The Judicial Magistrate, Perambalur, after considering the facts that the offences alleged to have been committed by all the accused are triable by sessions court, has committed the case to the court of sessions, Perambalur Division and taken on file in Sessions Case No.47/2006 and subsequently, made out to the trial court.The trial court, after hearing both sides and upon perusing relevant records has framed a 1st charge against all the accused under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter called as IPC); second charge against all the accused under Section 306 of the IPC and the same has been read over and explained to them.The accused have denied the charge and claimed to be tried.On the side of the prosecution, P.Ws.1 to 16 have been examined, Exhibits P.1 to P.12 and Material Object 1 have been marked.When the accused have been questioned under Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 as respects the incriminating materials available in evidence against them, they denied their complicity in the crime.No oral and documentary evidence have been let in on the side of the accused.The trial court, after hearing arguments of both sides and upon perusing relevant material on record has found all the accused not guilty under Section 306 of the IPC and ultimately acquitted them.Likewise, accused 2 and 3 are not found guilty under Section 498-A of the IPC and subsequently, acquitted them.The trial court has found the first accused guilty under Section 498-A and sentenced him to undergo 25 months rigorous imprisonment and also imposed a fine of Rs.1,000/- with usual default clause.Against the conviction and sentence passed by the trial court, the present criminal appeal has been preferred at the instance of the 1st accused as appellant.The learned counsel appearing for the appellant/1st accused has contended vehemently to the effect that the specific charge framed against the appellant/1st accused is that he and remaining accused have used to torture the deceased by way of demanding gold jewels, cow and other articles, by means of dowry and since she has not been able to meet out their demand, she committed suicide, but for the purpose of proving the said aspect, there is no evidence on the side of the prosecution and the trial court, without considering the lack of evidence on the side of the prosecution, has erroneously found the appellant/1st accused guilty under Section 498-A of the IPC and therefore, the conviction and sentence passed by the trial court is liable to be interfered with.Per contra, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor has contended that in the instant case, the parents of the deceased have been examined as P.Ws.2 and 3 and apart from their evidence, one Karuppaiah has been examined as P.W.16 and all of them has spoken about the torture made by all the accused and the trial court has rightly found the first accused guilty under Section 498-A of the IPC and therefore, the conviction and sentence passed by the trial court do not warrant interference.In fact, this court has perused the entire evidence given by P.W.3, mother of the deceased and she has not spoken about the demand of dowry, whereas P.W.3, father of the deceased, in his chief examination stated to the effect that the first accused has demanded dowry.But during the course of cross examination, he has given evidence to the effect that he does not know anything and his wife alone knows everything.Therefore, the evidence given by P.Ws.2 and 3 does not support the version of the prosecution.The prosecution has examined P.W.16, after examination of the Investigating Officer.The specific evidence given by P.W.16 is that prior to occurrence, he met the deceased and other accused and effected Panchayat in connection with the alleged harassment and that itself would not be sufficient for coming to a conclusion that the appellant/1st accused has tortured her in connection with dowry demand.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor has contended that the first accused has been examined by the Revenue Divisional Officer, where, he deposed that prior to occurrence, he attacked his wife and only due to that, she might have committed suicide.In fact, the entire statement given by 1st accused has been scanned by this court and he merely stated that prior to occurrence he simply attacked his wife and further he opined, that may be the cause for committing suicide and that itself would not be sufficient for coming to a conclusion that only due to dowry torture, the deceased committed suicide.As rightly pointed out by the learned counsel appearing for the appellant/1st accused, virtually on the side of the prosecution, no evidence is available so as to attract penal provision of 498-A of the IPC.The trial court, without considering the lack of evidence on the side of the prosecution has erroneously convicted the 1st accused/appellant under the said section.In view of the discussion made earlier, considering the subsisting force in the contention made on the side of the appellant/1st accused, this criminal appeal is liable to be allowed.Fine amount paid by him is ordered to be refunded forthwith.07.09.2015Index:Yes/nonvsri To1.The Deputy Superintendent of PolicePerambalur DivisionPerambalur District(Kaikalathur Police StationCr.2.The Sessions Judge, Mahila Court, Perambalur.Crl.A.No.35 of 2007
['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 306 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Cbi Office, Cgo Complex, New Delhi, on his furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs. 20,000 with one surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the arresting officer.He was.He is an influential person of the area and is capable of organising huge rallies with a view to prevent the concerned persona not to be witnesses in the case.One of the eyewitness has in fact been threatened or serious consequences in case he attempted to depose against the petitioner.(7) In order to appreciate the submission- of the learned counsel for the respondent, one has to keep in mind the circumstances leading to the registration of the present case.The assassination of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 31-10-84, was an unfortunate incident, but still more unfortunate were the events which took place thereafter, as a result of which a large number of anti-social elements came out of their houses in anger and indulged in incidents of rioting, looting, arson, assault and killing of innocent persons and burning their property throughout India.On first of November, 1984, such like incidents also took place in the locality of Sultanpuri, Delhi.Information of this incident was received at the Police station at about 2.10 p.m. It was recorded in the D.D. Register at serial No. 11-A and the same was handed over to Si Sukhbir Singh for immediate action.Sukhbir Singh went to the spot and made preliminary enquiries.Later on, he sent a Ruqa to the police station for the registration of a case uss 147, 148, 149, 395, 196 Indian Penal Code .Then he recorded the statements of various witnesses who were the target of looting, arson and' assault.The Si collected the MLCs from the hospital and in view of the medical reports, further recommended the inclusion of Sections 307, 324 and 302 Indian Penal Code .(8) On the demand of the victims that competent, responsible and experienced police officers be deputed to investigate these cases, the Government of India transferred the investigation to the Vigilance Department of the Delhi Police.Si Raj Singh was deputed to thoroughly investigate the case.In this petition, affidavits of number of persons were filed who in fact were the sufferers of the riots.This Cwp was finally dismissed.(10) However, keeping in view the persistent demand of the so called voluntary organisation, the Government of India on 26th April, 1985, appointed Mr. Justice Ranganath Misra, sitting Judge of the Supreme Court to thoroughly investigate the happening after the death of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, and to find out, as to whether there was any organized mob violence at the behest of Congress workers and if there was, then suggest ways and means to punish the guilty.The short span of time that intervened would not have permitted scope for any organising to be done.The gloom that had spread and affected the Congressmen in particular would not have permitted any such organisation to be handled.The reaction appears to have come as a flutter and sparked everywhere in a similar pattern."(11) The Commission further concluded that no responsible person in authority of Congress-1 hatched any conspiracy or organized large scale rioting, looting, killing, etc. in various parts of Delhi.In fact, the anti-social elements had taken the lead.The treatment meted out to the officer, of the Cbi who had gone to the residence of the petitioner for search and his arrest on 11-9-90 by Itself is an example of his influence.(2) The investigation of this case where the accused is alleged to have organized a mob in targeted them to murder and burn the houses of a particular community is, at a crucial stage and the petitioner being at large, will certainly hamper the investigation.(3) Most of the witnesses in this case are either widows, destitutes or uprooted persona and they are under the constant threat of the petitioner and his associates.Because of this terror, they are not coming forward to make the statements even though have been shifted to safer places.(4) The Poti-Rosha Committee having found a prima facie case against the petitioner, has recommended the registration and investigation of the case by the Cbi and keeping in view the nature of the offence and the persons involved, anticipatory bail should not have been granted.(5) The prosecution has still to take into possession 6 swords which were found in the house of the petitioner and were not allowed to be taken into custody.During this search, the petitioner has also been found in possession of the documents which in the ordinary course should not have been there; (6) In this case, this court has granted the petitioner a blanket order of bail which is not in accordance with law and is liable to be cancelled.(3) In order to demonstrate the seriousness of the offence, learned Additional Solicitor General referred to the affidavit and the statement of Aawar Kaur which formed the basis of the registration of the case uss 147, 148, 149, 247, 430/34 Indian Penal Code against the petitioner and 5 others at police station Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi In brief, her case is that at the time of the assassination of the late Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi, the petitioner Along with her husband Shri Navin Singh, and children was living in her house No. A-4, Sultanpuri, Delhi.On 1-11-84, while she Along with her other family members was present in her house, she saw thousands of people of the area armed with lathis, dandas, iron-rods and knives, looting the house of Sardars end setting them on tire.This mob was being led by Mp Sajjan Kumar who was instigating them that all male folks be burnt to death and their property be looted.Under that instigation, her husband was dragged out and attacked with a sharp-edged weapon and burnt to death after pouring kerosene oil on him.Thereafter, her house was also burnt.She took refuge in the house of her daughter Film Kaur, who was residing in D-Block Sultanpuri.Late at night, some people came there and removed the burnt dead body of her husband, which till date i not tracesble.Superintendent of Police, Cbi, the search of the house concluded at 8.45 Am, but in the meantime, the petitioner managed to organise a huge crowd, which made it impossible for the officers to leave the premises of the petitioner.During the course of search, the respondent officers have seized few documents and six swords but they could' not be removed on account of the law and order problem created by the petitioner outside his house.By the time the search was concluded, the mob outside the house inflamed, and was raising slogans against the Cbi and in favor of the petitioner.The mob in fact had barred the exit gate which made difficult for them to leave the premises.With the lapse of time, the mob continued to swell and provocative slogans were chanted through a loudspeaker system installed by the mob.The mob then became violent and smashed and damaged the Maruti Jipsi and Ambassador car of the CBI.The search party tried their best to call for reinforcement from the local police but it could not be arranged.In fact the information conveyed to the search party by the high police officials was that it was impossible for the police to come to their rescue without inflicting heavy casualities, which in turn, may also endanger the safety of the search parly.Uutimately, the search party could only be allowed to leave the premises after the anticipatory bail order from the High Court was received and conveyed to the persons waiting outside, on makeshift public address system by the petitioner.(6) The submission of the learned counsel for the respondent is that the petitioner is politically a powerful and influential person who can directly or indirectly interfere in the course of investigation.During the investigation he associated responsible persons of the public with a view to enthuse confidence in the mind of the persons who have been subjected to and were the victims of this incident.Statements of large number of witnesses were recorded.As a consequence thereof a large number of persons were arrested.For that demand the representatives of People's Union turn Civil Liberties (hereinafter referred to as PUCL) filed a writ petition in this court.During the commission proceedings, Justice Misra accorded recognition to the Pucl and the Citizens Justice Committee.The members of the said two committees personally went to places of incidents, to the camps where the inmates had been shifted and to various other places where many inmates had taken refuge.They collected many affidavits of the eye-witnesses and of the victims of assault including the next door neighbours of Anwar Kaur.On thorough examination of the affidavits, and other material placed on record, the commission came to the conclusion :- "The news shows in clearest terms that rioting in proper sense had started in a very big way in several parts.of the city on 31st evening and except for killing which came into process from 1st November, 1984, every other form of attack on Sikhs had begun.The massive scale on which the operation had started so soon after the fact of death was circulated is clearly indicative of the fact that it was the spontaneous reaction of the people at large.The Commission recommended new committee be appointed to go through the individual cases of omission of non-registration of cases by the local police.(12) Pursuant to the report of the Justice Ranganath Misra Commission, Delhi Administration by notification of February 21, 1987 constituted a Committee comprising of M. L. Jain.201, and 211 of the Indian Penal Code .The Committee consequently by letter dated 14-10-1987, wrote to the Delhi Administration proposing that the Fir in this regard maybe registered and investigated in accordance with law.While issuing notice, the court restrained the registration of cases upon the direction of the Jain-Banerjee Committee.After hearing the parties at length.This court vide judgment and order dated October 4, 1989 allowed the writ petition.(14) On March 22, 1990, the Delhi Administration appointed another Committee comprising Mr. Justice P. S. Poti, former Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court and Shri P. A. Rosha, a retired officer of the Delhi Police service for the same purpose.The Administrator after due consideration accepted the recommendation and directed the Cbt vide his letter dated 5-9-90, to take further action in accordance with law.Upon the receipt of the said letter, the Cbi on September 7, 1990, registered the Fir in question against 6 accused persons, including the petitioner.Immediately thereafter, the respondent-CBI recorded the statements of three so-called eye-witnesses of the occurrence and on 11th September, 1990, organized a raiding party to search the house of the petitioner and arrest him.(15) In this background, let us examine the.contentions of the learned Additional Solicitor General appearing for the respondent CBI.(16) The detailed narration of facts' has been given with a view to how that even though the killing of Navin Singh the husband of Anwar Kaur had taken place on 1-11-84, she did not make any report to the police.Before that, she had an ample opportunity to approach not only the police station Sultan Puri for registration of the case involving the petitioner, as is now sought to be made out, but also making a grievance before Ranganath Misra Commission that in spite of her complaint, the local police has not registered the case.Instead on 17-12-84, she had approached the Sho of the police station and moved an application only for the grant of compensation for the loss which she had suffered due to the burning of her house.(17) Thereafter, very respectable, responsible and public Spirited members of the Pucl and Citizens Justice Committee, including Mr. Justice S. M. Sikri, a retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. V. M. Tarkunde.a former Judge of the Bombay High Court, Mi.Soli J. Sorabji, Sr.At that point of time Anwar Kaur was admittedly living in the camp.Even though the statements of neighbours of Anwar Kaur, namely, Dhoan Kaur resident of A-4175, Sultanpuri, Padmini Kaur, A-41164, Ram Kaur of A-41162, and Sumer Singh resident of A-4/129, were recorded but she did not come forward to make any statement.Smt. Anwar Kaur did not make any complaint before the police or before the Ranganath Misra Commission, against the petitioner responsible for the killing of her husband.Even her immediate neighbours who claim to be, the eye-witnesses of the killing on 1st Nov., 1984, in the area of Sultanpuri, and whose statements were recorded at the earliest point of time, did not name the petitioner responsible for holding any meeting or instigating them to kill or burn the houses of Sardars.He was not an unknown person of the area.Witnesses could not have omitted his name, if in fact be was there.This statement does not bear her signature or thumb mark.It has an endorsement of one Shri Atma Singh in whose presence the said statement of Anwar Kaur was recorded.We do not know nor it has been made clear by the Cbi as to who, when.where and whether in fact this supplementary statement was ever recorded.Whatever may be the explanation in my opinion, the delay of 3 years in the filing of the affidavit and the recording of her statement at least is a circumstance for which the benefit must go to the petitioner for the confirmation of his anticipatory bail.No doubt the petitioner was the Member of the Lok Sabha on the date of the alleged incident and has a following.They had an ample opportunity to straightway arrest the petitioner and bring him to the police station.In the meantime, well wishers of the petitioner started collecting at his house, in the normal course as he used to receive the persons of his constituency from 7 A.M. onwards.(24) At this stage, we may note that immediately thereafter the officers of the Cbi filed two FIRs at the local police station.In none of these two FIRs, the petitioner is accused of organizing the mob or making any inflamatory slogans or instigated the crowd to take revenge against the CBI.(25) As regards the recovery of the six swords, from the house of the petitioner, the respondent intentionally did not take them, to avoid any confrontation with the mob.It is stated at the bar that the said six swords have since been handed over to the officers of the CBI.These swords appeared to have been presented to the petitioner as Saropas by the Sikh community in recognition of his services for organising blood donation and rehabilitation camps for the victims of 1984 riots.It is only for that reason that the respondents have not so far registered any case against the petitioner for the illegal custody of the swords.(26) The Cbi raised a lot of hue and cry for the recovery of certain documents alleged to have been found from the house of the petitioner.Those documents in fact formed pan: of the file of the writ petition in Gupta's case.These very documents were the basis of the challenge in the writ petition.Its copies were duly supplied by the State to the counsel for the parties.(28) Against this order of bail, admittedly, the Cbi has not filed an appeal or revision for the cancellation of the bail order.The present petitioner is similarly situated as those of his coaccused.The blanker order of anticipatory bail thus is bound to cause serious interference with the right and duty or the police, to arrest the applicant even if he commits another offence.(30) The argument has only to be mentioned and rejected summarily.The investigating officer then recorded the statement of i'.2 wi'nesses on 8-9-90 and immediately thereafter on 11-9-90, set ovt to arrest the accused persons.As observed earlier, there is no material on record to suggest that the petitioner who has a status in the society, and enjoys good reputation, love and affection from the persons at large, is likely to repeat the offence, abuse the trust placed in him by the court, or avoid the trial.Even otherwise, the CBl does not appear to be serious in interrogating the petitioner.On 27-9-90, when the case was taken up, learned counsel fur the respondent frankly conceded that from the day when the petitioner was granted anticipatory bail, he has not been summoned for interrogation.It was only thereafter that the petitioner was summoned once on 28-9-90, and thereafter no attempt has been made to further interrogative him.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 438 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Ex. PW7/A records that a dead body was found in a park near Palam Railway Station.As per the post mortem, the dead body had external and internal injuries.Ligature mark was present all around the neck and horizontally placed below the thyroid cartilage, measuring whole circumference of the neck with ill-A. 187/2012 Page 1 of 19defined margins, with contused underneath tissue of the neck, with collection of scattered blood clots into the soft tissue of the neck.PW-13, his neighbour, had friendly relations with the deceased and he used to sit with him.On 26th April, 2009 at 7.30 PM, he was sitting with deceased at his shop in Raj Nagar when the deceased received a missed call on his mobile phone and went out of the shop to talk.He did not know about the contents of the conversation.Deceased came back and gave him the key to his office and instructed him to shut down the shop because he had to go somewhere on personal business.He closed the shop at about 7.45 PM and as instructed gave the key at the residence of Giriraj.In cross- examination, he admitted that he was a Constable in Delhi Police and was posted in Vikas Puri, Delhi.He had reached the shop of the deceased at 7.00 PM and in his presence only one missed call was received by the deceased.PW-13 did not know the appellant though he accepted and stated that he knew the deceased and his family.He did not know where the deceased had gone and what was the reason why the deceased asked him to close the shop and take the key home?Amit (PW-6) has stated that on 26th April, 2009, the appellant had taken his phone and made a missed call.He had come to know the appellant only 4/5 days prior to the incident, as the accused appellant also used to ply rickshaw outside Metro Station, Sector 9, Dwarka.He did not know with whom Pramod had talked and what the conversation was about.A. 187/2012 Page 6 of 19Vijay Singh (PW-10), son of the deceased, had stated that on 26 th April, 2009 at about 9.30 PM, he had made a call on his father's mobile phone but the phone was switched off.He went to sleep.At about 3.30 AM, he was woken up by his mother who told him that his father had not returned.He informed his neighbours, cousin and brother-in- law Raja Ram.He called up relatives but without any success.Next morning at 10.30 AM, they went to Police Station, Palam and met ASI Radha Kishan and the SHO.They called back on the said number and came to know that this phone number belonged to one Amit who plied rickshaw at the Metro Station.Amit told them that the appellant, another rickshaw puller, had made the call.Amit had stated that Pramod was introduced to him by one Jai Bhagwan, who was a sweeper at the Metro Station and who knew him.They met Jai Bhagwan and Pramod at 7.30 AM, on 28th April, 2009, along with several persons.Pramod confessed to Vijay Singh (PW-10) that he had murdered Vijay's father.No police officer was with them.Appellant volunteered to take them to the dead body of Vijay's father and took them to the park at Sector 20, Dwarka, opp.CNG filling station where he showed them the dead body.Appellant, Amit and Jai Bhagwan were beaten up by the public persons present there.Thereafter, police officers came.From the spot, police seized one spectacle, pieces of broken glass bottle and one pair of black colour leather slippers lying near the dead body.PW12 has stated that the appellant Pramod had told them that his father was murdered pursuant to a plan hatched by him with Amit and Jai Bhagwan.All three of them were arrested by the police.However, on 30th April, 2009, appellant Pramod gave another statement PW10/H, Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 7 of 19 stating that he had falsely implicated Jai Bhagwan and Amit so that they would save him, as they were local residents of the area.On the basis of the said disclosure statement, the appellant voluntarily led them to the pit in the same park and from the right side of the spot, he took out one black coloured purse which had Rs.2500/-, driving Licence of the deceased, one note of foreign currency and one slip of State Bank of India of Rs.40, 000/- marked Ex. PW10/K. On 5th June, 2009, a NOKIA mobile was recovered from Vinod Kumar and he identified that it belonged to his father.Kishan, a sweeper at the school, had sold him a mobile phone for Rs.500/-.He did not give any bill or phone charger.19. PW-18, SI Amar Pal had stated that he was on day emergency duty from 8.00 AM to 8.00 PM, at P.S. Dwarka.On receipt of DD entry No. 13B, he along with Constable Bajrang Lal reached the spot i.e. Sector 20 Park opp.CNG filling station, Dwarka where one male dead body was lying.Public persons had gathered there.On verification, the name of the deceased was disclosed as Giriraj.One spectacle, one pair of lakhani leather slippers, broken pieces of glass liquor bottle and one plastic bottle were lying.Crime team and other officers reached at the spot.The said articles were seized and lifted.Post mortem was conducted.Appellant was arrested at about 11.45 AM.He was at the park.In his cross-examination, he admitted that appellant Pramod and Jai Bhagwan were at the spot but he could not tell whether Amit was also present.PW-17, Constable Bajrang Lal had stated the ASI Amar Pal had received DD Entry No. 13B and he along with ASI Amarpal reached Sector 20 Park, Dwarka where huge crowd had gathered.A dead body of a male was found in a pit.There were injuries on the dead body.Police officers and crime team reached there.Two persons, namely appellant and Jai Bhagwan were held by the crowd gathered there.Jai Bhagwan and appellant were interrogated.In the cross-examination, he admitted that both of them had been beaten by the public and were only Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 10 of 19 wearing underwear on their bodies.Narender Singh (PW-19) had stated that after DD No. 13B was recorded, they reached the spot at about 8.20 AM.Constable Bajrang and SI Amar Singh were also present there.One decomposed male dead body was lying in the park.Two boys, i.e. appellant and Jai Bhagwan, who had been beaten by the public, were produced before the police.But he did not remember whether the appellant and Jai Bhagwan were only in underwear or not, as they were busy controlling the public.Surprisingly, no further details regarding this recovered SIM were filed/produced before this Court.The call was made by some unknown person.He was not aware of the address of Pramod but stated the Pramod used to come to Jai Bhagwan who was working at Sector-9 Metro Station, Dwarka.He along with Vijay Singh and some relatives went to the Metro Station and met Jai Bhagwan and made enquiries about Pramod.Jai Bhagwan had stated that he did not know Pramod's address but would help them in tracing Pramod.Next day he came to know that dead body of Giriraj was found.A. 187/2012 Page 13 of 19Moreover Amit (PW-6) had stated that he was a rickshaw puller and Jai Bhagwan was working as a sweeper in the Metro.The charge sheet to his extent is contrary to the statements of PW-10, PW-12 and PW6 as it states that Jai Bhagwan was the rickshaw puller and Amit PW6 was working in the metro.It appears that the family of the deceased was well connected and knew several persons in the police force.(PW-13) Satish Lamba was constable in Delhi Police and was well known to the deceased.As per PW-12, police officers were with them when he, along with Vijay Singh (PW-10), had gone to the house of the appellant Pramod.PW-10 has also stated that somebody had informed local police station about the dead body in the park.By order of sentence dated 16th May, 2011, the appellant has been sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and to pay fine of Rs.12,000/-, and in default of payment of fine, to further undergo simple imprisonment for six months.Further, the sub scalp haematoma of size 5x4 cms was present at occipital region of the head, with cherry red coloured blood clot, with fracture of occipital bone of skull.The body was highly decomposed, swelled up, bloated, emitting foul smell, with peeling of skin.The mouth was partially open with protruded tongue.White colour pyjama was encircled around the neck with two fold in situ.The cause of death was stated to be asphyxia caused by ligature strangulation using the block present in situ.The real question is whether the prosecution has been able to show and establish that the said injuries or the "act" was caused and done by the appellant Pramod? The prosecution version is that the deceased had received a missed call from mobile No. 9958293716 belonging to (PW-6) Amit.The deceased thereupon spoke to the appellant Pramod on the said telephone number, and thereafter met Pramod, the rickshaw puller, and was with him in his rickshaw.The appellant rickshaw puller purchased liquor from the liquor shop and both of them, i.e. the appellant and the deceased, drank liquor together in the park.Thereafter, the appellant killed the deceased.There are no eye-witnesses.The prosecution's case is based purely upon circumstantial evidence.It is primarily based on circumstances of last seen, extra judicial confession and recovery.To establish the evidence of last seen, the prosecution heavily relies upon statement of PW-12, Gajanand.He went to the house of Giriraj, met his son, and informed him that he had seen Giriraj on 26th April, 2009, near the liquor shop in Sector 20, Marble Market, on a rickshaw and that "........... I had also seen the rikshaw puller purchasing some liquor and a water bottle and handing over the same to Giriraj and further that I had asked Giriraj as to where was he going on which he had told me that he was going to attend a party and thereafter Giriraj had gone towards CNG filling station in the same rikshaw, after which I had returned to my house after purchase some usable articles for my house.A. 187/2012 Page 2 of 19On this information being given to me by Vijay, I along with Vijay, his cousin Kamal and his relative Raja Ram went to PS Palam where one Satish Lamba, friend of the deceased was already present.He told us that on 26.4.2009 Giriraj had received a missed call on his mobile phone at about 7.30 PM and after receiving the said missed call he had gone out of his shop................."Is PW-12 a chance witness or a planted witness, who had last seen the appellant with the deceased? PW-12 has been disbelieved by the trial court and in our opinion rightly.The said witness has not stated that he knew the rickshaw puller from before or that Giriraj and rickshaw puller were going to drink liquor together.As discussed below, PW-12 was very close to family of the deceased.This creates a grave doubt on the statement of PW-12 that he had seen deceased Giriraj with the appellant rickshaw puller.It is difficult to perceive and believe that Giriraj, a property dealer and a man of means, would like to have liquor with a rickshaw puller in a park.PW-12 seems to be a planted witness to this extent.There is a grave suspicion that the Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 3 of 19 aforesaid statement has been made to plug in the gaps in the prosecution version.It is difficult for us to place reliance on PW-12 Giriraj's aforesaid statement to implicate the accused appellant.A. 187/2012 Page 3 of 19This number belongs to Vijay Singh (PW-10), son of the deceased.PW-10 in his examination in chief had stated that on 27th April, 2009, he had made a call on number 100 and also called the police station.The DD entry records that the caller from the said number had stated that some people had abducted his father Giriraj "uthakar le gaye".PW-12's statement that he had an occasion and had seen the deceased with the appellant and had also spoken to PW10 on 27th April, 2009 is not supported and is contrary to what PW-10 had informed on telephone and was recorded in DD No. 44 B. PW-12's statement that he had seen a rickshaw puller purchasing liquor and water bottle etc. does not aspire confidence and is not believable.As per PW-12, Giriraj had remarked that he was going to a party and thereafter he had gone towards CNG filling station in a rickshaw.In case Giriraj had gone or was going to a party, then the evidence of last seen viz. the appellant has to be disbelieved.The deceased could have gone to the party and his death may be subsequent.These and other gaps, contradictions and improbabilities in the prosecution version and statements have been discussed below.In the cross-examination, Vijay Singh (PW10) had first stated that the mobile phone of his father was recovered from the accused Pramod, in his presence.He, however, immediately changed the statement and stated that the purse was recovered from possession of Pramod but not the mobile phone.This is contrary to what PW10 had stated in examination in chief that on 5 th June, 2009 he was called to the Police Station where one Vinod was present, from whom mobile phone was recovered.A. 187/2012 Page 7 of 19Vinod Kumar appeared as PW14 and had stated that he was working as a teacher in a school, at Delhi Cantt.He had used his Idea SIM card No. 9812170312 on the said phone.On 5th June, 2009, he received a call from his brother-in-law Naveen inquiring if he had purchased a mobile phone and/or had used his SIM card in some-one's mobile phone.In the cross-examination, PW-14 had stated that he did not know that the value of the new Nokia mobile phone in question Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 8 of 19 was Rs.5000/-.He also accepted that his brother in law was working as a Constable in Delhi Police.A. 187/2012 Page 8 of 19He had stated that on 29 th April, 2009, he received a call from mobile No. 9812170312, which belonged to his brother-in-law Vinod Kumar.2-3 days later, police officials from PS Dwarka came to him and made enquiries about the said call.He immediately called Vinod who confirmed having purchased the said mobile phone.He along with Vinod Kumar had gone to the police station Dwarka, with one Kishan.Kishan was, however, not produced and his statement in the court was not recorded.As per order sheet dated 9th July, 2010, Kishan had reportedly left the given address.Order dated 20th September, 2010, again states that Kishan was not available and had left the given address.By order dated 25th October, 2010, prosecution evidence was closed recording that several opportunities had been granted.It was also recorded that Kishan was unserved on the ground that his latest address was not known.By order dated 9th November, 2010, application moved by the prosecution for summoning of Kishan at his permanent address was allowed giving one last opportunity.Kishan Kumar could not be served and on 27th November, 2010, the trial court denied further opportunity for summoning Kishan Kumar.The call details of mobile number 9812170312 were not produced and filed.PW-9 was not Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 9 of 19 asked and called to file the same.The Investigating Officer did not collect the said details and place them on record, inspite of the prosecution version that they reached PW-15 and then PW-14 through the call details.There is no explanation and reason why these were not produced and filed in court.This creates doubt about the recovery of the phone of the deceased.This aspect has been also referred to below.A. 187/2012 Page 9 of 19A. 187/2012 Page 10 of 19A. 187/2012 Page 11 of 19It is not very clear how ASI Radha Krishnan (PW-1) got the call details of the telephone number of the deceased.There is no evidence or material to show that any application was made to the service provider, i.e. Bharti Airtel for providing the said details.No evidence or material has been produced on record to show that Bharti Airtel had informed and given the said details.As per the prosecution case, mobile phone of the deceased was not with Vijay Singh (PW-10).ASI Radha Krishna (PW-1) has stated that the number was an unknown number.This causes grave suspicion and doubt regarding the prosecution version about how they reached Amit and then Jai Bhagwan and the appellant Promod.PW-12 had stated that ASI Radha Krishan (PW-1) had got the call details of mobile phone of Giriraj, the deceased, from ACP's office.This is not stated by PW-1, ASI Radha Krishan.The call details placed on record for 9971551348 (Exhibit PW-11/A) for 26th April 2009 was generated, as per the printout from the system on 28th April 2010 at 4:35:44 PM.After the phone call to telephone no. 9958293716, there were two more phone calls.Prosecution has not placed names and details of the person to/from whom these calls were made and received.What was the conversation between the deceased and the said person is not stated.If the call details were obtained on 27th April, 2009, then the same should have been placed on record.This was relevant and important in the present case keeping in view the nature, type, character and quality of evidence relied and collected by the prosecution.When the prosecution states that part material and details have been selectively brought on record or Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 12 of 19 investigated, it takes a risk when there is a substantial degree of doubt on quality and credibility of the said evidence.In such cases, the failure to place material/evidence or fully investigate and collect evidence can result in the accused getting benefit of doubt.On the same ground, four other aspects were noticed:-A. 187/2012 Page 12 of 19(a) The appellant is an illiterate person and a rickshaw puller.He did not even have a mobile phone.How did he come to know about the telephone number of the deceased is not stated or indicated? The application form and the subscriber details of the telephone number 9958293716 have not been produced and brought on record by the prosecution.We do not know who the recorded subscriber of this telephone number is.(b) Photographs of the deceased marked Exhibit PW8 A7 and PW8 A8 show wound on the back side of the head and substantial blood had oozed out.On the said aspect there is no investigation.(c) As noticed and considered above, PW-12's statement u/s 161 was recorded on 28-4-2009 after the dead body had been recovered and not before recovery of the dead body and arrest of the appellant.(d) The charge sheet filled before the trial court states that, Jai Bhagwan and Amit, alleged accused persons were thoroughly interrogated in front of the complainant and his relatives but they were let off as Amit was Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 13 of 19 working and Jai Bhagwan was present in his house.The charge sheet records that Amit was working as a sweeper at Sec-9 Metro Station up to 10 PM that day.Charge sheet further goes on to state that his presence in CCTV footage was seen.The prosecution did not put forth these footages for the Court to examine.If accused Pramod had approached Amit, to borrow a phone, CCTV recording of Amit's movement on the said day at the relevant time was material and crucial evidence.CCTV recording of Amit, it is apparent, was seen but either not taken on record or filed/produced before the Court.In these circumstances, it is not understandable, why and for what reasons, police officers have denied and have stated that they did not go in search of appellant Pramod after they were able to speak to Amit (PW-6) and had been able to locate Jai Bhagwan at the said metro station.PW-12 Gajanand who was with the police throughout and Vijay Singh (PW-10) on 27 and 28th April, 2009, has stated as under:-"After that I along with ASI Radha Krishan, Vijay, Raja Ram, Kamal and some other public persons went to Sector- 9, metro station Dwarka.Amit met us in the parking of Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 14 of 19 Metro Station.He was interrogated by ASI Radha Krishan who told us that accused Pramod was introduced to him by one Jai Bhagwan and with his assistance Jai Bhagwan, an employee in Metro Station Sector-9, Dwarka was located.On interrogation, Jai Bhagwan disclosed that he had arranged a rickshaw for accused Pramod on hire basis and he was residing somewhere in Pochanpur village.A. 187/2012 Page 14 of 19Next day with the help of Amit and Jai Bhagwan, we along with police officials reached house of accused Pramod present in court today (currently identified by witness) who was found present at his room.On interrogation, accused Pramod gave his disclosure statement already Ex-PW10/F bearing signature at point B. Then accused led us to the place where dead body of Giriraj was lying in an open park Sector-20, Dwarka, opposite CNG Filling station.In the meantime, someone informed local police at PS Dwarka about the dead body lying in the park on which local police also reached there.Statement of Vijay was recorded by SI Narender and got the case registered against accused Pramod."This creates a doubt about discovery of the dead body pursuant the alleged statement of the appellant.Examination of site plan Ex. PW5/A shows that the recovery of the dead body was made from the park adjacent to the main road having a foot path.The body had decomposed.A foul smell was there.Body was found after one and a half day on 28th April, 2009 morning.It is difficult to accept and believe that no one had noticed the said body during this period and for over 24 hours in a park and when there was a foul smell.A. 187/2012 Page 15 of 1925. PW-12 has stated that on 28th April,2009, they with the help of Jai Bhagwan, Amit and the Police Officers went and arrested Pramod.As per Vijay Singh (PW-10), he along with Raja Ram, Kamal, Gajanand and other neighbours had gone and apprehended Pramod and no police officer was present.Police officials have denied their presence but the statement of PW-12 is clear and categorical.He was not declared hostile and cross examined on the said statement on this vital aspect.In case a police officer was present at the time when the appellant was apprehended from his home in the morning on 28th April, 2009, then the extra judicial confession is not admissible except to the extent permitted by Section 27 of the Evidence Act. Thus the alleged extra judicial confession by Pramod to Vijay Singh (PW-10) and Gajanand (PW-12), that he had murdered his father, is not admissible.There is evidence on record that the appellant Pramod and Jai Bhagwan were badly beaten up.As per the statement of Amar Pal Singh (PW-18), they were not wearing any clothes except underwear when they were arrested/detained on 28 th April, 2009 in the morning.PW10/F and PW10/H. In the disclosure statement PW10/F, dated 28th Crl.A. 187/2012 Page 17 of 19 April, 2009, as per the prosecution, the appellant had stated that he along with Jai Bhagwan and Amit, had hatched the plan and killed Giriraj.This part of the disclosure statement is not admissible but PW-10 had stated that the three of them were arrested by the police.Further on the basis of the second disclosure statement dated 30 th April, 2009 ExPW10/H vide seizure memo PW10/I dated 1st May, 2009, one purse, Rs.2500/-,driving licence and one bank receipt of the deceased it is alleged were recovered from the park and seized.In this purported statement dated 30th April, 2009 ExPW10/H, the appellant, as per the prosecution version, had confessed that he was the only one who had committed the crime and Amit or Jai Bhagwan were not involved.Recoveries were made only after the names of Amit and Jai Bhagwan were deleted and they were not suspected.Another reason to suspect the said recovery is that there was no reason for the appellant, a rickshaw puller, to leave behind Rs.2500/- in the purse in the park.As per the prosecution case PW-14 had purchased the said mobile phone of the deceased from Kishan, father in law of the appellant on 29th April, 2009 for merely Rs 500/- without the phone charger.PW-14 in cross-examination had stated he did not know that the market price of the said model was Rs 5,000/-.However, one day earlier, on 28th April, 2009, the appellant had been arrested and had made a disclosure statement.
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By the order of sentence dated 06.03.2012, the appellant has been directed to suffer imprisonment for life, fine of Rs. 5000/- and in default of payment of fine, undergo simple imprisonment of 2 months for the offence under Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 1 of 29 section 302/34 of the IPC.He has been sentenced to simple imprisonment for 5 years, fine of Rs.5000/- and in default of payment of fine to undergo simple imprisonment for 2 months for offence under Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code.Additionally, the appellant has been directed to suffer simple imprisonment for 7 years and a fine of Rs. 5000/- and in default of payment of fine, to undergo simple imprisonment for two months for the offence under Section 392 of the Indian Penal Code.The sentences have been ordered to run concurrently.A No.730/2012 Page 1 of 29It is relevant here to mention that the appellant was made accused along with S (name withheld), a juvenile, Pappu and Raja @ Rakesh, who have been declared proclaimed offenders.Only the appellant was tried for the offence.The prosecution relies upon circumstantial evidence to connect the appellant with the crime as there was no eye witness to the occurrence.The circumstances relied against the appellant are that he was last seen with the deceased; the dead bodies of Tej Ram Saini and Hans Raj (the two deceased persons) were recovered at the instance of Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 2 of 29 the appellant; the truck bearing registration number HR 55 B 7572 (which the accused person had robbed) was recovered on the disclosure of the appellant; the knife, the weapon of offence was recovered at the instance of the appellant and the homicidal death of the aforesaid two persons.A No.730/2012 Page 2 of 29To trace the brief facts it is necessary to set out as to what happened in sequence.On 26.8.2008 at about 12-12:30 PM, Head Constable Kirpal Singh (PW.7), whilst on patrolling duty, noticed foul smell emanating from somewhere nearby.On inspecting, he found two dead bodies, wrapped in quilts lying amongst bushes nearby at Majnu Ka Tila, opposite metro yard near DDA park.He forwarded this information to Head Constable Rakesh Kumar (PW.6) who was posted as a duty constable at P.S. Timarpur.PW.6 recorded the said information vide DD No.17A (Exhibit PW.6/B) at 12:45 PM.The said DD entry was Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 3 of 29 marked to SI Sahab Singh (PW.13) who reached the spot.Inspector K.S. Rawat PW.23, (IO) also reached the spot along with Constable Anil Kumar (PW.11) and other police officials.A No.730/2012 Page 3 of 29After reaching the spot, the quilts were removed from the dead bodies.It was found that the dead bodies were of two adult males.Upon examining, words of "Tej Ram Singh" was found tattooed on the right arm of one of the deceased.The shirt that the deceased was wearing had the label of Kotputli (a place in Rajasthan).These clues and evidence as noticed below were the starting points and became crucial material which has helped the police trace and solve the case.The mobile crime team was requisitioned.A report was prepared by the crime team (exhibit PW.12/A).Blood stained earth, earth control and hair of the deceased persons were lifted.From where the second dead body was lying, dry blood from footpath was lifted.The above items were seized vide seizure memo exhibit PW.13/A. Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 4 of 29 Blood stained quilts, trousers, shirt, gamcha and a piece of dhoti were also lifted from the spot and seized vide seizure memo exhibit PW.13/B. One nylon rope was also seized (exhibit PW.13/C).A No.730/2012 Page 4 of 29On 27.08.2008, police officials including PW.23 (Inspector K.S. Rawat), PW.13 (SI Sahab Singh) went to Kotputli, Rajasthan, for investigation as also for ascertaining the identity of the deceased.IO had taken photographs of the deceased persons who were later identified by the relatives to be of Tej Ram Saini and Hans Raj.A No.730/2012 Page 5 of 29 we dwell on the said aspect, we would like to affirm the identifies further and refer to the medical opinion on the cause of death.A No.730/2012 Page 5 of 29On 28.08.2008, the relatives of the deceased persons came to Delhi and identified the dead bodies.Dead body of Tej Ram Saini was identified by Hanuman, younger brother (PW.3) and Nav Ratan, a cousin (PW.4).The dead body of Hans Raj was identified by Mohan Lal, Uncle (PW.1) and Munna Lal, Uncle (PW.2).Thereafter, the investigating officer made an application for conducting the post mortem of the deceased persons.After the post mortem was conducted the clothes, viscera, blood etc. were seized in packets and were sent to the malkhana.Left Zygomatic arch was fractured.Effusion of blood was present beneath the ligature mark.left lamina of the thyroid cartilage showed outwards fracture with effusion of blood.With respect to the injuries on the person of Hans Raj, it was opined that he died due to asphyxia because of ligature strangulation.Timing of death of Hans Raj also was opined as about 3 to 4 days prior to the post mortem report.From the deposition of PW.22 it is further revealed that on 7.10.2008, he had received a request for examining the weapon of Crl.As has been noted earlier there is no eye witness to the occurrence and the prosecution has rested its case on the testimonies of PW. 24 (Pramod Pandey), PW.9 (C.P. Sharma), PW.5 (Ram Vilas), PW.8 (Sushil Vilas), PW.10 (Pradeep Kumar), PW.17 (Prashant Sharma) and PW. 15 (Ram Karan), to establish that the appellant was last seen with the deceased persons.A No.730/2012 Page 9 of 29A No.730/2012 Page 9 of 2924 Pramod Pandey stated before the Court that he was looking after Jai Mata Enterprises godown.On 24.08.2008, a truck loaded with stone powder arrived at the godown along with its driver and helper/cleaner.He deposed that as labour was not available it being Janamastmi, it was not possible to unload the consignment.24 came back to the godown at about 5 PM when he found the driver and cleaner present at the godown.After about half an hour two workers namely Raja (proclaimed offender) and S (juvenile) came there.24 told them to unload the consignment.They suggested that more workers were needed and could be arranged from the nearby godowns.PW.24 thereafter went to attend Janamastmi celebrations and returned at 12 midnight.At that time the driver and the cleaner were present.On enquiry, he was made to understand that they would leave after unloading the consignment or in the morning.Thereafter, PW.24 went to his house located nearby.At about 4:30 AM in the next morning, i.e. on dated 25.08.2008, PW.24 claims that he had only seen Sanjeev at the godown.The Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 10 of 29 consignment had been unloaded and the truck driver and the cleaner were not there.The material was sold by one Prashant (PW.17) and the consignment had to come from Neem Ka Thana, Rajasthan.A No.730/2012 Page 10 of 29C.P. Sharma, (PW.9), owner of the godown, has deposed that Pramod Pandey (PW. 24) was looking after his godown on the relevant day.In the intervening night of 23rd and 24th August, 2008, a truck loaded with mineral powder had come from Neem Ka Thana, Rajasthan at his godown.He had telephonically informed PW. 24 to get the material unloaded with the help of workers.He was informed by PW.24 that only two workers were available and that he had asked Raja @ Rakesh to arrange for some more persons for unloading the consignment.Next morning, when he reached the godown, the driver, cleaner, truck or the workers were not present.Prashant Sharma, (PW. 17) affirmed having placed an order for consignment of Feldspar powder to be delivered at his godown from the supplier namely Pradeep Kumar (PW.10) of Neem Ka Thana, Rajasthan.PW.17 was telephonically informed by the consignee that the Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 11 of 29 truck had arrived at the godown but the consignment could not be unloaded at that time because of non-availability of the labour/loaders.A No.730/2012 Page 11 of 29The aforesaid witnesses have testified that they had employed Tej Ram Saini as the driver and Hans Raj as helper in the said truck and that they had been working with them for about two years.It was further stated by both the witnesses that on 22.8.2008 the said truck was loaded with consignment from Neem Ka Thana, Rajasthan for the delivery to be made at Sonia Vihar, Shahdara, Delhi.Since the vehicle belonged to PW.5, the driver Tej Ram Saini (one of the deceased persons) on reaching Delhi on 24.8.2008 in the morning had called him on telephone at about 8 AM and apprised him that because of non-availability of labour at the godown, it was not possible to unload the consignment and the same would be done only when the labour would be arranged.Thereafter nothing was heard from the driver and the cleaner.It was argued that the deceased Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 13 of 29 persons were last seen with the appellant on 24.8.2008 at about 12 in the midnight whereas the post mortem of the dead bodies, which was conducted on 28.8.2008 at 11 to 11:30 PM, set the time of death as 3-4 days prior to the post mortem.A No.730/2012 Page 14 of 29 PW.9 and the appellant was seen with the deceased persons, the driver and the cleaner of the truck.The appellant Khalid along with others (who, it is alleged, are also involved), had unloaded the consignment.Thereafter, the truck, the driver and cleaner went missing.Two unidentified dead bodies were recovered on 26.8.2008 and on 27.8.2008 identified it to be of Tej Ram Saini and Hans Raj.A No.730/2012 Page 14 of 29We have noticed that the recovery of the dead bodies was fortuitous.On 26.8.2008, PW.7, on sensing a foul smell, found dead bodies wrapped in quilts.As has been narrated earlier police officials reached the spot and some clues with respect to the identity of one of the deceased persons could be collected.The truck could not be recovered and was untraceable.The appellant Khalid was absconding.On 29.8.2008, Head Constable Rakesh Kumar, (PW.6) while on duty along with PW. 23 (Inspector K.S. Rawat) and PW. 13 (SI Sahab Singh), received secret information as to the whereabouts of the appellant.The appellant Khalid was apprehended by the police party and he was taken to the Jai Mata Godown, Sonia Vihar.On the question of recovery of the truck, we would begin with the statement of the police officers.Head Constable Rakesh Kumar Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 15 of 29 (PW-6) has deposed that the appellant-Khalid was arrested on 29th August, 2008 and disclosure statement Exhibit PW-13/F, which was signed by PW-6 at point 'B' was recorded.On 1st September, 2008, appellant-Khalid was produced in court and police remand was taken.The truck owner Ram Vilas (PW-5) had joined them in Tis Hazari Courts and thereafter the appellant-Khalid took them to an isolated place in Faridabad where truck No. HR55B 7572 was found parked and seized vide seizure memo Exhibit PW-5/B, which was signed by PW-6 at point 'C'.In his cross-examination, PW-6 deposed that the appellant-Khalid was arrested on 29th August, 2008 between 7 to 8 P.M. The appellant- Khalid was produced in the court on 30th August, 2008 sometime during afternoon and was sent to judicial custody.Further, they had gone in a private vehicle to Faridabad and the police team comprised of Inspector K.S. Rawat (PW-23) and SI Sahab Singh (PW-13) and the truck owner.No intimation was given to the local police about the visit to Faridabad.The truck was found in an isolated place ahead of Faridabad chowk.It was parked on a kachcha on the left of the main road.Inspector K.S. Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 16 of 29 Rawat (PW-23) had physically checked the truck and had informed that he had seen blood stained clothes lying at the top.However, PW- 6 did not remember whether the said clothes were seized.The truck was towed to the Police Station Timarpur by using a crane.A No.730/2012 Page 15 of 29A No.730/2012 Page 16 of 29SI Sahab Singh (PW-13) has deposed that on 26th August, 2008, two unidentified dead bodies were found and that on 27th August, 2008, he along with other police officers had gone to Kotputli, Rajasthan, with the photographs of the deceased, who were identified as Tej Ram Singh and Hansraj.One Ram Niwas, owner of the truck confirmed that they were working in his truck No. HR 55 B 7572 as driver and helper, respectively.On 28th August, 2008, he again joined investigation and had taken the relatives of Tej Ram Singh and Hansraj to the mortuary where the bodies were identified by them and post-mortem was conducted.The bodies were thereafter handed over to the relatives.On 29th August, 2008, the appellant-Khalid was apprehended and arrested vide arrest memo Exhibit PW-13/G-1, which was signed by PW-13 at point 'A'.Khalid made a disclosure statement regarding the fact that the truck was abandoned at a distance of two kilometres in the right side of Faridabad chowk.The appellant- Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 17 of 29 Khalid was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate on 30th August, 2008 and has been remanded to judicial custody.Ram Niwas, the truck owner joined the investigation and the truck was found abandoned at a distance of about two kilometres from Faridabad chowk.The truck HR 55 B 7572 was identified by the owner and was taken into possession vide memo Exhibit PW-25/C. The truck was brought to the police station Timarpur driven by a private driver.PW- 13 clarified that on 27th August, 2008 from Kotputli they had not made any telephone call at No. 100, Control Room, Wireless Telegraph, National Crime Record Bureau, State Crime Record Bureau, Central Record Bureau and State Transport Authority about the vehicle in question.He denied the suggestion that they, i.e. the police, were aware about the whereabouts of the truck in question after they had come to know about the registration number and the recovery of the truck is deliberately attributed at the instance of appellant-Khalid.A No.730/2012 Page 18 of 29A No.730/2012 Page 17 of 29A No.730/2012 Page 18 of 29Inspector K.S. Rawat, the Investigating Officer, who has deposed as PW-23, has encapsulated the visit to Kotputli on 27 th August, 2008 and how they were able to identify the dead bodies.Thereafter, on 8th August, 2008, inquest proceedings, post-mortem was conducted and the dead bodies handed over to the relatives.On the said date, they had also gone to Sonia Vihar where the truck was unloaded and inquiries were made from Pramod Pandey (PW-24) and C.P. Sharma (PW-9).On 29th August, 2008, appellant-Khalid was arrested and had made a disclosure statement Exhibit PW-13/F, which was signed by PW-23 at point 'C'.However, on 1st September, 2008, police custody remand was taken for three days and the appellant was interrogated when he made a further disclosure statement Exhibit PW-5/D. Thereupon, the police team proceeded to Palwal-Faridabad road and the truck HR 55 B 7572 was found by the side of the road ahead of Faridabad chowk.The same was seized vide seizure memo Exhibit PW-15/C. In his cross- examination, PW-23 has deposed in some detail what had transpired at Crl.The truck owner Ram Vilas had met them at 10 P.M. The recovery memo was prepared at Faridabad.The truck was in a running condition and they had engaged a private driver to bring the truck to Delhi.The keys of the truck were in the truck itself and he volunteered that duplicate keys were with the owner.A No.730/2012 Page 19 of 29At this stage, we would like to deal with the testimony of Ram Vilas (PW-5), the owner of the truck.A No.730/2012 Page 20 of 29Ram Vilas (PW-5) in his deposition recorded on 20th May, 2010 has stated that they were called to Police Station Kotputli on 26 th August, 2008 and officers from Police Station Timarpur were present and he was shown photographs.They came to Delhi on 26 th August, 2008 and reached at about 11 P.M. On the way to Delhi, they were informed that one of the offenders had been apprehended.They met the police team near Ashram Chowk, Delhi and the offender was with the police team.Thereafter, they went to Faridabad and found one truck, which was identified by him.The truck was released to PW-5 on superdari after about fifteen days vide Exhibit PW-5/A. He was cross-examined by the Public Prosecutor.In his cross-examination, PW-5 accepted that he had visited the Police Station at Kotputli on 27th August, 2008 and photographs of the deceased person were Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 21 of 29 shown to him for identification by the police from Police Station Timarpur.He had earlier given the date 26th August, 2008 due to some confusion.He had joined investigation on a few occasions.He could not remember whether the truck was in fact recovered on 1 st September, 2008, since he did not remember the date.Towards the end of his cross-examination by the public prosecutor, it is apparent that PW-5 again got confused, as he had deposed that after 26th August, 2008, he had stayed in Delhi as he was associated with the investigation.In his cross- examination, PW-5 accepted that appellant-Khalid had pointed out the place of recovery of the truck and a pointing out memo of the spot was Crl.In his cross-examination by the counsel for the accused, PW-5 asserted that he had visited Police Station Kotputli on 27th August, 2008 with some friends and had met police officers from Police Station Timarpur.He was shown photographs of Tej Ram Singh and Hansraj, and not photographs of his truck.He accepted as correct that he had come to Delhi with the police officers and had reached Police Station Timarpur on same day.However, he saw the offender, who had been caught by the police.On 30th August, 2008 and he had returned to Kotputli with the dead bodies.He had come to Delhi with a driver on 1st September, 2008 and was taken to Faridabad, where they reached the spot ahead of Faridabad chowk and the truck was found at the instance of the appellant-Khalid.Someone had driven the truck back to the Police Station, but the said person was not his driver.However, he claimed that no documentation was done by the police in his presence at the spot.A No.730/2012 Page 23 of 29Rakesh Kumar (PW-6), SI Sahab Singh (PW-13) and Inspector K.S. Rawat (PW-23).They had not located the truck before the recovery was made.There is no ground or reason whatsoever to hold to the contrary.A No.730/2012 Page 29 of 29Appellant Khalid stands convicted by judgment dated 02.03.2012 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge II (North) Delhi in sessions case no. 62/2011 (FIR No. 423/2008 P.S. Timarpur) for the offence under section 302/201/392 with the aid of section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1960 ('IPC' for short).Rukka (Exhibit PW23/A) was prepared by the IO and was sent through PW.7 for recording the FIR.Thereafter, FIR bearing No. 423/2008 was registered under Sections 302/201 IPC.The Statements of the aforesaid witnesses namely Ram Vilas (PW-5) and Sushil Vilas (PW-8) support and affirm the prosecution case on this aspect.Having identified the dead bodies, on the basis of further clues, investigation returned to Delhi to identify and nab the culprits.Before Crl.The dead bodies were thereafter handed over to the relatives for performing the last rites.On the same day the police officials went to Sonia Vihar where the godown of C.P Sharma (PW.9), consignee was located.Statements of Pramod Pandey (PW.24) and C.P. Sharma (PW.9) were recorded.We shall be referring to their statements later.PW.22, Dr. Vijay Dhankar, conducted the post mortem on the body of Tej Ram Saini and found the following injuries:i. Incised wound 2x0.5cm present over left side of front root of neck.A No.730/2012 Page 6 of 29Incised wound 2x0.5cm present over right side of front root of neck.Stab wound 1x0.5 cm present over right lateral portion of lower part of neck.Stab wound 4x1.5 cm present over back of root of neck on the right side.Stab wound 3x1 cm present over back of root of neck on the right side lateral to injury no.5 vii.Stab wound 3x0.8 cm present over right side of upper part of back of chest.stab wound 3x1 cm present over right side of upper part of back of chest below and lateral to injury no.7 ix.Stab wound 3x1 cm present over right side of upper part of back of chest below and lateral to injury no.8 x. Stab wound 4x1.5 cm present over right side of upper part of back of chest lateral to injury no.9 xi.Stab wound 2x1 cm present over right side of upper part of back of chest below injury no.9 xii.Stab wound 2x0.6 cm present over right side of upper part of back of chest below injury no.11 xiii.Stab wound 1.5x1.5 cm present over right side of upper part of back of chest below injury no.12 xiv.Abrasion 13x8 cm present over back of right arm xv.Multiple abrasion in a area of 6x3 cm over the right side of back if abdomenIn the opinion of PW.22, the death was due to hemorrhage and shock consequent upon penetrating injury to the neck and chest.All the injuries were found to be ante mortem and the nature of injuries No.1 to 13 were such that they could have been caused by one side sharp edged weapon.Injuries Nos. 14 - 15 were found to have been Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 7 of 29 caused by blunt force.PW.22 opined that the injury No.1 independently as well as injuries nos. 2 to 13 cumulatively were sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature.The time fixed for death was about 3 to 4 days.A No.730/2012 Page 7 of 29On the same day, PW.22 conducted the post mortem of Hans Raj and found the following injuries:i. An abraded ligature mark was present over the front and sides of neck, 9 cm below the chin in the midline and 6cm from the left and right angles of jaw on either side.The mark was 2-3 cm in width and 16 cm long.Total circumference of neck was 42 cm.The mark was interrupted and horizontally placed at the level of thyroid cartilage.Abrasion 18x6 cm was present over outer aspect of left hand.On internal examination effusion of blood was present over left parietal region of the head.A No.730/2012 Page 8 of 29 offence and opine regarding the injuries found on the dead bodies.A blood stained steel knife was received by him and he prepared the sketch of the same.After examining the knife, PW.22 opined that injuries nos. 1 to 13 on the body of Tej Ram could have been caused by the knife which he had examined.A Blood stained nylon rope was also sent to him for examination and report about the injuries on the person of Hans Raj.After examining the rope, PW.22 opined that the ligature strangulation on the body of the deceased Hans Raj could have been caused by the rope.A No.730/2012 Page 8 of 29Thus it is apparent that Tej Ram and Hans Raj died a homicidal death.Tej Ram Saini was killed by means of a knife, whereas deceased Hans Raj was throttled to death.On 27.8.2008, PW.5 received a call Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 12 of 29 from the police station Kotputli where he reached along with 3-4 of his relatives and met the police officials from PS Timarpur, Delhi.The later part of his deposition would be referred to by us later when we deal with the recovery of the truck in question.A No.730/2012 Page 12 of 29Pradeep Kumar (PW.10) confirmed that Prashant Sharma (PW.17) had asked for the mineral powder.From the deposition of the aforementioned witnesses, it is apparent that the truck of which the deceased persons were the driver and the helper/cleaner, was brought to the godown of PW.9 and the consignment was unloaded at night.The testimonies of PW.24, read in conjunction with that of PWs.5, 8, 9, 10, 15, 17 make it very obvious that the appellant Khalid was at the godown along with others to unload the consignment and thereafter the deceased persons as well as the appellant were not seen.Learned counsel appearing for the appellant urged that the evidence with respect to the appellant being last seen with the deceased could not be treated as material as there was a large time gap between the appellants having been seen with the deceased persons and the approximate time of death.A No.730/2012 Page 13 of 29Such a contention does not have any force as the dead bodies were kept in Subzi mandi mortuary for nobody came forward from 24.8.2008 till 28.8.2008 for their identification.Subsequently the bodies were identified.The other contention of the appellant that in the absence of any documentation with respect to the employment of PW.24 at the godown, he cannot be believed and be treated as a reliable witness with respect to his having last seen the appellant with the deceased, also has no force.It is a matter of common knowledge that under a private employment such formalities are not adhered to and executed and it would be too much for PW.24 to have produced any document suggesting that he was under the employment of PW.9, the owner of the godown.Oral depositions on these aspects should be accepted.Thus there is no reason to disbelieve or doubt the aforesaid witnesses with respect to the vehicle having come to the godown of Crl.The application for police remand had remained pending.On 31 st August, 2008, police custody of appellant-Khalid was taken for three days but on the said date the appellant did not cooperate.On 1 st September, 2008, the appellant-Khalid was taken from the police lock up.A No.730/2012 Page 19 of 29 Kotputli on 27th August, 2008 and that on 29th August, 2008 they kept on looking for the accused, including those, who have not been arrested.On 30th August, 2008, they had produced appellant-Khalid in the court.Khalid was sent to judicial custody.On 1st September, 2008 at about 4 to 4.30 P.M. the court granted police custody of the appellant-Khalid, and thereupon the appellant-Khalid was interrogated before being taken to Faridabad in a private car.A No.730/2012 Page 21 of 29A No.730/2012 Page 22 of 29A No.730/2012 Page 23 of 29What is clear to us from the testimony of Ram Vilas (PW-5) that the said witness got confused about the dates, apparently because of passage of time and also because of the fact that he came to Delhi on several occasions.In case the stolen vehicle had been recovered or found by any police team, it would have been flashed and uploaded on the police network.Faridabad police, had they taken the truck in their custody, would have necessarily made and recorded entries in the police diary.Intimation or inquiries would have been made from the State Transport Authority.The truck was examined by Sh.V. Shankaranarayanan (PW.21) and Sh.PW.21 in his report, which is exhibit PW21/A, has stated that blood was detected on the rooftop of the drivers cabin, truck cover, rope and towel.The said blood stains were lifted and sent for chemical examination.However no conclusive blood grouping could be recovered from the aforementioned samples.The biological report is exhibit PW26/A and serological report exhibit PW26/A No.730/2012 Page 24 of 29Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 is in the nature of partial removal of ban placed on the reception of confessional statement under section 25 of the Evidence Act. It lays down that where any fact is deposed to as discovered in consequence of Crl.A No.730/2012 Page 25 of 29 information received from a person accused of an offence, in the custody of a police officer, so much of the information, whether it amounts to confession or not, as relates distinctly to the fact thereby discovered, may be proved.We have noticed that the truck was parked at a lonely/desolate place and in presence of PW.5, the same was recovered at the instance of the appellant.A No.730/2012 Page 25 of 29The other incriminating evidence sought to be relied upon against the appellant as one of the perpetrators of the crime, is the recovery of knife, the weapon of assault, used by the appellant.The appellant took the police officials at a place near Chandi Ram Amhara towards ISBT, and on his pointing out a knife was recovered.PW.6, PW.20 and PW.23 have testified with respect to recovery of knife.The recovery has been challenged on the ground that no public witness at the time of recovery joined the investigation, despite the place of recovery being a crowded one and that the recovery memo discloses the knife to be blood smeared, whereas FSL report (Exhibit PW26/A) is to the contrary and it says that no blood could be detected on the knife.A No.730/2012 Page 26 of 29A No.730/2012 Page 26 of 29There is no reason for us to doubt that the disclosure leading to the recovery of the truck, was not voluntary.A No.730/2012 Page 28 of 29Once the evidence of the appellant having been last seen with the deceased and the recovery of the truck is found to be true and proved, the appellant loses his right to be set free.TCR be returned forthwith.A No.730/2012 Page 29 of 29
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 392 in The Indian Penal Code']
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a) Appellant - Kasim is sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 7 years for the offence under Section 307 of IPC with fine of Rs.3,000/- and in default of payment of fine, to further undergo rigorous Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 1 of 14 imprisonment for three months;A. No. 536/2001 Page 1 of 14All the sentences were ordered to run concurrently.The facts as emerging from the impugned judgment are that on 06.08.1998 at about 11.10 AM near red light, Constable Ripu Daman who was on beat patrolling duty in E. F, G, H Block, Shastri Park, Kaithwara, found that the accused Yunus was beating one rickshaw puller - Shakeel Ahmed.Ripu Daman intervened, whereupon accused Yunus started pulling out a country made pistol from his armpit.Ripu Daman gave him a danda blow.Thereafter, accused Kasim who was standing at a distance, shot a fire from another country made pistol held by him which hit against the back of Ripu Daman.When Ripu Daman turned back and found that Kishan Lal was trying to apprehend accused Kasim.Accused Yunus came there running and shot a fire at Kishan Lal but it did not strike him.Thereafter, Yunus Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 2 of 14 gave a blow with the butt of his country made pistol on the head of Kishan Lal.In the meantime, other public persons and vehicle of PCR arrived at the spot and accused Kasim was overpowered by Kishan Lal alongwith one country made pistol, eight live cartridges, one empty cartridge, besides one dagger.Inspector Maharaj Singh, of PCR apprehended the accused Yunus alongwith country made pistol, one cartridge, one fired cartridge.The officials of PCR took Ripu Daman to GTB Hospital.In the meantime, Inspector Tej Pal Singh, SHO of Police Station Seelampur arrived at the spot.Both the accused were arrested and challened for offences under Section 307/308/186/353/34 of IPC, to which they pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.The facts as emerging from the impugned judgment are that at about 11.10 AM near red light, Constable Ripu Daman who was on beat patrolling duty in E. F, G, H Block, Shastri Park, Kaithwara, found that the accused Yunus was beating one rickshaw puller - Shakeel Ahmed.Ripu Daman intervened, whereupon accused Yunus started pulling out a country made pistol from his armpit.Ripu Daman gave him a danda blow.Thereafter, accused Kasim who was standing at a distance, shot a fire from another country made pistol held by him which hit against the back of Ripu Daman.When Ripu Daman turned back and found that Kishan Lal was trying to apprehend accused Kasim.Accused Yunus came there running and shot a fire at Kishan Lal but it did not strike him.Thereafter, Yunus gave a blow with the butt of his country made pistol on the head of Kishan Lal.In the meantime, other public persons and vehicle of PCR arrived at the spot and accused Kasim was overpowered by Kishan Lal alongwith one country made pistol, eight Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 3 of 14 live cartridges, one empty cartridge, besides one dagger.Inspector Maharaj Singh, of PCR apprehended the accused Yunus alongwith country made pistol, one cartridge, one fired cartridge.The officials of PCR took Ripu Daman to GTB Hospital.A. No. 536/2001 Page 3 of 14The appellant - Kasim before the learned Additional Sessions Judge, in his statement recorded under Section 313 Cr.P.C. deposed that he had been lifted from his brother's house situated at Seelampur and the alleged recoveries were planted upon him.On the other hand, Appellant - Yunus explained that he had come to Seelampur for playing, where a quarrel took place and he received injuries.He went to his uncle's house wherefrom he was lifted by the police.They are; Head Constable Jabar singh (PW-1); Constable Charan Lal (PW-2); Dr. B.Narain, CMO GTB Hospital, Delhi (PW-3); Kishan Lal (PW-4); Head Constable Dinesh (PW-5); Constable Mohar Singh (PW-6); Constable Inderjeet Singh (PW-7); Rajiv Jain, LDC (PW-8), Constable Ripudaman (PW-9); Inspector Maharaj Singh, (PW-10); ASI Samander Singh (PW-11); Constable Rishi Pal (PW-12); Constable Karamvir Singh (PW-13); Inspector Tej Pal Singh (PW-14); Dr. R. Dayal, CMO, GTB Hospital, Delhi (PW-When he looked to the boy who had fired at him, he saw one other person trying to apprehend the assailant.At the same time, the boy whom he had seen beating another boy - fired a shot on the person who was trying to apprehend the second assailant (who had fired on him) but the fire shot did not hit that man.Thereafter, that boy hit the katta butt (handle) on the head of that person.The crowd gathered there succeeded in holding him down.The other assailant had already been apprehended by the person who had earlier been hit with butt of the katta.Thereafter, PCR van came and removed him to GTB Hospital.Through: Mr. Pannal Lal Sharma, Additional Public Prosecutor for the State with Inspector Ram Avtar Tyagi, SHO, with Sub-Inspector Manoj Tomar, Police Station Seelampur, Delhi.HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE P.S.TEJI P.S.TEJI, JBy this appeal filed under Section 374 of Cr. P.C., the appellants seek to challenge the impugned judgment dated 21.05.2001, passed in SC No.164/1999 in a case registered as FIR No. 548/1998 under Section 307/308/186/353/34 of IPC read with Section 25/27/54/59 of Arms Act, at Police Station Seelampur, Delhi.The appellant also seeks to challenge the order on sentence dated 24.05.2001, whereby they have been sentenced as follows:b) Appellant - Yunus is sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 5 years for the offence under Section 308 of IPC and payment of fine of Rs.3,000/-, in default, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months each; andc) Appellants - Kasim and Yunus were further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months each for offences under Section 186/353/34 of IPC and rigorous imprisonment for three months for the offence under Section 25/27/54/59 of Arms Act.In the meantime, Inspector Tej Pal singh, SHO of Police Station Seelampur arrived at the spot.Both the accused were arrested and challened for offences under Section 307/308/186/353/34 of IPC, to which he pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.A. No. 536/2001 Page 2 of 14However, both the appellants did not lead any defence evidence in their support.To prove the charges against the appellant, the prosecution examined 19 witnesses.A. No. 536/2001 Page 4 of 1415); Shakeel (PW-16); Sh.A.R. Arora (PW-17); Dr. Satish Mishra, Surgery Sr.Resident, GTB, (PW-18); and Dr. S.D. Bisht, Sushrut Trauma Centre, LNJP Hospital (PW-19).Upon considering the facts, evidence led and the material on record, the learned Additional Sessions Judge held the appellant - Kasim guilty for offence punishable under Sections 307 of IPC read with Section 25/27/54/59 of Arms Act and appellant - Yunus guilty for the offence under Section 308 IPC read with Section 25/27/54/59 of Arms Act, by impugned judgment dated 21.05.2001, and vide order on sentence dated 24.05.2001 and the appellants were sentenced as indicated above.Hence, the appellants have filed the instant appeal against the impugned judgment and order on sentence passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge.The main grounds of challenge are that there are contradictions in the statement of the prosecution witnesses and the prosecution has miserably failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubts.Even the prosecution witness Shakeel (PW-16) who was allegedly being beaten by the appellant has been declared hostile; Constable Ripu Daman (PW-9) in his cross-examination deposed that he could not see the faces of the appellants and on the other hand he deposed that he had seen Yunus first time in the hospital.Even the star witness Kishan Lal (PW-4) has denied having made any statement before the police and in his cross-examination stated that he had caught the accused Kasim at a Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 5 of 14 distance of 15 minutes running.It is further contended that as per the prosecution case the appellants were arrested at the spot, but the DD No.11A states that an information was received from wireless Operator through intercom that somebody had fired a shot on a police constable, he was taken to the hospital and the assailants had run away.It is further contended that the Head Constable Dinesh (PW-5) who belongs to PCR and arrived at the spot first of all and deposed that one public witness had told him that one constable had been fired.He stated that they found the constable at the spot lying and removed him to the hospital, but he nowhere stated that accused were arrested on the spot.It is further argued that PW-6 Constable Mohar Singh who was accompanying with Inspector Maharaj Singh (PW-10) to the spot, did not state a word regarding the arrest of the appellants on the spot.It is further argued that no documentary evidence was produced to show that constable Ripudaman was on duty at the place of incident.Regarding medical evidence, it is argued that Dr. R. Dahal (PW-15) and Dr. S.D. Bisht (PW-19) who medically examined and gave their opinion regarding Constable Ripudaman in his cross- examination, Dr. R. Dayal admitted that he had not removed the Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 6 of 14 pellets, rather he admitted that there would be blackening and tattooing on the body if the short is fired from a short distance.The X- ray taken is also not on record.Similarly, Dr. S.D. Bisht in his cross- examination deposed that he could not remember the length and breadth of the injuries received by the patient and without going through the records, he could not give an opinion about the nature of the injuries as the same were made simple or grievous.He further deposed that without record, he could not tell the distance of firing.Therefore from the deposition of the doctors, it is clear that the prosecution is of a simple hurt, which falls at best within the purview of Section 323 of IPC.Therefore, in such a situation, the appeal filed by the appellants be allowed and they be given the benefit of doubt.A. No. 536/2001 Page 5 of 14A. No. 536/2001 Page 6 of 14Per contra, argument advanced by learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State is that the accused/appellants were rightly held guilty, the appellant - Kasim under Section 307 of the IPC inasmuch as he had inflicted a gun shot at the complainant and the appellant - Yunus for the offence under Section 308 of IPC as he had given a blow with the butt of his country made pistol on the head of Kishan Lal.More so, there is recovery of pistol, eight live cartridges, one empty cartridge, one dagger at the instance of the appellants.Therefore, the prosecution has successfully proven the offence of the appellants beyond all reasonable doubts and in such circumstances, the impugned judgment and order on sentence passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge do not call for any interference and the same are liable to be upheld.A. No. 536/2001 Page 7 of 14I have heard the submissions made on behalf of the State and gone through the petition, impugned judgment and order on sentence and the material available on record.Constable Ripudaman (PW-9) had deposed in his statement that on the date of incident i.e. 6.8.1998 at about 11.40 am, he was present near Red light, Shastri Park and while on patrolling duty, he saw a boy being beaten by another boy.He tried to separate them and rescue the boy, but the boy who was bearing the other one, took out a desi katta from one side of his body.He immediately gave a danda blow to him.Another boy who was standing near by, had fired at him from a desi katta of which the bullet hit him on his back.It was subsequently revealed that the person who had been hit on his head was Kishan and the boy who was beating that boy was Yunus.During his deposition, he identified both the assailants in the hospital, who fired a shot on Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 8 of 14 him and had hit Kishan on his head and beaten another boy.A. No. 536/2001 Page 8 of 14Kishan Lal (PW-4) who was the eye-witness to the incident had deposed in his statement before court that on 6.8.1998 at about 11/11.30 AM, he was standing outside his house and heard a sound of DHAMAKA.He looked to the right side of the road and saw one constable falling.He went there and enquired as to what had happened.He was told that two boys had run after firing a shot on the constable.He further deposed that one of the accused was having katta in his hand and pointed out towards the appellant - Kasim.He deposed that he held Kasim and snatched the katta from his hand.When he was snatching the katta, he shouted and told the other accused - Yunus to kill him whereupon the witness pointed out towards the appellant - Yunus.He deposed that the appellant - Yunus took out a katta and fired a shot aiming at him but he fell down and was saved from the shot and thereafter Yunus hit the butt of the katta on his head.He further deposed that he handed over accused Kasim to the SHO as well as the katta.It has further come in his deposition that from the search of appellant - Kasim, eight live cartridges from his pocket were recovered.Apart from this, appellant - Kasim was having one chhura kept in his leg with the help of his socks.He deposed that he had sustained injury on his head on being hit with the katta butt by accused Yunus.He alongwith two accused where taken to GTB hosital and he was medically examined by the police.Dr. B.Narain, CMO GTB Hospital, Delhi (PW-3) deposed in his statement that he had examined Kishan Lal and prepared his MLC Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 9 of 14 (Ex. PW-3/A).Resident Surgery, he had given the opinion on the MLC (Ex. PW- 15/A and Ex. PW-18/A) as being grievous.A. No. 536/2001 Page 9 of 14This court also perused the MLC of Krishan (Ex.PW-3/A) and according to that, injured had swelling and tenderness in occeptal area of scull and the injury was opinied by the doctor to be of simple in nature with blunt object.Another MLC of Constable Ripu Daman (Ex.PW-15/A) was also perused by this court, which shows that the patient was having injury of gun shot with multiple pellets, one and half inch diameter at lower back; no blackening and tatowing of area.The doctor has opined the injury to have been caused by gun shot.Perusal of the impugned judgment passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge reveals that the appellant - Kasim has been convicted for 307 IPC on the basis of statement of injured and eye- witness as well as of independent witness Kishan Lal and on the basis of the MLC of the injured upon which the doctor has opined the injuries being inflicted through gun shot.For ready reference, Section 307 of the IPC which reads as follows is provided hereunder:"Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge, and under such circumstances that, if he by that act caused death, he would be guilty of murder, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be Crl.The determinative question is intention or knowledge, as the case may be, and not the Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 11 of 14 nature of injury.A. No. 536/2001 Page 11 of 14Likewise, vide Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 12 of 14 impugned judgment the appellant - Yunus has been held guilty for the offence under Section 308 IPC and Section 25/27/54/59 of Arms Act on the premise of the statement of Kishan Lal who in his deposition speicifcally stated that appellant - Yunus gave a blow with a butt of his country made pistol on the head.Now on the quantum of sentence, this court observes that the learned Additional Sessions Judge has awarded the sentence of 7 years rigorous imprisonment to the appellant - Kasim for the offence under Section 307 IPC and 5 years rigorous imprisonment to the appellant - Yunus for the offence under Section 308 of IPC.Considering the peculiar facts and circumstances of the present case, and the fact that the incident in question is of the year 1998 and the appellants have faced the agony of trial for the last more than 19 years, this court is of the considered opinion that the interest of justice would be met if the sentence imposed upon the appellant - Kasim is reduced to the period of 5 years for the offence under Section 307 of IPC and the sentence Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 13 of 14 imposed upon the appellant - Yunus is reduced to the period of 3 years for the offence under Section 308 of IPC years.However, the sentence under Section 25/27/54/59 of Arms Act awarded to both the appellants shall remain the same with direction of running all the sentences concurrently.It is ordered accordingly.A. No. 536/2001 Page 13 of 14Resultantly, finding no merit in the appeal, the appeal filed by the appellants is dismissed thereby upholding the impugned judgment dated 21.05.2001 and modifying the order on sentence dated 24.05.2001 to the extent indicated above.The appellants are on bail.They are directed to surrender before the trial court concerned within a period of 15 days to serve the remainder of the sentence of imprisonment.A copy of this order be sent to the Trial Court for information and necessary steps.With aforesaid directions, the present appeal is disposed of.(P.S.TEJI) JUDGE JULY 04, 2017 pkb Crl.A. No. 536/2001 Page 14 of 14A. No. 536/2001 Page 14 of 14
['Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 308 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 186 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 353 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code']
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They have challenged their conviction and sentence for the offence punishable under Section 394 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code.We have heard learned counsel for the applicants.We have also heard learned counsel appearing in the above two applications on behalf of the State.The sum and substance of the allegation on the basis of which the trial proceeded was that on 10.02.2016 at about 10.45 p.m. the victim requested for a lift in a Scorpio vehicle from Ultadanga Hudco more to Ruby and that the victim was permitted to enter the car on his agreeing to pay Rs.20/- for the lift; that thereafter, accused nos. 1, 2 and 3, of whom one was driving the vehicle, stopped the vehicle at a distant place en-route to Ruby and thereafter threatened the victim and also assaulted him by punching with hand and the victim was also threatened of harm using a screw driver; all intended to extract out of the victim his personal belongings including money and ATM cards.According to the prosecution appropos the threat, the wallet of the victim was taken by the three persons and they stopped in an ATM to draw money from the account of the victim.Though the victim did not share the ATM PIN, it was for the purpose of non-disclosure of ATM PIN that the accused persons further threatened the victim.It appears that in the T.I. Parade and in Court the victim identified the accused persons.The recovery evidenced by the search and seizure lists tends to indicate that the same material was recovered from the three accused persons.The possibility of the case in hand being one squarely falling under Sections 394 or 397 of the Indian Penal Code or one which could be tapered down to lower counts are matters that deserve to be examined.The applications being CRAN 4068 of 2019 and CRAN 4172 of 2019 are, thus, disposed of.Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties on usual undertakings.[Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan, C.J] [Arijit Banerjee, J.]
['Section 394 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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JUDGMENT D.J. Moharir, J.The appellants here are the original accused Nos. 1 to 5 who were, alongwith seven others tried for commission under sections 147, 148, 307 read with section 149 of I.P.C. as also under section 37(i), (iii) read with section 135 of the Bombay Police Act. While accused Nos. 6 to 12 were all acquitted of the above stated charges as also the charge under 201 of the I.P.C. For the offence under section 307 read with section 149 of I.P.C., each of these appellants/accused Nos. 1 to 5 was sentenced to suffer R.I. For four years and a fine of Rs. 250/- i/d of each to undergo further R.I. for 6 months.For the offence under section 148 of the I.P.C., each of them was sentenced to R.I. for 6 months and no separate sentence was awarded for the offence under section 147 of the I.P.C. The substantive sentence were directed to run concurrently.The five appellants and seven others who were acquitted all came to be prosecuted of the following as case put forth by the prosecution:The accused No. 1 Rajabhau Rasal had an elder brother by name Sudhir.In the year 1980 Sudhir was murdered by Manohar Vir who is the victim of the attempt to commit murder in this case.Manohar Vir was tried by the Session Court at Solapur, for the offence under section 302 of the I.P.C., who apparently came to be convicted under section 304(ii) of the I.P.C. He was sentenced to R.I. for 5 years.The fact that Manohar Vir was lay off lightly for the murder of his brother, was not taken lightly by the accused No. 1 Rajabhau Rasal.The desire to wreck vengence upon him and punish him life for life, to crowd in the mind of the accused No. 1, when Manohar Vir was thus lay off lightly as considered by him.With revenge overwhelming him, he was on the look out to punish Manohar Vir appropriately i.e. by doing his murder also.It was with that object that the accused Nos. 1 to 9 all friends and associates of the accused No. 1, formed an unlawful assembly, armed with deadly weapons.The accused No. 1 and 2 armed with swords, the accused No. 3 with a hockey stick, the accused No. 4 with iron bar, and the accused No. 5 with a hollow iron pipe, started on 9-10-1985 at about 12 noon, looking out for Manohar Vir.They went about in two autorickshaws of which the accused No. 10 and 11 were the drivers.They found Manohar Vir standing infront of the Bhagwat Petrol Pump and on citing him, the two autorickshaws stopped.The accused persons rushed out of the vehicles.The accused No. 1 in the lead armed with the sword, first struck a blow to Manohar on the head.Frightened at the suddenness of this attack on him, Manohar Vir, ran in the direction of the residence of the Police Inspector Atmaram Yadao.At a distance of about 1 k.m.He is a cousin of Manohar Vir.The accused Nos. 1 and 2 riding together in the third autorickshaw, passed by the restaurant of Madhukar Satarkar, while the two other autorickshaws carrying the accused persons sped away towards Latur.Slowing down the autorickshaw briefly, the accused No. 2 delivered a threat to Madhukar Satarkar also saying one is already finished and they will now burn down his hotel also.When Manohar Vir was attacked near the Bhagwat Petrol Pump and ran in the direction of the Police Inspector's bungalow, the accused persons while chasing him, raised shouts "catch him, beat him, kill him".The commotion thus caused a noise and the shoutings fell on the ears of Madan Bobde P.W. 9, who is the maternal uncle of Manohar Vir and an employee of the Municipal Council, Barsi, in the Boiler Department.His house is on the Latur Kurduwadi road in Shivaji Akhada area.At a short distance from where the incident of the attack on Manohar Vir at the Bhagwant Petrol Pump occurred, he, therefore, came out of the house all the while still taking his meal.He went upto the railway line which passes nearby and watched from there.He saw Manohar Vir running into the compound of the Police Inspector's bungalow and then the accused persons in not chased catching up with him, attacking him with swords and other weapons and then leaving him, considering him to be dead and speeding away in the autorickshaws.Like Madan Bobde P.W. 9, the occurrence was eye witnessed by Shivaji Parse P.W. 6 also.However, he had witnessed the entire occurrence starting with first attack on Manohar Vir at the Bhagwat Petrol Pump.He went on foot after the assailants, in the direction of the Police Inspector's bungalow and witnessed the entire incident including the accused persons leaving the place in the autorickshaws.Similarly Vishnu Vidhate P.W. 7, also saw the incident while he was returning to his Radio Repairing Shop, situated opposite the Police Inspector's bungalow, after taking his mid day meal at his house which is on the back side of the Bhagwat Petrol Pump.Madan Bobde, Shivaji Parse and two others by name Appa-Pappa Kandalkar and Bapu Raut then carried the injured and unconscious Manohar Vir to the Municipal Council Jawaharlal Hospital, Barsi.The Medical Officer Dr. Gaekwad P.W. 8, was no duty.He examined Manohar Vir in his unconscious condition, noted the several injuries, all incised wounds on his person and having regard to the critical condition advised that Manohar be taken to the Barsi Maternity and General Co-operative Hospital, where Dr. Hiremath P.W. 1 was the Chief Medical Officer.It was between 12-15 and 12-30 noon that the incident took place and it was by about 1-15 p.m. that Manohar Vir was finally admitted in the hospital of Dr. Hiremath.The Chief Medical Officer noted the critical condition and opined that immediate surgery was necessary.The necessary consent for surgery having been obtained on the case papers of the patient, Manohar Vir was operated upon successfully.The offence was registered against all these accused persons and wireless messages were immediately sent out as the culprit were reported to have sped away in the direction of Latur in autorickshaws.One of the message was also sent to the Pangari Police Station.P.S.I. Dange P.W. 18 having received the message, took steps to apprehend the accused persons.He first went to the village Kuslumb with his staff and learnt that autorickshaws and gone towards Yermala and, therefore, he want to Yermala also but there again he learnt that the rickshaws had gone towards a city of Bid.He requisitioned the services of motor truck for the pursuit.They were apprehended and the autorickshaws also seized and attached and sent to the Pangari Police Station.He further went ahead in search of the other accused persons upto Kunthalgiri and saw one Matador.The driver of the matador informed him that the he had taken some of the accused persons to the village Bhum in the said matador.He went to Bhum also and searched for the accused persons but they could not be traced.At Barsi the town Police Inspector Atmaram Yadao was out of station.He had gone to Pune in connection with the investigation of some other offence.He sent a Yadi to the Special Executive Magistrate for recording the statement of Manohar Vir.However, Manohar Vir apparently regained consciousness only on the 10th October 985 i.e. the next day in the morning.It was only then that his statement was recorded.P.S.I. Patil also drawn a panchanama of the scene of the offence, the spot at the Bhagwant Petrol Pump, and the premises of the Police Inspector's residence.At the spot near the Bhagwat Petrol Pump, he found one single chappal of the left foot and seized it.In the compound of the Police Inspector's bungalow, apart from observing the pool of blood, by the injuries received by Manohar Vir, he also found an iron bar (article No. 10) and the broken sword handle.These were also seized by him.By 10-30 p.m. Police Inspector Yadao, having received wireless message about the present incident, returned to Barsi from Pune.He then took over the investigation.On 10-10-1985 under the orders of Police Inspector Yadao, P.S.I. Patil seized the blood stained articles of clothing on the person of Manohar Vir under the panchanama Exh. 29 at Dr. Hiremath's Hospital (article Nos. 25 to 28).Obviously his object was to enter in the residence of the Police Inspector and seek protection against the accused persons who were after his life.To his misfortune the house was found locked.The accused persons, some of them through the gate of the compound, and some others through the wire fencing rushed at Manohar Vir and blows were struck to him, first by the accused No. 3 Somnath with the hockey stick, whereupon he fell down.He was then struck with the sword on the neck and else where on the body and lay bleeding and became unconscious.With victory thus achieved some one from these group of assailants loudly said, "he is dead, let us go now".So same the accused persons got into the autorickshaws and sped away in the direction of Latur.He also obtained a copy of Manohar Vir's statement recorded by the Special Executive Magistrate and handed over the same to the Police Inspector.Again under the orders of the Police Inspector Yadao, he also carried out the search of the accused Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8 but nothing incriminating was found.The accused Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 were all arrested on 16-10-1985 when they appeared at the Police Station which was after their application dated 12-10-1985 for grant of anticipatory bail was rejected on 15-10-1985 by the Sessions Judge.Police Custody remand of these accused persons had been obtained and during such police custody remand, following a statement duly recorded under section 27, the sword (article No. 7) was also recovered.The autorickshaw which has been used by the accused Nos. 1 to 4 for their escape was also attached and the accused No. 12 Gafar Saudagar as the driver thereof was also arrested.He visited Yermala to record the statement of the witnesses also.When the accused No. 1 was arrested, upon his surrendering himself at the Police Station at 2.45 p.m., he had found that the (accused No. 1) had injuries on the middle finger and the palm of the left hand.He, therefore, sent the accused No. 1 for medical examination and injury report to Dr. Gaekwad at the Municipal Council Jawaharlal Hospital.The chappal which had been found near the Bhagwat Petrol Pump, was found to fit on the left foot of the accused No. 2 Nagnath.During the interrogation all the accused persons, other a second sword, hockey stick and sticks etc. also came to be recovered following the statement of discovery of certain other accused persons.Eventually upon completion of the investigation, the charge-sheet was presented against all the 12 accused persons as stated above.To the charge as framed at Exh. 2, all these 12 accused persons pleaded not guilty and claimed to be tried.Their defence was of a total denial.Denying the truth of every so far as piece of evidence which came to be led against them, they also filed separate written statements to spell out their further defence.On arrival at Barsi, they learnt about this incident of the attack on Manohar Vir and feeling that since the accused No. 1 was the brother of Sudhir, who had been murdered by Manohar Vir, they would be suspected of having taken revenge upon Manohar Vir, and since they also learnt that complaint had been actually accordingly lodged against them, and further that the Police were in search of them, they decided to leave Barsi, using the motorcycle they went upto tourist hotel on the Latur road.They left the motorcycle there with instructions to the proprietor of the hotel that it be returned to Kanta Shalu.They then returned to Barsi, took their clothes in the bag and went to Solapur, where they met the accused Nos. 3 and 4 also.During the period between 12th and 15th October 1985, they submitted that Police Inspector Yadao had actually met them on some occasions.According to them, they had absolutely no concern whatsoever in the incident of the attack on Manohar Vir.No complicity therein could be attributed to them.The accused No. 1 also gave an explanation for the two cut injuries on his left hand, as caused while doing some household work.When they learnt about this incident, of the attack on Manohar Vir, they suspected that the accused No. 1 would be suspected and held responsible.They apprehended that being his friends, they would also come in trouble.Then they proceeded to Solapur deciding to apply for anticipatory bail.They denied like the accused Nos. 1 and 2 that they were still wearing any blood stained articles of clothing when they surrendered at the Police Station Barsi on 16-10-1985 or that such blood stained articles of clothing were attached from their person.Their contention was that on 9-10-1985 Wednesday, was the Bazar day at village Vasi, Taluka Bhoom.Live stock is sold in that market.Because of the severe drought conditions, cattle owners had been selling away their live stock.They had learnt that cows of jearsy breed which yield good milk in quantity were also being sold cheaply.Desiring to purchase that breed of cows, they had, therefore, decided to go to Vasi.They had intended to catch S.T. bus at 12 noon from Barsi.By the time they reached the Bus Station, bus for Vasi had already left.Apprehending that they would thus mis-unattending the cattle market, they engaged two autorickshaws driven by the accused Nos. 10 and 11 and proceeded towards Vasi from Barsi.On the way, between village Yermala and Vasi, their autorickshaws had tried to over take a bus at a road junction.In the attempt to over take, one of the two autorickshaws turned turtle.It was then that the Police Sub-Inspector Patil also came there and apprehended all of them and took them to Barsi.Their plea is that they have, therefore, been falsely implicated only because they were the friends of accused No. 1 Rajabhau Rasal.Even after taking into consideration the criticism levelled against each of these three eye witnesses, he found their evidence cogent and reliable, more particularly the evidence of the witness Vishnu Vidhate P.W. 7 was also found to be that of totally disinterested witness.It was upon such corroboration which the testimony of the victim Manohar Vir, P.W. 10, thus received that the learned Judge found the accused Nos. 1 to 5 has fully and inexplicably implicated.This was apart from the fact that the evidence from two medical witnesses Dr. Gaekwad and Dr. Hiremath also supported the eye witnesses.In his very detailed judgment exhaustively considering all evidence, the learned Judge observed that the first information report Exh. 53 came from Madan Bobde P.W. 9 as himself an eye witness to the incident.He noted that the incident had been witnessed by Shivaji Parse P.W. 6 right from the beginning i.e. when attack on Manohar Vir is started near the Bhagwat Petrol Pump and when thereafter he ran into the compound of the Police Inspector's bungalow, hotly chased by the accused persons.He had that the accused Nos. 1 and 2 had used swords, the accused No. 3 a hockey stick and the accused No. 5 a hollow iron pipe for attacking Manohar Vir, when they caught up with him in the courtyard of the Police Inspector's residence.He also found that there was no person present in the bungalow of the Police Inspector Atmaram Yadao as the latter had gone to Pune for investigational work.He also noted that when Manohar Vir was taken to the Municipal Council Jawaharlal Hospital in the first instance, the Medical Officer Dr. Gaekwad there had immediately sent information to the Police Inspector at Barsi Police Station.It was received there at about 1 p.m. He also noted that Manohar Vir could not be properly treated there and was, therefore, on the advice of Dr. Gaekwad taken to and treated at the Barsi Maternity and General Co-operative Hospital headed by Dr. Hiremath, for appropriate urgent and special treatment.The learned Additional Sessions Judge dealt with the submission of the defence Counsel that the accused persons had come to be charged only a suspicion.The submission being founded on the fact though Manohar Vir's compliant Exh. 53 had come to be lodged only by 2 p.m. or before that, the message to the Pangari Police Station for catching specifically named suspects had already gone at 1.30 p.m. That submission though accepted by him as quite ingenious was not, however, tenable in his own.He also dealt with the submission only to reject it that Manohar Vir must have been quite conscious by the time a decision to operate upon him came to be taken for the reason that the consent to such surgery had been given by Manohar Vir himself.The argument was that even Manohar Vir was in a condition to understand the risk involved in a surgery and could yet give his consent to such surgery, then it was his complaint, that should and ought to have been recorded and not of Madan Bobde P.W. 9, for taking cognizance of offence if any.The evidence pertaining to the statements of discovery under section 27 of the Evidence Act made by the various accused persons, leading to the seizure of several weapon of offence, such as two swords, sticks iron bar and pipe etc. was unworthy to credit no doubt but the fact remained all the same a true one that the report of the Chemical Analyser at Exh. 31 established the presence of human blood of group 'B' on it, that being also the blood group for victim Manohar Vir.He also rejected as entirely artificial the prosecution evidence that the accused Nos. 1 to 4 had appeared at the Barsi Police Station on 16-10-1985 with blood stained articles clothing still on their person, so as to make use of the blood stained conditions of the clothes as providing a clue to the participation of the accused Nos. 1 to 4 in the commission of the offence.He rejected the accused No. 1's explanation as to the injuries on his middle finger and the palm of his left hand.He also noted that the evidence of P.S.I. Dange of the Pangari Police Station read even in the light of the written statements of the accused persons, established that they had been in a guilty flight after the incident.Thus the learned Additional Sessions Judge came to the conclusion upon his detailed assumption of all the prosecution evidence that it unmistakably established the accused Nos. 1 to 5 as the persons who alongwith others also formed an unlawful assembly with the object of seeking revenge upon Manohar Vir for his committing the murder of Sudhir Rasal, indulged in a ferocious and concerted attack upon the defenceless Manohar Vir and had attempted to commit his murder.While against the accused Nos. 6 to 12, the evidence was unsatisfactory, while the participation of the accused Nos. 10, 11 and 12 as the autorickshaw drivers was a very negligible part, unaccompanied by their seeing of any such common object, the complicity of the accused Nos. 6 to 9 was also a fact which had remained far from established.It is, therefore, that the accused Nos. 6 to 12 came to be acquitted and their acquittal has not been, as stated at the bar by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, challenged either by an appeal against such acquittal.The accused Nos. 1 to 5 had, however, came to be convicted and sentenced as stated above and they have taken exception both to their conviction and the sentences as awarded to them by the learned Additional Sessions Judge.Both the learned Counsel Shri Patil for these appellants and the Additional Public Prosecutor for the State have taken me in almost a minute detail through the entire prosecution evidence.The finding of their guilt under section 147 and 148 as also under section 307 read section 149 of the I.P.C. is challenged by Shri Patil upon a variety of contentions and submissions.These may be briefly emnurated, before considering them in detail as under:Thirdly the evidence of the so called eye witnesses Vishnu Vidhate, Shivaji Parse and Mandan Bobde provided an indication that many persons had gathered infront of the Police Inspector's bungalow when the incident occurred and yet only interested and antagonistic persons had come to be examined as prosecution eye witnesses.These witnesses, it was also pointed out, atleast some of them were relatives of the injured Manohar Vir.It was next submitted that Manohar Vir must have been quite conscious on being taken to Dr. Hiremath's Hospital.The fact that the he gave consent to surgical operation, established that fact.Therefore, the complaint as lodged by Madan Bobde P.W. 9 was of doubtful merit as the first information report for implicating the accused.It was rather upon the suspicion which Madan Bobde must have had that the complaint was founded.It was also contended that the version of Manda Bobde P.W. 9 and Shivaji Parse P.W. 6 as to who reached first near the injured Manohar Vir in the courtyard of the Police Inspector's bungalow must lead to the disbelief of both of them as eye witnesses.It was next submitted that no specific overt act on the part of the accused No. 4 had been proved by any prosecution witness.The evidence as to the statement of discovery made by the accused persons and following such statements the recovery of any things and articles such as weapons was of a concoction.It was also contended that the injury to the middle finger and the palm of the accused No. 1 had been well explained by him but erroneously rejected by the Trial Court and lastly the incident of the murder of Sudhir Rasal having taken place as far back as in the year 1980, Manohar Vir having undergone the sentence of imprisonment thereafter and even a period of about 11/2 years or more having passed after Manohar Vir's release from imprisonment, no proximate cause for the attack on Manohar Vir could be attributed either by Manohar Vir or the other prosecution witnesses.It is upon these contentions the appellants claimed that the erroneous conclusions and findings of their guilt arrived at by the Trial Court, should deserve to be set aside to acquit them.Manohar Vir P.W. 10 as the victim of the murderous attack on him deposed that at about 12 noon on 9-10-1985 he was standing infront of the Bhagwat Petrol Pump when the accused No. 1 Rajabhau Rasal, accused No. 2 Nagnath, No. 3 Somnath and accused No. 4 Chandrakant alongwith four or five others suddenly came in two autorickshaws.The accused No. 1 armed with a sword struck him on the head from his front side, causing a bleeding injury.Manohar Vir stated that with this first blow struck with the sword and, therefore, quite terrified, more so because the number of assailants who were against him and remembering that the Police Inspector's bungalow admittedly at only a short distance from the Bhagwat Petrol Pump, he ran in that direction.He wanted to run into the Police Inspector's residence to beseech him from protection.He has specifically stated that at the time when he saw the accused persons first at the spot infront of the bhagwant Petrol Pump, he had seen the accused No. 2 Nagnath also armed with a sword and the others with sticks and iron bars.He ran into the compound of the Inspector's bungalow through the gate and to his consternation as also disappointment found that the bungalow was locked and no one present inside.It is not in the evidence that the Police Inspector Atmaram Yadao's family was residing with him at that time.So far as the Police Inspector Atmaram Yadao P.W. 17 is concerned, his unchallenged and uncontroverted version is that on 9-10-1985 he was at Pune in connection with some investigation and, therefore, away from Barsi.These, therefore, explained so to why Manohar Vir found the bungalow locked.For it is also the evidence of Police Inspector Yadao that it was only when he received a wireless message at Pune about the present incident, that he decided to return to Barsi immediately and accordingly caught the bus to reach to Barsi by 10.30 p.m. This part of the version of Manohar Vir is thus duly corroborated.He states that the accused persons eventually caught up with him and attacked him and the accused No. 2 struck him with the sword on the head while others dealt blows with sticks and iron bars.He thereupon fell unconscious and did not know what happened.It was only on the next day in the morning that the found himself in Dr. Hiremath's Hospital.It was then on 10-10-1985 that his statement came to be recorded by the Special Executive Magistrate.I find that a reference to what this statement was, has come to be made by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, in his judgment.Specifically he appears to have omitted to have mentioned the accused No. 2 Nagnath as dealt any blow to him on the head as such.He stated that he was frightened no doubt but denied the suggestion that on account of that terrified condition as such, he could not see and remember as to who his assailants were or that he had named the accused-assailants upon any tuloring by Madan Bobde.There appears no reason to doubt the prosecution evidence that Manohar Vir's statement was first recorded only by the Special Executive Magistrate and this was on 10-10-1985 by which time Madan Bobde's complaint Exh. 53 has already been recorded a day before and secondly there is so evidence to indicate that prior to the Special Executive Magistrate's recording Manohar Vir's statement under section 164 Cr.P.C. there had been any contact or conversation between Manohar Vir and Madan Bobde, That suggestion was, therefore, quite futile one. "Shivaji Parse P.W. 6 is an eye witness.He also admits that Manohar Vir had been convicted for the murder of Sudhir Rasal.Thus accused Nos. 1 to 3 and 5 also admit that Shivaji Parse knows them.He stated that at about 12 noon while going on his bicycle, he saw Manohar Vir near the Bhagwat Petrol Pump and the accused Nos. 1 to 2 armed with swords, accused No. 3 with a hockey stick and accused No. 5 with a iron pipe.There were five more persons with them who were also, according to him armed only with sticks though.What is to be noted here is, therefore, be significant absence of mentioning the name and presence of the accused No. 4 Chandrakant.At no stage of his evidence further also, Shivaji Parse would appear to speak about the presence of accused No. 4 Chandrakant.Shivaji Parse states that near the Bhagwat Petrol Pump he saw the accused No. 1 striking Manohar Vir on the head with a sword and the latter then starting running away in the direction of the Police Inspector's bungalow and entering the compound.He also saw the assailants then pursuing him.He saw the accused Nos. 1 to 3 entering the compound through the fencing.According to Madan Bobde P.W. 9 these person had entered, however, through the gate.He saw the first blow in the courtyard being delivered by the accused No. 3 with his hockey stick whereupon Manohar Vir fell down and saw the attack by the accused No. 1 and 2 with their swords and by the accused No. 5 with an iron pipe.When they apparently realised that Manohar Vir had become motionless, they left and escaped in two autorickshaws towards the Latur Road.It was after the assailants fled that he himself, Madan Bobde, Bapu Raut and Appapappa Kandalkar went near Manohar Vir and took him to the Municipal Council Jawaharlal Hospital and thereafter to the Hospital of Dr. Hiremath.Now reflecting to the contention that Manohar Vir if attacked from the front with a sword in the hands of the accused No. 1, could not have received the blow on the back side of his head, it is again asserted by this witness also that the sword blow by the accused No. 1 near the Bhagwat Petrol Pump had landed on the back side of Manohar Vir's head, which is confirmed by the injury certificate and case papers at Exh. 57 of Dr. Gaekwad and Exh. 33 of Dr. Hiremath.The hockey stick blow on Manohar Vir, while he was facing the bungalow of the Police Inspector, in the courtyard, was also given by him from his back side, had fallen down and had not thereafter got up again.While Shivaji Parse stated that it was he who had first reached near Manohar Vir, madan Shivaji Parse had asserted as such, that it was he who reached near Manohar Vir and that Shivaji Parse had come after him.According to Madan Bobde he had watched the incident near the passing from the bungalow of the Inspector, Shivaji Parse had followed these assailants upto the gate and had seen the incident from there and both Madan Bobde and Shivaji Parse had gone near the fallen Manohar Vir almost at the same time.The greater criticism of Shivaji Parse's is, however, that he must be considered to be a enemical witness.While he denied any knowledge of the fact that his brother Bhima alongwith Madan Bobde P.W. 9 was facing prosecution for an assault on the accused No. 4 Chandrakant, Madan Bobde has quite clearly admitted that fact.He stated that Shivaji Parse's brother Bhima was a co-accused in that criminal case alongwith him and certain other persons.Now the argument that Shivaji Parse cannot be relied upon as a disinterested witness for the reason that his brother Bhima under prosecution for an assault on the accused No. 4 Chandrakant becomes entirely hollow, when as observed earlier, Shivaji Parse has not implicated the accused No. 4 at all.Otherwise it is as observed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, a case of Shivaji Parse became quite natural a witness, Madan Bobde P. W. 9 is employed with the Boiler Department with the Municipal Council Barsi.The incident occurred on Wednesday which was a working day.It is, therefore, contended in the first instance that in the absence of any specific evidence that he was on leave on that day he would have to be accepted as being on duty and, therefore, could not also have been present at his house to hear about the commotion and then to witness this incident.Madan's evidence that he had been to his house for taking meal which has rightly observed by the trial Court is the usual meals time when one may be during working hours also taken a short recess for meal.His house is on the Latur Kurduwadi road at the Shivaji Akhada area.The said road is to the west of that road on which the bungalow of the Police Inspector abuts and his house is just adjoining to this road and the railway line.His house is a part of City Survey No. 3805 which is comprised of as many as 50 house including his own.He had heard the shouting from the side of the bungalow which comes to be on the back side of his house.He was taking his meal and had, therefore, immediately got up and went near the railway line to stand there and saw the incident happened.All of them entered through the gate.He did not mention accused No. 6 though the latter has been implicated in the first information report, Exh. 53 which he had given.Manohar Vir had falled down and accused No. 1 and 2 had then struck him with their swords, the other with a stick, bars and iron pipes to hit him.Manohar Vir had bled very profusely.The accused had then all left fleeting from the spot.It was then that he went near Manohar Vir.Bapu Raut and Appa Kandalkar also came there and then Manohar Vir to the Municipal Hospital, Dr. Gaekwad had advised taking him to the Dr. Hiremath's hospital and that was also done.That report was quite correct and stands to corroborate him substantially and it is also to be noted that as between this F.I.R. and the testimony given in the Court, no variance whatsoever has been pointed out.As noted earlier Madan has admitted that though an assault on accused No. 4 Chandrakant may be relevant so far as the complicity of the accused No. 4 is concerned, but not others also.The suggestion made to Madan Bobde was that Wednesday being a working day, he was at his place of work, that 'somebody' had met him there to inform him of the incident and that he had then gone to the scene of offence.This suggestion was flatly denied by the witness.F.I.R. Exh. 53 of Madan Bobde mentions that he is a maternal uncle of Manohar Vir.However, it has not been suggested with reference to this relationship, anywhere during his cross-examination that it is for the reason of this relationship that he is falsely implicating the accused persons.Madan Bobde it will thus be seen, is the only witness so far who implicates all the five appellants here as present and participated in the attack on Manohar Vir himself does not mention the accused No. 5 whom he yet knows.His Radio Repairing shop is situated opposite the S.T. Bus Stop.His residence is behind Bhagwat Petrol Pump.The Police Inspector's bunglow is on the Solapur road facing the east while his radio repairing shop on the same road faces the west.He says that he had been to his house for his mid day meal and was on way back to his shop at about 12.30 noon when he heard the shouts and cries of Raja, "catch him, kill him" and saw Manohar Vir running towards the bungalow
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accused No. 3 with hockey stick
accused No. 5 with iron pipe and while others had sticks.Accused Nos. 1 to 3 were the first ones to enter the compound of the Police Inspector's bungalow.The accused No 3 wielded Manohar Vir on the head with a hockey stick from the back side whereupon he fell down and the others then attacked him with their swords
they said ""he is dead
let us go"".They had then left in the autorickshaws.However
the witness on cross-examination had stated that he had made the note on some piece of paper in which the names of the assailants and the particular weapons wieded by them were mentioned.He stated that he had referred to this note when his statement was recorded during the investigation.He has admitted that he had not handed over this note to the Investigating Officer.The Investigating Officer himself does not appear to have questioned on this part of Vishnu's statement.If anything this much only be construed as being embellishment on the part of the witness
a display of over enthusiasm in the matter but o more.For it is admitted by all the accused persons that and also stated so at the bar by their learned Counsel for the appellants that this witness harbours no enmity against them and they have no axe to grind against him.In the circumstances
it is rightly observed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge that Vishnu of all the witnesses is the most disinterested and independent witness
who duly corroborates the victim and also established the fact as to who were the assailants when after Manohar Vir fell down under the hockey stick blow of accused No. 3
the assailants in the attack.Thus from the oral evidence
that of the victim
Manohar himself and the eye witnesses Shivaji Parse P.W. 6
Vishnu Vidhate P.W. 7 and Madan Bobde P.W. 9
the accused Nos. 1 to 3 must be found to have been definitely and fully implicated as the assailants not so however
the accused Nos. 4 and 5 inasmuch as accused No. 4 is not mentioned by the complainant himself as even present when he first saw the group of assailants near the Bhagwat Petrol Pump or hereafter.Then again Shivaji Parse P.W. 6 has also mentioned that the hockey stick was wielded by accused No. 5 though according to P.W. 7 Vishnu Vidhate it was accused No. 3 Somnath who had wielded the hockey stick.Thus any specific over act by the accused No. 4 is not proved and the participation on the part of the accused No. 5 as such comes into doubt with the omission to implicate him on the part of the victim himself.There is more in the medical evidence which in my opinion brings into doubt any participation on the part of the accused Nos. 4 and 5 as such.Dr. Gaekwad who was the first one to examine the injured Manohar Vir only hurriedly has mentioned all only for injuries in the nature of wounds which further appeared to him to be incised in nature.It was Dr. Hiremath at the Barsi Maternity and General Co-operative Hospital
who dealt with a patient to the point of performing surgery also.Dr. Hiremath P.W. 1 found as many as 12 injuries on the body of Manohar Vir.of these each of the injuries as Sr. No. 1 to 11 was incised wound and only the injury No. 12 was a superficial abrassion on the right big toe.If the use of any such sharp edged weapon as a sword is attributed only to the accused Nos. 1 and 2 and if the injury No. 12 is only in the nature of abrassion on the right big toe of the right foot
then evidence of all these witnesses including the victim Manohar Vir about the use of an iron pipe by the accused No. 5 and stick by the accused No. 4 Chandrakant must come into doubt.For hitting either with an iron pipe or a stick
would certainly not cause injuries of a incised nature.The use of these weapons would at best cause contusion or swelling on the body.It might further at best cause injuries in the nature of laceration
particularly if an iron pipes were used with roughened ends.But no such injury was observed by Dr. Hiremath also and that is what in my opinion
brings into doubt the story about any overt act as such on the part of these accused.It has to be conceded by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor that consistently with the evidence that accused No. 4 wielding a stick and accused No. 5 wielding an iron pipe no injury correspondently can be said to have been caused to Manohar Vir.This is as seen therefore
frequently brings the case of conviction of these two appellants into some doubt to the benefit of which they would have to be found entitled.As per the prosecution evidence about the seizure of blood stained articles on the person of the accused Nos. 1 to 3 or the accused No. 4 for that matter
is concerned
one must concur with the learned Judge of the trial Court that this evidence of such nature that the tending of it would be only at the peril of acceptance of even that prosecution evidence which would be otherwise considered genuine
truthful and reliable.One could not be deal more on this aspect of the evidence.It is
however
also pointed out by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor that the evidence of absconding on the part of these accused persons must deserve due consideration.In support plea of alibi no evidence was raised.It is their case that on 11-10-1985 they went to Barsi from Solapur.That means they were at Barsi on 9th and 10th of October 1985 and quite for some time on the 11th also.If their contention is that they have come to be implicated only on the suspicion that accused No. 1 was wanted to take revenge for the murder of his brother Sudhir
committed by Manohar Vir or for the reason that the accused No. 2 was accused No. 1's friend
then
it was quite open to them immediately approach the Police and establish their plea of alibi.They did not do so.They proceeded to Solapur for anticipatory bail
obviously to avoid arrest.It is difficult to appreciate their contention that their names have been taken only on suspicion
to falsely Implicate them.It is almost a well settled law that a injured person would not falsely implicate others instead of the real culprit.That apart Manohar Vir's testimony corroborated by Shivaji Parse
Vishnu Vidhate and Madan Bobde.The accused Nos. 3 and 4 have offered an explanation which like the learned Judge of the trial Court
1 must also consider entirely unsatisfactory.They did learn about the attack on Manohar Vir in the evening that day and also that the assailants had then fled and disappeared.It is their say that accused No. 1 Rajabhau Rasal was their friend and as Manohar Vir committed the murder of Rajabhau's brother Sudhir
they suspected that they would be involved in the crime alongwith him.They got wind of the likehood of being so implicated by general talk amongst the members of the public.Therefore
they say that they remained hiding in their houses till 11-10-1985 and then went to Solapur to apply for anticipatory bail.The reasons for not considering the offences brought home to the accused No. 4 Chandrakant apart so far as the accused No. 3 is concerned
this explanation is entirely unsatisfactory.The incriminating testimony of circumstantial importance against the accused Nos. 1 to 3 also comes from two other witnesses Nagesh P.W. 11 and Madhukar Satarkar P.W. 12 Madhukar Satarkar is the owner of the Sital Restaurant on the Barsi-Latur road about a Kilometer away from the town proper.He is a cousin of Manohar Vir and knows all the accused.It is his evidence and that of Nagesh P.W. 11 that on 9-10-1985 at about 12-30 noon both of them were sitting in the open space in front of the restaurant taking tea.The Barsi Latur road adjoins this open space in front of the restaurant.Nagesh P.W. 11 has stated that at that time authorickshaws were halted near the restaurant and the accused No. 2 Nagnath had delivered a threat to Madhujar Satarkar P.W. 2 that his hotel would be set on fire.Accused No. 2 had delivered this threat while sitting in the authorickshaw.The accused No. 2 had said 'we have finished with one and we return to burn his hotel'.The first two authorickshaws
he stated that gone towards Latur in high speed and it was the third authorickshaw which came about 5 minutes later which had slowed down near him and the accused No. 2 sitting in it had given threats to him.This evidence of a guilty flight on the part of the accused Nos. 1 to 3
apart threats delivered by them
has been
however
disbelieved by the learned Judge of the Trial Court by observing that Madhukar Satarkar had thereafter remained complacent
he had not reported the threats to the police
when he went back to then town and came to know about the incident
he had gone to hiremath Hospital to see the injured Manohar Vir.He admitted that he disclosed this only to the Police Inspector when his statement was recorded that night.The silence about the guilty flight of the assailants of Manohar Vir in three authorickshaws and the threats given by accused No. 3
the learned Judge of the Trial Court observed so feeling enough to doubt the story given by this witness.In my opinion
however
when Madhukar Satarkar
is considered as one of the persons who was related to Manohar Vir
and had some connection with the murder of Sudhir
then the deliverance of such threat is not entirely improbable.The evidence that accused No. 3 remarked that one person had already been done away that becomes relevant when one appreciates that according to Vishnu Vidhate P.W. 7
the assailants after belabouring Manohar Vir in the courtyard of the Police Inspector's bungalow had remarked ""he is dead"" and had then gone away.It was on their way
fleeing from Barsi towards Latur that Madhukar Satarkar's restaurant is located and such an utterance by the accused No. 3 revelling in victory over the attack on Manohar Vir
prompts such an utterance.As noted earlier one of the contentions advanced in regard to the identification of the accused as the assailants
made by P.W. 10 Manohar Vir
victim
was that the suddenness of the appearances of the assailants
the suddenness of the sword blow delivered to him and the terror created thereby in his mind would all attribute to his being oblivious of the identity of the assailants.This contention is unacceptable because the incident occurred in broad day light
the assailants were all persons quire well known to Manohar Vir
and thirdly he must be assumed to have reminding away all the time by his doing murder of Sudhir Rasal
he had created a life long enemy in the accused No. 1 Rajabhau Rasal and his friends.The next argument was that the prosecution had chosen only interested witnesses as to give evidence against the accused.I have already dealt with this later aspect namely that Shivaji Parse has still not implicated accused No. 4 even considering the relationship between Manohar Vir and Madan Bobde the account as given by him
and subjected to close cross-examination stands substantially unshaken.What is of the highest importance is that there is atleast one witness who is totally disinterested and independently namely Vishnu Vidhate P.W. 7
notwithstanding that the embellishment which he has at one time admitted.The contention that Manohar Vir must have been conscious or must have regained consciousness upon being taken to Dr. Hiremath's Hospital is founded on the endorsement on the case papers of the said hospital.The endorsement is ""I am prepared
on my responsibility to get my patient operated upon.In this respect I have no objection for such operation under any kind of An-aesthesia.""Now it will be appreciated that Madan Bobde P.W. 9 must also to be found to have lodged his complaint very promptly
without loosing any time in deliberation and premediation (as to whom to implicate) because it is also stated by Dr. Hiremath that Madan bobde was not present at the time when he first examined Manohar Vir Madan Bobde had
immediately after reaching Manohar Vir to the Dr. Hiremath's hospital with the assistance of others
gone to the Police and lodged this complaint to implicate these appellants.Therefore
the plea the first information report.Apart from that the evidence shows that one of the tow swords on which as per the report Exh. 31 of the Chemical Analyser
human blood stains of Group B were found
was found to have dishandled in a broken condition and it is
therefore
more than probable that even in that broken condition the sword had been tried to be used by the accused No. 1 and
therefore
these injuries had been caused to him.The broken handle separated from the blade of the sword was found at the spot by the P.S.I. Patil
and seized and even on this handle the blood of Group B which is the blood group of Manohar Vir had been detected.Even alternatively
it has to be appreciated that Manohar Vir has stated that he had made some attempt to struggle with his assailants when he was attacked with the sword and it is that attempt that accused No. 1 could have sustained these injuries.For all these reasons
therefore
it must be held that so far as the accused Nos. 1 to 3 are concerned
they being members of an unlawful assembly which indulged in rioting and their attack on Manohar Vir was clearly with the intention of committing his murder
is more than well established.The very number of the incised injuries
as many as 11
all over the body bears testimony to such intention on their part.Having regard to the context of Manohar Vir being a person who was convicted and sentenced for causing the death of accused No. 1's brother Sudhir Rasal and the dissatisfaction experienced by the accused No. 1 at Manohar Vir's being lay off lightly and
therefore
his desire on his own to revengefully further punish Manohar Vir's a probably adequate sentence of imprisonment to him as also to the accused Nos. 1 to 3 who participated in the attack alongwith him
is in my opinion unavoidable in the interest of justice.Having regard to this and all other circumstances
the sentence would have to be modified as follows :The appeal so far as the appellants Nos. 4 and 5 are concerned
is hereby allowed.Their conviction for the offence under section 147
148
307 read with section 149 of the I.P.C. is hereby set aside and they shall stand acquitted of the said charge.Accordingly their bail bonds shall also stand cancelled.The appeal so far as the accused Nos. 1 to 3 are concerned
is hereby partly allowed.Their conviction for the offence under section 147
148 and 307 read with section 149 of the I.P.C. is upheld and confirmed.The sentence of R.i.for four years awarded to each of them is
however
reduced to two years R.I. and the fine of Rs. 250/- imposed upon each of them is increased to Rs. 1000/-.The appellants have been on bail during the period of this appeal.They shall now surrender to their bail.At the request of their Counsel
they are granted one month's time to so surrender to their bail.The appeal is disposed of accordingly."
['Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code']
Analyze the legal case and identify the corresponding section it comes under.
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Shri Rahul Bansal, Advocate for the petitioner.Dr. (Smt) Anjali Gyanani, Public Prosecutor for the State.Case Diary is perused.Learned counsel for the rival parties are heard.The petitioner has filed this first application under Section 439, Cr.P.C.The petitioner has been arrested on 13/11/2015 by Police Station Dharnabada, District Guna (M.P.) in connection with Crime No. 354/07 registered in relation to the offence punishable under Sections 341, 294, 303, 506-B, 325, 307, 147, 148 and 149 of I.P.C.Learned Public Prosecutor for the State opposed the application and prayed for its rejection by contending that on the basis of the allegations and the material available on record, no case for grant of bail is made out.Charge-sheet has been filed where allegation of attempt to murder is made.The petitioner appears to be the main accused who has assaulted the injured on the head with the sharp-cutting object.Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the name of the petitioner does not figure in the FIR which discloses his name as Kalia.The State counsel by perusing 2 Mcrc.13906/15 Hari Singh Vs.State of M.P.the case-diary informs that the petitioner is also known by the name of Kalia, Kelash and Hari Singh.Apart from the above, the petitioner has large number of criminal cases as criminal antecedents.In view of above, no case for grant of bail is made out.The application stands rejected.
['Section 325 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code']
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PW 1 is a local resident and the de facto complainant in the instant case.He deposed that there is a stone quarry of Arun Babu by the side of the village.He works in the said stone quarry.All the villagers used the said well for collecting water.On 26.10.1990 he along with others was working in the said quarry.When they had gone to collect drinking water from the said well they found the appellant Jahangir Sk.throwing boulder in the said well.They raised protest and asked him why he was throwing boulders.He stated that he was throwing boulders to catch fish.They became suspicious and found a bloodstained boulder in the well.They asked the appellant to pull out the boulders.He refused to do so.He was detained and the villagers dried the well and found the dead body of the victim, Chabi Murmu.They informed the chowkidar who later informed the police.Upon questioning, the appellant stated that he along with Meherun Bibi murdered Chabi Murmu with a hensua in the bamboo grove and threw the dead body in the well.He stated that Chabi had a love affair with Farad, who is the husband of Meherun Bibi.The appellant thereafter stated that he along with Meherun Bibi and one Salam Sk.took the dead body from the nearby field and threw it in the well.The appellant was throwing boulders in order to conceal the dead body.The Police thereafter arrived at the spot.He wrote a written complaint which was signed by him (Exbt.1/1).The dead body was taken out from the well.PW 2 is another local villager.He signed on the seizure list (Exbt. 2/2).In cross-examination, he stated that he is also working in the said stone quarry.The well was full of water at that time.PW 3 and PW 5 were also working in the said stone quarry.PW 4 was tendered for cross-examination.PW 6 is a local villager who used to work in the said stone quarry.He deposed that the appellant was throwing boulders in the well and on questioning he refused to divulge anything.They drained out the well and found the dead body of Chabi Murmu.Appellant stated that to prevent floating of the dead body he had thrown boulders into the well.He stated that mother of Chabi was searching for her deceased daughter for the last two days.In cross-examination, he stated that 40/60 persons worked in the stone quarry.The water of the well was drained out within 3 to 4 hours.Several local villagers assembled there.Daroga babu arrived when they were draining the water.Daroga babu managed to extricate the dead body with the help of the appellant.They were present at the side of the well.The appellant did not state anything when they began to drain out the water.Chabi's village is one mile from their village.PW 7 was declared hostile and cross examined.PW 8 deposed that he knew Chabi.She had illicit relationship with Faraz, husband of Meherun.PW 9 also deposed that on the fateful day the appellant was found throwing boulders in the well.The appellant stated to him that he was throwing boulder to catch fish.PW 10 is the mother of Chabi.She stated that on 24.10.1990 Chabi went to Dolkata ghat at about 2.30 p.m. She was wearing a saya, sari, gamcha and blouse and had gold ornaments like ear ring, gold neckless, nakchabi on her person.She never returned.They searched everywhere.On Friday afternoon some people of Dolkata village informed her that her daughter might have been found in a well near the stone quarry of Arun babu.She proceeded to Dolkata and reached near the stone quarry of Arun babu.At that time daroga babu was also present.The dead body was lying by the side of the well.She identified the dead body of her daughter.The ornaments of the victim were not found on her person.She stated that her son-in-law is dead and her daughter used to work as a daily labourer in different places.She went with some boys while going for work.She did not inform the police about the missing of her daughter.PW 11 is a resident of Dolkata village.He stated that on 26.10.90 he found Jahangir was surrounded by various people and saw that the local people were draining out the water from the well and a dead body was found in the well.The appellant admitted that he killed Chabi along with Meher and Salem.Local chowkidar was also informed.Police turned up in the evening.Mother of Chabi identified the dead body.Daroga babu questioned Jahangir about the murder weapon and he led them to the residence of Jahangir and picked out the hensua from his thatched roof.Daroga babu seized the same and prepared seizure list (Exbt.4/2).In cross-examination, he stated that Jahangir is not related by blood either to Meherun or to her husband.PW 12 stated that there was a village salish over the illicit relation of Chabi and Faraz.Faraz accepted to desist from such association.In cross- examination, he stated that he never saw in the house of Faraz.PW 13 is the owner of stone quarry where the appellant and the other witnesses worked.He stated that there is a well near the stone quarry which was used for collecting drinking water.He had no knowledge whether the PW 1 was working there.5/1).He along with S.I. Avas Nandi (PW 15) went to the village.PW 1 lodged the written complaint.He reached the village at 19.35 hrs.He sent the FIR to police station through his driver Sannyasi Pal for starting PS case and upon his return he endorsed the case to S.I. A. Nandy.He kept A.S.I Ramapada Ghosh there and left.In cross- examination, he stated that he cannot say the name of the Chowkidar which is also not noted in the General Diary.The case was endorsed to him for investigation.PW 1 identified the place of occurrence.He prepared the sketch map with index (Exbt.6 and 6/1).The dead body was taken out of the well in his presence by some villagers.He prepared the inquest report in presence of the witnesses (Exbt.2).He collected bloodstained earth and controlled earth from bamboo groove (Exbt.3/2).He arrested the appellant and Meherun.The appellant made statement under Section 161 CrPC (Exbt.7).He recovered a Hensua from the residence of the appellant under a seizure list (exbt.4).He examined the witnesses.He seized wearing apparels of the deceased under a seizure list (Exbt.8).He made the seizure in the Thana.The accused was produced in Court and he sent the dead body for postmortem examination.On his transfer he handed over the charge to Officer-in-Charge.In cross-examination, he stated that he did not examine the chowkidar in the case.There is nothing in the case diary regarding whether the accused persons were present in the place of occurrence.Hensua was not sent for FSL examination.He could not say whether the appellant was a resident under Sikaripara P.S. PW 16 Sannyasi Ch.Paul, was a driver constable attached to Md. Bazar P.S. He took the written complaint from PW 14 to the thana and ASI Ramapati recorded the formal FIR.PW 17, A.S.I Ramapati Ghosh deposed that on receipt of written complaint from the Officer-in-Charge Chandan Babu he drew up the formal FIR.Thereafter he sent the FIR to Chandan Babu once again through the driver Sannyasi Paul.He entered the General Diary No.702 (Exbt.10).PW 18 was the second investigating officer who concluded the investigation and filed charge sheet.PW 19 is the Autopsy Surgeon who found the following injuries:-1) The body was in highly decomposed condition.IPC and in conclusion of investigation a charge-sheet was filed under the aforesaid sections against the appellant and the two other accused persons.The case was committed to the court of sessions and transferred to the court of Additional Sessions Judge, Second Court, Suri, Birbhum for trial and disposal.As Salem Sk absconded, charges were framed under Sections 302/34 IPC and Sections 201/34 IPC against the appellant and Mehrun Bibi.They pleaded not guilty and claimed to be tried.In course of trial, the prosecution examined P.W.19 and exhibited a number of documents.The defence of the appellant was one of innocence and false implication.It was his specific defence that nobody has seen him with the victim prior to her death.There was no enmity between the appellant and the victim.There is also no evidence to show that the appellant had met the co-accused persons, namely, Mehrun Bibi and Salem Sk.The extra judicial confession relied upon in the instant case is highly dubious and the recovery of the hensua was not at his behest.However, in conclusion of trial, the trial Judge by the impugned judgement and order dated 15th July, 1997 convicted and sentenced the appellant, as aforesaid.By the self-same judgment and order, Mehrun Bibi, however, was acquitted from the charges leveled against her.Nobody appeared for the appellant.The extra judicial confession was procured under coercion after the appellant was detained by local villagers in the presence of a Chowkider and even the Officer-in-Charge, P.W. 14 was present in or about the time of recording of such confession.Hence, it cannot be said that the appellant was a free agent and have voluntarily made such confession.There was also no reliable evidence led by the prosecution to establish that there was an illicit affair between the victim and Faraz, the husband of acquitted accused, Mehrun Bibi, which is touted as the motive of crime.Recovery of hensua from the residence of the appellant is also not an incriminating circumstance as the said instrument was not sent for FSL examination.He accordingly prayed for acquittal.Ms. Khan, learned counsel appearing for the State submitted that the conduct of the appellant in throwing boulders into the well from where the villagers used to collect drinking water was most suspicious.Accordingly, the villagers asked the appellant to remove the boulders which he refused to do and upon draining the water the villagers found a dead body.On interrogation, the appellant made an extra judicial confession admitting his guilt which in the aforesaid circumstances is most natural and, therefore, was rightly relied upon by the trial court.Soon thereafter, on his leading statement the weapon of offence, namely, hensua was recovered.Medical evidence has also supported the aforesaid circumstances.Hence, the appeal is liable to be dismissed.An analysis of the evidence on record would show that the case of the prosecution is based on circumstantial evidence.The prosecution has essentially relied on the following circumstances to bring upon the guilt of the appellant:a) On 26-10-1990 in the morning, the appellant was found throwing boulders into a well from where the local villagers used to collect drinking water;b) The local villagers who had assembled to collect drinking water opposed the appellant in fouling the water by throwing boulders and asked him to remove the bounders;c) The appellant refused to do so and thereupon he was detained;d) The local people drained the water and found the dead body of a lady.e) This fact was informed to the local Chowkider who in turn intimated the local police station over the incident.f) In the meantime, the appellant made an extra judicial confession stating that he along with Mehrun Bibi (acquitted accused) had killed Chabi with a hensua in a bamboo grove over the issue of illicit relation between Faraz, the husband of Mehrun Bibi and the victim.Thereafter, the dead body was put into the well by the aforesaid accused persons and Salem Sk.and he was throwing boulders to conceal the body.g) The police arrived at the spot and the body of the victim was brought out from the well.The dead body was identified as that of Chabi.h) Police recorded the confessional statement of the appellant and pursuant to his statement a hensua was seized from his house.Mother of Chabi, her brother and sister identified the dead body.Police held inquest over the dead body.He signed on the inquest report (Exbt.2/1).Daroga Babu took all of them to the bamboo grove, seized bloodstained earth and controlled earth (Exbt.3/1).Police arrested Jahangir and Meher Bibi and took them into custody.Next morning at about 10/10.30 a.m. police arrived at the village with Jahangir and recovered one Hensua from the house of one Salam Sk.He identified the Hensua (Mat Exbt.4/1) and put his signature on the seizure list (Exbt.4/1).In cross-examination, he stated that he never saw Chabi roaming with Jahangir on earlier occasions.He accompanied the police since the recovery of dead body.They began to drain out the water of the well.After draining out the water they found the dead body of Chabi.On repeated questioning the appellant admitted his guilt.In cross-examination, he stated that Daroga babu arrived in the afternoon.PW 14 was the officer-in-charge of Suri Police Station at the material point of time.On the date of occurrence at 5.15 P.M., Chowkider of Dolkata village informed him about a dead body at Dolkata village.He diarised the information as General Diary Entry No.699 dated 26.10.1990 (Exbt.PW 15 Abhas Nandi was attached to Md. Bazar P.S. as SI of Police.PW 14 Chandan Mukherjee was officer-in-charge of Md. Bazar P.S. On receipt of information they proceeded to Dolkata village by jeep.On reaching Dolkata village PW 1 lodged a written complaint and the complaint was sent to the police for starting a PS case.2) He found one incised injury in the mid-region of the neck measuring 4"X3"X4".No other injuries were found.3) Larynx and trachea were cut off.He stated that the injuries were caused by Hensua.From the aforesaid evidence it appears that on 26.10.1996 PWs.1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 11 found the appellant throwing boulders into the well when they arrived at the same spot to collect drinking water.All of them claimed that they were working in the stone quarry of PW 13 immediately prior to assembling at the well for collecting water.This dichotomy throws doubt as to their simultaneous presence at the place and time of occurrence.However, all of them have said in unison that they were present there for collecting drinking water and had enquired the appellant as to why he was throwing boulders into the well.The appellant replied that he wanted to catch fish.The witnesses became suspicious and asked him to remove the boulders.When he refused to do so they detained the appellant and started draining the water and ultimately found a dead body in the well.They informed the chowkidar whose identity has neither been established nor has he been examined in the instant case.It is claimed that the said chowkidar, informed Md. Bazar Police Station and such information was diarized as GDE 699 dated 16.10.1990 (Exbt.5).Pursuant thereto PW 14, Officer-in-Charge of the police station and the PW 15, first investigating officer of the case, came to the place of occurrence.It appears from the evidence of PW 6 as well as the Officer-in-Charge (PW 14) that the latter arrived at the spot while the water was being drained out from the well.Thereafter the dead body of the victim was brought out.In the meantime it is claimed that the appellant had made a confessional statement that he along with Meherun Bibi had killed Chabi Murmu with a hensua in the bamboo grove.Thereafter, he along with Meherun Bibi and Salem Sk. had thrown the dead body of the victim in the well and he was throwing boulders in the well in order to conceal the dead body.Prosecution has essentially relied on this piece of evidence, namely, extra-judicial confession of the appellant to establish his guilt.It is, therefore, necessary to see whether the extra-judicial confession made by the appellant is voluntary and truthful so as to form the basis of his conviction.It appears from the evidence of all the witnesses that after discovery of the dead body in the pond they had detained the appellant.Hence, one can safely conclude that the appellant was not a free agent at the time when he made the extra-judicial confession casting serious doubt as to its voluntariness.Apart from that, it appears that the local chowkidar had been informed who intimated the discovery of dead body in the well to the police station.The identity of the chowkidar has not been established.He has also not been examined in the instant case.The examination of chowkidar in the instant case is most vital in order to ascertain as to whether he was present at the spot when the victim made the so-called extra-judicial confessional statement to the villagers.Evidence of PW 6 shows that police arrived there while they were draining water from the well.Under such circumstances, possibility of presence of the police personnel at the time when the so-called extra-judicial confession was made by the appellant cannot be wholly ruled out.The appellant was detained by an agitated mob while they drained water from the well for 3-4 hours.The village chowkidar was present and the police from the local police station who had been informed also arrived at the spot while the water was being drained out of the well.The appellant was, therefore, not a free agent when he purportedly made the confession.The witnesses who had detained him were most hostile and it is possible due to coercion and out of fear he was forced to admit his guilt.Presence of police personnel at the time of making such confession and the fear of immediate reprisal from persons in authority cannot be wholly ruled out in the aforesaid factual matrix.The genesis of the prosecution case shows that the said extra-judicial confession is claimed to have been made after the discovery of the dead body in the well.Soon thereafter, the appellant had been detained by the agitated local people and, in all probability, the extra-judicial confession had been procured under pressure in presence of persons in authority like the chowkidar and local police personnel of the police station who had arrived at the spot while water was being drained out from the well.In Sasanka Sekhar Kar vs. State of West Bengal, 1990 Cr.L.J. (NOC) 168 (CAL)], a Division bench of this court held that an extra judicial confession made by an accused when surrounded by a large mob cannot be said to be voluntarily.Coming to the corroborative evidence of recovery of hensua, it appears that such recovery had not been made in that night but on the next morning.PW 15 claimed that he had immediately recorded the confessional statement in writing of the appellant.There was no explanation offered as to why after recording the statement (exbt. 7) of the appellant at the place of occurrence, P.W. 15 took the appellant back to the police station and affected the recovery of the hensua purportedly pursuant to his statement only on the next day.This gap in time and the manner of recovery of hensua throws serious doubt as to whether the said recovery was, in fact, pursuant to the statement of the appellant as claimed by the police.It is also important to note that the hensua had not been sent for forensic examination so as to determine the presence of human blood on the weapon so as to connect it with the alleged crime.Hence, this piece of evidence is highly artificial and does not inspire confidence.Finally, coming to the issue of motive, I find that there is absolutely no involvement of the appellant in the so-called illicit relationship between Faraz, the husband of the acquitted accused Meherun Bibi and the victim Chabi.In the conspectus of the aforesaid evidence on record particularly, in view of the suspicious circumstances attending the purported extra-judicial confession which was procured from the appellant while he was in detention and where the possibility of presence of police personnel at the spot cannot be wholly ruled out, I am afraid that conviction of the appellant primarily on such piece of evidence is not justified.It is apposite to note that mere vague suspicion cannot take the place of proof and when the prosecution has not been able to show that the appellant had voluntarily made the extra-judicial confession free from any influence or coercion, I am of the opinion that conviction of the appellant essentially founded on such weak piece of witness is liable to be set aside.Accordingly, I set aside the conviction and sentence imposed on the appellant.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(C) The house in which the dead body of Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan is said to have been found, was not occupied by the appellant alone and there were other inmates also.(D) There is no evidence to prove that the appellant gave a beating by a lathi and, therefore, there was no justification to hold him guilty for an offence punishable under Section 302 of IPC.(E) The charges have not been proved beyond reasonable doubt and at the most the appellant could have been punished under Section 323 of the IPC.The short facts of the prosecution story are that on 28-8-2002 at about 10-11 P.M., some quarrel had taken place between the deceased Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan and the appellant and at that time, the appellant's wife Gulab Bai was also present.The appellant and his wife brought the deceased Hatimtai to their house.At about 1.00 A.M. on 29-8-2002, Suresh Mali and Gulab Bai came to the house of P.W. 5 Tejram who was chowkidar of Village Rupi Paretiya and informed him that Hatimtai is abusing Babloo in their house.On receiving this information, P.W. 5 Tejram went to the house of appellant and found that Hatimtai was tied with a pole with the help of rope.On his instruction, the appellant untied the rope but by that time Hatimtai had died.Thereafter, the chowkidar informed the villagers about this incident and after that he went to Police Station Harda and lodged Ex. P-6 merg intimation and Ex. P-7 FIR.After receiving this information, the Investigating Officer of Police Station Harda commenced the investigation and prepared Ex. P-3 inquest report after issuance of Ex. P-2 notice.He also prepared Ex. P-4 site plan.A plank and two pieces of nylon rope were seized from the possession of appellant upon his information and Ex. P-9 memorandum and Ex. P-9-A seizure memo were prepared.JUDGMENT A.K. Saxena, J.Feeling aggrieved by the judgment dated 30-4-2005 passed by the First Additional Sessions Judge, Harda in Sessions Trial No. 446/02, the appellant Babloo @ Ganesh has preferred this appeal against his conviction under Section 302 of the IPC whereby he is sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and fine of Rs. 1,000/-, in default six months rigorous imprisonment.The appellant Babloo @ Ganesh has preferred this appeal under Section 374 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 on the following grounds:-(A) There is no evidence on record to suggest that the appellant gave a beating to the deceased Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan resulting his death.(B) The learned Trial Court failed to appreciate the prosecution evidence properly.The dead body of Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan was sent to the hospital for post-mortem where P.W. 13 Dr. S.K. Sengar conducted the autopsy.After completion of investigation, the charge sheet was filed against appellant/accused.The Trial Court framed the charges under Sections 342 and 302 read with Section 34 of the IPC against the present appellant and against co-accused Gulab Bai, who died during the trial.The learned Trial Court found that the offence under Section 342 of the IPC could not be proved beyond shadow of doubt and the appellant was acquitted of the charge under Section 342 of IPC but, he was convicted under Section 302 of the IPC and sentenced him as mentioned hereinabove.On perusal of the record of Trial Court, it is apparent that there is no eye witness to prove as to what had happened in the house of appellant.The whole prosecution story is based on circumstantial evidence.As per prosecution story, initially, some quarrel had taken place between the appellant and the deceased near the temple where few witnesses were present and at that time both these persons were dragging each other in their presence.Thereafter, the appellant and his wife brought the deceased Hatimtai to their house and when P.W. 5 Tejram, Chowkidar went to the house of appellant upon receiving the information from Suresh Mali and Gulab Bai, he found that Hatimtai had already died.There is overwhelming evidence on the point of quarrel which had taken place near the temple and P.W. 2 Shankarlal, P.W. 6 Sakharam, P.W. 9 Hari Prasad, P.W. 10 Suresh, P.W. 11 Nanhelal and P.W. 12 Golu @ Omprakash have categorically stated that the appellant and Hatimtai were dragging each other near the temple.On this point, surprisingly, there was no cross-examination on behalf of appellant/accused on P.W. 9 Hari Prasad, P.W. 10 Suresh and P.W. 12 Golu @ Omprakash.The prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt this circumstance that at the initial stage, some scuffle had taken place between the appellant and the deceased and then they went towards the house of appellant.There is sufficient evidence to prove that the deceased Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan was found dead in the veranda of the house of appellant and at that time the appellant was also present in his house.On this point, the statement of P.W. 5 Tejram is fully trustworthy.The learned Counsel for the appellant contended that the dead body of Hatimtai was found at an open place where anybody can come and commit this offence, therefore, the learned Trial Court committed an error in holding that the appellant had committed this offence.We are not inclined to accept this argument because the statement of P.W. 5 Tejram, who is an independent witness, is totally trustworthy.He had no inimical terms with the appellant.Ex. P-4 site plan also shows that there is a veranda attached to the rooms belonging to the appellant where the dead body was found and this fact is also noteworthy that the appellant was present in his house at that time.Now, it becomes the duty of the appellant to explain as to how the dead body of Hatimtai was found tied with the pole.A heavy burden lies on the appellant to explain the above situation but he failed to explain it, which goes against him.The prosecution has also proved that two pieces of nylon rope were seized from the possession of appellant upon his information and Ex. P-9 memorandum and Ex. P-9-A seizure memo were prepared by the investigating officer P.W. 14 S.S. Udawat in presence of P.W. 5 Tejram.For the foregoing reasons, we are of the view that prosecution has completed the chain of circumstances which leads to this conclusion that some quarrel near the temple and some kind of incident in the house of the appellant had taken place between him and the deceased and thereafter, the deceased was found dead in the house of appellant.Now most crucial point arises for our consideration as to whether the appellant had committed murder of the deceased Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan and can he be convicted under Section 302, IPC ? The leaned Counsel for the appellant submitted that there is no direct evidence to show that the appellant had any intention to commit the murder of Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan.There is no eye witness to prove that the appellant gave a beating to the deceased in his house.The appellant and the deceased were found in a drunken condition.In Mangu's case (supra), the story was that there was some altercation between the accused and his wife and accused caused some injuries to his wife and brought her to their house and after that the wife of the accused was found dead.No doubt, similar facts and circumstances are also prevailing in the present case.There is no evidence in this case also to show that the appellant gave a beating to Hatimtai by a plank though, a plank was recovered from the possession of appellant but, it is not a material evidence in this case as the plank can be found in anybody's house.Therefore, the fact that the plank was recovered from the house of appellant, is not sufficient to hold that the appellant caused any injury to Hatimtai by using this plank.To arrive on any conclusion on this point as to whether there was any justification to hold the appellant guilty for the offence punishable under Section 302, IPC, the statement of P.W. 13 Dr. S.K. Sengar and Ex. P-14 post-mortem report should be considered.P.W. 13 Dr. S.K. Sengar as per his statement and post-mortem report, while conducting the autopsy, found the following external injuries on the body of the deceased :-(1) Contusion cum ligature like marks starting from Thyroid Cartilage along the root of neck, below right side of chin up to right side of ear.(2) Abrasion 2 cm x 1 cm below mid post of left chin.(3) Contusion on right side of neck from mid part of sterno mestoid extending up to back of neck at C2 level.(4) Contusion on back, left side in line of inferior angle of left scapula 7th I.C.S. to 9th I.C.S. 4" x 3".(5) Contusion from 10th I.C.S. on left side of scapula to left Iliac crest 5" x 3".(6) Abrasion 3" x 1" on left side below No. 6 obliquely lateral to mediul.(7) Contusion below left angle of scapula longitudinally 4" x 1/2"(8) Abrasion just below chin right side 3 cm x 1 cm.(9) Contusion from right Iliac crest to right side of nose.(10) Contusion 3" x 1" at the centre of injury No. 9 as shown in picture.(11) Multiple contusions four in number intermingled to each other 4"-5" x 6"-7" on the right thigh.The autopsy surgeon has also found that there was a fracture of 9th rib and the liver was ruptured and there was an internal injury 3" x 1/2" x 2" of size on the post surface of the liver.He opined that the cause of death is shock due to multiple injuries and injury to liver.P.W. 13 Dr. S.K. Sengar had admitted in his cross- examination that if a person fell down with force, rapture of liver is quite possible.He found that there was an abrasion on left side above the stomach on the person of Hakim Khan.Apart from that, Dr. S.K. Sengar had not opined that the deceased Hatimtai had died because of asphyxia due to pressure on his neck, though, the doctor found the ligature like mark at the root of the neck.There was some scuffle between the appellant and the deceased and at that time, they were in drunken condition.The Senior Scientist and Chemical Examiner of F.S.L. vide Ex. P-17 report also found the presence of alcohol in the viscera of Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan.All these facts and circumstances show that the appellant was not having any intention to commit murder of Hatimtai @ Hakim Khan.After considering abovementioned facts and circumstances, we are inclined to hold that the appellant had not committed either the murder of deceased or the offence of causing homicidal death not amounting to murder.At the most, his act falls under Section 325, IPC for causing grievous hurt to the deceased.There is no evidence to convict this appellant under Section 302 or 304 Part I or Part II of the IPC, but he can very well be convicted under Section 325 of the IPC for having caused grievous injury to the deceased.The learned Trial Court has totally failed to appreciate all the aspects of the case while holding the appellant./accused guilty of committing murder of the deceased.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 325 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 342 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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J U D G M E N TRAJU, J.These two appeals are at the instance of twelve accused, who remained convicted throughout after acquittal at different stages of the remaining accused out of the total number of 25 who stood charged before the learned Sessions Judge, Barpeta, for offences under Sections 302 and 201 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code [for short `IPC'].The necessary facts for appreciating the grievance of the appellants are that the case had its origin initially with a G.D. Entry No.115 on 3.8.1989 registered at Barpeta Police Station at 6.30 P.M. on verbal information followed by a formal written FIR that was lodged by one Rupchan Mia, on the same day at 7.00 P.M. As per the version in the FIR, on the fateful day, i.e., 3.8.1989, at about 4.00 P.M. when three persons viz., Tara Mia, Saket Ali and Owaz Kha were fishing in the Dhaneswari Beel, the accused armed with sticks, spears and other deadly weapons attacked those persons inflicting serious injuries resulting in their death and thereafter dragged the dead bodies and threw them in the Pahumara River.At the time of occurrence, hue and cry was also said to have been raised attracting crowd, which included witnesses Manowara Begum and Hussain Mia and the accused were said to have attacked the above two and also caused injuries on their person as well.In the FIR, reference was said to have been made to 24 persons by name and others generally, as the accused responsible for the incident and after completing the investigation, charge was laid on them viz about 26 under the provisions noticed above to face trial before the Trial Court.During the trial, the prosecution examined about 11 PWs to substantiate the charge of whom PW.1, PW.2, PW.8 and PW.9 claimed to be the eyewitnesses for the occurrence and PW.5 and PW.6 were the Medical Officers, who conducted the post mortem examination.It appears that despite serious efforts, during the course of investigation, only the bodies of Saket Ali and Owaz Kha alone could be recovered from the Nakhanda river, but that of Tara Mia, could not at all be retrieved.The learned Trial Judge, after considering the materials on record, by his judgment dated 10.2.1999 in Sessions Case No.13 of 1994 found that the prosecution established its case against 16 enumerated accused and acquitted about 9 of the accused on the view that the evidence could not establish and prove the charges against them beyond reasonable doubt.The convicted persons were each sentenced to life imprisonment with a further fine of Rs.2,000/-, in default of payment to further suffer six months R.I. under Section 302 read with Section 149, IPC.For the conviction under Section 201 read with Section 149, IPC, they were sentenced to five years R.I. along with a fine of Rs.1,000/- each and three months R.I. in default of payment of the same.The convicted accused filed two separate appeals viz., a group of 10 - Crl.Appeal No.57 of 1999 and the remaining 6 - Crl.A Division Bench of the Gauhati High Court by a common judgment dated 9.1.2002 chose to confirm the conviction and sentence in respect of 12 accused, who are appellants before this Court, acquitting four more by giving them benefit of doubt in addition to those acquitted by the Trial Court.Heard the learned counsel for the appellants and the learned counsel for the respondent-State.Common object could develop eo instanti and being a question of fact it can always be inferred and deduced from the facts and circumstances of a case projected and proved in a given case.The evidence on record, in our view, sufficiently established that there was some prior animosity and there were faction-ridden groups in existence apparently over the exercise of right to fish in the area.From the nature of the weapons like lathi, dagger, spear like iron rods, which seem to have been liberally used by the appellants, the chasing of the victims who ran for their lives and killing the three of them by merciless attack and throwing their dead-bodies in the running river rendering it almost difficult to retrieve immediately their bodies and some of them absconding from the locality for nearly about twelve days, would go to inevitably prove that by their joint armed attack, the common object to murder the victims was obvious and stood proved by convincing and cogent evidence.
['Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code']
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By virtue of this Petition, the Petitioner who was the complainant before the learned Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) seeks setting aside of the order dated 04.02.2013 whereby the Petitioner's complaint for the offence punishable under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was dismissed for non appearance of the Petitioner (the Complainant) and the accused was acquitted.The short ground submitted by the learned counsel for the Petitioner for setting aside of the impugned order is that the Petitioner's absence on the date the complaint was dismissed was not intentional and thus the learned ACMM erred in dismissing the complaint and acquitting the Respondents.After recording pre-summoning evidence, the Respondents were Crl.The learned ACMM noticed that the complainant absented on large number of hearings compelling the learned ACMM to dismiss the complaint in terms of Section 256 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.) by the impugned order.The relevant portion of the order is extracted hereunder:-LP 179/2013 Page 1 of 5"As per the record, the complaint u/s 200 Cr.P.C. was filed by the complainant on 06.06.2006 and after completion of pre summoning evidence, vide order dt. 25.08.2008, cognizance of the offence u/s. 500 IPC was taken by Ld. Predecessor.Accursed Jai Karan Singh and Smt. Munesh were summoned.Both the accused persons appeared before the court and thereafter, vide order dt. 13.01.2010, notice u/s. 251 Cr.P.C. qua commission of offence u/s 500 IPC was given to both the accused persons to which they pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.The matter was accordingly adjourned to 03.03.2010 for Complainant Evidence.Again on 22.05.2010, the complainant was absent and counsel for the complainant moved an exemption application on his behalf which was allowed.On 21.08.2010, nobody was present however, no adverse order was passed and the case was adjourned to 10.11.2010 for Complainant Evidence.Further perusal of the ordersheet reveals that despite sufficient opportunities, the complainant has not led any evidence so far and last & final opportunities were also given to the complainant on two occasions.Today also the complainant is not present and the counsel for complainant has moved an application on his behalf seeking exemption stating inter alia that the complainant cannot attend the court as he has gone to Hastinapur, U.P. to attend a marriage.LP 179/2013 Page 2 of 5Counsel Sh.Nitin Garg is present on his behalf who has no Vakalatnama in his favour.In the entire facts and circumstances, I do not find any justifiable ground to grant exemption to the complainant.The application is dismissed.Since the complainant is absent without justifiable ground, I deem it fit to dismiss the present complaint case u/s 256 Cr.PC due to non appearance of the complainant.
['Section 500 in The Indian Penal Code']
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They were stated to have suffered custodial violence, torture and inhuman treatment.A2 obtained regular bail.Now A1 seeks anticipatory bail.He is an Head Constable.This petition is for anticipatory bail, in other words, issuance of a direction in the event of his arrest to release him on bail under Section 438 Cr.P.C.2. Offences alleged are under Sections 323, 330, 355 and 506 (ii) IPC and Sections 10 and 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act read with Section 23 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children)Petitioner is A1 in this case.This is his fourth petition for anticipatory bail.It all started with the missing of a cellphone from a woman.Case of theft has been registered by R1 Mambalam Police in Crime Nos.1895 and 1896 of 2014 under Section 379 IPC.In connection with the said theft case, certain juveniles, who were alleged to have contravened law (Juvenile in conflict with Law) have been taken to R1 Mambalam Police Station.It has become a hell for them.Even if they get bail, they continue to remain there because of their inability to produce sureties.There was outcry from various quarters to check the police power of arrest envisaged in Section 41 Cr.P.C.He has not responded to their notice.In view of the foregoings, I do not find any perceptible change of circumstances since the dismissal of his earlier anticipatory bail petition.O.P.No.30438 of 201529.02.2016
['Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Totally there are three accused.One Mrs.Jayalakshmi is Accused No.1 in the said case.The above said land was originally owned by their father Thomas Nadar.He died intestate leaving his three sons, the 2nd respondent herein and Sri.T.Shanmuga Sundaram and Sri.Therefore, both A1 and the 2nd respondent decided to enter into an agreement with the petitioners/A2 and A3 to develop the property.On the same day, The 2nd respondent has also executed two different general power of attorney deed one in favour of the petitioners and the other in favour of A1 to deal with the property in question.According to the 2nd respondent, A1 and the petitioners/A2 and A3 failed to pay the balance sale consideration of Rs.70,00,000/- within the time stipulated under the tripartite agreement and have sold out few flats to different persons.It is further alleged in the complaint by the 2nd respondent that despite cancellation of general power of attorney deeds and fact that the same was intimated to A1 to A3, still, they sold few more left out plots to Sri.B.Venkataraman and another and Sri.N.M.Sathish and others.Y.Jayashankar (A3) has been shown as Party of the Third Part and the parties have agreed upon as follows:"Whereas the sale could not be completed within the time frame stipulated in the Agreement dated 20.02.1997 and due to personal reason could not put up the said complex of flats and therefore approached the party of the third party, who are builders, for putting up construction in order to complete the agreement of sale by the party of the second part with the party of the First part.It is not in dispute that the petitioners were not parties to the earliest sale agreement.A perusal of the tripartite would go to show that A1 agreed to pay the balance sale consideration to the 2nd respondent.The petitioners are Accused Nos.2 and 3 in C.C.No.6264 of 2011 on the file of the learned XI Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Chennai.The 2nd respondent is the de facto complainant.A1 and the petitioners herein are said to have committed offences punishable under Sections 406, 418 and 420 r/w 34 of IPC.The learned Metropolitan Magistrate on 29.03.2012 framed charges against A1 and the petitioners for above said offences.Challenging the same, the petitioners are before this court with this criminal revision.I have heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel appearing for the 2nd respondent and also the learned Government Advocate (Criminal Side) appearing on behalf of the 1st respondent/State.I have also perused the records carefully.When the 2nd respondent approached A1 to A3 for balance sale consideration, it is alleged that they threatened him with dire consequences.Hence, the complaint.Based on the above said complaint, a case in Crime No. 40 of 2008 came to be registered by the 1st respondent police for offence under Sections 406, 418 and 420 r/w 34 of IPC.When the contract could not get concluded, on 10.12.1998, the de facto complainant and A1 and the petitioners entered into the tripartite agreement for the purpose of putting up construction in the land in question wherein the 2nd respondent has been shown as Part of the First Part, M/s.Mega Construction, a registered Partnership Firm, represented by one of its partner namely Mrs.Vijayalakshmi (A1) has been shown as Party of the Second Part and that M/s.The extract from the tripartite agreement with regard to payment clause reads thus:"(2) The Party of the Second Part shall pay the remain sale consideration i.e., Rs.1,10,25,000/- to the Party of the First Part as to the time schedule that follows:-(i) on the date of execution of this agreement a sum of Rs.22,00,000/- (Rupees Twenty Two Lakhs only).(ii) A sum of Rs.10,00,000/- (Rupees Ten Lakhs only) on or before one month from the date of this Agreement.(iii) A sum of Rs.78,25,000/- (Rupees Seventy Eight Lakhs and Twenty Fine Thousand only) within a period of 12 months from the date of this Agreement."As a matter of fact, the petitioners who are developers under the tripartite agreement agreed to place security deposit of a sum of Rs.60,00,000/- by way of different banker's cheques.It has been further agreed under the tripartite agreement as follows:-The party of the second part agreed to pay the above mentioned Rs.78,25,000/- (Rupees Seventy Eight Lakhs and Twenty Five Thousand only) as per Clause 2(iii) to Party of the First Part in stages whenever the sale deeds are being executed / registered in favour of the nominees of the Party of the Second Part, however, the balance consideration of Rs.78,25,000/- is to be paid before 12 months period from the date of this Agreement.With regard to entrustment of the property, it has been agreed under the tripartite agreement as follows:The Party of the First Part has handed over possession of the scheduled mentioned property to the Party of the Second Part on the date of this agreement and it shall be open to the Party of the Second Part to develop the property as to their choice or may enter into any agreement with third party for such development.For the reasons best known to them, the contract could not get completed in time.Therefore, both A1 and the de facto complainant have mutually agreed to develop the property and to entrust the construction work to a third party.Only thereafter, A1 and the de facto complainant and the petitioners entered into a tripartite agreement for the purpose of putting up construction in the vacant land in question.Even as per the Tripartite agreement only A1 has agreed to pay the remaining sale consideration and these petitioners agreed to pay security deposit of Rs.60,00,000/- in favour of A1 and absolutely there is no connection or agreement between the petitioners and A1 in the money transaction.After completion of construction, it was only A1 who sold some of the plots.The property was entrusted as per the tripartite agreement only to A1, who, in turn, as per the very same tripartite agreement, entrusted only the construction work to the petitioner.The petitioners are being developers, they have no way connected with any money transaction with the 2nd respondent.Neither there is allegation against the petitioners that the property in question was entrusted to them and that they dishonestly misappropriated it for their own use.In the result, this criminal original petition is allowed and the case in C.C.No.6264 of 2011 pending on the file of the learned XI Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Chennai, is hereby quashed insofar as it relates to A2 and A3, the petitioners herein.It is made clear that whatever the observations made hereinabove were only for the purpose of deciding the case against the petitioners/A2 and A3 and that the trial court shall not influence by such observations.The trial court shall proceed with further as against A1 in accordance with law.Since the matter has been pending for a long time, the learned Metropolitan Magistrate is directed to dispose of the same within a period of six months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.10..01..2017 kmk/vsi21.The XI Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Chennai.3.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.R.C.No.588 of 201210..01..2017
['Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 415 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Case is listed today for admission.Case diary is available.With the consent of the parties, heard finally.C. No. 3552/2015 has been arrested on 05.03.2015 and sent to jail by order dated 06.04.2015 of the Trial Court.Learned counsel for the applicant / accused submit that the applicant is a labour and he had gone to labour work at Bhopal, and due to the illiteracy, he was not aware of the arrest warrant issued against him.It is further submit that in trial total 12 prosecution witnesses have been examined, only prosecutrix is to be examined.He further submitted that applicant was not involved in the offences and only on this ground he was released on bail by order dated 17.01.2005 in M.Cr.Therefore, prayed for bail.Public Prosecutor for the respondent/State has opposed the application and prayed for dismissal of the same.Although the applicant was remained absent since last 9 (Raju Khan Vs.
['Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Brief facts of the case are that on 22.04.2017 at about 12.20 PM, victim (PW-1) lodged a report at Police Station, Machalpur, District Rajgarh Biaora (MP) that she appeared in examination of Class-X. On the date of incident i.e. on 21.04.2017 at about 06.30 PM, when the victim went to attend a call of nature along with her mother (PW-2), at that time, respondent / accused came 2 there and caught hold her right hand with intent to outrage her modesty and forced her to come with him.She refused to give company to the accused and called her mother.When her mother rushed for help and asked to leave her daughter, then the respondent / accused pressed her breast and pulled her to come with him.When her mother shouted on accused and saved her daughter, then respondent / accused fled away from the spot, threatening that if she will narrate the incident to any one, then he will kill them.It is also alleged that earlier the respondent / accused follow her when she go to school.The matter was reported to the Police Station Machalpur, District Rajgarh (MP).On the basis of which, offence bearing Crime No.106/2017 for offence punishable under Section 354 (A) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and also under Section 7 read with Section 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act, 2012 was registered against the respondent / accused.During the investigation, Police obtained scholar register of the victim to verify her date of birth, according to which, she was minor at the time of incident.After completion of the investigation, charge sheet was filed.The trial Court framed charges against the accused / respondent.Being aggrieved by which, the prosecution / State of Madhya Pradesh has preferred this petition for grant of leave to appeal against the impugned judgment of acquittal.Learned Panel Lawyer for the petitioner / State of Madhya Pradesh has submitted that from the statement of the victim, the alleged offence is proved beyond reasonable doubt, which has also found support from the statement of mother of the victim, who had seen the incident, but the trial Court has not properly appreciated the evidence and wrongly disbelieved the statement of the prosecution witnesses and acquitted the respondent / accused for the aforesaid offences.Therefore, he prays for grant of leave to appeal against the impugned judgment of acquittal.I have heard learned Panel Lawyer for the petitioner / State of Madhya Pradesh and perused the impugned judgment as well as record of the case.After perusal of the statement of the victim (PW-1), her mother (PW-2) and the findings given by the trial Court, this Court is of the view that it is a fit case in which permission for leave to appeal can be granted against respondent / accused Mohanlal s/o Rai Singh Verma; meaning thereby, the matter has to be admitted for final hearing.Accordingly, the petitioner filed by the petitioner / State of Madhya Pradesh under Section 378 (3) of 4 Criminal Procedure Code, 1860 is allowed and permission for grant of leave to appeal is granted against respondent / accused Mohanlal s/o Rai Singh Verma.Appeal filed, as a consequence of this order, be registered and proceeded to as per rules, as admitted.Office is directed to issue bailable warrant in the sum of Rs.20,000/- (rupees twenty thousand) against respondent / accused Mohanlal s/o Rai Singh Verma to secure his presence before the Registry of this Court.He is also directed to furnish a personal bond in the sum of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand only) with one solvent surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the concerned Chief Judicial Magistrate / trial Court, for his regular appearance before the Registry of this Court on 04.11.2019 and on all such subsequent dates, as may be fixed by the Registry in this regard.Miscellaneous Criminal Case No.43146/2018 stands disposed of accordingly.(S.K. Awasthi) Judge Pithawe RC Digitally signed by Ramesh Chandra Pithawe Date: 2019.09.23 16:20:57 +05'30'
['Section 354 in The Indian Penal Code']
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On refusal to vacate the house by Bhajan Singh, the accused assaulted him with axe, resulting into injuries on his head, left eye and face.(29.07.2020) This criminal appeal u/s 374(2) Cr.P.C. has been filed by the appellant being aggrieved by the judgment dated 30.04.1998 passed by learned Second Additional Sessions Judge, Jabalpur in Session Trial No. 544/1995 convicting the appellant for the offence punishable u/s 324 IPC and sentenced to undergo RI for 1 year with fine of Rs. 1,000/- also with default stipulation.Thereafter, on intervention of Bedi Lal (PW-6), Milan Singh (PW-5) and Gopal, the accused ran away from the spot.An FIR was registered on the same day for the offence punishable under Section 307 IPC.Medical Examination of the injured/complainant Bhajan Lal was also conducted by the police 2 Cr.A. No. 1308/1998 and performed by Dr. Girish Bajpai (PW-2).After completing all other formalities, the police filed the charge-sheet.The learned trial Court has framed the charge of Section 307 IPC against the appellant.The appellant abjured his guilt, hence, the Court proceeded with trial.The learned trial Court did not find the appellant guilty for the offence of Section 307 IPC but found sufficient evidence to convict him in lesser offence i.e. Section 324 IPC and passed the sentence as aforesaid.Learned amicus curiae for the appellant submits that the learned Trial Court erred in passing the judgment of conviction whereas the appellant did not commit any offence and also there is no evidence available on record against him.The learned trial Court overlooked the fact that the evidence of the complainant Bhajan Lal (PW4) is unreliable and contrary to the FIR, police statement as well as medical evidence.Furthermore, his evidence is also not corroborated with the evidence of any other independent witness.The injury was sustained to Bhajan Lal due to falling down.He further submits that while recording the conviction against the present appellant, the learned trial Court did not consider the evidence in proper manner.There are material contradictions and omissions in the statement of prosecution witnesses, therefore, it prima facie appears that the appellant was falsely implicated in the present case by the complainant with malafide intention.The prosecution has also failed to produce the seized axe before the Court which was alleged to be 3 Cr.A. No. 1308/1998 seized from the possession of appellant.Apart from that, the learned Court also erred in not giving the benefit of probation to the appellant as per Section 360 of Cr.P.C being first offender.In this regard, he also relied on the judgment of the Hon'ble Apex Court in the case of Dilbag Singh Vs.With the aforesaid submissions, learned amicus curiae prays for allowing this appeal.With the aforesaid submissions, he prays for dismissal of this appeal.5. Heard both the parties and perused the record.On perusal of MLC report of complainant as well as statement of Dr. Girish Bajpai (PW-2), there were four injuries found which were 4 Cr.A. No. 1308/1998 simple in nature.The relevant paras of statement of Dr. Girish Bajpai (PW-2) are also quoted as under: -1- ^^&& eSus mldk ijh{k.k fd;k Fkk rFkk eSus ijh{k.k esa fuEufyf[kr pksVsa ikbZ %& 1- ,d dVk gqvk ?kko] lh/kh vka[k ds mij 2 ls-eh- x vk/kk ls-eh- lkbZt dk Fkk ftlls [kwu cg jgk Fkk] 2- ,d dVk gqvk ?kko] tks fd nkfgus xky ij 2 ls-eh- x 1 x 1 vkdkj dk Fkk A 3- ,d dVk gqvk ?kko] tks fd ck;sa vksj gksaB ij Fkk tks vanj ls ckgj dh vksj fudy jgk Fkk A mldk vkdkj 4 x 2 peM+h rd xgjk vFkkZr xky rd fudy x;k Fkk xky dh mij lrg ls fupyh lrg rd fudy x;k Fkk A vkj ikj 4- ,d dVk gqvk pksV tks fd ck;ha vka[k ds mij 2 x ls-eh- 2 x 2 lsa-eh- vkdkj dh Fkh A 2- ;g lHkh pksVas fdlh l[r ,oa /kkj/kkj oLrq ls igqpkbZ xbZ Fkh pksVsa mipkj ds 2 ls 4 ?kaVs dh vof/k ds vanj igqp a kbZ gS izxfr lHkh pksVa sa lk/kkj.k Fkh----------AFurther, in his cross examination, Dr. Girish Bajpai ( PW-2) specifically stated as under :-mijksDr pksVsa mipkj ds pkj ?kaVs iwoZ dh ugha gks ldrh A u'ks dh gkyr es ckj ckj uqdhyh oLrq ij ckj ckj fxjus ls ;g pksVas vk ldrh gS----------AIt is true, doctor Girish Bajpai has opined that due to intoxication and fallen down upon some pointed article, said injuries could be sustained but in the cross examination of complainant (Bhajan Lal), the appellant/accused did not give any suggestion in this regard so it can not be said that victim was fallen down in some pointed article and sustained injuries or at the time of incident he was intoxicated.Therefore, it is apparent that the injuries found on the person of the complainant were caused with hard and sharp object, however same were simple in nature.Cr.A. No. 1308/1998Now the next question for consideration is whether the appellant/accused inflicted injury to victim Bhajan Lal (PW-4) ?During trial, the learned trial Court has recorded the statement of six prosecution witnesses so also of accused under Section 313 of Cr.P.C. In examination in chief, the complainant- Bhajan Lal (P.W.-4) stated that when he was in the house of elder brother of his father (Bade Pita Ji), the accused was telling to the son of his father's elder brother to vacate the house.Then, the complainant requested the accused not to ask to vacate the house in rainy season.Thereafter, the accused assaulted him with axe.He further stated that after first assault, he became unconscious for three hours.Thereafter, he along with Bedi Lal, Milan Singh and Gopal Singh went to the police station to register the FIR.He also stated that he was sent to Victoria Hospital, Jabalpur, and thereafter was referred to Medical College, Jabalpur, where he was admitted for 7-8 days, The FIR was lodged promptly.In his cross examination, he admitted his relation of being maternal uncle of the accused.He narrated a different version than that of his chief examination saying that the accused was telling to his elder mother (Badi Maa) to vacate the house.He also admitted that the disputed house is in the name of mother of accused.Thus, some discrepancies are found in his statement and also on the point of his relation with the accused but it is well settled principle of law that it is difficult for witness to depose exact version of incident revealing every minute detail of incident.Cr.A. No. 1308/1998 The complainant is found stable on the point that the accused assaulted him with axe on the dispute arose from vacating the house.Further, according to the complainant, when the quarrel was going on, Milan Singh, Bedi Lal and Gopal Singh intervened and saved his life.Milan Singh was examined as PW-5 but he has turned hostile.He stated that he saw the complainant in injured condition in front of the house of Bedi Lal.He stated that when they reached Police Station, the accused was already there.In cross examination, Milan Singh has denied the fact that the accused assaulted the complainant with an axe in his presence.He has also denied the fact of intervention with Bedi Lal as well as seizure of axe from the possession of accused.He has also turned hostile and not supported the case of prosecution.He has denied all the facts put forth by the prosecution.Gopal Singh who was also said to have seen the incident, has not been examined by the prosecution.Such a witness comes with a built-in guarantee of his presence at the scene of the crime and is unlikely to spare his actual assailant(s) in order to falsely implicate someone.the accused did not challenge his presence on the spot and the statement of the complainant and Milan Singh show that some quarrel took place between the complainant and accused due to dispute of house which belongs to mother of accused.The complainant did not want to vacate the same in rainy season.There is some family relation between the accused and complainant, hence, it can be presumed that the quarrel had taken place for the house and the accused hurt the complainant.
['Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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ORDER Subba Rao, J.One Desappa was murdered and Certain persons were prosecuted under Section 302, Penal Code, in connection with that murder, The petitioners gave statements in that case under Section 161, Criminal P. C, in connection with the death of Desappa before the Taluk Magistrate, Dharmavaram.They stated to the effect that they had actually witnessed the assault which eventually resulted in the death of Desappa and some of them bad been asked to watch over the injured persons.Later on, in the preliminary enquiry they denied the earlier story and stated that they made the statements before the Taluk Magistrate as the police threatened them and that the statements were really made at the dictation of the police.Subsequently these witnesses were given up in the Sessions Court.The accused were tried and acquitted by the Sessions Judge, Anantapur.The learned Sessions Judge held on a consideration of the evidence that the prosecution failed to prove the case set up by them.The application was filed before the Stationary Sub-Magistrate, Dharmavaram, in the latter part of the year 1946, Both the Sub-Magistrate and the District Magistrate held that in the interests of justice a complaint should be filed against the petitioners under Section 193, Penal Code.It is no doubt true that either the statement made before the taluk Magistrate under Section 161, Criminal P. C., Cr the evidence given in p. e, o. no, l of 1946 on the file of the Stationary Sub-Magistrate, Dharmavaram, is false and false to the knowledge of the petitioners.
['Section 164 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 193 in The Indian Penal Code']
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In default of payment of fine, they have to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for six months.On the aspect that the two deceased had suffered a homicidal death as a result of strangulation, we accept and believe the testimony of Dr. K.L. Sharma (PW-4), who had conducted post-mortem on the dead bodies of Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Rekha.The post-mortem reports of the deceased have been marked as Ex.PW-4/A (Rekha) and Ex.But, she has not supported the prosecution case and had stated that she was married, had children and used to reside at Sarojini Nagar.She was on friendly terms with the deceased Raju and he had been frequenting their house for about 1 years prior to the incident.She asserted that nothing as the regards the alleged offence happened in her presence and she did not remember anything.She was declared hostile and was cross-examined by the Additional Public Prosecutor.During the course of her cross- examination, she resolutely stood by and remained committed to her earlier deposition.In view of the aforesaid factual position, the prosecution sought to build its case upon circumstantial evidence.In this regard, the prosecution primarily relies upon statements of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12), father and brother, respectively, of the deceased-Shiv Pratap @ Raju.Head Constable Reshampal Singh (PW-3) had deposed about DD entry No.33A (Ex.PW-3/E) recording that an injured person was lying in the area of Police Station Vikas Puri.This DD entry was marked to Constable Manraj (PW-18) and ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19).They have deposed about the visit to the site but nothing abnormal was noticed.We shall be referring to his MLC (Ex.PW-21/A) subsequently.It is evident from the testimony of Constable Manraj (PW-18) that appellant-Ram was injured.ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19) had testified that at 3.35 A.M., the appellant-Ram came to the police station in an injured condition and told him about his quarrel with Raju, i.e. Shiv Pratap.He, i.e. ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19), went to the house No.K-1C/161, Mohan Garden, Delhi.In the cross- examination, ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19) accepted that he had not recorded any DD entry on or after arrival of the appellant-Ram to the police station.He accepted that Ram did not have any link with the DD entry No.33A. In other words, as per PW-19, he came to know about a quarrel for the first time from appellant-Ram at about 3.35 AM on 11th December, 1997 and had left for the spot in question within 4-5 minutes.However, the appellant-Ram was sent to the hospital.CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 1 of 12This common judgment will dispose of the present set of appeals, which arise out of charge sheet filed in FIR No.759/1997, Police Station Vikas Puri under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC, for short).The impugned judgment dated 9 th December, 1999 convicts the four appellants for the charge of murder of Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Rekha in the intervening night of 10th/11th December, 1997 at House No.K-1C/161, Mohan Garden, Delhi.By the impugned order of sentence dated 10th December, 1999, the appellants have been sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life and fine of Rs.5,000/- each for the offence under Section 302 read with Section 34, IPC.PW-4/B (Shiv Pratap @ Raju).As per the post-mortem reports, the cause of death of both persons was asphyxia caused due to repeated ligature strangulations causing mechanical obstruction of airways.The ligature material was something CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 2 of 12 hard and flexible like a belt.The aforesaid ligature strangulations were sufficient in ordinary course of nature to cause death rapidly.CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 2 of 12Learned counsels for the appellants have submitted before us the testimonies of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) are on two aspects.Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) had last seen the appellants with the deceased in the evening before the intervening night of the occurrence and that in the morning of 11th December, 1997, after they had seen the dead bodies of Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Rekha, they had heard the appellants accept their involvement in the offence.The appellants have contested the testimonies of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) as being make-belief, tainted on the ground that they are propped up witnesses.It is submitted that their statements cannot be and should not be CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 3 of 12 relied upon as the basis for convicting the appellants.CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 3 of 12Having perused the testimonies of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5), Satpal (PW-12), as well as those of Constable Manraj (PW-18) and ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19), we believe that two versions emerge regarding how and when the police and the said family members came to know about the occurrence.Upon returning to the police station, one of the appellants, namely, Ram came in an injured condition, who as per Constable Manraj (PW-18) informed them about the quarrel, which had taken place in premises No.K- 1C/161, Mohan Garden, Delhi.Ram, as per the police version and deposition of Constable Manraj (PW-18) and ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19), was not taken to the site of crime but was taken for medical examination and treatment to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital.As per PW-19, the place of incident was hardly 2.5 or 3 kilometres from the police station.PW-19 deposed that he had gone there on his scooter but it took him time, i.e. around one hour and thirty minutes, to trace the place of incident.He blamed that the colony did not have proper roads and water had accumulated due to rains.CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 4 of 12It is noticeable that the MLC of appellant-Ram (Ex.Thus, on one hand, we have testimonies of Constable Manraj (PW-18) and ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19) that they came to know about an occurrence at house No.It has also come on record that the place of occurrence was not far from the police station and was at a distance of hardly 3 kilometres.We have referred to the aforesaid facts as we have some doubts and reservation regarding how and when Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12), the father and brother, respectively, of the deceased Shiv Pratap @ Raju came to know about the occurrence.Learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State has in this connection primarily relied upon CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 5 of 12 the testimony of Satpal (PW-12), who had deposed that on 10th December, 1997, Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Savitri along with the appellants had gone to the house of Savitri at K-1C/161, Mohan Garden.His brother Shiv Pratap @ Raju thereafter did not return and about 6/6.15 A.M. they had gone to the said house and had seen that the house was open and dead bodies of Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Rekha were lying there.In his cross- examination, Satpal (PW-12) had asserted that his brother, i.e. Shiv Pratap @ Raju had informed them on telephone at 9.30/10 P.M. that he was coming, i.e. returning.Satpal (PW-12) had further testified that Shiv Pratap @ Raju occasionally used to stay in the house of Savitri.In other words, the assertion made by Satpal (PW-12) was that deceased Shiv Pratap @ Raju used to reside with Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) at their common residence.However, Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) in his court deposition had asserted and testified differently, virtually accepting that the deceased Shiv Pratap @ Raju used to reside at Mohan Garden.He in his cross examination on behalf of Shiv Prakash on 20th November, 1998, deposed:-CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 5 of 12"My deceased son resided with me as well as [at] Mohan Garden.My son stayed at night at Mohan Garden and day time he came to me.He came to me after 1/2 days."In his cross examination on behalf of Than Singh and Brij Mohan @ Toni, on 14th January, 1999, he testified:-"Savitri her sister Rekha, my son Shiv Pratap Singh resided in the house where the incident took place. ... My deceased son was having relation with Savitri for 2/3 years before the incident.My deceased son also came to us during that period off and on. ... My deceased son continued this practice by staying 2 or 3 days at Mohan Garden and then coming to us during 2/3 years."Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) had claimed that Savitri was a woman of loose character and his deceased son was allured by her, which was the reason CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 6 of 12 why the deceased used to reside with Savitri.CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 6 of 12We have referred to the deposition of Satpal (PW-12) and then the deposition of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) on the aforesaid aspect in some detail as both of them have deposed on the aspect of last seen together story.However, we have grave reservations on accepting the testimony of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) on the said aspect.The reason being, that in case the deceased Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Savitri used to reside and live in house No.K-1C/161, Mohan Garden, Delhi, there was no reason or cause for the appellants to visit the residence of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and thereupon ask the deceased Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Savitri (PW-2) to proceed to House No.K-1C/161, Mohan Garden, Delhi.PW-5s assertion that Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Savitri used to stay with them at day-time, i.e. during working hours, is unbelievable and not acceptable.Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) had also stated that the deceased Shiv Pratap @ Raju used to come after one/two days.Thus, the assertion by Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) to the effect that the appellants had come to their residence on 10th December, 1997 at about 6/6.15 P.M. in the evening and, thereafter, all of them had left for house No.K-1C/161, Mohan Garden, Delhi along with Savitri (PW-2), is questionable and lacks credibility.It is clear and lucid as accepted by Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) that he knew the appellants since some time prior to the incident.Raghav Ram Singhs (PW-5) testimony was recorded first.He accepted that his deceased son, Shiv Pratap @ Raju used to reside with Savitri.The latter was described by him as a woman who had lured his son.The statement of PW-12, Satpal on the later date, has to be read and understood with caution and care.This makes the evidence of last seen rather weak and tenuous.We are conscious and aware of the fact that the evidence of last seen is also mentioned in Ex.PW-5/A, i.e. the statement CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 7 of 12 made by Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) to ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19), which became subject matter or content of the FIR (Ex.PW-3/B).However, in spite of the aforesaid position, we are not inclined to unconditionally and unreservedly accept the version of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) on the question of last seen as deposed to by them.CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 7 of 12Also, it is not comprehensible as to why on a cold December morning at about 6/6.15 A.M., Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) decided to visit the premises where the deceased Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Savitri (PW-2) used to reside.It is logical and apparent that they had information and knew about the unfortunate event.What is apparent is that Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) from the very beginning suspected involvement of the three appellants, namely, Brij Mohan @ Toni, Shiv Prakash and Than Singh.Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) had deposed that after coming back from house No.K-1C/161, Mohan Garden, Delhi, he went to the house of Shiv Prakash located opposite Bharat Properties at Vikas Nagar and there he had heard the aforesaid three appellants speaking with Savitri (PW-2).His description that he over- heard and learnt that the three and Ram had killed Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Rekha is rather stodgy and tedious.He has deposed to the effect that Savitri (PW-2) was also present there and had cried that these people had murdered Rekha and Raju.At the spot, he claimed that he had caught hold of Brij Mohan @ Toni and Satpal (PW-12) had apprehended Shiv Prakash.Police was called later on.The aforesaid assertion has been deposed in a CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 8 of 12 similar manner by Satpal (PW-12).However, the said version of over- hearing conversations at the house and candid confession and outspokenness does not inspire confidence and appears to be implausible.However, we accept that Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) may have looked around and searched for the possible suspects Brij Mohan @ Toni and Shiv Prakash and others, who were thereafter detained and arrested by the police, but the suggestion that the accused divulged and acknowledged the involvement in the crime is contrived and constructed.Thus, we are inclined to discard and disbelieve the version given by Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12) that they had heard the conversations revealing the truth taking place inside the house in the morning.Mere arrest would not prove anything unless the involvement of the said two persons is proved by acceptable and cogent evidence on record.CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 8 of 12As per the testimony of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) and Satpal (PW-12), Than Singh had managed to run away from the spot.Conviction against him would also fail for the same reason, as his involvement also has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt.In the testimony of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) it has come that the deceased Rekha was sister of Savitri (PW-2).This appears to be correct and it is also apparent that Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) knew and recognised Rekha, the second deceased.This is apparent when we read Ex.PW-5/A, which was the first complaint and became the basis of the FIR (Ex.PW-3/B).Name of Rekha, i.e. the second deceased, has been specifically stated by Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5).The second deceased, i.e., Rekha was also identified by Satpal (PW-12).CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 9 of 12This brings us to the case against the appellant-Ram, which is different and initially appeared to be unimpaired and sound.As per the police version deposed to by Constable Manraj (PW-18) and ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19), appellant-Ram had come to the police station at about 3.35 A.M. on 11th December, 1997 and reported about his quarrel in which he had suffered injuries.As per ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19), he had named Shiv Pratap @ Raju and had also given the house number where the quarrel had taken place, i.e. K-1C/161, Mohan Garden, Delhi.Constable Manraj (PW-18), as noticed above, had somewhat contradicted ASI Mahinder Singh (PW-19).He was also cross-examined by the Additional Public Prosecutor but had affirmed that the appellant-Ram had not specifically informed him that he had received injuries from Shiv Pratap @ Raju.Apart from the aforesaid contradiction, which may not be fully material, we observe two circumstances which create serious and grave doubts about the actual involvement of appellant-Ram as the perpetrator who killed Shiv Pratap @ Raju and Rekha.The first circumstance is the conduct of appellant-Ram himself, in coming to the police station on his own.It was certainly not to confess the murders or out of repentance.It appears that he had suffered injuries, which are apparent from the MLC of appellant-Ram (Ex.PW-21/A).It records wounds on the parietal region, occipital region, forehead, mandible, etc. It is further recorded that the patient, i.e., appellant-Ram had consumed alcohol but was not under its influence.X- ray of the skull as well as left mandible was suggested but details are not available.What creates further doubt and suspicion on the appellant- Rams involvement is the second aspect, a written complaint which was made by Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) to the office of the Chief Minister CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 10 of 12 dated 20th December, 1997, marked as Ex.PW-5/DB.In the said complaint, Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) had expressed his apprehension that appellant-Ram has been wrongly implicated and Savitri along with other appellants, namely, Shiv Prakash, Brij Mohan @ Toni and Than Singh were involved.This complaint also records that at about 5.45 A.M. on 11 th December, 1997 appellant-Ram came to his house along with relatives and police men and informed them about the incident, i.e. the occurrence.It was claimed that Ram in fact was a prime eye witness and not a culprit.The aforesaid complaint when shown to Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) in his cross-examination was accepted.Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) admitted his signatures at point A. PW-5 also accepted that the aforesaid complaint was typed on his directions and then he had given the application to the office of the Chief Minister.This Exhibit, Ex.PW-5/DB is a document, which dents the allegations against the appellant-Ram.Thus, there is a doubt whether the appellant Ram was a perpetrator or was one of the victims of the violence by others, like the deceased, even if we accept that the appellant Ram was present in the House No.K-1C/161 at Mohan Garden, Delhi.CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 10 of 12This was a case of double murder in which two young persons had lost their lives, but the prosecution has not been able to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt against the appellants herein.The primary reason, it appears, is that Savitri (PW-2) whose sister Rekha had also died in the said occurrence, did not support the prosecution case.PW-5/DB, in fact, raises suspicion about involvement of Savitri (PW-2) in the crime.The said doubt was expressed by none other than the father of the deceased Shiv Pratap @ Raju.Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) accepted that he had given the said complaint (Ex.PW-5/DB) which was neither contradicted nor explained by either Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) or by way of re-CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 11 of 12examination of Raghav Ram Singh (PW-5) by the Additional Public Prosecutor.This could have thrown some light in case the complaint (Ex.PW-5/DB) had been made under a wrong impression or under a threat or coercion.Moreover, as noticed above, as per the prosecution case, Savitri (PW-2) was not involved in the actual offence, but her presence at the time of occurrence as an eye witness is asserted.It is not the prosecutions case that Savitri (PW-2) had suffered any injuries though her sister Rekha had died in the said occurrence.In view of the aforesaid discussion and factual position, we are inclined to grant benefit of the doubt to the appellants and their appeals are accordingly allowed.The LCR be sent back to the trial court.SANJIV KHANNA, J.ASHUTOSH KUMAR, J.FEBRUARY 12, 2015 VKR CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 12 of 12CRL.A. 6/2000+ connected appeals Page 12 of 12
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Two cartons of Sunlight Soap marked Exts.II and III containing the cakes in waxed paper bearing label "Sunlight Soap -- Lever Bros. (India) Ltd." were recovered.At the time of the search there was an Expert from Lever Bros. to help test whether the cakes were genuine or not.JUDGMENT Debabrata Mookerjee, J.The appellant was tried by a Presidency Magistrate of Calcutta upon two charges under Sections 420 and 486, Penal Code.He was acquitted of the charge of cheating under Section 420, but was convicted under Section 486 and sentenced to pay a fine of Rs. 250/-, in default, to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one month.The facts briefly stated are that on 6-7-1954 the appellant's shop at Raja Katra styled Sinha Bros. was searched in the presence of witnesses.It appears the cakes were later sent for chemical examination and report was received in due course which revealed that they were not genuine Sunlight cakes it having been considered that they were inferior stuff and attempted to be passed oft as genuine Sunlight Soap of Lever Bros. Ltd.The appellant pleaded not guilty to the. charges and the defence was that there was no intention to cheat; furthermore on the evidence in the case the elements of an offence under Section 486 had not been established.No defence witnesses were examined.The learned Magistrate, however, believed the evidence produced by the prosecution and while acquitting the appellant of the charge of cheating convicted him of an offence under Section 486, Penal Code.The other witnesses from Lever Bros. proved how the spurious soaps were different from the real ones in colour, weight and smell.He deposed that the Magistrate's order made on 7-2-1955 discharging the appellant was made on the ground of absence of the complainant.
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a)P.W.1 is the wife and P.W.2 is the sister of the deceased Krishnan.He sold his landed properties to the third parties.Even after the sale, the accused made trespass into the said property and laid stones.The husband of P.W.1 removed the said stones and thus, all the accused along with one Mari, who was originally shown as the second accused in the F.I.R. and pending case died, were on inimical terms with the deceased Krishnan.b)On the date of occurrence, namely on 23.7.2000 at about 9.00 p.m., the deceased along with the family members, including his wife P.W.1 and sister P.W.2 and the other children, was witnessing T.V. and thereafter, they went for dinner and he took dinner early, while the others were taking.He went nearby betel shop to purchase betel.Within a short span of time, P.Ws.1 and 2 heard the distressing cry of Krishnan and they came outside.At that time, A-1 to A-6 and the other accused, namely A-1 to A-6 armed with vethukathi and the last accused with wooden log, were attacking him indiscriminately.On hearing the noise raised, all the accused fled away from the place of occurrence.c)P.W.1 immediately took the deceased in an auto to Tambaram Police station, where she was advised to take the severely injured Krishnan to Chromepet Government Hospital.Accordingly, P.W.1 took him to Chrompet Government Hospital, where she was advised to take him to the Government General Hospital, Chennai, since his condition was so serious.Accordingly, she took him to the Government General Hospital, Chennai, where the severely injured Krishnan was admitted by P.W.12, the Doctor at 10.35 p.m. and Ex.P.32, accident register in this regard was also marked.An intimation was given to Tambaram Police station.d)On receiving the intimation, P.W.11, the Inspector of Police, proceeded to the Government General Hospital, Chennai and recorded the statement of the injured Krishnan, which was marked as Ex.P.27, on the strength of which, a case came to be registered in Crime No.658 of 2000 under Sections 147, 148, 324 and 307 IPC.P.29, the FIR was despatched to the Court.Then, P.W.11 proceeded to the spot and made an inspection at 00.45 hours in the presence of the witnesses.He prepared Ex.P.30, the observation mahazar and Ex.P.31, the rough sketch.e)Then, P.W.13, the Inspector of Police, took up the investigation.On receipt of the said intimation, the case was altered to Section 302 IPC and Ex.P.33, the alteration report was sent to the court.P.W.13 examined all the witnesses and recorded their statements.He conducted inquest on the dead body of the deceased in the presence of the witnesses and panchayatdars and prepared Ex.P.34, the inquest report.Then, the dead body was sent for the purpose of autopsy.f)P.W.9, the Doctor attached to the Chennai Medical College, on receipt of the requisition, has conducted post-mortem on the dead body of the deceased and has issued Ex.P.17, the post-mortem certificate, wherein he has opined that the deceased would appear to have died of shock and haemorrhage due to the injuries sustained.A-1 came forward to give confessional statement voluntarily, which was recorded in the presence of the witnesses, the admissible part of the same was marked as Ex.Pursuant to the same, he produced M.O.1, knife, which was recovered under a cover of mahazar.The confessional statement of the deceased accused Mari was recorded in the presence of the witnesses, the admissible part of which was marked as Ex.Following the same, M.O.2 knife was recovered under a cover of mahazar.A-3 also gave confessional statement, which was recorded in the presence of the witnesses, the admissible part of the same was marked as Ex.Pursuant to the same, M.O.3, knife was recovered.A-5 also gave confessional statement, the admissible part of which was marked as Ex.Following the same, M.O.4, knife was recovered.Pursuant to the same, he produced M.O.5, knife which was recovered under a cover of mahazar.For Appellants : Mr.V.Gopinath, SC for Mr.L.Mahendran in CA.No.1013/2007 for Mr.G.Mohanakrishnan in C.A.No.1126 of 2007 For Respondent : Mr.P.Kumaresan, APP- - - -These appeals challenge the judgment of the Principal Sessions Division, Kancheepuram District at Chengalpattu made in S.C.No.466 of 2005, whereby the appelants 6 in number stood charged under Sections 148 and 302 r/w S.149 IPC, tried and found guilty as per the charges and awarded one year R.I. each under Section 148 IPC and life imprisonment each and to pay a fine of Rs.500/-, in default to undergo one month S.I. under Section 302 r/w S.149 IPC and both the sentences were ordered to run concurrently.3.The short facts necessary for the disposal of these appeals can be stated thus:The accused were sent for judicial remand.On 19.8.2000, A-2, A-6 and A-4 were arrested.A-2 came forward to give confessional statement, which was recorded in the presence of the witnesses, the admissible part of the same was marked as Ex.The confessional statement of A-6 was recorded, the admissible part of the same was marked as Ex.P.45, pursuant to which he produced M.O.7 wooden log, which was recovered under a cover of mahazar. A-4 also gave confessional statement and admissible part of which was marked as Ex.P.47, pursuant to the same, he produced M.O.6 knife, wich was recovered under a cover of mahazar.These accused were sent for judicial remand.All the material objects recovered were subjected to chemical analysis by the Forensic Science Department, which resulted in Ex.P.24, the Biological Report and Ex.P.25, the Serological Report.On completion of the investigation, the Investigating Officer has filed the final report.4.The case was committed to the court of sessions and necessary charges were framed.In order to substantiate the charges, the prosecution examined 13 witnesses and also relied on 48 exhibits and 11 M.Os.On completion of the evidence on the side of the prosecution, the accused were questioned under Section 313 Cr.P.C. as to the incriminating circumstances found in the evidence of prosecution witnesses, which they flatly denied as false.No defence witness was examined.The trial court, after hearing the arguments advanced on either side and looking into the materials available, took the view that the prosecution has proved the case beyond reasonable doubt and found A-1 to A-6 guilty as stated above and awarded punishments as referred to above.Hence these appeals at the instance of the appellants.5.Advancing arguments on behalf of the appellants, the learned Senior Counsel has made the following submissions:P.27, which according to the prosecution has come into existence at 10.45 p.m. on 23.7.2000, could not have come into existence as alleged by the prosecution; that according to P.W.1, the occurrence has taken place at about 9.00 p.m. and immediately, she took him to Tambaram Police station, but no statement was recorded and she was advised to go to the hospital and hence she went to Chrompet Government Hospital, but she was advised to take him to the Government General Hospital, Chennai and accordingly, she took him to the Government General Hospital and the severely injured was treated by P.W.12, the Doctor; that P.W.12 has categorically stated that he gave first aid to Krishnan at about 10.35 p.m. and noted the injuries in Ex.P.32, the accident register; that it is an admitted fact that the distance between the Government General Hospital and the Tambaram Police station is 25 Kms.; that according to P.W.12, he gave intimation immediately; that if P.W.11, the Inspector of Police has reached the Government Hospital only after receiving the intimation given by P.W.12, he could not have arrived at the Government General Hospital and recorded the statement at 10.45 p.m., i.e. within 10 minutes interval and that Ex.P.27 could not have come into existence as put forth by the prosecution.b)The learned Senior Counsel would further submit that Ex.P.27, the statement could not be believed for the simple reason that according to P.W.12, he has seen number of cut injuries and cut injuries also found on the leg; that the injuries were so much that he would have been unconscious stage and hence he could not have given any statement at all; that it is highly unnatural that he gave statement as found in Ex.P.27 and hence Ex.P.27 could not be given any credence at all; that the scene of occurrence is also highly doubtful; that according to P.W.1, she was actually inside the house; that immediately on hearing the distressing cry, she came out to see the occurrence and thus, from her evidence, it could be seen that the place of occurrence is outside the house of the deceased; that it is also seen from the evidence of P.W.12, the Doctor, who gave initial treatment and also from the post-mortem certificate that there were 29 injuries external injuries found; that if to be so, blood would have been coming out, but when the Investigating Officer has prepared observation mahazar and the rough sketch, nowhere the bloodstains found on the ground was noted; that the bloodstained earth was not recovered and thus, it would be quite clear that it is doubtful that the place of occurrence was in front of the house of the deceased as put forth by the prosecution.c)Added further the learned Senior counsel that P.W.2 could not have seen the occurrence at all; that her house is situated two streets away from the house of the deceased; that according to her, she came over there on the date of occurrence; that the reasons adduced by her is not convincing; that had P.Ws.1 and 2 been present at the time of occurrence, certainly, the deceased, who has come for treatment, would have referred about their presence, but he has not done so; that it would be quite clear that neither P.W.1 nor P.W.2 could have seen the occurrence at all; that the learned Senior counsel assailed the case of the prosecution by stating that the occurrence has taken place at 9.00 p.m. on 23.7.2000, but the F.I.R. reached the court at about 12.40 p.m. on 25.7.2000 and thus, there was an inordinate delay, which was never explained by the prosecution and that all would go to show that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove its case.d)The learned Senior Counsel would further submit that originally, when the deceased has given statement under Ex.P.27, he has referred the names of A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 and the elder brother of Murugan and also a few others; that it was alleged by the prosecution that the elder brother of Murugan was A-2, but no evidence was adduced in this regard and hence so far as A-2 was concerned, identity was not fixed by the prosecution; that even in the F.I.R., the names of A-2 and A-6 were not shown; that P.W.1 would claim in her evidence that she knew all the seven accused; that if to be so, even at the earliest statement given by her, she has referred only A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 and a few others and hence it would be quite clear that there was discrepancy and she has also made an attempt to develop her evidence before the court from the statement what was originally given; that all would be pointing to the falsity of the prosecution case.e)Added further the learned Senior Counsel that according to P.W.2, within half an hour from the time of occurrence, the police came there and recorded her statement; that if the prosecution case is viewed from this angle also, so much falsity was given entry and that the lower court has not considered any one of these aspects, but has found the accused guilty as per the charges and awarded punishments and hence in view of all the above circumstances, it would be quite clear that the prosecution has not brought home the guilt of the accused and therefore, the appellants are entitled for acquittal in the hands of this court.6.The court heard the learned Additional Public Prosecutor on the above contentions and has paid its anxious consideration on the submissions made.Though the case was originally registered under Section 307 IPC for attempt to murder and other provisions, on his death, it was altered to Section 302 IPC for murder.Following the inquest made by the Investigating Officer, the dead body was subjected to post-mortem by P.W.9, the Doctor, who has given his categorical opinion that the deceased died out of shock and haemorrhage due to 29 external injuries sustained by him.Thus, the prosecution has proved that the deceased died out of homicidal violence.This fact was never questioned by the appellants before the trial court or before this court and hence without any impediment, it has got to be factually recorded so.It is true, P.W.1 is the wife and P.W.2 is the sister of the deceased.It is a well settled proposition of law that merely because the eyewitnesses happened to be the close relatives of the deceased, their evidence need not be discarded, but it must be subjected to careful scrutiny test.Even after applying the careful scrutiny test, as done by the trial court, the court is thoroughly satisfied that their evidence has inspired the confidence of the court P.W.1 is the wife of the deceased.According to P.W.1, she along with Krishnan and other family members was taking food and Krishnan took food early and he went outside to purchase betel leaves and within a short span of time, she heard the distressing cry and came outside the house to see that the accused persons armed with deadly weapons were attacking the deceased.Merely because the deceased has not mentioned the presence of P.Ws.1 and 2 at the time when he gave statement to the police, it cannot be a reason to reject their testimony.Further, the court must also take into consideration the anxiety with which he has given statement to P.W.11, who has recorded the same.Hence on that ground, the presence of P.Ws.1 and 2 witnessing the occurrence cannot be rejected.9.So far as P.W.2 was concerned, it is true, she was residing in a house situated two streets away from the house of the deceased.She has categorically deposed that one and half month before she gave birth to a child and hence she was staying in her brother's house and on the date of occurrence, she was also taking food along with the family members.Therefore, this explanation given by her would clearly indicate that she was actually available at the time and place of occurrence.Thus, there is no reason to disbelieve her evidence.P.Ws.1 and 2 as eyewitnesses have spoken to the fact.At this juncture, it is pertinent to point out that the case was registered by P.W.11, the Inspector of Police, Tambaram Police Station on the strength of Ex.P.27, statement recorded by him when the deceased was at hospital at about 10.45 p.m. Much comment was made by the learned Senior Counsel that P.W.12 has medically examined the severely injured Krishnan at 10.35 p.m. as could be seen in Ex.P.32, the accident register copy.P.W.11 would claim that he recorded the statement of the deceased Krishnan at 10.45 p.m., which was marked as Ex.If really P.W.11 on intimation from the hospital, which is situated 25 Kms.away from the Tambaram Police station, went to the hospital and recorded the statement of the deceased, he could not have reached the hospital and recorded the statement of severely injured Krishnan at 10.45 p.m. This contention cannot be accepted for more reasons than one.According to P.W.12, he treated the deceased Krishnan at 10.35 p.m. According to him, he was conscious and was speaking to him and it was he who stated that he was attacked in front of his house by known persons.At this juncture, it is pertinent to point out that the place of occurrence at the earliest was mentioned by Krishnan.P.W.12, the Doctor has also recorded the same in Ex.P.32, the accident register copy and the place of occurrence has been mentioned that it was in front of his house.Hence so far as the scene of occurrence was concerned, no doubt would arise.10.It is true, P.W.11 has not recovered bloodstained earth from the place of occurrence, namely in front of the house of the deceased.11.It remains to be stated that immediately after the occurrence, P.W.1 took the severely injured to Tambaram Police station, where she was advised to take him directly to Chrompet Government Hospital, where not even treatment was given, but she was again advised to take him to the Government General Hospital, Chennai immediately in view of the serious condition of the injured Krishnan.Thus, it has got to be pointed out at this juncture that P.W.11, the Inspector of Police, who came to know about the same and advised P.W.1 to go to Chrompet Government Hospital, has directly proceeded to the Government General Hospital and recorded the statement of the deceased.Hence P.W.11 has proceeded from the police station to the Government General Hospital not on the intimation of the Doctor, but even prior to that, since P.W.1 has taken the injured directly to the police station after the occurrence.Therefore, the contention in this regard cannot be accepted at all.P.W.12, the Doctor, who was on duty at the Government General Hospital, has examined the severely injured Krishnan and found him to be conscious and according to his evidence, it was he who noted the contents in Ex.P.32, the accident register.Hence Ex.P.32 is the earliest document where the deceased has mentioned that known persons have attacked him with knives in front of his house and in the considered opinion of the court, it seems to be a vital document in the instant case.It was the case originally registered under Section 307 IPC and not under Section 302 IPC.It cannot be disputed that there was delay in sending the F.I.R. to the court.The case was subsequently altered to Section 302 IPC.The court is of the considered opinion that the delay that was noticed by the court by itself will not in any way affect the prosecution case, since the court is able to see necessary evidence to find out the assailants guilty.13.Originally, the statement was given by the deceased himself, which was marked as Ex.In that statement, he has stated that he was attacked by A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 and elder brother of Murugan and a few others.The prosecution urged before the trial court that the elder brother of Murugan was A-2 and the lower court has also accepted the same.At this juncture, it has got to be mentioned that the identity of A-2 was not at all fixed and there was no evidence at all that the elder brother of Murugan was A-2 and hence the finding of the lower court in respect of A-2 cannot be sustained.Even from the version given by the deceased under Ex.P.27, it is stated that he was cut by A-1, A-3, A-4, A-5 and a few persons, but he has not mentioned their names.Though P.W.1 has claimed at the time of evidence that all the six persons were available at the place of occurrence, the earliest statement was only for four persons, namely A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 and hence all the three persons have been subsequently added.Apart from that, even the deceased himself has mentioned in Ex.P.27 the names of four persons, namely A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 and a few others, but who are those few persons and the prosecution has fixed them without any evidence.14.The Investigator has recovered the material objects on arrest and on confession and they were all subjected to chemical analysis.The prosecution came with the case that the accused persons have acted with common object.Though the prosecution was able to bring evidence in respect of A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 and a few others were also available, but they cannot be fixed.However, it could be found that A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 along with others were present and had a common object of murdering the deceased and that in furtherance of the common object, they have acted so.Hence from the available evidence, the prosecution was able to show evidence for A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 and for others, evidence was not available.It is to be noted that the names of A-2 and A-6 were not found in the F.I.R. and pending same one died.As could be seen, A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 have got to be found guilty under Section 148 IPC and also Section 302 r/w S.149 IPC.Hence the judgment of the trial court in respect of A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 have got to be sustained.So far as A-2 and A-6 are concerned, they are entitled for acquittal.15.Accordingly, the conviction and sentence imposed on A-1, A-3, A-4 and A-5 by the trial court are confirmed.The conviction and sentence imposed on A-2 and A-6 are set aside and they are acquitted of the charges levelled against them. A-2 and A-6 are directed to be released forthwith unless their presence is required in connection with any other case.The fine amount if any paid by A-2 and A-6 shall be refunded to them.1.The Principal Sessions Judge, Kancheepuram District at Chengalpattu2.The Inspector of Police, Tambaram Police Station.3.The Additional Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code']
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JUDGMENT K.L. Shrivastava, J.This revision petition is directed against the order dated 30-9-82 passed by the Chief Judicial Magistrate.Dhar in Criminal Case No. 499 of 1982 holding that for want of sanction under Section 197(1)(b) of the CrP.C, 1973 (for short 'the Code') cognisance of offences cannot be taken against the non-applicant Harbans Singh Chhabra, Tahsildar Badnawar, District Dhar.The circumstances giving rise to the petition are these.The applicant filed a criminal complaint against the non-applicant Harbans Singh and three others for action under the Code in respect of offences under Sections 448,219,219/109, 506 and 427/34,I.P.C. on the ground that the said Harbans Singh in collusion with the other co-accused persons unauthorisedly issued a notice to him to close the ventilator of his residence and despite being told that under the M.P.L.R. Code, 1959, he had no jurisdiction to deal with the matter, got the said ventilator closed.
['Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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Shri Pradip Katare, learned counsel for the applicant.Shri RBS Tomar, learned Government Advocate for the non- applicant/ State.In view of availability of case diary, we do not find fit to adjourn the matter because the petition is yet to be considered and decided on the basis of case diary.Hence, the counsel present are directed to make the submission in the matter on merits.On behalf of the applicant, this petition is preferred under Section 438 of CrPC for grant of anticipatory bail, as he is under apprehension of his arrest in connection with Crime No.254/2011, registered at police station Gole Ka Mandir, Gwalior for the offences of Sections 420, 120-B of IPC, Section 3(1)(2)(4) of Madhya Pradesh Nikshepakon Ke Hiton Ka Sanrakshan Adhiniyam as well as Sections 45S and 58B(5-A) of RBI Act.Before giving conclusion and finding by the Court, at this stage applicant's counsel seeks permission to withdraw this petition as not pressed.Considering the aforesaid prayer, this petition is hereby dismissed as withdrawn as well as not pressed, without extending any further liberty to revive the prayer under Section 438 of CrPC.
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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In case of default of this condition, it shall be open for the trial court to treat it as abuse of liberty of bail and pass orders in accordance with law.(ii) The applicant shall remain present before the trial court on each date fixed, either personally or through his counsel.In case of his absence, without sufficient cause, the trial court may proceed against him under Section 229-A of the Indian Penal Code.(iii) In case, the applicant misuses the liberty of bail during trial and in order to secure his presence, proclamation under Section 82 Cr.P.C. is issued and the applicant fail to appear before the court on the date fixed in such proclamation, then, the trial court shall initiate proceedings against him, in accordance with law, under Section 174-A of the Indian Penal Code.(vi) The computer generated copy of such order shall be self attested by the counsel of the party concerned.(vii) The concerned Court/Authority/Official shall verify the authenticity of such computerized copy of the order from the official website of High Court Allahabad and shall make a declaration of such verification in writing.Order Date :- 26.8.2020 Arun/-
['Section 174A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 229A in The Indian Penal Code']
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(MUKTA GUPTA) JUDGE APRIL 26, 2018 mamta W.P.(Crl.) No.2771/2017 Page 4 of 4W.P.(Crl.) No.2771/2017 Page 4 of 4By the present petition, the petitioner seeks the following prayers:-Such other or further order(s) which this Hon'ble Court deems fit and proper in the facts and circumstances of the present case may also kindly be passed in favour of the petitioner."W.P.(Crl.) No.2771/2017 Page 1 of 4However, this W.P.(Crl.) No.2771/2017 Page 3 of 4 provision is required to be used sparingly to meet the situation where due to the consequent running of the sentences, the imprisonment becomes unduly harsh.As noted above, in the present case, appellant has been convicted in two cases for 397 IPC and the total sentence for the two offences is 7 years + 10 years is 17 years rigorous imprisonment with the petitioner entitled to all the other benefits of remissions etc.W.P.(Crl.) No.2771/2017 Page 3 of 4Considering the nature of allegations and that the term of imprisonment required to be undergone is for the nature of offences committed, this Court finds no round to direct that the sentences awarded to the appellant in the two FIRs i.e. FIR No. 535/2009 under Sections 392/397 IPC and FIR No. 270/2010 under Sections 392/397/34 IPC should run concurrently.
['Section 397 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 392 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 411 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 395 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard Sri Shivaji Singh Sisodiya, learned counsel for the applicants and learned AGA for the State.It is contended by the learned counsel for the applicants that applicant No.1 is married to the son of opp.party No.2 namely Raju and she has initiated proceedings under Section 498-A I.P.C. etc against opp.party No.2 and his son in which they are facing criminal prosecution,hence, the present complaint for malicious prosecution of the wife and her family members by opp.Notice on behalf of opp.Smt. Aneeta and others), under Section 380 I.P.C., Police Station C.B. Ganj, District Bareilly, pending in the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-VIth, Bareilly shall remain stayed against the applicants.Order Date :- 2.7.2013 NS
['Section 380 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code']
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(a) P.W.1 Kannammal is the sister of the deceased Mallika.They wereresiding at Bagawathiamman Temple Street at Kottaimedu, Thottiyam.P.Ws.2, 3, 4and 5 are also the residents of the same street and are also the relatives ofthe deceased.Heused to often quarrel with Mallika in a drunken mood.Mallika was unmarried.On 3.1.2007 at about 6.30 a.m., when the deceased went out to attend nature'scall, the accused restrained her and asked to come to his house that night.Then, P.W.1 questioned the conduct of the accused.On the same day, P.W.1 went to the ration shop in front of Venkateswara CinemaTheatre at Thottiyam for receiving the token to get free saree.At about 11.00a.m., when the deceased also went over there, the accused quarreled with her andthreatened her that he would kill her. P.W.3 also witnessed the same.At about12 Noon, when P.W.1 was in her house, P.W.5 informed her that the accused wasquarrelling with Mallika in the public road.Immediately, P.W.1 went to theplace.At about 1.15 p.m., the deceased was comingin front of the house of one Periyakkal.At the street junction, the accusedwaylaid Mallika, stabbed with a knife on her hip, thigh and again on stomach.When she fell down, he sat on her and gave number of blows.P.W.4 has alsowitnessed the occurrence.P.Ws.1 to 4 tried to go near Mallika; but, theaccused threatened them with dire consequences.Immediately, the accused fledaway from the place of occurrence.The said Mallika met her death.ImmediatelyP.W.1 went to the respondent police station and gave Ex.P1, the report.(b) P.W.8, the Sub Inspector of Police, attached to the respondent policestation, on receipt of Ex.P1, the complaint, given by P.W.1, registered a casein Crime No.5/2007 under Sec.302 of IPC, at 2.00 p.m. The express FIR Ex.P12,was sent to the Court.(c) P.W.9, the Inspector of Police, on receipt of the copy of the FIR,took up investigation, proceeded to the spot, made an inspection and preparedEx.P6, the observation mahazar, and Ex.P13, the rough sketch.Then, herecovered the material objects from the place of occurrence.He conductedinquest on the dead body of Mallika in the presence of witnesses andpanchayatdars and prepared Ex.P14, the inquest report.Then, he enquired thewitnesses and recorded their statements.The dead body was sent to theGovernment Hospital for the purpose of postmortem along with Ex.P10, therequisition.The accused volunteered togive a confessional statement which was recorded in the presence of witnesses.The admissible part is marked as Ex.P8, pursuant to which he produced M.O.1,knife, which was recovered under a cover of Ex.P9, the mahazar.He was sent forjudicial remand.(g) P.Ws.1 to 4 were taken to the Judicial Magistrate, Thuraiyur, andtheir statements were recorded under Sec.164 of Cr.P.C., which were marked asExs.P2 to P5 respectively.(Judgment of the Court was delivered by M.CHOCKALINGAM, J.) This criminal appeal has arisen from the judgment of the SessionsDivision, Tiruchirappalli, made in S.C.No.144 of 2007 whereby the soleaccused/appellant stood charged under Sections 341, 302 and 506(ii) of IPC andon trial, he was found guilty as per the charges and awarded life imprisonmentalong with a fine of Rs.1000/- and default sentence under Sec.302 IPC and fiveyears Rigorous Imprisonment under Sec.506(ii) IPC.No separate sentence wasgiven under Sec.341 IPC.2.Necessary facts for the disposal of this appeal can be stated thus:(d) P.W.7, the Senior Assistant Surgeon, attached to the GovernmentHospital, Musiri, on receipt of the said requisition, conducted autopsy on thedead body of Mallika and has given Ex.P11, the postmortem certificate, whereinhe opined that the deceased would appear to have died of shock and haemorrhagedue to injuries to the vital organs about 20 to 24 hours prior to autopsy.(e) On 5.1.2007, P.W.9, the Investigator, came to know that the accusedsurrendered before the Judicial Magistrate No.III, Tiruchirappalli.(f) P.W.10, the Inspector of Police, took up further investigation.Hefiled an application for police custody, which was ordered.All the material objects recovered from the place ofoccurrence and from the dead body, and also M.O.1, knife, recovered from theaccused, were subjected to chemical analysis by the Forensic Sciences Departmentwhich resulted in two reports namely Ex.P22, the Chemical Analyst's report, andEx.P25, the Serologist's report.On completion of investigation, theInvestigating Officer filed the final report.3.The case was committed to Court of Sessions, and necessary charges wereframed.In order to substantiate the charges, the prosecution examined 10witnesses and also relied on 25 exhibits and 7 material objects.On completionof the evidence on the side of the prosecution, the accused was questioned underSec.313 of Cr.P.C. as to the incriminating circumstances found in the evidenceof the prosecution witnesses.He denied them as false.No defence witness wasexamined.The trial Court heard the arguments advanced, and took the view thatthe prosecution has proved the case beyond reasonable doubt, and hence, itentered a judgment of conviction and sentence which is the subject matter ofchallenge before this Court.4.Advancing arguments on behalf of the appellant, Mr.T.Senthilkumar,learned Counsel would submit that according to the prosecution, the occurrencehas taken place on 3.1.2007 at about 1.15 p.m. in a public place; that P.Ws.1 to5, who, according to the prosecution, were occurrence witnesses, were allclosely related to the deceased and also to P.W.1, her sister; that it would bequite clear that they were all interested and partisan witnesses; that accordingto the prosecution, there was a quarrel between both the deceased and theaccused even by 6.30 a.m. on that day, and it continued till the time ofoccurrence; that as far as the other part of the quarrel is concerned, all thewitnesses have given inconsistent versions; that according to P.W.6, the V.A.O.,he immediately received the information and went to the spot, and at about 1.30p.m., he was available there; but, the police did not come, and it was he whogave information to the police; that under the circumstances, the claim of theprosecution that P.W.1 went over to the police station and gave a complaint asfound under Ex.P1, was not correct, and it was rather false; that further,according to P.W.1, she was in her house, and it was P.W.5 who informed that theaccused was quarrelling with the deceased, and only on that information, sheproceeded towards the nearby ration shop; but, P.W.5 would claim that P.W.1 wasin the house, and he accompanied P.W.1, and hence, the claim of P.W.1 that shewas informed by P.W.5 was nothing but false; and that under the circumstances,both these witnesses could not have been in the place of occurrence at all.5.Added further the learned Counsel that according to the prosecution,P.Ws.3 and 4 went over to the ration shop and on their way back, they saw theoccurrence; that as far as P.W.3 was concerned, she did not go to the rationshop at all; but, her husband P.W.4 went; that contrarily, P.W.4 has deposedthat it was not he who went to the ration shop; but, it was his wife P.W.3, andthus, it is highly doubtful whether P.Ws.3 and 4 have gone to the ration shop atall on that day and witnessed the occurrence, and that part of the evidencecannot be believed; that according to the witnesses, number of occasions, theaccused attacked her with knife; but only a few injuries are noticed, and thus,the eyewitnesses could not give correct account for the injuries sustained; thatall would indicate that these witnesses could not have seen the occurrence atall; that apart from that, the medical opinion canvassed, was not in favour ofthe prosecution, and hence, the prosecution has not proved the case beyondreasonable doubt.6.The learned Counsel would further submit that in the instant case, therewas a quarrel as spoken to by the witnesses, at about 1.15 p.m. at the place ofoccurrence; that due to the quarrel, the accused has lost his control and hasacted so; that even if the fact that he has stabbed the deceased to death istaken to be proved, that would not attract the penal provision of murder; thatit is only culpable homicide not amounting to murder; and that this legal aspecthas got to be considered by this Court.7.The Court heard the learned Additional Public Prosecutor on all theabove contentions and paid its anxious consideration on the submissions made.8.It is not in controversy that one Mallika, the sister of P.W.1, was doneto death in an incident that took place at about 1.15 p.m. on 3.1.2007, at theplace of occurrence as put forth by the prosecution.Following the inquest madeby P.W.9, the Investigator, the dead body was subjected to postmortem by P.W.7,the Doctor, who has categorically opined and also deposed before the Court thatshe died out of shock and haemorrhage due to the injuries sustained.The factthat Mallika died out of homicidal violence was never questioned by theappellant/accused, and hence, without any impediment it could be factuallyrecorded so.9.In order to substantiate the charge that it was the accused who stabbedher to death, and when the eyewitnesses intervened, he criminally intimidatedthem, the prosecution had examined five witnesses as occurrence witnesses.Itis true that all these witnesses were related to the deceased and P.W.1, hersister.At the same time, it is to be pointed out that they were all closelyrelated to the accused also.Under such circumstances, the first comment madethat the witnesses are closely related and thus, they were interested in thedeceased, and they have come forward to give such evidence cannot becountenanced.All these eyewitnesses have clearly spoken in one voice that theywere all present at the place of occurrence.According to P.W.1, she was in thehouse, and on information by P.W.5, she rushed over to see the quarrel.As far as P.Ws.3 and 4 areconcerned, they were all near the ration shop.The fact that on that day,tokens for free saree were issued in the village was not in dispute.Thus, allthe witnesses have claimed that they went over to the ration shop only for thepurpose of getting the free token on that day.The occurrence has taken placeat 1.15 p.m. in a public place nearby the ration shop.All the witnesses hadoccasion to see the same.Now, the contention put forth by the learned Counselfor the appellant that according to P.W.1, she was in the house, and she wasinformed by P.W.5 about the quarrel; but, according to P.W.5, she was in thehouse, and he accompanied P.W.1 need not be given much importance for the simplereason that from the evidence of P.Ws.1 and 5 it would be quite clear that theyrushed to the spot.Who gave information is not the material fact.Whetherthey went to the place of occurrence and whether the occurrence has taken placeare material.Now all the witnesses have spoken in one voice.10.Apart from the above, the evidence of these witnesses stood fullycorroborated by the medical evidence canvassed.The postmortem certificate hasalso been issued.In the case on hand, the occurrence has taken place at about1.15 p.m. The FIR has come into existence at 2.00 p.m., and the case has beenregistered, and it has also been sent to the Court within a reasonable time.Theinquest has been made by the Investigator within a short span of time, and thewitnesses have also been examined, and their statements have been sent to theCourt on the next day.All put together would be pointing to the truth of theprosecution case.Hence, the prosecution has sufficient evidence pointing tothe complicity of the assailant namely the appellant before this Court.From the evidence available, it is quiteclear that the accused was 37 years; but the said Mallika was 45 years, and shewas unmarried.There was no proposal by him to marry her.On the contrary, hewas making a demand to share bed, which was thoroughly reflection of his immoralattitude.It was against the individual freedom and social order.According tothe evidence, it was he who often quarrelled with her in drunken mood, callingher to his house.There was nothing to provoke him.Naturally, one wouldexpect her to refuse the same, and nothing else could be expected, but, only arepulsive answer from the lady.Accordingly, she did.Thus, nothing was thereto provoke him.He armed with a weapon namely knife, stabbed herindiscriminately and caused her death instantaneously.The same was rightly done by the lower Court.12.In the result, this criminal appeal must fail and fails, and the sameis dismissed.1.The Principal Sessions Judge Tiruchirappalli2.The Inspector of Police Thottiyam Police Station Trichy District (Cr.No.5/2007)3.The Additional Public Prosecutor Madurai Bench of Madras High Court
['Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code']
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This petition has been filed to quash the FIR No.343 of 2018 on the file of the first respondent police as against the petitioners.http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.(MD) No. 17242 of 2018The learned Counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that the petitioners did not commit any offences as alleged in the impugned FIR.Without any base, the first respondent police registered a case as against the petitioner in Crime No. 343 of 2018 for the offences under Sections 427 and 448 of IPC.Hence they prayed to quash the same.3.The learned Government Advocate (criminal side) would submit that the investigation is still pending and this petition is in premature stage and hence, he prayed for dismissal of this petition.Perused the materials available on record.5.It is seen from the First Information Report that there are specific allegation as against the petitioners, which has to be investigated.http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.(MD) No. 17242 of 2018A.No.255 of 2019 dated 12.02.2019 - Sau.Kamal Shivaji Pokarnekar vs. the State of Maharashtra & ors., as follows:-9. Having heard the learned Senior Counsel and examined the material on record, we are of the considered view that the High Court ought not to have set aside the order passed by the Trial Court issuing summons to the Respondents.A perusal of the complaint discloses that prima facie, offences that are alleged against the Respondents.The correctness or otherwise of the said allegations has to be decided only in the Trial.Accordingly, this criminal original petition is dismissed.Consequently, connected miscellaneous petition is also dismissed.However, the first respondent is directed to complete the investigation and file a final report within a period of Four Weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this Order, before the jurisdiction Magistrate.21.11.2019 Internet:Yes Index:Yes/No Speaking/Non speaking order ksa ToThe Inspector of Police, Golden Rock Police Station, Tiruchirapalli District.The Additional Public Prosecutor Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai.http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.(MD) No. 17242 of 2018 G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN.J., ksa Crl.O.P.(MD) No. 17242 of 2018 21.11.2019
['Section 427 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 448 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Certified copy as per rules.Heard on I.A. No.5355 of 2018, an application for suspension of jail sentence of appellant--Gajraj, who has been convicted under Sections 363, 366 and 376 (2) ()/109 of IPC and Sections 5(L)/6 read with Section 17 of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and sentenced to undergo 4 years, 5 years and 15 years with fine of Rs.1,000/-, Rs.1,000/- and Rs.2,000/- respectively, with default stipulations.As per the statement of prosecutrix, no allegation of rape has been made against the present appellant.The only allegation against the him regarding his presence at the time of occurrence.Considering the aforesaid so also on the ground of parity with Sitaram and Biharilal, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, (I.A. No.5355 of 2018) is allowed.The substantive jail sentence of the appellant- Gajraj is suspended subject to his depositing the fine amount and furnishing a personal bond to the tune of Rs.40,000/- with one local surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court for his appearance before this Court/Registry on 19th November, 2018 and on all other subsequent dates as may be fixed by the Registry in this behalf.
['Section 5 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The complainant's case was as follows: He was a student of Class VII of Samshi Secondary School in the district of Malda.The petitioner was the Head Master of the School.On August 12, 1961, during school hours one other student named Hiran lost one of his books while in the School.The complainant was found to have stolen that book.The petitioner thereupon treat him with a cane and also gave him fists and blow.ORDER R.N. Dutt, J.This revisional application is directed against an order of conviction and sentence under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code.The petitioner was on this allegation tried tinder Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code.He pleaded not guilty.The learned Magistrate convicted the petitioner under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced him to pay a fine of Rs. 15/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for three days.The complainant, a boy of very tender age, was found to have stolen a book of another student in the school.There were some strokes with a cane and there were some fists and blows too; from the medical evidence it appears that there were 5 ecchymosis but all of them were of minor nature.One tooth was found loose and that could have been caused by some blow.The motive for the beating is very relevant for determining if it was in good faith.
['Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The second respondent is the Administrative Officer (Estate).However, till date, this scheme has not been implemented.The petitioners and similarly situated persons forwarded several representations/ letters to the respondents, but the respondents are declining to implement their own scheme.This petition is founded on the basis that though the ex- employees and who have been allotted quarters and accommodations, styled as "staff quarters", ordinarily have no right, title and interest in the same, yet, going by the representation to these persons that their tenements would be converted into ownership or permanent tenancy that they have a Page 5 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc right to apply and for being considered along with similarly placed municipal employees or ex-employees of the Municipal Corporation.That is how they claim a vested or pre-existing legal right, enabling them to apply for a writ of mandamus.In para 4 of this petition, it is stated that the petitioners have formed a proposed co-operative housing society of the occupants of municipal tenements.The petitioners proceed to annex lists of the municipal employees and the two lists that are annexed contain the names of original employees or their nominees.This circular states that the Municipal Commissioner has passed an order.That order pertains to Deonar, Govandi, Barvenagar (Ghatkopar), Mithanagar (Goregaon) and Parksite (Vikhroli).Page 10 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc These colonies contain structures.These are chawl type structures and single storeyed.These have been occupied by retired employees of the Municipal Corporation.For all these reasons and to Page 12 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc discourage the tendency as noted in the circular, the Municipal Corporation formulated a policy, whereunder, they directed all the authorities that from 1st October, 2010, this policy and this circular should be implemented strictly.The penal rent is determined in terms of this circular.The petitioners are relying upon some communications and which have been addressed to the occupants in Ghatla village, informing that eviction proceedings would be commenced for failure of that occupant to handover vacant and peaceful possession of the tenement.Therefore, the expectation is that similar benefit will be extended to these occupants as well.The employees in this waiting list are awaiting allotment of staff quarters.On account of shortage of staff quarters, it is not possible to allot these quarters to the employees, who are working in emergency municipal duties.These are retired employees/ex-employees of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.They have been residing in the ground floor structures of the Municipal Corporation situate at municipal colonies in the suburbs, namely, Mithanagar (Goregaon), Barvenagar (Ghatkopar), Parksite (Vikhroli), Malvani (Malad) and Deonar.The petitioner association has 600 serving and/or Page 19 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc retired municipal employees.This association has been registered as Charitable Trust under the Maharashtra Public Trust Act, 1950 (earlier Bombay Public Trust Act).By this petition, the petitioners are claiming enforcement or implementation of resolution dated 1st September, 1989 of the Municipal Corporation on the subject of conversion of these ground floor structures/accommodations from leave and licence basis to ownership/lease basis to the co-operative housing society.The petitioners have set out the very checkered history of how the Mithanagar and Deonar land came to be acquired by the Municipal Corporation and how the tenements were constructed.It is claimed that respondent no. 1 constructed 368 tenements at Goregaon for the purpose of housing dis-housed persons and allotting the surplus tenements to municipal employees.Though the scheme was floated, there was no response to accept the allotment and therefore, as an incentive, respondent no. 1 offered ownership rights of semi-permanent structures at the concessional and consolidated price of Rs.4,680/-, if the occupants form a co-operative housing society.They could not even afford and arrange the payment of Rs.4680/- Page 20 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc at that time.That is how they were accommodated and on sympathetic grounds.It is clear from the record, according to the petitioners that Deonar land was dumping ground.Some portion of the land was utilised for housing the municipal employees and the Municipal Corporation constructed about 582 semi- permanent structures.Most of them were granted on leave and licence basis.By circular dated 31st January, 1968, the Municipal Corporation offered "Cheap Tenements" at Malvani Municipal Colony, Malad (West) to the full time municipal employees on ownership basis.A copy of this circular is annexed as Exhibit 'B' to the petition.Despite concession, there was no response and Class III and Class IV municipal employees preferred to take the allotments on leave and licence basis.The members of the petitioner association/sangh are Class III and Class IV employees.Thus, such an allotment cannot be termed as allotment of staff quarter/service quarter much less a service tenancy.This is a leave and licence agreement simplicitor.It is stated that 1211 tenements were constructed at S. 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Barve Nagar, Ghatkopar (West) in the year 1959-60 for project affected persons and allotting the surplus 200 tenements to the municipal employees on leave and licence basis.In the year 1966, the tenements were converted into permanent tenancy basis subject to payment of the standard rent and furnishing fresh agreements.Thus, the tenements of the members of the petitioner sangh were also liable to be converted into permanent tenancy basis.A copy of the said letter is annexed as Exhibit 'D'.It is in these circumstances that the Municipal Tenants' Association represented to the Improvement Committee of the Municipal Corporation to grant/allot the tenements in such Page 22 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc colonies on ownership basis.After continuous persuasion, the second respondent to the petition accepted these proposals.The Municipal Commissioner, thereafter, disclosed his intention to grant the tenements at Parksite (Vikhroli), Barvenagar (Ghatkopar), Mithanagar (Goregaon) and Deonar on ownership basis.The original Marathi resolution and a translated copy thereof in English are annexed as Exhibits 'E' and 'E-1' respectively.Page 22 of 80They are not the dis-housed occupants of municipal premises because such premises have become unfit for human inhabitation by passage of time.These are ex-municipal servicemen or employees, who have retired from municipal services.During their tenure, they were allowed to occupy the municipal premises on account of the specific orders of allotment.The terms and conditions of this allotment are clear.Rather, they are the rules of allotment.It is the entitlement of employees, who have put in 10 years service and their eligibility for allotment of the staff quarters, which is placed in the forefront, but the allotment is conditional.The allotment will be on the basis of seniority in service, taking into account the date of joining the service.The allottee should execute a leave and licence agreement.The licence fees have to be paid by him.He would render himself liable to departmental action under the Municipal Service (Conduct and Discipline) Rules for violation of Page 45 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc the conditions of allotment.The allotment is of a residential tenement.It is for residence of the employee and his/her family members.What we have noted from these circulars is that when such authorities are empowered to take a harsh decision, then, all the more allowing the petitioners to retain the tenements, despite ceasing to be in service and retiring decades back would, as rightly contended before us by the Corporation, be putting a premium on their wrongful and illegal acts.No premium attaches Page 47 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc to such patent illegality.He has, in his detailed letter addressed to the Government, pointed out that all these persons while entering the municipal service have undertaken to vacate the municipal tenements on ceasing to be in municipal services.Such undertakings and agreements are in force.What he has highlighted is that even if there are Improvement Committee and General Body recommendations from the year 1989, there is huge wait list of the municipal employees awaiting allotment of municipal accommodation.If the existing premises are handed over on permanent tenancy/ occupancy, then, this wait listed Page 49 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc employees can never be provided any municipal premises.Thereafter, he highlights as to how municipal governance is the primary duty and responsibility of the Municipal Corporation.(4) For the purpose of computing the gratuity payable to an employee who is employed, after his disablement, on reduced wages, his wages for the period preceding his disablement shall be taken to be the wages received by him during that period, and his wages for the period subsequent to his disablement shall be taken to be the wages as so reduced.Page 63 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc (5) Nothing in this section shall affect the right of an employee to receive better terms of gratuity under any award or agreement or contract with the employer.That was a case where the death-cum-retirement gratuity was claimed by a Government servant, who worked and retired as Director General of Income Tax.While working, he occupied a pooled Central Government accommodation.The licence fee was fixed at a certain amount.He had to pay the increased licence fee.Thereafter, he was transferred to Delhi.However, he continued to retain the Government premises.We would, therefore, direct the Municipal Corporation not to take into consideration the pendency of these petitions and the period during which the interim order was in force, so as to deduct and adjust the municipal dues in the aforesaid manner.To that extent, the Municipal Corporation stands restrained from enforcing its circulars and decisions withholding or seeking to adjust the retiral dues.DATED :- JANUARY 6, 2017 ORAL JUDGMENT:- (Per S. 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Dharmadhikari, J.)The Writ Petition No. 957 of 2013 was directed to be heard along with other writ petitions on board.Those petitions, which have been already admitted, are tagged along with this petition and by consent of all counsel, we have heard these petitions together.Respondents waive service.Since all the pleadings are complete, this petition and others are heard finally.In Writ Petition No. 957 of 2013, the 83 petitioners have impleaded the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, established and incorporated under the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 (hereinafter referred to as "the MMC Act"), as the first respondent.Page 3 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.docPage 3 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::It is the case of these petitioners that they are ex-municipal employees.They have retired from the services of the Municipal Corporation on attaining the age of superannuation.It is stated that in or about 1989, the Municipal Corporation decided to allot residential accommodation in its possession to its employees and the claim is that they were to be allotted on permanent tenancy/ ownership basis.The petitioners were informed to form an association of such persons.Though the petitioners claim to be ex-employees, a statement is made in the petition in para 2 that they are either ex-employees or slum dwellers, who are photo-pass document holders.We must, at once, clarify that we are dealing with the claims of ex-employees of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, who have approached this court on the footing that there is a representation from the Municipal Corporation to them that their occupancy would be converted on permanent tenancy/ownership basis and in terms of certain decisions taken by the Municipal Corporation.It is relying on these decisions that the ex- employees are claiming a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction in the nature thereof, Page 4 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc directing the Municipal Corporation not to make applicable a circular dated 7th October, 2010 Annexure 'E' to the petition and that the respondents should release their retiral benefits/dues with effect from the date of their retirement, with interest at the rate of 18% per annum from that date till payment.The petitioners are also claiming a direction to the respondents not to evict them from their respective tenements.Page 4 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::The petition proceeds on the footing that the tenements, which are occupied by the present petitioners, were included by the Municipal Corporation in the scheme of permanent housing accommodation in the year 1992 and on 25th April, 1992, the Municipal Corporation issued a letter to that effect.In the year 1975, the first respondent/ Municipal Corporation acquired lands at Ghatla village, Chembur, Mumbai for development of the scheme for housing dis-housed persons.The said land was marshy land and was being used as dumping ground for garbage collected in Mumbai.Considering the situation and topography of the land, the Municipal Corporation decided to construct semi-permanent ground floor structures for housing dis-housed persons as well as its employees.The first respondent constructed 56 colonies comprising of 478 tenements, each admeasuring about 140 square feet for the purpose of housing the dis-housed and allotting the surplus tenements to the municipal employees.After a lapse of time, the municipal tenants' association represented to the Improvement Committee of the first respondent and requested that these tenements be converted into permanent tenancies or granted on ownership basis.After great persuasion, the first respondent accepted these proposals.By a decision, the Page 6 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc Municipal Corporation made its intention clear that the land of the tenements at Parksite (Vikhroli), Barvenagar (Ghatkopar), Mithanagar (Goregaon West) and Deonar would be granted on ownership basis.The Municipal Corporation passed a Resolution dated 1st September, 1989 bearing number 343 to this effect.It was also clarified that these tenements were not staff quarters.They were not given to the employees as service tenements, but were allotted on leave and licence or rental basis.The tenements were not related to the service conditions.Page 5 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 6 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::The petitioners state that 313 tenements, out of 478 are occupied by the municipal employees.These persons were assured as above.Therefore, they were told to form a co- operative housing society.There are 165 project affected persons, to whom the first respondent has allotted tenements on ownership basis.It is claimed that the petitioners are members of societies included in the scheme of conversion of municipal tenements into ownership basis.Then, there is a reference made to various meetings with the Municipal Corporation and proposals exchanged therein.It is submitted that the proposals have been accepted.They were recommended for the sanction of the Municipal Corporation, but are still pending.The petitioners, therefore, complain that though the proposals have not been Page 7 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc finalised, yet, the eviction proceedings have been initiated against some of the retired employees of the Municipal Corporation.They have approached this court by challenging the proceedings on the ground of arbitrariness and discrimination.They argue that some of the similarly placed persons have been allotted tenements on permanent basis or there is a conversion effected.Therefore, those against whom eviction proceedings are initiated, are entitled to be treated on par and similarly.Then, there is a reference made to a conversion of 'H' Block of the Deonar Colony in favour of the municipal employees into ownership basis.Then, some tenements in 'B' Block of Mithanagar were converted into ownership basis and the occupants were permitted to form a co- operative housing society.Then, the argument is that the Municipal Corporation issued a circular on 16th October, 2008, whereunder, the retired employees were allowed to retain their accommodations by making payment of normal rent till the finalization of the court proceedings.It is also alleged that 10% of the gratuity amount was withheld and from out of remaining 90%, accommodation rent would be recovered.A copy of this circular is annexed as Annexure 'A' to the petition.By this circular, the Municipal Corporation decided to impose and recover penal rent at three times the present rent from the occupants of the tenements in question.As to how this circular works to the prejudice of the present petitioners and similarly placed occupants is then explained and copy of the circular is annexed as Annexure 'E'.It is then complained that despite specific directions issued by the court not to evict the employees who are occupying the staff quarters and not to take coercive action, the Municipal Corporation is issuing eviction notices to the retired employees.The Municipal Corporation has not taken a decision on the proposals and recommendations, which have emanated from several statutory authorities.That is how the petitioners have approached this court.Page 7 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 8 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Their second grievance pertains to withholding of their retiral dues.According to the petitioners, these dues have not been released because they refused to handover possession of the tenements in their possession.This act is completely contrary to the mandate of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the Constitution of India.It is claimed that terminal benefits and particularly gratuity and pension are not a bounty, but a right.That has co-relation with the services rendered.These services have been rendered to the Page 9 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc complete satisfaction of the municipal authorities.None of these employees had been visited with penalties or other punishments, which would enable withholding their terminal benefits.The terminal benefits are withheld only because of their alleged wrongful possession of the municipal tenements.It is complained that withholding of these terminal dues works as double jeopardy in the sense that the petitioners cannot afford a housing accommodation in Mumbai.Secondly, the rentals being, as they are, even they cannot be paid in the absence of the terminal benefits being released and in the form of money.Thirdly, some of these persons, who are old and incapacitated, cannot support themselves in the absence of these terminal benefits, some of which are admissible monthly.In these circumstances that the petitions, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, have been filed.Page 9 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Together with this, the eviction proceedings should be commenced.A communication follows that order.There also an ad-interim order has been passed directing the Municipal Corporation not to evict the members of the petitioner association from the present accommodations.Then, there is a reference made to a further ad-interim order in Writ Petition No. 1797 of 2009, which is more or less on similar lines.Page 10 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Then follows a circular dated 7th October, 2010, which is challenged.A perusal of this circular would reveal as to how the Page 11 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc policy of the Municipal Corporation has been that in the event a municipal employee does not vacate and handover the premises styled as municipal staff quarters, to the Municipal Corporation, post his/her retirement, then, for next three months he can be granted permission to occupy the same on payment of prevailing market rent plus service charges.If any employee dies while in municipal service or is unable to vacate the premises on account of illness and medical treatment, then, the heirs/employee are allowed to occupy the premises for six months on similar lines.Thereafter, penal rent be charged and recovered from such employees.However, despite such directions and policy, there is a growing tendency of not handing over the municipal premises.The municipal premises are retained unlawfully and illegally, thereby, depriving those in-service and awaiting staff quarter allotment.This has inconvenienced those in-service employees and has also affected the municipal affairs.Therefore, what the Municipal Corporation has decided is that some tenements have to be allotted as a special case to the municipal employees on permanent tenancy basis.Therefore, the others, who are in- service or those who have retired, are expecting a package of this nature being extended to them.Page 11 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 12 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Thereafter, Brihanmumbai Mahapalika Upnagar Baithi Chawl Rahiwashi Sangh addressed a representation dated 29th April, 2009 to the Municipal Commissioner inviting his attention to allotment of certain tenements in Deonar on permanent tenancy/ownership basis as special case.The petitioners have filed an affidavit in rejoinder, dealing with the affidavit in reply dated 13th June, 2014 filed in this court by the Municipal Corporation.We were unable to obtain even a copy of this reply, though it is stated to have been filed in the record of this court.Neither this court's staff or the registry was able to trace out the original Page 13 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc affidavit in reply nor have they obtained a copy of the same from any of the advocates appearing for the parties.The tenor of this affidavit will have to be gathered from the affidavit in rejoinder.Page 13 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::The affidavit in reply proceeds to state that the tenements are constructed by the respondents by making budgetary provisions.The said quarters are allotted to the employees during service tenure and are required to be vacated on retirement from the municipal services.The quarters so constructed under any budget cannot be given on ownership basis.Certain premises are treated as service quarters and allotted to the municipal employees because they are undertaking particular work and where the presence of the said employees is required all the time, namely, Fire Brigade, Hospitals, Water Works etc. The service quarters are allotted free of charge and except the employees and their family members, no one else is allowed to occupy the same.It is stated that if these service quarters are allotted on ownership basis, the functioning of these departments will be seriously affected.The tenements are constructed for allotment to the municipal employees and according to the service seniority, these allotments are made to those employees who have put in more than 10 years service and to those who have more than three years to retire from the Page 14 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc service.In special cases, an employee should have put in service of more than one year and should have about three years to retire.The tenements are allotted to the municipal employees on leave and licence basis and such allottee has to execute a leave and licence agreement as well as undertaking to vacate the municipal tenement within three months of his/her ceasing to be in municipal service.The rules prescribe that these respondents will not entertain any proposal for alternative accommodation to any municipal employee on his ceasing to be in service.It is stated that in Brihanmumbai Mahanagarpalika, approximately 1,30,000 employees are working.In comparison to the number of employees, the staff quarters are totally insufficient and inadequate.There is a very long waiting list.The tenements are allotted to the municipal employees as staff quarters and to the project affected persons on tenancy basis and not on ownership basis.As far as the challenge to the circular is concerned, the affidavit explains as to how the Municipal Page 15 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc Commissioner was required to step in and issue this circular.Page 14 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 15 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 16 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::It is to such an affidavit that the petitioners have responded and by contending that the same is silent on the policy of the Municipal Corporation to extend the benefits, which are referred to in the petition.Therefore, once a promise is given to the municipal employees, who may have retired from the services, that the quarters allotted to them would be granted on permanent tenancy basis or ownership basis, then, that assurance or Page 17 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc promise has to be fulfilled.The Municipal Corporation cannot back out of the same.Page 17 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::It is on these materials that we have heard these petitions.The Municipal Corporation has tendered a compilation containing the policies, circulars, resolutions and judgments of this court, whererunder, similar challenge was negatived.Finally, the Municipal Corporation relies upon the correspondence on the subject.No tenement can be allotted out of turn or as a special case save and except in accordance with law, settled policy and rule of law.Therefore, the retired employees have no right in the property and they cannot claim that they must be granted the tenements on permanent ownership basis or permanent tenancy basis.None of the decisions and relied upon by the petitioners' counsel can be said to be binding, inasmuch as the law does not permit the petitioners to rely upon certain Page 18 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc resolutions and recommendations.Eventually, everything has to be placed before the General Body of the Municipal Corporation.The General Body has yet not passed any resolution conferring any right.Therefore, the policy decision not to grant the conversion nor to permit retention of the quarters on the above basis binds the Municipal Corporation.Page 18 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Then, there are other petitions, which have also been argued.The principal among them is a petition challenging similar action and enforcement of a promise and assurance.Writ Petition No. 1457 of 2010 pertains to New Khardeo Nagar Co-operative Housing Society.Mr. Rupawate appearing in Writ Petition No. 1797 of 2009 would submit that the said petition has been filed by an association of the retired employees or their heirs and legal representatives.There was another option for allotment on leave and licence basis.Rupawate submitted, during the course of arguments, that the members of the Sangh belong to the poorest strata of the society.They were allotted the ground floor structures in the municipal colonies on leave and licence basis.One of the members, namely, Tanaji Ramji Pawar was employed as 'Jamadar'.The allotment was on leave and licence basis.The municipal fees was Rs.38.01 per month.The security deposit of Rs.76.02 and agreement fee of Rs.1/- was recovered from him after execution of Page 21 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc the leave and licence agreement.The possession of the tenement was handed over to him.No House Rent Allowance was deducted from the salary and therefore, similarly placed employees can claim the benefit and in terms of the Municipal Corporation resolution.Page 19 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 20 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 21 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Thus, the conversion was to be effected in terms of this resolution.However, despite the preliminary work of formation of a co-operative housing society was completed, the Additional Municipal Commissioner informed one of the promoters that some information be provided in terms of his queries raised in the order dated 30th April, 1988, copy of which is at Exhibit 'F'.Thereafter, by another letter dated 27 th January, 1990, addressed by the Ward Officer (Estates) of the Municipal Corporation, the General Secretary of the proposed co-operative housing society was informed that their request to convert the tenements will be considered on compliance of certain requirements.A copy of the said letter dated 27th January, 1990 is annexed as Exhibit 'G'.Then, the Senior Ward Officer (Estates) sought approval of his superiors in December, 1991, so that the conversion can be given effect to.The 20 identical tenements at Malvani Municipal Colony were converted into ownership from leave and licence basis in pursuance of the municipal decision and contained in the resolution noted above.The petitioners rely upon an office note in that behalf.Once the Malvani Colony was identically placed, then, there is no reason not to consider the request of the petitioners, made from the year 1990 and pursued throughout.Page 23 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::The petitioners do not dispute that there are budgetary provisions, under which the staff quarters and other tenements were constructed.Equally, they are aware of the mandate of section 64 of the MMC Act. However, there is a provision enabling grant of lease, sale or creating rights in respect of municipal properties and there is a special power conferred in the Municipal Commissioner, who can act in accordance with the sanction of the Municipal Corporation.It is in these circumstances that the petitioners rely upon their representations, the outcome of several meetings, the prior decisions and equally the steps taken with regard to some of the Page 24 of 80 J.V.Salunke,PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc tenements in other municipal colonies.The petitioners place reliance on their representations and the assurance given to them on 20
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1989 by the Municipal Corporation.As required
an offer was submitted by the petitioners.The petitioners complied with the requisitions and other terms in the letters of the Municipal Corporation.It is in these circumstances that the petitioners submit that they were hopeful of the benefits being granted.They were also hoping that till the outcome of the proceedings pending in this court
1989 and every consequence flowing therefrom.Page 24 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::To such a petition
there is an affidavit in reply filed by one Narayan Venkatesh Pai
Assistant Municipal Commissioner (Estate)
in-charge in the employment of the Municipal Corporation.After reiterating the contents of the similar affidavit filed in Writ Petition No. 957 of 2013 and the 2010 petition
what has been stated is that there was waiting list of Page 25 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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never gained any finality.There may be recommendations and proposals
but there are no firm decisions.It is not as if the resolution relied upon by the petitioners can be said to be a decision in itself.That resolution of the Municipal Corporation has to be considered in the backdrop of the legal provisions and the powers vesting in the Municipal Commissioner/Corporation.The Municipal Corporation passed a resolution thereby requesting the Commissioner to regularise the tenancy and that is how the subject Resolution No. 343 dated 1st September
1989 reads.It cannot create any right in favour of the petitioners by itself.Rather
the Municipal Commissioner has passed an order on 1 st November
2007 directing retention of 10% amount of the gratuity of the retired municipal employees and recover the rent Page 26 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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he has decided to initiate proceedings for their eviction.Page 25 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 26 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::The other petition
namely
Writ Petition No. 2165 of 2009 is also claiming the same reliefs and which is filed by certain individuals
who are members of the Brihanmumbai Mahapalika Upnagar Baithi Chawl Rahiwashi Sangh.In terms of identical pleadings
these petitioners also claim same reliefs.Though we have not been shown any affidavit in reply specifically filed in this petition
we can safely say that the stand of the Municipal Corporation is adequately disclosed in the affidavits filed in reply to the other petitions.Mr. Rupawate appearing in these two petitions for the petitioners submits that this is a case where the Municipal Corporation has itself initiated the proposals.Though the budgetary provision may be claimed to have been made
but the construction of the premises is not from the municipal budget.Going by the pleadings of the petitioners
the Page 27 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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but if the MMC Act is perused
it is evident that the Improvement Committee is one of the important committees
through which the municipal administration and municipal functions are discharged.This committee is empowered to deal with the municipal estates.Mr. Rupawate would submit that the Commissioner may write to the Government in the year 2007 and may seek to resile from this resolution
but in terms of the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 64 of the MMC Act
so long as a decision is not taken by the State Government
all the resolutions of the Municipal Corporation are binding on the respondents.The State Government has not taken any decision on the Municipal Commissioner's proposal.The Municipal Commissioner as well has not followed up the matter.Once the State Government has not replied to the Municipal Commissioner's letter
then
it is not possible for the Municipal Corporation to assume that Resolution No.343 is a mere proposal or recommendation.Our attention is invited to the fact that the record would indicate that throughout the Municipal Corporation Page 28 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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Mr.Rupawate relies upon the documents at pages 84 to 86 and pages 92 to 96 of the paper book.He would submit that the record of the petitions from pages 59 to 70 would reveal as to how the Brihanmumbai Mahanagarpalika has taken a decision to enforce the proposals of the Improvement Committee.Thus
it is not a mere recommendation or proposal of the Improvement Committee
but a final binding decision of the Municipal Corporation
which is sought to be enforced in this petition.Therefore
the requirement that the petitioners must possess a pre-existing legal right so as to seek a writ of mandamus is satisfied.He would submit that the writ petitions must succeed.Page 27 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::Page 28 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:07 :::On the other hand
Mr. Sakhare
learned senior counsel appearing for the Municipal Corporation in these petitions would submit that the writ petitions have no merit.They must be Page 29 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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they had to move out for being accommodated by the Municipal Corporation in distinct or other buildings.The petitions are filed by ex-employees in the sense they have served the Municipal Corporation and obtained a service accommodation during their tenure.These persons
on retirement
have refused to vacate and handover their tenements to the Corporation.The Estates Department
therefore
feels acute shortage of housing accommodation and to house the existing in-service employees.It is in these circumstances that Mr. Sakhare would submit that it is immaterial whether the premises are handed over on deduction of House Rent Allowance or on leave and licence basis.Looked at from any angle
they are municipal premises/staff quarters and none can claim a vested right to occupy them.The right to occupy emanates from the employment with the Municipal Corporation.Even the allotment is not as of right.It is based on availability of accommodation and fulfillment of the eligibility criteria.Having fulfilled that
the municipal employee becomes entitled to occupy the municipal property.Therefore
he occupies it as a part of the services
whether as licencee or otherwise
yet
the property retains its character as ""municipal property"".Page 30 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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particularly on retirement.The grievance that on retirement such people
who have served the Municipal Corporation
would be rendered homeless
has resulted in the proposals being mooted.They cannot bind the Municipal Corporation.They remain as recommendations and proposals.No finality is attached to them for in terms thereof
a decision has to be taken by the competent authority under the MMC Act. That decision has not been placed on file.In the circumstances
Mr. Sakhare would submit that there is no right in the petitioners and the petitions ought to be dismissed.Even on the second point
Mr. Sakhare would submit that bearing in mind the conduct of the petitioners
particularly of not vacating or wrongfully retaining the municipal properties and premises
the action of withholding their terminal dues has rightly been taken.They cannot insist on the terminal dues being released even though their wrongful conduct has caused loss to the Corporation.That has adversely affected the budgetary proposals.The payment of pension and gratuity is from public funds.Therefore
in larger public interest
the Municipal Corporation has discretion to withhold the terminal benefits.The argument that under the Payment of Gratuity Act
1972
no such Page 31 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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would not apply here.In the present case
the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has its own regulations and rules
governing pension and conditions of service.Therefore
these conditions of service
which prescribe terminal benefits do not envisage the releasing of the same if there is a loss caused to the Municipal Corporation.In the present case
there are municipal dues
which are outstanding.These petitioners are not entitled to occupy the premises
after their cessation from municipal services
at a concessional or lower rate.These petitioners would have to pay the prevailing market rent.The differential rent has to be recovered and that can be recovered and adjusted against the terminal benefits.Therefore
wrongful retention of the Corporation's property must visit them with such consequences.There is nothing wrongful and illegal about the act of the Municipal Corporation.The Payment of Gratuity Act
1972 is inapplicable to this case.The right to obtain pension also flows from the Municipal Rules.It is thus
both benefits
namely
pension and gratuity
can be obtained only under the Rules of the Municipal Corporation.These rules enable the Municipal Corporation to effect deductions or make appropriate adjustments.For all these reasons
he would submit that the second contention also has no merit.Page 32 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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they would walk away with a monetary gain.In such circumstances
he would submit that the writ jurisdiction cannot be invoked.They are not entitled for any relief.The writ petitions be dismissed.Mr. Sakhare has relied upon the compilations
which have been tendered on behalf of the Municipal Corporation of documents and judgments.This court should
therefore
not grant any relief in favour of the petitioners.Their petitions be dismissed.Page 33 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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in addition
has tendered a compilation of judgments to submit that the pensionary benefits are obtained for services rendered.In law
there is no warrant for such action.Mr. Nayak would
therefore
submit that going by the law of the land
this action cannot be sustained and the petitions to that extent deserve to be allowed.As far as the substantive reliefs are concerned
just like any other municipal property occupants
even the petitioners are relying on the assurances and promises given to them by the Municipal Corporation.The Municipal Corporation cannot pick and choose occupants for granting benefits.If they have granted certain benefits and to a particular class of occupants
who also enters the municipal premises initially with some authority and Page 34 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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then
there cannot be a different treatment to the petitioners.They cannot be picked and chosen for eviction or recovery by coercive means.Hence
the mandate of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India is violated.Page 34 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Mr. Pakale has invited our attention to the pension regulations
copy of which has been handed over to us.Pakale would submit that the Pension Rules
1953 have been framed by the Municipal Corporation.Rule 2 clarifies that these rules apply to all municipal servants who hold a lien on a permanent post or would hold a lien on such a post had their lien not been suspended under the Municipal Service Regulations.Mr. Pakale has referred to section 81(2) of the MMC Act to submit that these rules have a statutory force.The word ""pension"" is defined in these rules and according to Mr. Pakale
in a comprehensive and wide sense.That includes gratuity.Mr. Pakale would adopt the arguments of Mr.Sakhare on this point.Additionally
he would submit that as far as the municipal servants are concerned
they are in a peculiar position.The State Government/Municipal Corporation has provided composite monetary/retirement benefits as a civil security measure to their employees.The employee
who is covered under the said rules
on his retirement
obtains substantial amount credited to the GPF Account and pensionary benefits.The employee makes no monetary contribution towards the pensionary benefits.::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Mr. Sakhare and Mr. Pakale have relied upon the following judgments in support of their above contentions:-(i) Secretary
ONGC Ltd. and Anr.Page 36 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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we must first clear the factual background.We must clarify at once that this is not a case of those persons who are in occupation of municipal properties and premises because they are displaced by a public project and therefore
styled as project affected persons.Even if the allotment of Page 37 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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still
the nature of occupancy remains the same.This occupancy does not create any right
title or interest in the municipal property
which is a public property.Page 37 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Equal protection of the law postulates that those not entitled to any relief based on a right cannot continue to insist on the same.Once a leave and licence arrangement in law does not confer any right
title and interest in the property
much less of tenancy
then
we do not see how the Municipal property
coming in the petitioners' possession during the course of their services
places Page 38 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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the salary is not enough to meet these expenses and therefore
such schemes
namely
payment of House Rent Allowance or grant of housing accommodation in lieu thereof
are proposed and implemented.These schemes are implemented so as to assist the municipal employees and public servants and in return
it is expected that they render efficient and prompt services.The municipal services are rendered to fulfill the mandate of the constitution of India and Sections 61 and 63 of the MMC Act. We need not highlight as to what are the duties of the Municipal Corporation and its functions.There is enough indication in that regard in the MMC Act itself.That contains both
the obligatory and discretionary duties.Eventually
all municipal services are rendered for the welfare and benefit of the residents of the city.The Municipal Corporations themselves occupy a constitutional status.The Constitution envisages establishment and incorporation of a Municipal Corporation so as to ensure better and quality municipal governance.No provision has been brought to our notice in the MMC Act
which obliges the Municipal Corporation to make a provision for housing its retired employees.Page 38 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 39 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::The right that has been claimed and sought to be enforced is based on a decision of the Improvement Committee.The Improvement Committee is stated to have considered and sympathetically the request of certain types of occupants of Municipal Properties.We have been shown several documents in that regard and from the paper book.It has been pointed out that though the allotment is made on a specific condition that the allottee is in municipal service and therefore
he would be Page 40 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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including executing an agreement and undertaking to handover the premises.Yet
in 1966
some association was informed by the then Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Improvements) that the request of the employees
to continue in occupation as tenants on their retirement
can be accepted.Reliance is placed on the letter dated 24th June
1966
whereunder
one administrative officer (Estates) has informed the Secretary of the municipal employees' association that this Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Improvement) has approved their request subject to condition that they pay standard rent and furnish fresh agreement if they desire to continue to remain in occupation of their tenements.That letter refers to the plight of the municipal servants
who have been rendered homeless because of certain developments.That specifically refers to the condition of the municipal tenements as well.Therefore
Barvenagar (Ghatkopar)
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there is a conversion proposed by the Municipal Commissioner and on ownership basis.Therefore
the recommendation of the Municipal Commissioner was placed before the Municipal Corporation's General Body and that General Body resolved that these proposals/recommendations of the Municipal Commissioner can be temporarily approved provided the co-operative housing society of such occupants presents a concrete proposal for consideration of the Commissioner and thereafter the Commissioner forwards it for approval of the Municipal Corporation.Thus
this is a proposal which has to be initiated from the Municipal Commissioner.The General Body has considered them and resolved to accept them provided fulfillment of certain terms and conditions and satisfaction of the same by the Municipal Commissioner.In that event
the House may consider approving the same.Beyond this
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much less a vested right
which can be claimed by the petitioners to continue in occupation and possession.Once they understand this as only a request made by them to the Municipal Corporation for consideration of their cases sympathetically
then
all the more we do not see how moved by their plight alone
the municipal properties can be handed over to them permanently.Further
if this court were to allow such a request and issue the writ as prayed
that would be a mockery of the rule of law.This court's orders and writ cannot be contrary to the MMC Act. The municipal property can be disposed off only in accordance with section 92 of the MMC Act. The petitioners ought to be aware of this settled legal position and as annunciated in the MMC Act. No public property can be disposed off even by a public body except as authorised by law.If we agree to the request of the petitioner
none would ever vacate staff or service quarters
but retain them even after their retirement.Those in public service and fulfilling the criteria of a public servant would then have to wait for allotment of premises in the event they require them.We cannot direct a Municipal Corporation and particularly the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
which has a work force of more than one lakh employees
to grant the permanent occupancies and in the form requested.There is no dispute that it becomes difficult for the Municipal Corporation to house even the staff members who render emergency services.Thus
those working and serving in the Firebrigade
Water Works and hospitals
whose presence is required by the establishment 24/7 have to be housed at distant accommodations.In that event
their availability is a huge question mark and not assured.Therefore
when their presence is required to meet an emergency
then
all the more such request as made by the petitioners cannot be granted.Once the municipal premises have not been allotted to them independent of their identity as municipal servants
then
all the more such reliefs as are claimed in these petitions cannot be granted.Page 40 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 41 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 42 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 43 of 80Mr. Rupawate placed reliance on a letter
which has been addressed by the Municipal Commissioner of Greater Mumbai to the Government.We have carefully perused that letter.That letter highlights what we have Page 44 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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based on which we must consider these cases.There are as many as five compilations placed before us by the counsel appearing for the Municipal Corporation.These compilations contain policies and relevant circulars.We have carefully considered a policy and which has been stated to be in force
which is for allotment of staff/service quarters.The circulars empower the Municipal Commissioner and higher authorities therefore to withhold the retrial benefits of those retirees who are continuing to occupy the tenements even after the permissible period.We would advert to this aspect a little later.It had not passed a firm resolution nor has taken any final and binding decision.It
as noted above
only directed that the Municipal Commissioner should forward the necessary proposal specifying the terms and conditions for allotment for due consideration and specific approval of the Municipal Corporation.There are further representations and correspondence
which would indicate as to how this whole proposal was not found to be feasible.It was not possible to pick up some tenements in occupation of retired persons and conferring on them alone the benefit of permanent Page 48 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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his case was that by accepting all the terms and conditions
the benefit is obtained in the form of allotment of staff quarters and municipal premises.The Municipal Commissioner points out that in the last five decades or more
new premises could not be constructed by the Municipal Corporation.It is not possible to obtain any vacant land or property for construction of new houses.The Municipal Corporation serves the residents and members of the public.The Municipal Corporation is a public body.Those joining the services of the Corporation and later on retiring from the services would never surrender or handover the municipal premises in their occupation.That would set a bad precedent.The State Government is neither accepting the stand of the Municipal Commissioner set out in his letter dated 20th December
2007 nor has rejected it.Page 50 of 80 J.V.Salunke
PA::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 ::: Judgment-WP.957.20133+.doc Mr. Rupawate has invited our attention to Section 64 of the MMC Act. That appears under sub heading ""Respective Functions of the several Municipal Authorities"".Section 64 reads as under:-Page 44 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 45 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 46 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 47 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 48 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 49 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::(a) perform all the duties and exercise all the powers specifically imposed or conferred upon him by this Act;Page 51 of 80J.V.Salunke
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as if there has been a failure by the General Manager to perform his duties or exercise his powers:Provided that
the Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply and Transport Committee may by a resolution passed by a majority of not less than three-fourths of the total number of its members restrain the General-Manager from carrying out any such directive or directives received by him from the Commissioner; and in the case of such a restraint
the General Manager shall not be deemed to have failed in carrying out any such directive.(e) be responsible for implementing the decision of the Corporation
the Standing Page 52 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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the Improvements Committee
the Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply and Transport Committee and the Education Committee:Page 52 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 53 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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limitations and conditions imposed by this Act
the entire executive power for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Chapter XVIA of this Act
vests in the General Manager who shall also--Page 53 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::(a) perform all the duties and exercise all the powers specifically imposed or conferred upon him by this Act and perform such other duties in connection with the Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking as may be required of him by the Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply and Transport Committee;(b) prescribe the duties of
and exercise supervision and control over the-acts and proceedings of all municipal officers and servants appointed under Chapter XVIA and subject to the regulations for the time being in force under section 460V
dispose of all questions relating to the service of the said officers and servants and their pay
privileges and allowances;Page 54 of 80J.V.Salunke
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there is no decision or order of the Municipal Corporation accepting the petitioners' request to convert staff quarters in their occupation and possession into permanent occupancies.Similarly
as is clear from Section 92 of the MMC Act
a municipal property
with respect to its disposal
is governed by the same.Page 55 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::After clause (d) appears clause (dd).Page 56 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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whose services have been terminated for any act
wilful omission or negligence causing any damage or loss to
or destruction of
property belonging to the employer
shall be forfeited to the extent of the damage or loss so caused.(b) the gratuity payable to an employee may be wholly or partially forfeitedDuring the period of his occupation
proceedings under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act
1971 were initiated.The Estate Officer levied damages.Then
against that
an appeal was filed before the District Judge.The further proceedings are also referred in the judgment and order of the tribunal
from which
the appeal to the Hon'ble Supreme Court arose.Page 64 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::"".....The Tribunal on a consideration of the above held that death-cum-retirement gratuity (hereinafter referred to as 'D. C. R. G.') could not be withheld merely because the employee has not vacated the 4 1994(69) FLR 1137 Page 65 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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interest at the rate of 10% could be paid to the appellant.Page 65 of 80The respondent has not entered appearance.C. R. G. cannot be withheld merely because the claim for damages for unauthorised occupation is pending
should in our considered opinion
have granted interest at the rate of 18% since right to gratuity is not dependent upon the appellant vacating the official accommodation.Having regard to these circumstances
we feel that it is a fit case in which the award of 18% is warranted and it is so ordered.The D. C. R. G. due to the appellant will carry interest at Page 66 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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the civil appeal is allowed.However
there shall be no order as to costs.""Page 66 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::That was a decision rendered against the Secretary
Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC)
Dehradun and another by this court.The ONGC was aggrieved and dissatisfied with this decision and carried the matter in appeal to the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India.In the instant case
however
it is the specific case of the Commission that the Commission is having a statutory status.In exercise of statutory powers under Section 32(1) of the Act
regulations known as the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (Death
Retirement and Terminal Gratuity) Regulations
1969 have been framed by the Commission.In Sukhdev Singh v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh Raghuvanshi [1975] 1 SCC 421 the Constitution Bench of this Court held that regulations framed by the Commission under Section 32 of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission 5 2003(3) Mh. L. J. 168 6 (2005) 5 SCC 245 Page 67 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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1959 are statutory in nature and they are enforceable in a court of law.They provide for eligibility of grant of gratuity
extent of gratuity
etc. Regulation 5 deals with recovery of dues of the Commission and reads thus :- The appointing authority
or any other authority empowered by the Commission in this behalf shall have the right to make recovery of Commission's dues before the payment of the death- cum retirement gratuity due in respect of an officer even without obtaining his consent or without obtaining the consent of the members of his family in the case of the deceased officer
as the case may be.""The above regulation leaves no room of doubt that the Commission has right to effect recovery of its dues from any officer without his consent from gratuity.According to the Commission
he could be allowed four months' time to occupy the quarter which was granted to him.Page 68 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::We have to strike a balance.Page 71 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 72 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 73 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::We
therefore
direct that if such of the petitioners
who surrender and handover peaceful possession of their premises (municipal premises in their possession) within three months from today
the Municipal Corporation shall not make any further deductions
but release all the balance sums due and payable with proportionate interest to such employees.In the event the Page 74 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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then
all consequences in law shall follow.Meaning thereby
the Municipal Corporation can proceed with its action under section 105B and other provisions of the MMC Act and recover penal rent/damages/compensation as well.That can be recovered by attaching movable and immovable properties of the occupants.Page 74 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::However
we have seen a very peculiar feature of this case
Some of the petitioners have retired long time back.Some of these petitions have been filed and are pending in this court for more than five years.We have also found that some assurance
which cannot be termed as a promise enforceable and within the meaning of Page 75 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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1872
was extended from time to time.At least those occupancies from 1960 onwards were taken into account for consideration and extension of genuine benefits.These are municipal structures
which have been now in occupation of these persons for more than four decades.They have not made any provision for housing in Mumbai
either for themselves or their family members.In the event the municipal Corporation decides to develop these properties
particularly at Parksite (Vikhroli)
Deonar (Chembur)
Barvenagar (Ghatkopar)
Mithanagar (Goregaon)
Malvani (Malad) etc. and in the event any private party/developer or builder is engaged for development of these municipal properties/land
then
dependent upon the agreements that such developers and builders are ready and willing to execute with the petitioners and take over the entire responsibility of their re-housing/re-accommodating
then
the Municipal Corporation shall not
in any manner
prevent the petitioners from obtaining the benefits under such private arrangement of their rehabilitation.Even if these persons desire relocation to other municipal lands
which are developed/redeveloped
then
even to that course
the Municipal Corporation shall have no objection nor should prevent them from obtaining the benefits in terms of the agreement with the developers.Once they assume this character
then
the petitioners cannot retain them and endlessly.The above advantage or benefit can be availed by the petitioners only after the municipal premises are handed over to the Municipal Corporation.This order and direction
therefore
to the Municipal Corporation is independent of its powers and its position in law.Page 75 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 76 of 80::: Uploaded on - 07/02/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 12:15:08 :::Page 77 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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it is necessary to refer to other judgments relied upon by Mr. Sakhare.Sakhare emphasises that the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of S. D. Bandi vs. Divisional Traffic Officer
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation and Ors.7 observed that there are rules like Rule 7 of the Orissa Civil Services (Pension) Rules
1992
whereunder
action can be taken for continuing to remain in occupation of Government premises unauthorisedly.Thus
apart from initiating proceedings for eviction against serving Government servant
action by invoking this rule can also be taken against those who have ceased to be in service.Even with regard to criminal prosecution
the attention of the Government of India and the State Government was invited to Section 441 of the Indian Penal Code
1860 (IPC) as amended by the Orissa Legislature vide the Penal Code (Orissa Amendment) Act
1986 and it was emphasised that this provision enables the Government to prosecute the offenders for the offence of criminal trespass and even under Section 447 of the IPC.Though the provision in the IPC was recommended to be amended
most of the State Governments did not evince any interest and therefore
7 (2011) 15 SCC 718 Page 78 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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they should not be made in the subject case.The Hon'ble Supreme Court has commented upon the increasing tendency to hold on to the Government property and termed that there is a mushroom growth of unauthorised occupation of Government premises in almost all parts of the country in flagrant violation of the rules prevailing in the civilised society
which is detrimental to the interest of a large number of Government servants
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it is apparent that the law has not undergone any change.The learned Single Judge's view on the aspect and point noted above still holds the field.We respectfully concur with the same.8 Writ Petition No. 118 of 1983 Page 79 of 80 J.V.Salunke
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particularly in relation to the consideration of the petitioners' request would have to be dealt with by the Deputy Municipal Commissioner (Improvements) and subject to the approvals of the further higher authorities.(B.P.COLABAWALLA
J.) (S.C.DHARMADHIKARI
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['Section 447 in The Indian Penal Code']
Analyze the legal case and identify the corresponding section it comes under.
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It is also alleged that the applicant is not calling the meeting of company and have kept the agenda book and resolution book of the company in his possession with a view to gain control over the company.He without calling any meeting of the 2 board of Director of company prepared forge resignation letter of complainant Deepak and accepted his resignation on 18.12.2014 whereas he has never given the resignation.( 27 /06/2019) The applicant has preferred this petition under Section 397 read with Section 401 of Cr.P.C. against the order dated 21.01.2019 passed by XII Additional Sessions Judge, Indore in Session Trial No.1091/2015 whereby the application filed by the applicant under Section 227 of Cr.P.C. has been dismissed.(2).Brief facts of the case are that complainant Deepak Kumar Mandwani has given a written complaint to the police alleging that he and applicant Sunil are Director of the M/s Varadmurti Agro Tech Private Limited.The said company is owned 44 square feet diverted land situated at survey No. 193, 203, 204 of Village Tejpur Gadwadi, Tehsil and District Indore.The rate of the aforesaid land has been increased, therefore, the applicant Sunil Kumar illegally take over the aforesaid land.He also inducted his real brother applicant No.2 as director of company with intent to grab land of company.Thereafter, the applicant filed the aforesaid viz. appointment of applicant No.2 as director and removal of complainant Deepak Mandwani as director on the website of Registrar of Companies.On the basis of aforesaid complaint FIR bearing crime No.56/2015 was registered at police Station Juni Indore against the applicants for the offence under Section 420,467,468,471/34 of I.P.C. After completion of investigation, charge-sheet was filed and case was committed to the Sessions Court for trial.(3).Having heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the records.
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 467 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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He has been falsely implicated in the present case on account of being husband of the deceased who died five years after her marriage due to poising.He further submits that the applicant and deceased are husband and wife and have two issues.They were living peacefully.There was no demand of dowry.The deceased was a short tempered lady on account of some dispute she had taken poison.According to him there are only general allegation against the applicant.There was no earlier complaint of any matrimonial dispute.It was the applicant who informed about the death of the deceased to the informant.He is a family man.Heard learned counsel for applicant, learned A.G.A. and perused the record.This bail application has been preferred by the accused-applicant, Sanni, who is involved in Case Crime No.117 of 2014, under Sections 323, 498-A, 304-B I.P.C and section 3/4 of D.P. Act, P.S. Delhi Gate, District, Aligarh.Learned counsel for the applicant in support of his prayer for bail submits that applicant is innocent.The applicant shall remain present before the trial court on each date fixed, either personally or through his counsel.
['Section 174A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 229A in The Indian Penal Code']
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In the matter of : An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on August 10, 2016 in connection with Mandermoni Coastal Police Station Case no.24 of 2016 dated 20.04.2016 under Section 147/148/149/353/332/333 /186/323 /325 /341/307/506 of the Indian Penal Code;And In the matter of: Lakshmikanta Jana and others....petitioners....for the petitioners....for the State.The petitioners, apprehending arrest in connection with Mandermoni Coastal Police Station Case no.24 of 2016 dated 20.04.2016 under Section 147/148/149/353/332/333/186/323 /325/341/307/506 of the Indian Penal Code, have approached this Court for anticipatory bail.Accordingly, the application for anticipatory bail stands rejected.(Asim Kumar Roy, J.) (Malay Marut Banerjee, J.)
['Section 186 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 353 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 332 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 325 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard on I.A. No.3162/2016, which is second application under section 389 (1) of Cr.P.C for suspension of jail sentence and grant of bail filed on behalf of the appellant- Ashok S/o Govind Parihar.The present appellant suffered conviction and the jail sentence as follows :Learned Counsel for the appellant submits that first application was allowed and appellant was released temporarily on bail for 10 days on the ground of marriage of daughter of the appellant.He has not misused the liberty granted to him and surrendered before the trial court on the date fixed by this court.He further submits that he has already suffered a jail sentence for one year and seven months out of five years total sentence awarded to him and he also challenged the inference drawn by the trial court regarding age of the prosecutrix which was assessed as 12 years on the basis of her school record.Learned counsel for the State opposes the application on the ground that the prosecutrix belonged to the Scheduled Caste and she was only 12 years of age when the incident took place.Present appellant has tried to outrage her modesty which might have left an indelible mark on psychic of the prosecutrix.He further submits that even during the trial he remained under custody.It is directed that on production of personal bond for Rs.50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand) and one solvent surety of the like amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court and also on payment of fine, the appellant shall be released on bail for his appearance before the Registry of this Court on 22.02.2017, and thereafter, on each subsequent dates as may be fixed by the Registry of this Court in this behalf.C.C. as per rules.
['Section 389 in The Indian Penal Code']
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One of the voice out of these miscreants was that of Rahul.Thereafter 15-20 gun shots were fired causing damage to window panes and office furniture when staff working at toll plaza saved themselves by hiding here and there.Guards performing duty at toll plaza had also fired gun shots in their self defence.It is also alleged that a SUV, which was standing at the toll plaza, was also damaged.Otherwise the CBI would be flooded with a large number of cases and with limited resources, may find it difficult to properly investigate even serious cases and in the process lose its credibility and purpose with unsatisfactory investigations......"No.1, 2, 3 and 6/State.Shri Vivek Khedkar, learned Assistant Solicitor General for respondent No.7/CBI.This Public Interest Litigation has been filed by the petitioner, who is a practicing lawyer, claiming handing over of investigation to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in regard to Crime No.109/2019 registered at Police Station Civil Lines, Morena for its independent and effective investigation.Brief facts leading to present petition are that on 24.02.2019 a report was lodged by one S.S. Sikarwar working as Senior Toll Plaza Manager at Chhoda Toll Plaza, to the effect that at 10.33 pm on 23.02.2019 he had received a call on his mobile phone from one Rahul Kansana S/o respondent No.5- Endal Singh Kansana, a former Minster and a sitting MLA and such call was attended by his Deputy Toll Manager, Hotam Singh, as complainant S.S. Sikarwar had left his mobile and had gone to attend call of nature 2 W.P. No.4473/2019(PIL) when Rahul Kansana abused Deputy Toll Manager Hotam Singh and threatened that he will see to it that toll plaza becomes in- operational.At about 00.50 am 15-20 persons armed with weapons came to toll plaza and shouted on the employees of toll plaza threatening them to kill.It is further mentioned that though miscreants had come in 4-5 vehicles but registration numbers of two Scorpio vehicles have been mentioned in the FIR registering Crime No.109/2019 with further request that such incident has been recorded in the CCTV cameras available at toll plaza and this incident was given effect to by Rahul Kansana so to permit free passage of his vehicles without payment of toll tax.It is submitted that when aforesaid report was lodged at Police Station, then there was lot of pressure on the Superintendent of Police, namely; respondent No.4- Shri Riyaz Iqbal, who was transferred to Morena only on 11 th January, 2019 vide Annexure P/4 but soon after the incident he was transferred from Morena to Bhopal vide order dated 26 th February, 2019 (Annexure P/5), which 3 W.P. No.4473/2019(PIL) is indicative of extraordinary clout wielded by respondent No.5- Endal Singh Kansana on the authorities of the State and therefore, petitioner is not hopeful of any independent investigation in the matter and therefore, has prayed for transferring the case to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).In that case facts were that one member of 7 W.P. No.4473/2019(PIL) Parliament had written a letter to the Chief Minister and on said letter, Chief Minister had directed that investigation be conducted by Criminal Investigation Department (CID).Allegation was levelled by the Counsel for the petitioner that parallel inquiry or re- investigation by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is demoralizing the police force and the alleged accused have been released without any trial.
['Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 427 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Appellants, Yadu Nandan Mandal and Diwakar Mandal were tried alongwith Ganesh Mandal and Shyamdeo Jha for offences under Sections 364/34, 302/34,201/34 and 379/34 of Indian Penal Code (for short `IPC') on the allegations of havingabducted and murdered Gauri Kant Jha and Aditya Nath Jha, disposed of their deadbodies and committed theft of their bicycles.The trial Court acquitted Shyamdeo Jhabut convicted the remaining persons under Section 364 read with Section 34 IPC andsentenced them to undergo imprisonment for life.However, all the accused wereacquitted of the charges under Sections 304/35, 201/34 and 379/34 IPC.All theconvicts preferred appeal against the judgment of the trial Court.During thependency of the appeal, accused, Ganesh Mandal died and, on that account, appealfiled by him abated.So far as the remaining two appellants are concerned, the HighCourt confirmed their conviction and sentence.Hence, this appeal by special leave.Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants has pressed thisappeal on the question of sentence and made a prayer that the sentence ofimprisonment awarded against the appellants be reduced to the period alreadyundergone as appellant No.1 - Yadu Nandan Mandal has remained in custody for aperiod of more than five years and appellant No.2 - Diwakar Mandal has remained incustody for a period of more than seven years.Having heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the parties andtaking into consideration the totality of circumstances, we are of the view that ends ofjustice would be met in case the sentence of imprisonment awarded against theappellants is reduced to the period already undergone.Accordingly, the appeal is allowed in-part and while upholding theconviction of the appellants, the sentence of imprisonment awarded against them isreduced to the period already undergone.The appellants, who are on bail, are discharged from the liability of bailbonds.[B.N. AGRAWAL] ......................
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 364 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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ORDER S.K. Agarwal, J.This revision has been filed against the appellate order passed by the Additional District Judge, Gorakhpur in Criminal Appeal No. 33 of 2000, arising from the order dated 17-10-2000 passed by the Juvenile Judge.Gorakhpur in Crime Case No. 277 of 2000 (State v. Vikrant alias Sonu) under Section 377/511, I.P.C. Police Station Badhalganj, District Gorakhpur.On 7-8-2000 a report was lodged against the applicant for an offence under Section 377/511, I.P.C. PS Badhalganj.The case was registered as Crime No. 277/2000/-.When the charge sheet was submitted in court the applicant claimed himself to be a juvenile and sought the benefit of Juvenile Justice Act thereby desired to be tried by a Juvenile Judge.The informant opposite party No. 2 strongly contested the claim of his being a juvenile in revision and advanced the submission that he appeared in High School examination in 1998 from National Inter College Badhalganj.The said school has not issued a certificate to him on his demand.It is demanding an appropriate order from the Court for issuing the same to him.He made an application before Juvenile Judge for giving him necessary order in this regard.An order was given but despite that the copy of school leaving certificate was not issued to him.Despite that the court rejected his plea on the ground that no power is available to it under the law to force the Principal of National Inter College, Badhalganj to send a copy of the same or to direct him to appear in this court along with the necessary documents.The applicant was subjected to medical examination also.The medical examination report shows that he was about 17 years at the time of his medical examination.The complainant-informant had also filed a copy of extract of Parivar Register.This had been challenged by the father of the accused by filing an affidavit wherein it has been averred that in the copy filed by the informant the date of birth was wrongly shown.Apart from it the date shown therein is that of his eldest son and not of this applicant.No counter-affidavit was filed by the informant to the affidavit filed by the father of this applicant.In these circumstances the Juvenile Court preferred to accept the High School Certificate produced by the father of the applicant as admissible in evidence.Placing the reliance on the documents he declared the applicant a Juvenile.In the impugned appeal the above order was disturbed.It was seriously contended by the complainant informant opposite party No. 2 that the trial Judge has erred in not making a serious endeavour to call for the record from the National Inter College.Badhalganj from where this applicant had appeared in High School examination and failed.It would have furnished substantive evidence.The trial Court had failed to appreciated it.But there is a very important circumstance which goes in favour of the applicant that his father had filed an affidavit challenging the date of birth shown in the extract of Parivar Register filed by opposite party No. 2 before the Juvenile Court and adverted certain facts in order to prove the applicant a juvenile.As no counter-affidavit was filed to the affidavit by the opposite party No. 2 alleging that the entries of extract are fake and were procured to deny the applicant benefit of being a Juvenile.In these circumstances the trial Court thought it better to place reliance on the High School Certificate produced by the applicant.The most crucial fact, which may have impressed the formation of the opinion, is that failure to file any response to an affidavit disputing entries of extract of Parivar Register filed by him.It makes it clear that the informant opposite party No. 2 had been manipulating the evidence against the applicant.I am not inclined in view of the fact and circumstances discussed above in favour the applicant that he in all likelihood was a Juvenile when he committed the offence or even when he made his application for such a declaration before the court.In these circumstances adverted to above I find force in the submissions.This revision deserves to be allowed.The order dated 17-10-2000 is hereby restored.The applicant is declared a juvenile.
['Section 511 in The Indian Penal Code']
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M.C. 68/2015 Page 1 of 7 Delhi in Complaint Case No.25/2014 titled SEBI v. Timberworld Resorts & Plantations India Ltd. & Ors.M.C. 68/2015 Page 1 of 7The present revision petition under Section 397 read with Section 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter shall be referred to as the "Cr.P.C.") has been filed by the petitioner seeking striking off/expunction of para 8 of the order dated 29.11.2014 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Tis Hazari Courts, Crl.A criminal complaint was filed by the SEBI against Timberworld Resorts & Plantations India Ltd. and its directors before the Court for violation of Section 12(1B) of the SEBI Act and Regulation Nos.5(1) read with 68(1), 68(2), 73 and 74 of the SEBI Rgulations, 1999 constituting offence punishable under Section 24(1) read with Section 27 of the SEBI Act. In the complaint, it was alleged that the accused company raised an amount of about Rs.22 crores from general public in violation of the provisions contained in Section 12(1B) of the SEBI Act. Despite the Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) Regulations and public notice dated 18.12.1997, the accused pesons had failed to get the CIS registered with SEBI or to wind up the said schemes or repay the amount collected from the investors.Cognizance on the complaint was taken by the learned ACMM on 15.10.2001 and the accused persons were summoned under Section 204 Cr.P.C. On 08.12.2011, accused Rajesh Sud and A.V. Mahindra were declared proclaimed offenders.M.C. 68/2015 Page 2 of 7
['Section 397 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. No.3124 of 2013 has been filed for quashing the entire proceedings of F.R. No.70 of 2013 (State vs. Ismeet Singh and others) arising out of case crime no.692-A of 2012, under Sections 419, 420, 504, 506, 465, 467 and 468 I.P.C. relating to P.S. Kotwali Nagar, District Barabanki as well as impugned summoning order dated 03.06.2013 passed by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, court no.12, Barabanki.The petition under section 482 Cr.P.C. No. 3267 of 2016 has been filed for quashing the order dated 29.02.2016 passed by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Court no.18 Barabanki in Criminal Case No.418 of 2013 (Sudhir Kumar vs. Ismeet Singh) arising out of case crime no.692 of 2012 under sections 419, 420, 465, 467, 468, 504, 506 IPC, P. S. Kotwali Nagar, District Barbanki.Since both the petitions arising out of the same incident, they are heard together and are being decided by this common order.On 15.03.2012 one Sri Sudhir Kumar through opposite party no.2 Sri Nand Kishore Srivastava, who is the agent of the said company, had applied for insurance of his Truck bearing its registration no.An incident took place by the Truck of Sri Sudhir Kumar and his truck was seized by the police and later on the said truck was released by the court concerned in favour of the vehicle owner on the release application moved by him.After the release of the vehicle, the owner of vehicle came to the petitioner's company and started pressurizing him to pay the compensation, which was refused by the petitioner.On denial of the compensation, two First Information Reports have been lodged - one by Sri Sudhir Kumar, the truck owner as Case Crime No. 692 of 2012 and another by Sri Nand Kishore as Case Crime no.692-A of 2012, who is an agent of the Company.Both the petitions are dismissed accordingly.
['Section 190 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 173 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 156 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 419 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 467 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 504 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 465 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 200 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(2).The facts of the case are that in the year 2008-09 the Government of India authorized the firm Amit Kumar Atul Kumar Gautampura to buy wheat for FCI.On 29.04.2008 Mr. Amit Kumar and Ashish purchased 340 sacks of wheat from the farmers and it was loaded in a Truck bearing registration No.MP-09-K-1799 for sending it to Laxmibai Central Warehouse Indore.The truck was driven by Prakash and one Nilesh was cleaner of the vehicle.When at about 12:30 am the truck reached between Agra and Ushapura, one white Maruti van without having any registration number came from behind and stood in the middle of the road, this forced the driver to stop his truck.Thereafter 5-7 persons came out of the Maruti Van and 2 they entered into the truck from both the sides.One of them pulled the driver out and he started driving the truck.They also threatened to kill the driver Prakash.When the truck reached Khajuriya then culprits shifted the driver and cleaner into Maruti Van and they took the Maruti van towards Aerodrum.They took the driver and cleaner to the field and tied them with a rope and left from there threatening to kill them.Thereafter Prakash and Nilesh opened the rope and reached Lebad where they informed the incident to Yashpal through public telephone.Then they reported the matter to the police station Depalpur and lodged FIR (Ex-14).(14/01/2020) The applicant has preferred this appeal under Section 454 of Cr.P.C. against the order dated 01.03.2017 passed by Third Additional Session Judge, Indore in MJC No.9114/2017 whereby the application filed by the applicants under Section 451 & 452 of Cr.p.C. has been rejected by which they prayed for interim custody of seized property (340 sacks of wheat).(3).During the investigation police arrested the applicants and on the basis of their memorandum recorded under Section 27 of Evidence Act, recovered 200 sacks of wheat from Vasudev, 100 sacks from Baliram and 7 sacks from Rajesh.Thereafter police apprehended the Lakhan, Liladhar and Gabbar and on the basis of information given by Liladhar 10 sacks of wheat was seized from him.After completion of the investigation, charge sheet was filed against the accused person before the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Depalpur.The learned Magistrate committed the case to the court of Session and after completion of trial applicants and other co-accused persons were acquitted from the charge under Section 395, 365, 506-B and 412 of I.P.C. vide judgment dated 29.09.2016 3 passed by Third Additional Sessions Judge, Indore.However, the trial court directed to hand over the seized wheat to its owner.Being dissatisfied with the aforesaid order, the applicants preferred this appeal under Section 454 of Cr.P.C.(4).This order was challenged by the complainant in revision petition No.351/2008 filed before the 1st Additional Sessions Judge, Indore.The said revision petition was allowed vide order dated 24.05.2008 and complainant was directed to file fresh application before the trial court for getting interim custody of the wheat.Revisional court also ordered that any objection raised by the present applicants in relation to the application will be considered by the trial court.But complainant did not complied with the said order then the applicants moved an application before the trial court on 24.08.2009 for interim custody of seized property but it was not decided and kept pending.The trial court vide judgment dated 29.09.2016 directed that the seized property will remain in the custody of the complainant which already given to the complainant in interim custody.It is further submitted that from very beginning of the investigation and trial the applicants were claiming seized property stating that they are the owner of the said property.But the trial court did not consider the facts and even without deciding the pending application of the applicants pass a final judgment and orders to return the seized property to the complainant.Hence, learned counsel for the applicants prays for setting aside the impugned order and prayed that seized property (340 sacks) be handed over to the applicants.(5).Learned Public Prosecutor supported the finding given by the trial court regarding the custody of seized property and prays for dismissal of the petition.(6).From perusal of the record of the trial court, it 5 appears that the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Depalpur vide its order dated 30.06.2008 allowed the application filed by the complainant for taking the seized wheat in interim custody and direct the police to hand over 50 quintal of seized wheat to complainant M/s Amit Kumar Atul Kumar and in compliance of the aforesaid order the wheat was given to Vijay Kumar Jhajri on supurdginama.Thus, it is clear that the wheat was already handed over to the complainant party on supurdginama by the trial court and revisional court has not recall its interim order dated 24.05.08 regarding interim custody of wheat, therefore, the complainant party has not filed fresh application for getting of the seized wheat on Supurdginama.(7).Although the applicants moved an application before the Court of Third Additional Session Judge, Indore for granting interim custody of the wheat but this application has not been decided by the trial court and the order-sheet does not disclose that any point of time the counsel for the applicants had prayed for hearing the aforesaid application.After completion of the trial though accused persons were acquitted however seized property (wheat) was directed to 6 return to the complainant party.(8).From the perusal of the record of the trial court it does not reflect that applicants/accused did not make any claim in their examination recorded under Section 313 of Cr.P.C. that they are the owner of the seized wheat, to contrary they have denied the seizure of the wheat from their possession.They also not filed any documents to establish that they are the owner of the seized property.The applicants and other co-accused have been acquitted by the trial court only on the basis that the prosecution has failed to establish that the wheat has been recovered from the possession of the accused persons on the basis of their memorandum recorded under Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act. Therefore, merely on the ground that during, the trial applicants have filed an application for interim custody of the seized wheat, it cannot be said that they are entitled to get seized property after completion of the trial.Hence, the present appeal filed by the applicants is hereby dismissed.(S. K. Awasthi) Judge praveen PRAVEEN Digitally signed by PRAVEEN KUMAR NAYAK DN: c=IN, o=DISTRICT AND SESSION KUMAR COURT INDOR, postalCode=452005, st=Madhya Pradesh, 2.5.4.20=e98f729464903facdd39c4547 15d6eccc5a350c9111fb019b34dace6d NAYAK 05b8fd5, cn=PRAVEEN KUMAR NAYAK Date: 2020.01.31 13:44:10 -12'00'
['Section 395 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 365 in The Indian Penal Code']
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S. P. Verma for the appellant.C. P. Lal for the respondent.The Judgment of the Court was delivered byBOSE J.-Twenty-four persons, among them the two appellants,were tried for offences under sections 148, 307/149 and302/149, Indian Penal Code.Sixteen were acquitted and theremainmg eight were convicted.On appeal to the High Courtfive more were acquitted and the only ones whose convictionswere upheld were the two appellants, Nar Singh and RoshanSingh, and one Nanhu Singh.By a curious misreading of the evidence this Nanhu Singh wasmixed up with Bechan Singh.What the High Court reallymeant to do was to convict Bechan Singh and acquit NanhuSingh.Instead of that they acquitted Bechan Singh andconvicted Nanhu Singh.As soon as the learned High CourtJudges realised their mistake they communicated with theState Government and an order was thereupon passed by thatGovernment remitting the sentence mistakenly Passed on Nanhuand directing that he be released.This occasioned an application under article 134(1) (c) ofthe Constitution by Nanhu Singh and the two appellants NarSingh and Roshan Singh for a certificate.They are quite clear as to whatthey would have done if, in their judgment, the law had leftthem scope for the exercise of any discretion, for they say-" Ordinarily no certificate can be granted to them as thereis nothing of an exceptional nature in their cases."We hold therefore that the certificate was wrongly grantedto the appellants and will treat their case as one underarticle 136(1) for special leave.The High Court gives a clear finding thatthere were more than five persons and believes the eye-witnesses who identify the two appellants.A numberof persons joined in an attack at two in the morning onhelpless persons who were asleep in bed.At least one ofthe assailants was armed either with a gun or a pistol.
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She had given to the examining doctor the history of injury to be "fall".She was referred to the surgery department.There was history of pain in the abdomen and vomiting.There is nothing in the MLC which could indicate that she was unconscious at any stage.In due course, the parental family had also come to the hospital.Soon thereafter, there was a change of story.The parents and the complainant insisted that MLC be recorded.In the same context, it may be mentioned that PW-7, the father of the complainant, in the course of his evidence would claim that when he had arrived at the hospital none of the members of the Crl.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 4 of 10The complainant, in the course of her testimony (as PW-2) spoke about she having lost consciousness.The matter was then being followed up by Head Constable Hari Prakash (PW-9), who would confirm that he had gone to the hospital and met the complainant and her relatives.He would do so regularly.Thus, the first version that was offered by the complainant was after a gap of about ten days of the accident wherein she had suffered ruptured liver, it being a dangerous injury on which account she had to be shifted to the hospital.In the statement (Ex.PW-1/A) which formed the basis of endorsement by PW-12 Crl.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 5 of 10 leading to registration of the FIR (Ex.As noted earlier, no such incident had taken place on 22.04.1998 since later testimony would relate to what had happened on 23.04.1998, her father (PW-7) even having spoken about the visit to the matrimonial home on 23.04.1998 to handover Rs.20,000/- in cash.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 5 of 10She alleged that she had visited her father's house to arrange for the demand to be fulfilled, she being accompanied by her husband (A1), her father having given her cash of Rs.5,000/- stating that he was unable to make any further arrangement.She further alleged that after a few days she was physically assaulted, at about 12 o'clock in midnight, by the appellants herein and the two sisters-in-law (Kavita and Varsha) and turned out of the house, she being asked to go back to her father's house and arrange for a plot of land from him.She stated that against the said backdrop she had remained at her parental home for about 8-10 months and that, after a panchyat had been held, assurances having been held out, she was taken back by the appellants to their house.While lodging complaint (on 04.05.1998), she spoke about another incident that had occurred eighteen days prior thereto in which a Maruti car had been demanded and when she had declined to acceded to such demand, she was asked to bring Rs.20,000/- and the documents of the house of her father in lal dora, and also arrange for Crl.By judgment dated 29.07.2002 in Sessions Case No.87/1998, the Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) held the appellants guilty and convicted on charge for the offence under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC).The trial had been held on the basis of charges for offences punishable under Sections 307/34 IPC, Section 498-A/34 IPC and Section 406/34 IPC, the case also involving two others, namely, Kavita and Varsha as accused.By the aforementioned judgment, the trial court held that charges under Section 307/34 IPC and sections 406/34 IPC had not been proved.It was also held that the prosecution had failed to prove the complicity of Kavita and Varsha, Crl.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 1 of 10 who were thus, acquitted.By order dated 30.07.2002, the trial Judge awarded rigorous imprisonment for three years with fine of Rs.2,000/- each as sentence for offence under Section 498-A IPC against the appellants herein directing that in default of payment of fine they would undergo further rigorous imprisonment for three months, extending to them the benefit of set off under Section 428 Cr.P.C.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 1 of 10Feeling aggrieved by the conviction for the offence under Section 498-A IPC and by the order on sentence passed in its wake, the present appeal was filed, the prime contention being that it is a motivated case set up on false accusations.The acquittal of the appellants on the charge for offence under section 307 and 406 read with section 34 IPC or, for that matter, the acquittal of Kavita and Varsha on all the charges, on which they were put on trial, has not been challenged by the State by any appeal or petition.The said decision of the trial court, thus, has attained finality.This appeal was presented in August, 2002 and the sentences were suspended by order dated 05.08.2002 whereby the appeal was entertained.The turn of the appeal to be taken up for final hearing has come up from the list of regulars after more than sixteen years.Submissions of both sides have been heard at length and the record has been perused.The second appellant Om Prakash (A2) is the father of Crl.Kavita (A4) and Varsha (A5), who were also tried, were unmarried sisters of A1, role having been attributed to each of them in the various episodes that were narrated as the basis of accusations of cruelty being meted out to the complainant [Sunita (PW-2)].The prosecution case primarily depended on the evidence of PW-2 and her parents, viz., Savitri (PW-5) and Kartar Singh (PW-7).Appeal No.587/2002 Page 2 of 10Prosecution had also referred to the evidence of Naresh (PW-8), maternal uncle of the complainant.But then, the procedure adopted for taking on board his version is unknown to law.He was not examined by the prosecution, but simply tendered for cross- examination at the hands of the defence counsel.His version, therefore, is not available.Interestingly, in the present case the statement of the complainant was also recorded by Mr. B.S. Jaglan (PW-12) sub- divisional magistrate (SDM), during the time she was assumably under treatment in the hospital for certain injury, even though there is nothing on record indicating any reason to believe that the complainant was under risk of losing her life on account of such injury.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 3 of 10The sequence of events leading to the registration of the first information report (FIR) No.242/1998 in the Police Station Paschim Vihar on 04.05.1998 need to be noted at the outset.This is recorded in the MLC (Ex.The document makes an interesting reading, its author PW-6 confirming the contents to the effect that when the victim was brought to the casualty of the said hospital, she was accompanied by her husband (A1).Appeal No.587/2002 Page 4 of 10 matrimonial family of the complainant, i.e., appellants herein, were present there.This apparently cannot be believed because there is substantive evidence to show that it was the husband (A1) who had taken the wife (the complainant) first to a private nursing home and from there, upon reference, to DDU hospital, the complainant having remained hospitalized there for a long time.During the course of treatment, the complainant underwent surgery, her liver having been found to be ruptured, it being an internal injury.There is also evidence brought on record, primarily through the defence witness, and the trial court believed the same, to accept the defence version that the husband (A1) and one of his friend Rajinder had donated blood for aiding and assisting the successful surgical procedure for the complainant.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 6 of 10 surety for loan to be taken for a car.She alleged that when she had refused to accept all these demands, she was physically assaulted by the appellants and the said two sisters-in-law with legs and fists, this having resulted in she suffering injuries and losing consciousness.The entire story narrated in the FIR cannot be believed per se inasmuch as the MLC in contrast would show that she had been brought to DDU hospital one day prior to what she would project to be the date on which she was taken there, her statement in the court confirming that she was taken from the nursing home directly to the said hospital.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 6 of 10She stated that at about 6:00 a.m. when she was feeding her daughter, the parents-in-law, accompanied by the two sisters-in-law, had come and had brought up the subject of the house in lal-dora area and a cash of Rs.50,000/- in cash.She stated that when she had refused to go to the parental home to make such arrangements, the mother-in-law and the two sisters-in-law tried to strangulate her with hands.She also stated that the husband had come on the scene at that stage and with the assistance of his mother, father and two sisters he had beaten her rendering her unconscious.She spoke about visit to the house by a Crl.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 7 of 10 private doctor on whose advice she was taken to a private nursing home and from there to the other hospital.On further questioning, she also spoke about certain demands made in the past, this leading to cash of Rs.20,000/- and Rs.17,000/- having been given on two different occasions.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 7 of 10The statement forming the basis of FIR does not match with statement before SDM.Statement more or less on the above lines given by PW-2 during the court deposition consists of lot of improvements.The contradictions arising out of such improvements were brought out by extensive cross-examination.Her parents (PW-5 and PW-7) also deposed similarly, their respective cross-examination also bringing out many an improvement on material aspects.Similar is the case of the cash of Rs.50,000/- being demanded.The trial court examined the evidence which had been led and found it difficult to believe that there had been any attempt on the life of the complainant.Taking note of the first version to the medical officer (before whom the complainant had been brought) on 24.04.1998 indicating the history of injury to be a "fall", the trial Judge refused to believe the complainant in her allegations that she had been subjected to intentional assault by fists and legs at the hands of the husband or any of the members of his family.The trial Judge refused to believe that the sisters-in-law (Kavita and Varsha) had any Crl.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 8 of 10 role to play in any harassment - physical or mental - meted out to the complainant in the matrimonial home.Even which rejecting the evidence to such effect, the version of the complainant and the word of her parents has been accepted to return finding of guilty against the appellants for the offence under Section 498-A IPC.This, in the considered opinion of this court was inherently contradictory and most unfair.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 8 of 10Upon appreciation of evidence, it is indeed difficult to believe the allegations against Kavita and Varsha.But, while rejecting the case against said two persons that very evidence attributing similar role concerning the appellants on same set of incidents has been accepted on its face value.In view of the somersault as to the history of the serious injuries with which the complainant had been brought to the hospital on 24.04.1998, the theory of fall as the cause of injury having been accepted, the version of the complainant as to the intentional assaults by the appellants is rendered in very poor light this seriously affecting her credibility.As noted earlier, despite opportunity, and the approach by the police official on regular basis, even while she was in hospital, the complainant consciously avoided giving any version.The MLC itself shows that the change of the version from the original one of "fall" (which has been accepted by the trial court) was at the instance of the parents.The fact that the statement alleging history of harassment for dowry was lodged after a period of ten days renders it a case possibly of an afterthought, such delay, in the facts and circumstances, having remained unexplained.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 9 of 10Doubts arise as to the purity and wholesomeness of the version forming its basis.In above view, this court concludes that the word of PW-2, as indeed that of her parents, cannot be accepted on its face value.The appellants deserve the benefit of such doubts.Thus, the appeal is allowed.The impugned judgment and order on sentence are set aside.Trial court record be sent back forthwith.R.K.GAUBA, J.APRIL 03, 2019 vk Crl.Appeal No.587/2002 Page 10 of 10Appeal No.587/2002 Page 10 of 10
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code']
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It is alleged that Accused No. 1 was arrested on the same night and that the Police thereafter went in search of original Accused Nos. 2 to 5, who are the present Appellants, at their respective villages.The prosecution alleges that the four Accused came to be arrested in quick succession and that a relatively large amount of property in the form of gold, jewellery and currency notes, etc., was either discovered at their instance or recovered by the Police in the course of the investigations.JUDGMENT Saldanha, J.It was alleged that the present Appellants, along with original Accused No. 1, had committed an act of dacoity with murder on 7-10-1984 at flat No. 18, 8/2 situate on the 18th floor of Woodlands building, Peddar Road, Bombay.It was alleged by the Prosecution that the five Accused were instrumental in tying up, gagging and ultimately committing the murder of a sole inmate of the flat one Veerchand Dhanji Tajani at about 4 p.m. on the afternoon on that day.It was further alleged that after committing the aforesaid murder, the Accused had ransacked the flat and that Accused Nos. 2 to 5 had hurriedly left the building; whereas Accused No. 1 was found in a tied condition near the entrance of the flat.According to the Prosecution, one Dr. Shroff, who is a neighbour, had noticed original Accused No. 1, who was a servant employed by Tajani, in a tied condition near the entrance of the flat and that he had informed the liftman, Suresh Mohite (P.W. 4), to bring this fact to the notice of the Security Officer.When Suresh Mohite informed the Security Officer, Bali (P.W. 1), he immediately came up and on entering the flat of Veerchand Tajani found him in a tied condition on the bed.Since Veerchand Tajani was already dead, Bali lodged a complaint with the Police, who immediately came there and commenced their investigations.The Prosecution further alleges that the sister-in-law of the deceased and her son were shown the property that was recovered from Accused Nos. 2 to 5 and that a greater part of this property, which was in the form of jewellery, has been identified by them.Ultimately, on completion of the investigations, Accused Nos. 1 to 5 were put on trial.The learned Additional Sessions Judge, Greater Bombay, at the conclusion of the trial was of the view that there was no evidence against Accused No. 1 and, consequently, acquitted him.As far as Accused Nos. 2 to 5 are concerned, they were convicted of the offence of robbery punishable under Section 392 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years.Accused Nos. 2 to 5 were further convicted of the offence punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life, the respective sentences to run concurrently.As regards the alternative charge under Section 411 of the Indian penal Code against Accused Nos. 2 to 5, in view of the aforesaid conviction, the learned Trial Judge dropped this particular charge.The evidence adduced by the Prosecution falls under certain broad heads, the first of them being the evidence of certain witnesses on the basis of which the Prosecution seeks to establish the presence of the present Accused at the scene of offence.Thereafter there is the evidence relating to the discovery, recovery and seizure of the property by the Police and the simultaneous arrest of Accused Nos. 2 to 5 from their respective native places, all of which has taken place in quick succession in the immediate days following the incident.Thereafter the Prosecution has sought to rely also on the fingerprint evidence, particularly that of one of the fingerprints which is attributed to Accused No. 2 and which, according to the Prosecution, was found on a bottle in the flat of the deceased.The next head of evidence on which the Prosecution relies is the identity of the jewellery and the property by the sister-in-law of the deceased, Mrs. Tajani, her son and one Zhavari (P.W. 24), who is an approved valuer.Lastly, there is the evidence of the respective police officers who have recounted the manner in which the investigation was conducted, the manner in which the Accused were traced and arrested.They have deposed about the manner in which the property was retrieved and the other supportive evidence was gathered.It will be essential in the present case, in keeping with the well set law relating to circumstantial evidence, that this Court will have to examine each of the circumstances alleged against the Accused and will have to come to the conclusion that the chain of circumstances, which consists of several links, indicates that every link has been properly established and that the chain of circumstances lead to only one irresistible conclusion which points to the guilt of the Accused and to nothing else.This is all the more necessary because the Accused in their defence have neither admitted their presence nor have they admitted any recovery of property at their instance.They have taken up a defence of total denial.In this view of the matter, the Prosecution case will have to be established on its independent footing in so far as the Accused have admitted nothing.As far as the first head of evidence is concerned, the liftman, Suresh Mohite (P.W. 4) has deposed about what had happened on that afternoon.He states that the car lights of a vehicle belonging to one Mr. Apte, who resides on the 24th floor of that building, were found to be on and he was instructed to go up to the flat on the 24th floor and to inform Mr. Apte of this fact.He gives the time as 4 p.m. in the afternoon and states that he had gone to the flat at the instance of Bali (P.W. 1), the Security Officer, and that he conveyed the message at Mr. Apte's flat on the 24th floor.Thereafter he pressed the lift button and got into the lift when it came to the 24th floor.He states that on the way down, the lift automatically stopped at the 19th floor and four young persons boarded the lift, out of whom one was carrying a bag.Another incident occurred immediately thereafter, namely, that when the liftman came to the 18th floor, Dr. Shroff told Suresh Mohite (P.W. 4) that the servant of Mr. Tajani was lying in a tied condition outside the flat and that he should call the Security Officer.This was something unusual and out of the ordinary pattern and it is in all probability this circumstance of what transpired thereafter which made Suresh Mohite recall the fact that he had seen the four persons boarding the lift and leaving the building at that time and, furthermore, that their faces had got registered in his memory because of the fact that they appeared to be frightened.Suresh Mohite (P.W. 4) thereafter informed Bali (P.W. 1) who, in turn, came to the flat and discovered the inmate of the flat, Mr. Tejani in a dead condition.Obviously news must have spread all around the building particularly when the Police were immediately called in and the most pertinent question which the liftman and th security staff must have been asked by everybody, including the Police, was with regard to who were the persons seen entering and leaving the building around that time.Unfortunately, the matter does not rest there because, as pointed out earlier, Suresh Mohite has identified the four Accused on the 19th October 1984 when his statement was recorded by the Police and when these Accused, along with other persons, were in the Police Station.He has also identified the Accused in the Court.It is true that there is a minor discrepancy in his evidence in so far as he has stated that it was Accused No. 4 who was carrying the bag in the course of his evidence; whereas the defence has brought it on record that he had told the Police that Accused No. 3 was the person carrying the bag.The incident has taken place in the day time.The Accused had boarded the lift on the 19th floor that was closeby to the place where the incident took place and an unusual incident had also occurred immediately thereafter when Suresh Mohite (P.W. 4) was informed about Accused No. 1 being in a tied condition.A cumulative effect of these factors does lead us to believe that if the memory of this witness were such that he could point out the four Accused not only to the Police but also in the course of the trial that his evidence on the point of identification and on the all important aspect of establishing the presence of the Accused in the building at that time will have to be accepted.The Prosecution has also relied on the evidence of one maid servant Jayashree Gawade (P.W. 3), who knows Accused No. 3 personally.It appears that initially this witness had turned hostile obviously because she did not want to give evidence against Accused No. 3 whereupon she was cross-examined and material portions of her Police Statement were brought on record in the course of the cross-examination which, in turn, have been proved through the Investigating Officer.Jayashree has stated that Accused No. 3 hurriedly came to the adjoining Shanti Building and that he had told her that he had been removed from service, that he hurriedly handed over an amount of Rs. 450/- to her with a message that Rs. 200/- should be given to his brother Yeshwant and that he also informed her that there was a taxi waiting downstairs as he was leaving for his native place.The evidence of this witness will at the highest indicate that Accused No. 3 on that afternoon had suddenly come into possession of a certain amount of money and that he was in a hurry to leave for his native place.By themselves, these circumstances may appear to be innocuous, but in the light of the fact that this Accused No. 3 was one of the persons who had taken part in the incident which culminated in the death of Mr. Tejani and the ransacking of his flat and that he immediately thereafter came with a certain amount of currency and hurriedly left to his native place would have to be regarded as incriminating circumstances against him in the light of the connection with the earlier incident.The Prosecution has examined Krishnabai More (P.W. 7), who is a maid servant working in the adjoining building by the name Sheth Minar on Peddar Road.This witness has deposed to the fact that Accused No. 3 collected his salary on the afternoon of that day from the person with whom he was working on the pretext that he had to leave for his native place urgently and further that Accused No. 2 had also accompanied him at that time.Again, the fact that Accused No. 3 wanted to collect his salary and go away to his native place or the fact that he was accompanied by Accused No. 2 may, in themselves, appear to be innocuous circumstances, but this Court will have to take note of two factors of some significance, the first of them being that Accused No. 3 was in a desperate hurry to collect his salary for which he waited for some time, that he was accompanied by Accused No. 2 and that he had also stated that he was leaving for his native place urgently without disclosing any special reason for this visit.The urgency and the hurry displayed by Accused No. 3 on that afternoon is a circumstance that would go heavily against him in the light of the fact that his presence at the scene of offence a short time earlier was established and it was, therefore, clear that Accused No. 3 in the company of Accused No. 2 had decided to leave the city immediately which is consistent more with his guilt than with his innocence having regard to his connection with the offence.The Prosecution has also examined Yeshwant Kamble (P.W. 8), who is a Security Supervisor of the Sheth Minar Building on Peddar Road.He has deposed about two facts, the first of them being the friendship between Accused Nos. 1, 2 and 3, and the fact that on the date of the incident at about 4-30 p.m. he had seen Accused Nos. 2 and 3 visiting the building and that he had also seen them leaving, one of them carrying a bag and the second one carrying some other item.It is true that this witness is a security supervisor of the adjoining building.Learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the Appellants have vigorously attacked the evidence of this witness and the earlier two in so far as they have pointed out that there is no doubt whatsoever of the fact that the Police have just picked these persons up and recorded vague statements with the sole object of trying to establish the presence of the Accused at or near the place of the incident.Learned Counsel have also contended that even the evidence taken at its face value would at the highest show that Accused Nos. 2 and 3 were around the said Sheth Minar Building on that day and that they left in the afternoon, but this would not establish their presence at the Woodlands Building.It is necessary to bear in mind that in the light of the earlier evidence of Suresh Mohite (P.W. 4) and the Security Supervisor Bali (P.W. 1) and the fact that the incident had just taken place in the Woodlands Building, the presence of these two Accused in the adjoining building and their hurried departure from that place are circumstances of some consequence and are circumstances that fully fit in with and establish the Prosecution theory.The cumulative effect of the evidence of these witnesses will, undisputedly, indicate that the Prosecution has brought on record sufficient evidence to establish the presence of Accused Nos. 2 to 5 at and around the scene of offence on the date of the incident and the manner in which they have left therefrom.Before dealing with the strongest circumstance against the present Accused, namely, the recovery of a substantial amount of property, it is necessary for us to refer to the evidence relating to the finger prints.Bhimrao Shinde (P.W. 13), who is a Finger Print Expert, has been examined as also Dattatraya Kathe (P.W. 14), who is a Police Photographer.It is alleged that the Police discovered chance finger prints which were sent to the expert for comparison with the admitted finger prints of the four Accused.The defence Counsel have seriously challenged this finding before the Trial Court and a reading of the very detailed cross-examination will indicate that the challenge put forward was a very substantial one.The learned Additional Sessions Judge has supported his conclusion with detailed reasoning.It has been argued on behalf of the defence that there is nothing unusual or incriminating about the Accused wanting to go to their home town.One factor needs to be borne in mind, namely, that the four Accused leaving Bombay at the same time and not being able to put forward any special reason for their wanting to leave Bombay, where all of them were working, in such a hurry, and going to their native places is a circumstance that is more against the Accused than one that can be regarded as being in their favour.The Police have brought on record the most incriminating evidence in this case, namely, the fact that immediately on the night of 7-10-1984 itself the investigating authorities came to know the names and addresses of all the four assailants.The Police have immediately swung into action and significantly in more than one of the cases the Police reached the native place even before the concerned Accused got there.The Prosecution has examined the respective Police Constables and the Investigating Officers who had gone to these places, traced out the Accused and arrested them and brought them to Bombay.For the purposes of setting at rest this controversy, it would be both necessary and useful to refer to the evidence of Hemlata Manilal Tejani (P.W. 17), the sister-in-law of the deceased, and her son Amrish Manilal Tejani (P.W. 19), nephew of the deceased.These two witnesses are close relations of the deceased and it has come on record that they used to visit his flat and they were familiar with his possessions.
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Ms. Nandy, learned advocate for the State submits, on instructions received from the said officer-in-charge, that the complaint, sent by post, was received on 4th April, 2016 and on the following day Joynagar Police Station FIR No.426 under sections 447/323/354A/506/34 of the Indian Penal Code (hereafter the said FIR) has been registered and that investigation is in progress.Mr. Roy Chowdhury, learned advocate for the petitioner submits that the fact of registration of the FIR was not communicated to the petitioner; had it been so communicated, the petitioner could have been spared the tribulations of approaching this Court.It appears from the FIR produced by Ms. Nandy that the said officer-in- charge did not obtain either the thumb impression or the signature of the complainant.Feeling aggrieved by the inaction of the Officer-in-Charge, Joynagar Police Station (hereafter the said officer-in-charge) to register an FIR on the basis of her complaint dated 1st April, 2016, the petitioner has invoked the writ jurisdiction of this Court.This is not only in derogation of the statutory rules but also amounts to disobedience of lawful orders of superiors viz. instruction issued by the Director General of Police to officers-in-charge of all police stations under his jurisdiction to ensure that the complainant is made aware of registration of an FIR immediately after the same is registered.I express hope and trust that the Director General of Police shall take appropriate steps in the matter.There shall be no order for costs.ice Office is directed to communicate this order to the Director General of Police for necessary action.Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be furnished expeditiously., (Dipankar Datta, J.)
['Section 447 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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1 42 20.11.2018 Sandip Court No.34 Allowed CRM 8565 of 2018 In the matter of an application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure affirmed on 20.09.2018 in connection with Raiganj Police Station Case No. 338 of 2018 dated 18.06.2018 under Sections 302/201/34 of the Indian Penal Code.And In Re: Kalam Md. @ Kalam Hossain & Anr.Mr. Mirza Firoj Ahmmed Begg ... For the Petitioners.Mr. Madhusudan Sur, APP, Mr. Dipankar Pramanik ... For the State.It appears that the second petitioner had an affair with the victim but upon the second petitioner apparently rejecting the victim, the victim committed suicide.The first petitioner is the brother of the second petitioner.The petition for anticipatory bail is allowed subject to the conditions as indicated above.A certified copy of this order be immediately made available to the petitioners subject to the compliance with all requisite formalities.(Suvra Ghosh, J.) (Sanjib Banerjee, J,)
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 306 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 438 in The Indian Penal Code']
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JUDGMENT P.D. Mulye, J.This is a petition filed by the petitioner under Section 482, Criminal Procedure Code, against the order dated August 10, 1983, passed by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Indore, in Criminal Case No. 1075 of 1980, whereby the respondent has been discharged.In the alternative it is also prayed that if the impugned order is treated to be an acquittal, then the petitioner be granted leave under Section 378, Criminal Procedure Code, to prefer an appeal against the acquittal of the respondent.The facts giving rise to this petition may be stated, in brief, thus : The petitioner, who is an Income-tax Officer, in the capacity of a public servant, after obtaining the necessary sanction, filed a criminal complaint under Section 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code, against the respondent, who is an income-tax assessee, for an offence under Section 420 read with Section 511 of the Indian Penal Code and under Section 277 of the Income-tax Act on the ground that for the assessment years 1965-66 and 1966-67, the respondent had submitted false returns by concealing certain income which was assessable to tax.Therefore, for income escaping assessment, action was taken against the respondent by issuing notice under Section 148 of the Income-tax Act. Thus, the respondent had submitted false returns with an intent to deceive and defraud the Income-tax Department and to secure a favourable order of assessment.The case was adjourned from time to time for recording evidence before charge but despite obtaining several opportunities, the petitioner did not adduce any evidence in support of the complaint.On August 10, 1983, also, the complainant was absent.The respondent submitted an application under Section 245(2), Criminal Procedure Code, along with a certified copy of the judgment of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal (Ex. D-1) to point out that the fact of concealment of income for the years complained of was held as disproved.The learned trial court, therefore, discharged the respondent on the ground that there is no evidence which if unrebutted would warrant a conviction of the accused.Hence, this petition.The learned counsel for the petitioner did not dispute the fact that the learned trial court had given several opportunities to the petitioner to lead evidence before charge but no evidence was led.
['Section 511 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The case of the prosecution is as follows:-PW1 is the son of one Mayavu, the deceased.The first accused is the son of deceased Mayavu's wife's sister.A2 is the co-brother of the deceased.Three months prior to the occurrence, PW1 conducted panchayat and performed the marriage between A1 and the person whom A1 loved by name Rani But that marriage was conducted without the consent of A2 and therefore, there was enmity between the family of the accused and the family of the deceased.On 2.6.1994 at about 8.30 pm, while PW1 and his father were sitting in front of their house, the first accused came with MO1 Bamboo stick and A2 with MO2 stick.On seeing them PW1, PW2 and the deceased tried to enter into their house in order to avoid the attack by the accused.But the accused prevented them from going into their house.Immediately, A1 hit the deceased with MO1 Bamboo stick on the head of the deceased, who immediately fell down.When PW1 tried to lift his father, A2 beat him with MO2 stick and also beat on the leg of the deceased; PW1's mother and wife had fled away from the scene of occurrence.Thereafter the accused ran away from the scene.Immediately PW1 went to the Thuvakkudi Police Station along with the deceased, and gave Ex.P1 report; The Police gave a memo around 9 pm on the same date; They remained in the Police Station till 5 am and thereafter, they went to the hospital.The injured was not conscious.On examination, PW9 did not find any external injury.He prepared Ex.P1 is the FIR.Immediately thereafter PW12 went to the place of occurrence at 9.30 pm and prepared observation Mahazar Ex.P2 and sketch Ex.JUDGMENT A.K. Rajan, J.1. Appeal against the conviction.The first accused has been charged for the offence under Section 302 IPC and the second accused has been charged for the offence under Section 302 read with 34 and 323 IPC.The trial Court after trial acquitted A1 of the offence under Section 302 and A2 for the offence under Section 302 r/w 34 IPC but convicted A1 for the offence under Section 304 Part II and imposed a sentence of five years R.I and A2 for the offence under Section 323 IPC and imposed a sentence of fine of Rs.500/-P7 the Accident Register.Thereafter the case was altered into one for the offence under Section 302 IPC.He searched for the accused, but he could not find them.When the death was known on 5.6.1994, PW12 altered the FIR into one for the offence under Section 302 and sent Ex.P11 express report.After the receipt of Ex.P-11 Express report, PW13 Inspector attached to BHEL Police Station took up the investigation.He went to the hospital and conducted inquest and prepared inquest report, examined Pws1 to 4 and other witnesses.He sent the dead body through constable for autopsy.PW10, Doctor who conducted autopsy stated that he did not find any external injury but on opening the skull, he found injury on the head to an extent of 12 c.m., and there was a blood clot found between the skull and membrance.He also found fracture on the ribs.There was no other injury.PW10, Doctor opined that the deceased would appear to have died of head injury was necessarily fatal.When the accused was questioned under Section 313, Cr.P.C, he denied the accusation.The trial Court acquitted the first accused under Section 302 IPC and the second accused under Section 302 r/w 34 IPC but convicted A1 for the offence under Section 304 part II and sentenced him to undergo Rigorous imprisonment for 5 years and convicted A2 for the offence under Section 323 IPC and imposed a fine of Rs.500 against which the present appeal has been filed.9. Learned Counsel for the appellants submitted that the offence committed by the accused would fall under Section 324, because there was no intention of committing murder and also without knowledge that such injury would cause death of the deceased.Considering the fact that there was no serious motive for the offence and the only motive is that the deceased performed marriage between A2 and the girl whom he loved.Further the counsel for the appellants submitted that, had the injured been taken to the hospital immediately after the occurrence, he could have been saved from death.But in this case, the injured was kept in the police station till 5 am next day; Therefore there was a delay of 14 hours before the injured was taken to the hospital.But for the delay, the injured would not have died.This argument of the learned counsel for the appellants, though appealing, cannot be accepted in view of the fact that in the Post Mortem Certificate, it is found that the injury on the head was to an extent of 12 cm and the skull was found fractured.From the evidence on record, it can be held that he did not have the intention to murder the deceased but since they were armed with dangerous weapons, namely bamboo stick and the fact that by using the sticks the deceased was hit on the head would go to show that there was an intention to cause such injury.When the accused caused the injury, the knowledge that it was likely to cause the death can be imputed against him.Therefore, the learned Sessions Judge has rightly come to the conclusion that the first accused committed the offence under Section 304 part II.This conclusion of the Sessions Judge cannot be said to be illegal and hence the conviction under Section 304 part II against the first accused is confirmed.The conviction of A2 under Section 323 IPC is confirmed.Learned Counsel for the appellants submitted that the first accused was aged about 25 years and he was just married at that time.With the above modification of sentence, the appeal is dismissed.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 313 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard on the question of admission.Appeal being arguable is admitted for hearing.Let record of the trial court be called for.Heard on I.A. No.269/2020, first application under Section 389 (1) of Cr.P.C for suspension of jail sentence and grant of bail on behalf of appellants.This Criminal appeal assails the judgment dated 30.12.2019 passed in Case No.SC.DOCT/300001/2015 by Special Judge, MPDVPK, Sheopur (M.P.) whereby the appellants have been convicted as under with default stipulation:-Hearing of appeal shall take some time.Even otherwise, appellants have strong case on merits also.Hence, he prays for suspension of sentence and grant of bail to the appellants.Learned Public Prosecutor for the respondent/State opposed 2 THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH Cr.A. No.345/2020 (RIZWANA AND OTHERS Vs THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH) the prayer made by counsel for the appellants and has prayed for dismissal of the application.Considering the submissions of the counsel for the parties, looking to the facts and circumstances of the case and the jail sentence of appellants have already been suspended for one month, application for suspension of sentence is allowed.It is directed jail sentence of appellants will remain under suspension on their furnishing a bail bond of Rs.50,000/- (Rs. Fifty Thousand only) each with two solvent sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the concerned trial Court, for their appearance before Office of this Court on 23.10.2020 and thereafter on all subsequent dates as may be fixed by the office.Certified copy as per rules.(Vishal Mishra) Judge vpn VIPIN KUMAR AGRAHARI 2020.01.14 17:58:47 +05'30'
['Section 389 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The facts are briefly these.P. W. 6, the elder brother of Reddanna, got suspicious about the disappearance of Reddanna and he went and gave a complaint to the police on 14-4-1949 about his disappearance and his suspicions that he might have been murdered.The police began vigorous investigation.Owing to the great stink in Yedurlagunta valley people came to know that some corpse might have been buried there and P. W. 15 the Circle Inspector of Police went on 17th with P. W. 10, the Sub-Magistrate, and big men and dug up the spot and recovered the skin of the palm and sole of the foot of a decomposed corpse, and not the other portions.JUDGMENT Panchapakesa Ayyar, J.These are two appeals by Venkata Reddi and Vebulu, accused 3 and 4 in S. C. No. 42 of 1949 on the file of the Sessions Judge, Cuddappah.They have been convicted under Sections 302 and 34, Penal-Code, and sentenced to transportation for life, and also under Section 201, Penal Code, and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years to run concurrently with the sentences under Section 302, Penal Code.One Reddanna was living in Poanellavandlapalli in Rayachoti taluk in Guddappah district.Though he was married he was not on good terms with his wife for sometime before this murder and he was carrying on with a woman called Chinna Ammani of Ragatiguntapalli, an adjoining village.Accused 2 was also carrying on with the same Chinna Ammani Reddanna wanted to have this Chinna Ammani exclusively for himself, by marrying her, and accused 1 and 2 went and told him on 8-4-1949, that they would get him married to Ammani that midnight.So, taking some jewels of his and borrowing some jewels as a loan from a barber P. W. 1, Reddanna set out with accused 1 and accused 2 on the night of 8-4-1949 with intent to get the marriage performed that midnight.Accused 1 and 2 who are closely related, took the help of accused 3 and 4, two persons alleged to be hired assassins, and all the four are said to have murdered Reddana that night while sleeping and waiting for the girl Amman who was said to be on her way, by accused 2 pressing his throat with terrific force and the remaining accused holding his arms and legs, near Marrimani Bhavi in a jungle and buried his corpse there.Thereafter, fearing that the corpse might give out a stink which would be noticed by people in the neighbourhood frequenting that place, they are said to have removed the corpse to Yedurlakunta valley in the jungle and buried it in a pit there.There also they seemed to have feared later on that the body would be discovered by its stink and so removed it and put it in a gunny bag in order to transport it to a more unfrequented place.But small portions of the decomposed corpse, like the skin of the palm of the left band and the sole of the right foot, got left behind in the Yedulakunta valley.The rest of the corpse was put in a gunny bag and taken to Devarthi Bhavi, a disused well, a mile away, and shoved into it.The scar of a cut wound on the skin of the thumb corresponded to such a wound on the thumb of Reddenna.Accused 4 was arrested on suspicion on the night of 21-4-1949 and he offered to show the main corpse of Reddanna.He took the Circle Inspector of Police and the Sub-Magistrate and the big men to Devarathi Bhavi and pointed out the gunny bag containing the remaining portion of Reddanna's corpse.According to the medical evidence of P. W. 9, that corpse could be identified by the heir, teeth etc., by persons who knew the man and the witnesses who were related to Reddanna or knew him well identified the corpse, by the curly hair, coated teeth, jutting forehead bone and other signs and features and also a key of Beddanna (M. O. 1) found with the remains.In the present case, some persons had been suspected in the first instance of this murder and 8 persons were actually charge-sheeted of whom four were committed to the sessions and two finally acquitted.Accused 4 when taken be fore the District Magistrate for recording his statement in order to be tendered a pardon and taken on as an approver refused to make a statement and said that he knew nothing about the murder.It is obvious that the confessions of accused 3 and 4, which are the main pieces of evidence against them regarding the conviction under Section 302, Penal Code are of no value in the circumstances.Nor were these retracted confessions corroborated in any material particulars regarding the murder itself.He was the first to give information about the corpse of Reddanna thrown into the Davarathi Bhavi.
['Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Record of the Court below in Special Case no. 79/2015 has been received.Heard on the point of admission.Perused the statement of the prosecutrix as well as witnesses.As per the prosecutrix she was below the age of 18 years.Applicant committed intercourse with the prosecutrix for more than one occasion for which she conceived.When the child grown up in the womb of the prosecutrix her abdomen got enlarged.When this fact was asked by other women she narrated the story.Considering the statement of prosecutrix and other witnesses, this appeal is having arguable point, therefore it is admitted for final hearing.Also heard on I.A.No.18802/2018, an application filed under Section 389(1) of the Cr.P.C. for suspension of custodial sentence.T h e appellant stands convicted for the offence punishable under Section 376 (2) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3 read with Section 6 of POCSO Act and sentenced to undergo R.I. for 10 years along with fine of Rs.3,000/- with default stipulation.Counsel for the appellant submits that at the time of incident the prosecutrix was more than 18 years.This Court perused the statement of all witnesses.Different versions come in the statement of witnesses about the age of prosecution.Digitally signed by VIVEK KUMAR TRIPATHI Date: 13/03/2019 10:50:24 2 CRA-8326-2018 Learned Panel Lawyer for the respondent/State, on the other hand, has opposed the bail application.The age of the prosecutrix is to be decided in this appeal.She has not narrated the incident to any one.When his abdomen got enlarged and when asked by other women about that then she narrated the whole story and the incident.Certified copy as per rules (VISHNU PRATAP SINGH CHAUHAN) JUDGE vivek Digitally signed by VIVEK KUMAR TRIPATHI Date: 13/03/2019 10:50:24
['Section 3 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard the learned counsel for the parties.Since both the applications are related to one crime, therefore both the applications are heard simultaneously and decided by common order.Applicant Vinod Kumar is in custody since 29.4.2014, whereas applicant Arun Kumar Pandey is in custody since 30.4.2015 in connection with Crime No.87/2015 registered at Police Station Laur, District Rewa for the offences punishable under Sections 363, 366, 377, 376, 511 of IPC and Sections 7/8 of POCSO Act. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the applicant Vinod Kumar is a youth of age group of 24 years of age and applicant Arun Kumar Pandey is an old person of 58 years of age.There is no criminal past alleged against them.Initially the prosecutrix had stated that the applicants inserted penis in her mouth, however the prosecutrix (PW-2) and her mother Kavita (PW-1) have been examined before the trial Court and the prosecutrix did not allege that any of the applicant has done as alleged by her in the past.On the contrary, she has stated that the applicants inserted finger in her mouth.No offence under Section 366, 377 or 376 of IPC is made out against the applicants.Similarly, no offence under Section 7/8 of POCSO Act is made out against the applicants.The remaining offences are not so grave.The applicants are in custody without any sufficient reason.Under these circumstances, they pray for bail.Learned counsel for the State opposes the application.It is directed that present applicants be released on bail on their furnishing a bond in sum of Rs.40,000/- (Rupees forty thousand) each with one surety bond of the same amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court, to appear before the trial Court on the dates given by the concerned Court.This order shall be effective till the end of trial but in case of bail jump, it shall become ineffective.Certified copy as per rules.(N.K. GUPTA)
['Section 366 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 511 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 363 in The Indian Penal Code']
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They set her on fire by using kerosene and matchstick.3] The facts, that are required to be stated for the purpose of this judgment, are as under.She was residing with her minor children at her father's house since prior to two years because she had lost her husband.On 7.2.2011 Nakusha was taken to hospital in injured condition.5] PW 7-Noor Mohammad stated that on 7.2.2011 from 8.00 p.m. he was on duty of Civil Hospital and that Dr. Pathak, the treating doctor, informed him at about 6.00 a.m. on the next morning that victim was admitted to hospital in burnt condition.He then intimated this fact to Shri Bhaskar Bhos, Special Judicial Magistrate by making a phone call at 7.00 a.m. Shri Bhos assured him that he would come to hospital by about 9.00 a.m. As a formality he even sent a letter in writing to Shri Bhos.He stated that Shri Bhos came to hospital but the treating doctor informed him in writing that the patient was unconscious.He stated that Shri Bhos informed him about it.Shri Bhos assured him that he would visit the patient in the evening.7] PW 10-Shri Bhos then stated that in the evening he received one more letter from the police.So he went to Civil Hospital.He went to burn ward where he met Smt. Dr. Sardesai.He stated that Smt.Sardesai made a remark that the patient was conscious.He stated that he then told to the relatives of the patient to go outside, disclosed his identity to the patient and purpsoe of the visit.He stated that he then recorded Nakusha's statement as per her say.He stated that he read over the statement to the patient and she approved the same.He further stated that Nakusha informed him that her husband was murdered and since then she was residing at victim's house.She further informed him that her sister, sister's husband, sister's mother-in-law and sister's father-in-law who were residing adjoining to her house were harassing and beating her.Nakusha then disclosed that it was her sister accused no.2 who ::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 ::: 5 cra336.12 poured kerosene on her person and accused no.3 set her on fire with the help of matchstick.Nakusha also further stated that her sister's father-in-law was present there with a stone in his hand and was instigating the other accused.This witness also disclosed that Nakusha told him that at the time of incident, juvenile accused in conflict with law-Ram- had held her by her hair.th DATED : 12 January, 2016 ORAL JUDGMENT [Per A.V.Nirgude, J.] 1] This appeal challenges judgment and order, dated 21.4.2012, passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Ahmednagar, in Sessions Case No. 109 of 2011 convicting ::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 ::: 2 cra336.12 accused nos. 1 to 3 for offence punishable under Section 302 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing them for imprisonment for life and fine of Rs.500/- with a default clause.The learned Judge also convicted all accused nos. 1 to 3 for offence punishable under Section 452 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced them to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one year and fine of Rs.200/- with a default clause.The learned Judge made the sentences to run concurrently.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 :::2] Accused nos. 1 to 3 are the appellants here.Accused no.1-Umaji is husband of accused no.2-Kavita.Accused no.3-Sindhubai is mother of accused no.2-Kavita.It was alleged that they on 7.2.2011 at 10.00 p.m. entered the victim's house and then assaulted her.At about 6.00 a.m. the treating doctor informed the Police Head Constable Noor Mohammad who was on duty in the hospital that the patient was admitted to hospital in injured condition.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 :::He stated that in the evening time on that day Shri Bhos recorded victim's statement and handed over the same in an envelope to him.6] PW 10-Shri Bhos stated that as per the request of the police he went to burn ward on 8.2.2011 for recording ::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 ::: 4 cra336.12 statement of victim Nakusha.He stated that doctor examined the patient and opined that she was unconscious and was unable to make a statement.He stated that he also got the fact verified and sent a report about it.This report is on record and it shows that the treating doctor Shri Dr. Pathak certified that Nakusha was not in a condition to make statement and was unconscious.This report was made at 9.00 a.m. on that day.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 :::He even stated that Medical Officer also made a remark on the written statement about condition of the patient.The dying declaration is also on record and more or less supports what the Prosecution Witness No.10 stated.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 :::8] Soon after recording of dying declaration, offence was registered initially for offence punishable under Section 307 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code against the accused and investigation was started.9] The police recorded statements of witnesses.The police also recorded scene of offence panchanama.On 13.2.2011 Nakusha died and therefore, offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code replaced the earlier offence.The body of the deceased was sent for postmortem and other formalities were completed.Charge sheet was sent against the accused as well as juvenile accused in conflict with law Ram.Entire case of the prosecution depended on the dying declaration.So we would closely look at the credibility of the dying declaration.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 :::witnesses were examined as Prosecution Witnesses.Vilas Kale is panch who witnesses scene of offence panchanama.Though this panch turned hostile, the investigating officer could prove the panchanama properly.This panchanama indicates that the scene of offence is a room having 10 ft.x 12 ft. measurement.There was an iron cot.In one corner of the room there was an iron showcase where TV was placed.In one corner police noticed a kerosene stove.The police also noticed one five litre plastic can placed in the middle of the room.The can was open and it contained kerosene.The floor of the room was earthen paved and bore burn marks at few places.A piece of saree in burnt condition was also found.It is pertinent to note here that there were no marks of struggle on the spot.Even the can containing kerosene was found in standing position.The scene of offence panchanama, in our view, does not corroborate the dying declaration which is narrated above.Had there been an attempt to catch the arms and then set the victim on fire, there would have been some struggle between the assailants and the victim and in struggle the things in the room would have been disturbed.The kerosene can could not have remained in tact in standing position.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 :::and 5-Kisan are neighbours and the relatives of the victim who stated that during that night on hearing commotion they went to the victim's house and found her in burnt condition.They even stated that they extinguished the fire.None amongst them stated as to who took Nakusha to hospital, but all of them stated that Nakusha was 'taken' to Mirajgaon Government Dispensary and thereafter she was taken to Civil Hospital, Ahmednagar.These witnesses did not disclose as to who took Nakusha to hospital and who got her admitted to hospital.It was the duty of the prosecution to bring on record evidence to indicate as to how Nakusha was taken to medical dispensary at Mirajgaon and from there how she was taken to Civil Hospital, Ahmednagar.In this regard the investigating officer PW 9-Dhonde also admitted that he did not receive any information of homicidal attack prior to receiving the dying declaration.12] The prosecution was also under obligation to bring evidence on record to prove as to who treated Nakusha at both these hospitals.When a patient is taken to hospital in such a condition the Medical Officers generally record history of the patient, they maintain the case papers, such case papers are written at the relevant time and become very important piece of evidence.It has come on record.As indicated above, that at about 2.00 a.m. or so Nakusha was ultimately admitted to Civil ::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 ::: 8 cra336.12 Hospital.The prosecution did not examine the medical officer who got her admitted, prepared case papers and started medication to her.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:23 :::13] When a patient in serious condition was brought to Civil Hospital, it was certainly a Medico Legal Case and yet PW 7 Noor Mohammad who was present in the hospital during night did not learn about it.He learnt about it only at 6.00 a.m. It was, therefore, necessary for the prosecution to record deposition of the treating doctor who attended Nakusha at the inception.He could have been an important witness to explain as to whether any history of the patient was recorded; though this was a Medico Legal Case why the constable on duty was not immediately informed about it, etc. He could have also informed the Court as to what medication was administered to the patient.This was necessary because at about 9.00 a.m. in the morning the patient was still unconscious.This witness was necessary also to bring on record as to why no action was taken by police till the dying declaration was recorded rather belatedly at 7.35 p.m. This Witness's deposition was also relevant to bring on record as to what happened between 2.00 a.m. till 7.00 p.m. It has come on record in the deposition of PW 10-Bhos that before recording the dying declaration he was required to remove various relatives from the room.No one comes to Court to depose that he was one such relative who ::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:24 ::: 9 cra336.12 attended the patient during that day.What is rather surprising in this case is the fact that till the offence was registered no one spoke of assault on Nakusha.It is for the first time the victim made a statement that she was subjected to a murderous attack.Had this been such a grave incident, from the time of incident at least some one who attended Nakusha soon after the incident would have reported its ghastly nature to the authorities.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:24 :::14] The circumstances prior to recording of dying declaration are brought on record through depositions of PW 12-Dr.Vijaya Sardesai and PW 10-Bhaskar Bhos who recorded it.Having regard to the circumstances narrated above, we would rather discard the dying declaration.There is one more reason why we are not giving importance to the dying declaration.Had there been any dispute between these two sisters, the victim would have stated the cause for such dispute.The cause for such dispute would have been equally serious in nature to prompt the assailants committing murder.No attempt is made to bring on record as to what was the cause for alleged dispute between these two sisters.It is an admitted fact that accused no.2 is married and is residing in the same village.The evidence also indicates that she was probably residing in neighbourhood.The father of the victim PW 6-Roopchand did not bring on record as ::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:24 ::: 10 cra336.12 to whether there was any dispute between his two daughters.The deposition of this witness was relevant for that purpose at least.This witness did not support prosecution case.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:24 :::15] We therefore, hold that the prosecution has failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.We are, therefore, inclined to allow the appeal.16] In the result, we pass the following order.iii] The accused/appellant Nos. 1-Umaji s/o Sukhadeo Zambare, 2-Kavita @ Kaushalya w/o Umaji Zambare and 3-Sindhubai Sukhadeo Zambare are held not guilty of charge for the offences punishable under Sections 302 and 452 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code and are acquitted of the said charge and they shall be released forthwith, if they are not wanted in any case.::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:24 :::::: Uploaded on - 20/01/2016 ::: Downloaded on - 31/07/2016 00:49:24 :::
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 452 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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On the complaint lodged by Nithya Pricila (defacto complainant), therespondent police registered a case in Crime No.12 of 2015 and aftercompleting the investigation, has filed a final report in C.C.No.121 of 2016before the learned Judicial Magistrate Additional Mahila Court, Trichy, foroffences under Sections 498(A), 294(b), 406, 495 of the Indian Penal Code andSection 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act against Mohaideen Quadir Ali and fiveothers including Niranjani (A-6), for quashing which, Niranjani (A-6) isbefore this Court.2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, the learned GovernmentAdvocate (Criminal side) appearing for the first respondent and the learnedcounsel appearing for the second respondent.The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that even if theentire complaint given by the defacto complainant, her 161 statement and thecharge sheet is read, there is no allegation against Niranjani (A-6) that shehad committed any of the offences enumerated in the charge sheet.Per contra, the learned counsel for the defacto complainantsubmitted that the trial had begun in this case on 04.04.2017 and the defactocomplainant has been examined as P.W.1 and, therefore, this Court should notinterfere.Under normal circumstances, when once the trial begins, this Courtwill be loath to interfere to stifle the prosecution.However, in this case,the allegation of the defacto complainant is that she got married toMohaideen Quadir Ali (A-1) on 15.09.2007 and that her husband was working as Liaison Officer in Annamalai University, where Niranjani (A-6) was alsoemployed.She has further alleged that her husband had developed illicitintimacy with the said Niranjani (A-6), pursuant to which, she was ill-treating her.The learned counsel for the defacto complainant took this Courtthrough 161 statement of the defacto complainant.On a perusal of the same,it is seen that except saying that her husband has been talking to Niranjaniover phone very frequently and that he was having illicit intimacy with her,there is absolutely no shred of evidence against Niranjani for havingperpetrated any act directly against the defacto complainant.The allegedaffair of A-1 with Niranjani (A-6) may be a ground for causing mental crueltyto the defacto complainant, for which, A-1 alone can be held responsible andnot Niranjani (A-6).Niranjani (A-6) does not fall within the meaning of theword "relatives" under Section 498(A) of the Indian Penal Code.As regardsthe contention against 495 of the Indian Penal Code, it is not the case ofthe defacto complainant that A-1 had married her.It is her only case that hehas been talking to her continuously over mobile phone and that she suspectsher husband's fidelity.Under such circumstances, this Court is of the view that theprosecution against Niranjani (A-6) is indeed an abuse of process of law andhas been predicated on surmises and suspicion of the defacto complainant.In the result, this Criminal Original Petition is allowed and theproceedings against Niranjani (A-6) in C.C.No.121 of 2016 on the file of theJudicial Magistrate Additional Mahila Court, Trichy, is quashed.Consequently, the connected miscellaneous petitions are closed.1.The Judicial Magistrate Additional Mahila Court, Trichy.2.The Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Thiruverumbur, Trichy District.3.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai..
['Section 498 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294(b) in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(iii) Rule is made absolute in aforesaid terms, with no order as to costs.::: Uploaded on - 15/05/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 06/04/2020 04:58:04 :::
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The facts of the case in brief are that one Niyamat Ullaha Khan was running his business of Tobacco and Khaini under the trademark in the name and style of "Nawab Dulha Khan Khaini" and when he died in 1992 his sons started the said business adding some additional words in the said trademark.The respondent-plaintiffs started their business of Tobacco with the trademark in the name and style of "Ped Chhap Nawab Dulha Khan Khaini" w.e.f. 1993, whereas the appellant-defendant started his business with the trademark in the name and style of "Chand Khajoor Chhap Anwar Dulha Khan" with emblem of Rais Dulha Khan, Bareilly depicting Central Excise Registration Certificate No. 8/R-1 BLY/93 on the wrappers.JUDGMENT V.C. Misra, J.Heard Sri S.K. Verma, Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Siddarth Verma & Sri Pulak Ganguli, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the appellant- defendant and Sri M.A.Qadeer & Mr. D.S. Misra, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of respondents No. 1 and 2-plaintiffs.The present appeal has been filed by the appellant-defendant challenging the order dated 29.7.2005 passed by the District Judge, Bareilly in Original Suit No. 6 of 2005 allowing interim injunction application of the plaintiffs-respondents No. 1 and 2 moved under Order 39 Rule 1 & 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure restraining the defendant-appellant from manufacturing, marketing and trading the Khaini and Tobacco with the name and style of "Bargad Fed Chhap Asali Nawab Dulha Khan".The respondents-plaintiffs filed Original Suit No. 6 of 2005 seeking injunction on the ground that the appellant-defendant changed his trademark and caption and started his business with effect from February, 2005 in the name and style of "Bargad Ped Chhap Asli Nawab Dulha Khan Khaini" on the wrappers in which the words 'Bargad' and 'Asli' were written in very small letters and was in very much resemblance with the trademark of respondents-plaintiffs causing deception, misguiding the customers which resulted in damaging and affecting their business.In the plaint it has been stated that the trade mark "Ped Chhap Nawab Dulha Khan" of the plaintiffs- respondents was registered at number 611689 (subsequently corrected as 611389) under the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 and the Copyright Act, 1957 and the plaintiff No. 1- respondent Taj Mohammad Khan assigned the said trade mark and Copyright "Ped Chhap Nawab Dulha Khan" to plaintiff No. 2-respondent Mohd. Imran Khan by means of assignment deed dated 15th December, 2003 and since then Mohd. Imran Khan plaintiff No. 2 has been running his business as a assignee of Taj Mohammad Khan (plaintiff No. 1 -respondent).It has also been stated that the plaintiffs have a large volume of sales of their product under the registered trade mark "Ped Chhap Nawab Dulha Khan" which was carved, designed, coloured and written in a distinctive style on the wrappers for many years and their customers as well as the traders have identified and recognized the goods as such being the exclusive merchandise of the plaintiffs and none else.The plaintiffs are the creator and the author of the artistic work, design, style and colours of lettering of the said trade mark and are the legal owners, proprietors and user of the same and they have been continuous user thereof and have thus acquired exclusive right to use its registered trade mark under the Copyright Act in respect with their goods.In the plaint it has also been alleged that the appellant-defendant by using identical and or deceptively similar mark or artistic work as referred to above started his business from February, 2005 which is bound to cause confusion and deception in the mind of unwary class of customers amounting to falsification of plaintiffs' registered trade mark and to cause heavy financial losses to the plaintiffs-respondents to which the appellant-defendant was not entitled to under law.It has also been asserted that purchasers of Khaini and tobacco are mainly illiterate public who are being confused, misled and deceived by purchasing the inferior quality of Khaini and Tobacco manufactured by appellant-defendant knowingly and willingly and without consent of the plaintiffs-respondents and thus the appellant-defendant violated the plaintiffs copyrights in the artistic work, lettering and colouring etc in the registered trade mark and has committed offences punishable under Section 78 and 79 of the Trade And Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act No. 43 of 1985') and Section 63 of the Copyright Act, 1957 and under Sections 420, 485, 486, 487 of the Indian Penal Code.The appellant-defendant did not accede to the request of the plaintiffs-respondents and did not refrain from manufacturing, marketing and trading their products of Khaini and Tobacco with falsified mark "Ped Chhap Nawab Dulha Khan" which was causing irreparable loss and injury whereas on the other hand it did not affect the appellant-defendant at all in any manner.The plaintiffs-respondents alongwith plaint had filed an application under Order 39 Rule 1 and 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure supported with an affidavit seeking temporary injunction upon which an exparte interim order was granted.The appellant-defendant No. 1 in rebuttal to the said injunction application filed his objections/counter affidavit before the trial court.In para 1 it is stated that the alleged trademark 'Ped Chhap Dulha Khan' was not registered in the Trade Mark Office by the respondent-plaintiffs and the number mentioned as 611389 was only application number and not the registration number.It was also asserted that the appellant-defendant No. 1 had moved an application for registration before the trademark office for registration of his trademark in the name and style of 'Asli Nawab Dulha Khan Ped Chhap'.After hearing learned Counsel for the parties and perusal of the record the trial court passed an order restraining the appellant-defendant from using the trade mark 'Bargad Ped Chhap Asali Nawab Dulha Khan Khaini Tambakoo Choona Sahit' for the purpose of manufacturing marketing and trading the Khaini and Tobacco till the pendency of the suit.Thus, the suit itself was barred by Section 124 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act, 1999').In the result, the appeal fails and is dismissed accordingly.No order as to costs.
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(a) P.W.1 was living with his wife Pappathi @ Pargavi.P.W.2 is his brother-in-law.They were all residing in Door No.128/17, Vijaya Nilayam, Thomas Church Road, Udhagamandalam.He was carrying on a chicken stall near Kavitha Hotel in which the accused was employed.He was also having video player in his house which was rented out.P.W.8, who is the friend of the accused, came to the shop on 28.7.2004 for taking the CD player on rent.P.W.1 asked his servant namely the accused, to go to his house and bring the CD player.On the same day at about 11.30 A.M., P.W.5 Logammal saw the deceased Pappathi and was conversing with her.The deceased Pappathi at about 11.30 A.M. was conversing with another lady.At about 1.15 P.M. P.W.9 was actually in the godown with his two servants.He saw at about 12.45 P.M., the accused coming out of the house of the deceased.He heard the cry of the deceased.Immediately the servants and P.W.9 rushed to the house of P.W.1 and found the deceased in a pool of blood.(b) P.W.1 received a phone call between 12.45 and 1.00 P.M. Immediately, he proceeded to his residence, where he found the deceased in a pool of blood.Then, he informed to P.W.2, who also rushed over there.At that time, the accused was standing at the door step with the child of the deceased.P.W.1 along with the accused proceeded to Vijaya Hospital, Udhagamandalam, and on seeing the injuries on the body, the Doctor advised them to take her to the Government Hospital.Accordingly, they took the deceased to the Government Hospital.P.W.11, the Doctor, who was on duty at about 1.30 P.M., medically verified and also declared her dead.P7 is the accident register copy wherein all the injuries which were found on the body, were noted.(c) P.W.20, the Inspector of Police, attached to the respondent police station, at about 2.30 P.M., on receipt of the information from P.W.17, the Sub Inspector of Police, proceeded to the Government Hospital and found the dead body of Pargavi, and immediately he also made a request to P.W.11, the Doctor, to collect the hair found in the hands of the deceased.Accordingly, P.W.11, the Doctor, collected the same.(d) In the meanwhile P.W.1 went to B1 Police Station and lodged a complaint, Ex.P1, at about 3.00 P.M., on the strength of which P.W.17, the Sub Inspector of Police, registered a case in Crime No.465 of 2004 under Sec.302 of IPC.The printed FIR Ex.P28, was despatched to the Court.(e) P.W.20, the Inspector of Police, on receipt of the copy of the FIR, took up investigation.He called the finger print expert to the place of occurrence, and finger prints were actually collected.He also prepared Ex.P2, the observation mahazar, and Ex.P39, the rough sketch.The occurrence place and also the dead body were caused to be photographed through P.W.10, the Photographer.The photographs and the negatives are marked as Exs.P4 and P5 respectively.(f) P.W.14, the Scientific Officer, also made a visit and collected the hair from P.W.11, the Doctor.The admissible part is marked as Ex.Following the same, he produced M.O.3, bloodstained keys, which was recovered under a cover of mahazar.(Judgment of the Court was delivered by M.CHOCKALINGAM, J.) Challenge is made to a judgment of the Sessions Division, Nilgiris at Udhagamandalam, in S.C.No.4 of 2006 whereby the sole accused/appellant stood charged under Sections 342, 376 read with 511, 302 and 201 of IPC.On trial, he was found guilty under Sections 302 and 201 of IPC and awarded life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs.2000/- and default sentence under Sec.302 of IPC.No separate sentence was given under Sec.201 of IPC, while he was acquitted of the other two charges.On 28.7.2004, the Investigating Officer recovered the material objects from the place of occurrence.Then, he conducted inquest on the dead body in the presence of witnesses and panchayatdars and prepared, Ex.P40, the inquest report.(g) P.W.16, the Inspector of Police, attached to the Finger Print Bureau, was called, and he also took the finger prints from the available materials there and has taken them for the purpose of verification.(h) P.W.12, the Assistant Surgeon, attached to the Government Head Quarters Hospital, Udhagamandalam, on receipt of the requisition, conducted autopsy on the dead body of Pappathi and found 23 injuries.She has issued a postmortem certificate, Ex.She gave her final opinion under Ex.P12 that the death was due to shock and profuse haemorrhage.(i) The Finger Print Expert after verification and also the analysis, has given his opinion in Ex.P22, the report, that the finger prints which were taken would be tallying with that of the accused.He came forward to give a confessional statement, which was recorded in the presence of P.W.19 and one Jayaprakash.Thereafter, he took the Investigator and produced M.O.4, screw driver, M.O.5, gas regulator, M.O.6, bloodstained pant, M.O.7, bloodstained shirt, and also M.O.8, knife, which were all recovered under independent mahazars.Then, he was sent for judicial remand.All the material objects were subjected to chemical analysis.P32 to P34 are the serologist's reports and Exs.P48 and P49 are the Chemical Analyst's reports.The Investigator, after completion of the investigation, filed the final report.3.The case was committed to Court of Session and necessary charges were framed.In order to substantiate the charges, the prosecution examined 20 witnesses and also relied upon 49 exhibits and 12 material objects.On completion of the evidence on the side of the prosecution, the accused was questioned under Sec.313 of Cr.P.C. as to the incriminating circumstances found in the evidence of the prosecution witnesses, which he flatly denied as false.No defence witness was examined; but, only one document was marked as Ex.After hearing the arguments on either side, the trial Court took the view that the prosecution has proved the case beyond reasonable doubt in respect of the charge of murder and also screening the evidence and hence found them guilty under Sections 302 and 201 of IPC and awarded the punishment as referred to above while it made an order of acquittal in respect of other two charges.Hence this appeal at the instance of the appellant.P1, the report, on the strength of which a case came to be registered; that the Sub Inspector of Police who was examined as P.W.17, has also claimed so; that P.W.20, the Inspector of Police, has deposed that on hearing the information from the hospital, he proceeded to the hospital, and there he found the dead body in the mortuary and also made a request to the Doctor P.W.11, to collect the hair in the hands of the dead body, and only thereafter, the FIR has come into existence; that as regards Ex.P1, the report, inconsistent versions were given, and thus it would cast a reasonable doubt in the report, Ex.P1, coming into existence.5.Added further the learned Counsel that the prosecution has proceeded only on surmises; that it rested its case on the circumstantial evidence since it had no direct evidence to offer; that according to the prosecution, it was P.W.9 who saw the accused coming out of the house immediately; that P.W.9 would claim that he was also present when P.W.1 also came there; that if to be so, P.W.9 immediately would have informed to P.W.1 that the accused was present at the time of occurrence, but not done; that the same was informed only after eight days; that till the time, he was keeping mum; that it would be indicative of the fact that P.W.9 could not have seen the accused in the place of occurrence at all; that the prosecution was unable to explain under what necessity the accused was to attack the deceased with the two weapons namely screw driver and knife; that the prosecution would come forward to state that the deceased also died out of strangulation; that in the instant case, the hair which was collected immediately from the dead body, according to the Investigator, was sent to the Court after a period of one month, and a request was given after a period of five months; that all would go to show that the investigation was not in the proper direction; and that it is pertinent to point out that even after the occurrence, the accused was actually kept under the service of P.W.1 for long months i.e., for a period of few months.6.Added further the learned Counsel that in Ex.P1, the report, it was mentioned that death was caused by an unknown person; that even P.W.1 had not even the suspicion against him; that the prosecution much relied on the arrest, confession and recovery of M.Os.4, 5, 6, 7 and 8; that the only witness examined by the prosecution was P.W.19; that P.W.19 was the Ward Councilor; that he has given evidence in some other case registered by the very same Police Station, and thus it would be quite clear that he was a stock witness; that the evidence which was projected through him should have been rejected by the Court; that under the circumstances, the prosecution had no evidence; that it is a fit case where the prosecution could not bring home the guilt of the accused; that only on surmises and presumptions, the prosecution has tried to project its case, but could not do so; that apart from that, the lower Court has not appreciated the contentions put forth on the defence side, and hence, he is entitled for acquittal in the hands of this Court.7.The Court heard the learned Additional Public Prosecutor on all the above contentions and considered the same.Following the inquest made by P.W.20, the Investigator, the dead body was subjected to postmortem by P.W.12, the Doctor, and she has issued the postmortem certificate, Ex.The Doctor has opined under Ex.P12 that the deceased died out of shock and profuse haemorrhage.Thus, the prosecution was able to show that she died out of homicidal violence.This fact was never disputed by the appellant, and hence it has got to be recorded so.9.True it is, the prosecution had no direct evidence to offer, but it has relied on the circumstantial evidence.The Court is not unmindful of the caution made by the settled principles of law and also by the decisions of the Apex Court that the Court must thoroughly be satisfied that the prosecution has placed necessary facts and circumstances and also proved the same pointing to the guilt of the accused without leaving any doubt in the mind of the Court and also pointing to the hypothesis except the accused no one could have committed the offence.In the instant case, even if this test is applied, this Court is satisfied that the prosecution has brought home the guilt of the accused.The Court has noticed all the following circumstances which are pointing to the guilt of the accused.On the date of occurrence, P.W.8 came to the shop for getting the CD player on rental basis.Immediately, P.W.1 sent the servant namely the accused, to his house to take the CD player.It is also an admitted fact that the accused went over to the house of the deceased namely the wife of P.W.1, during the relevant time.Even according to the prosecution, the accused was actually in the house of the deceased at or about the time of occurrence.That apart, from the evidence of all the witnesses, it would be quite clear that the accused was available in the house of the deceased at that time.According to P.W.1, when he went to the house, he found the accused standing on the door step of his house, and thus, the accused was actually present at the time and P.Ws.5 and 9 have seen the deceased lady at about 11.30 A.M. When P.W.1 went to the house at about 1.00 P.M., he found the dead body.Therefore, the occurrence should have taken place in the short interval, and at that time, the person who visited the house was the accused.P.W.9 has also deposed to the effect that the accused was coming out of the house.When P.W.1 went to the house, the accused was standing at the door step and holding his child; but, he did not tender any explanation how the occurrence has happened.Out of this, two are weapons of crime.One is the screw driver and the other is the knife.According to P.W.12, the Doctor, the injuries found on the dead body of the deceased, are all on the front side, and they could have been caused by these two weapons.When this recovery has been made from the accused, pursuant to the confessional statement, he has also produced a pant and shirt marked as M.Os.6 and 7 respectively.All these material objects were subjected to chemical analysis by the Forensic Sciences Department on a requisition made by the Investigator through the concerned Court, along with the clothes of the deceased lady and of the accused.It is pertinent to point out that all these material objects which were clothes worn by the lady and also the clothes worn by the accused, apart from the weapons of crime contained the same blood group, and thus, the prosecution was able to prove the nexus between the crime and the accused not only by the recovery of the weapons of crime pursuant to the confessional statement made by the accused, but also by the scientific evidence which was pointing to the guilt of the accused.Further, it can be well stated that except the accused, no one was found in the place of occurrence at or about the time, and the presence of the accused is an admitted fact.12.Now, the contentions put forth by the learned Counsel for the appellant that the report, Ex.P1, and the FIR have not come into existence as put forth by the prosecution cannot be accepted for the simple reason that on hearing the information about the same, an intimation was given to the Inspector of Police who rushed over to the hospital.But, at the same time, P.W.1 on ascertaining the fact that his wife is actually dead, proceeded to the Police Station and gave the complaint, Ex.P1, pursuant to which the case came to be registered by P.W.17 under Sec.302 of IPC.Only thereafter, at the time of investigation, it was revealed that it was the accused who was involved in the case.That apart, mere delay in sending the hair, which was collected from the hands of the deceased, to the Court or the requisition for examining the same by itself cannot be a reason to doubt the prosecution case.It is pertinent to point out that when the hair was actually put to scientific analysis, it was found to be inconclusive, and hence the prosecution did not make out a point out of the same.15.Above all, at the time of the investigation, the finger print expert was called, and finger prints were actually taken from the materials available.They were also compared with the finger prints of the accused and were found to be tallying.Thus, the prosecution has proved the case beyond reasonable doubt.But at the same time, it was within his knowledge, and he has suppressed the entire information.1.The Sessions Judge Nilgiris at Udhagamandalam2.The Inspector of Police B1, Police Station Udhagamandalam3.The Public Prosecutor High Court, Madras
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On 28-4-1985 at about 12 Noon, while she was waiting at the bus stop of Janki Devi College for going to her house at Sardar Patel Marg, Dhaula Kuan Delhi the accused Ram Bahadur, as per the prosecution evidence, approached her and told her that the maternal uncle of Laxmi is unwell.Laxmi agreed to accompany him to inquire about the health of her uncle.The accused then took her in a three wheeler Scooter to the Railway Station and made her sit in a train scheduled for going to Moradabad.On that very evening they reached Moradabad.On enquiry as to where is her maternal uncle, the accused is alleged to have threatened her to keep quite.It is the further case of the prosecution that on the morning of 30th April, 1985 Laxmi was taken to a bathroom at the Railway Station.The accused also followed her.In the bathroom, the accused asked Laxmi to undress herself.She felt nervous and raised alarm.She came running out of the bathroom.After covering some distance she met Vijay Raj, Mumtaz, Narain Singh and Jagdish, who were working as labourers at the Railway Station.Statement of Mumtaz was recorded and case registered.As the accused and Laxmi had come from Delhi and the offence of kidnapping had taken place there, the case was transferred to Delhi, for further investigation.On 3.5.1985, Laxmi was brought to Chankaya Puri Police Station where her statement Ex. PW-3/A was recorded.The case was then referred to Police station RajinderNagar.There also her statement Ex. PW-2/DA was recorded.JUDGMENT M.K. Chawla, J.These persons apprehended and secured the accused who was chasing Laxmi.Both of them were produced before the Moharrar at Police Station Moradabad.She was not sent for medical examination.He refused to join the same.On the basis of the facts disclosed in the report under Section 173 Cr. P.C., a prima facie case under Sections 363, 366, 354, and 506 I.P.C. was found to have been made out.The charges were accordingly framed.The accused pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.(3) The prosecution examined as many as 11 witnesses out of which the statement of the prosecutrix and her mother are important.The evidence of the remaining witnesses is of formal nature.(4) In the statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C. the accused denied his involvement of kidnapping, intimidating or outraging the modesty of Laxmi.He even denied his arrest at the Railway Station Moradabad.He, however, did not produce any evidence in defense.(5) The learned Addl.Sessions Judge on consideration of the material on record came to the conclusion that the prosecution has not been able to bring any material to justify the conviction of the accused under Sections 366, 354 or 506 Indian Penal Code .He, however, held him guilty of the offence under Section 363 Indian Penal Code .and sentenced him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three years and a fine of Rs. 100.00 .In default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month.
['Section 354 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 363 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 366 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(INDORE):Shri Tarun Kushwah, learned counsel for the appellant.Shri Virendra Khadav, learned counsel for the State.Heard on admission.Also heard on IA No.8542/18, which is an application for suspension of sentence on behalf of appellant Ghanshyam.Appellant has filed this appeal against the judgment dated 02.11.2018 passed by Special Judge (Atrocities Act), Jhabua in Special Sessions Trial No.09/2017 whereby the learned trial Court has convicted the appellant under sections 363/34, 366/34, 354-A of the IPC and u/s 3(2)(v)(a) of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act and sentenced him to undergo RI for 5 years with fine of Rs.500/, RI for 5 years with fine of Rs.500/- RI for 2 years with fine of Rs.500/- and RI for 5 years with fine of Rs.500/- respectivelywith further default stipulation.Learned counsel for the appellant has drawn Court's attention towards the contradictions in the evidence of -2- Parvatibai which have been reflected in paras-21 & 22 of the impugned judgment.The contradictions are mainly in respect of the fact that Parvatibai states in para-9 that on the date of the incident she remained in the house through out the day and in para-10 she states that the accused left her behind Seelkhodari and were apprehended from village Para whereas as per prosecution case she was rescued from the clutches of accused from the motorcycle in which she was being taken.Heard learned counsel for the State as well.Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and the submissions of learned counsel for the appellant, the application is allowed and the jail sentence passed against the appellant shall remain suspended and the appellant is directed to be released on bail subject to his depositing the fine amount (if already not deposited) and upon his furnishing personal bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- (rupees fifty thousand) with one solvent surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court for his appearance before the Registry of this Court on 26.03.2019 and on such further dates as may be fixed -3- in this behalf by the Registry during the pendency of this appeal.C.c as per rules.(SHAILENDRA SHUKLA) JUDGE Digitally signed by Hari Kumar Nair Date: 2019.01.31 18:05:01 +05'30' hk/
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 366 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 363 in The Indian Penal Code']
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::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::The prosecution case in short compass is that on 08-05- 2019, complainant - Adikabai Angad Ughade, resident of Kasari, Taluka Dharur, District Beed approached to the Police of Dindrud Police Station, District Beed, and ventilated the grievance that she is residing along with sons, daughter-in-law and eking livelihood by doing labour work.It has been alleged that in the previous year the complainant had obtained advance amount of Rs. 10,000/- from Bhagwat Pandurang Bade.The person Pappu Bade had taken the guarantee of repayment of amount.Accordingly, she refunded the entire amount.The complainant further grumbled that on 08-05- 2019, at about 7.00 a.m. when the complainant and her sons were present in the house, the appellant came and hurled abuses to the complainant and her son.He was saying that why they did not settle the previous dispute.The appellant assaulted the complainant with the help of wooden log and caused bleeding injury to her.Thereafter one Sushila, Ramprabhu Bhagwat, Satwashila and daughter in law of Pandurang Bade came there and assaulted the complainant.They threatened to kill her.They all hurled casteist abuses to the complainant with intention to insult and humiliate them on her caste within a public view.1. Heard.The matter is taken up for its finality on merit with the consent of both sides.This appeal is directed against the impugned Order of rebuffing the relief of pre-arrest bail to the appellant in Crime No. 87 of 2019 registered with Dindrud Police Station, Dindrud District Beed, under Sections 143, 147, 324, 504 and 506 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under Sections 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 ::: 2 921-CriAl-927-19 Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter, referred to as "Act of 1989", for the sake of brevity).Therefore, she filed the report.::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::3 921-CriAl-927-19Pursuant to FIR, the Police of Dindurd Police Station registered the Crime bearing No. 87 of 2019 and set the penal law in motion.The appellant, apprehending his arrest, filed Misc.Criminal Application bearing No. 199 of 2019 under Section 438 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.).The learned Additional Sessions Judge considered the circumstances on record and rejected the application of the appellant on the ground that there are allegations sufficient to make out the offence under the Act of 1989 and in view of bar under Section 18 of the Act of 1989, the appellant is not entitled for relief of anticipatory bail in this case.The impugned order of rejection of application for anticipatory bail of the appellant is the subject-matter of present appeal.The learned counsel for appellant vehemently submits that the appellant is innocent of the charges pitted against him.He has not committed any crime, but he has been falsely implicated in this case to wreak vengeance on account of earlier dispute.According to learned counsel, on the report of one Anita W/o Ramprabhu an offence bearing Crime No. 88 of 2019 is registered against present complainant, her husband and three sons in said Police Station.However, with an intention to give counter blow to the said crime, the present FIR came to be lodged by the present complainant.Therefore, statutory bar under Section 18 and 18-A of the Act of 1989 would not be made applicable to preclude the appellant for::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 ::: 4 921-CriAl-927-19 availing benefit of Section 438 of the Cr.P.C. in this case.Therefore, there is no any impediment to entertain the application for relief of pre-arrest bail filed on behalf of appellant.The learned counsel further submitted that there is no any recovery nor custodial interrogation of the appellant is required for the sake of investigation.Therefore, impugned order rejecting application for bail by learned trial Court be set aside and appeal be allowed.::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::6. Learned APP and learned counsel for respondent No. 2 raised, the objection and submitted that the Section 18-A of the Act of 1989 put embargo on the Court for exercise of discretion under Section 438 of the Cr.P.C.. The first informant and his family members are from SC/ST community.It has also been observed that the application for anticipatory bail could be entertained only on the ground of inapplicability of provisions of Act of 1989 and it would be ascertained only on the basis of recitals of the FIR or complaint and not embarking upon an roving enquiry as to the reliability or genuineness or otherwise of the allegation made in the FIR.Paragraphs No. 13 and 15 of aforesaid judgment are reproduced as under:::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::When the Court is held competent to enter into scrutiny of the allegations to determine whether the person can be treated as accused of commission of offence under the Act of 1989, then question would arise as to what extent the Court would be justified to examine material to determine the prima facie case against him.::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::unequivocally pointer to the inference that the application for anticipatory bail can be entertained only on the ground of inapplicability of the provisions of Act of 1989 and it would be ascertainable only on perusal of recitals of the FIR or complaint and not beyond that, because once it is gathered from the FIR that the applicant is accused of committing the offence prescribed under section 3 of the Act of 1989, a bar under section 18 of the Act of 1989 would instantly operate against him.Therefore, the Courts are not permitted to enter into roving enquiry in regard to sustainability of accusation nurtured on behalf of complainant.Moreover, further scrutiny by summoning the case diary or other material to test veracity of the allegations made in the FIR also not permissible under the law."In the present appeal, the prosecution applied the provisions of sections 3(2)(va) of the Act of 1989 against the present appellant which reads as under:Punishments for ofennes of atronities :-(2) Whoever, not being a member of a Snheduled Caste or a Snheduled Tribe :-[(va) nommits any ofenne spenifed in the Snhedule, against a person or property, knowing that sunh person is a member of a Snheduled Caste or a Snheduled Tribe or sunh property belongs to sunh member, shall be punishable with sunh punishment as spenifed under the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) for sunh ofennes and shall also be liable to fne.]After perusal of FIR lodged against the present appellant, prima facie, it reveals that the ingredients of aforesaid penal provisions do not match with factual score of the present case.It means that there must be prima facie affirmation or say in the FIR/ complaint that the accused is not the member of Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe.In the present complaint, absolutely there is no averment to the effect that appellant-applicant is belonging to higher caste or atleast that he is not a member of Scheduled Caste.::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::In the matter-in-hand, averments in regard to appellant that he is not the member of SC or ST community or he is belonging from higher caste, is totally absent in the alleged FIR.Moreover, there are no allegations attributed to the appellant that he had an participation in the act to hurl casteist abuses to the complainant.It would also fallacious to draw inference that the appellant had an knowledge about the caste of complainant.There was no any whisper about all these factual aspects in the FIR.Therefore, statutory bar under::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 ::: 8 921-CriAl-927-19 Section 18 of the Act, 1989, is not applicable to the facts and circumstances of the present case.::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::Taking into consideration all the circumstances discussed above, there is no impediment to conclude that in spite of bar under Section 18 of the Act of 1989, for invocation of powers under Section 438 of the Cr.P.C. it is still open to this Court to find out by looking to the recitals of FIR of the case itself, as to whether prima facie case is made out by the first informant against present appellants.As referred supra, the scrutiny of factual score reveals that there are no sufficient material available on record prima facie to arrive at the conclusion that the allegations nurtured on behalf of prosecution constitute offence under the Act of 1989 against appellant.Therefore, there is no impediment to entertain the application filed under Section 438 of Cr.P.C. for relief of pre-arrest bail on behalf of appellant.According to prosecution, the alleged incident was occurred at the house of complainant.It has not alleged that the appellant-accused after assault taken away the weapon-wooden log with him.Therefore, no question arises about recovery of weapon at the behest of appellant-accused.::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::9 921-CriAl-927-19 However, the appellant has shown inclination to co-operate with the Investigating Officer during the course of investigation.In such circumstances, it would justifiable to allow the bail application filed before learned trial Court on behalf of the appellant.In sequel, the Criminal Appeal stands allowed.The impugned order dated 10-07-2019 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Majalgaon, in Misc.Criminal Application No. 199 of 2019 is hereby quashed and set aside.The application of the appellant filed under Section 438 of Cr.P.C. for his pre-arrest bail before the learned Sessions Court is hereby granted.The present appellant be released on bail in the event of his arrest in connection with Crime No. 87 of 2019 registered with Dindrud Police Station, Dindrud, District Beed for the offence punishable under Sections 143, 147, 324, 504 and 506 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code and under Sections 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, on furnishing PR bond of Rs.20,000/-(Rupees Twenty Thousand) with one solvent surety of like amount each.It is stipulated that appellant-applicant shall not indulged, directly or indirectly, in any kind of activities of tampering with the evidence of the prosecution witness.The appellant- applicant shall attend the Dindrud Police Station, Dindrud, District Beed, on every Sunday in between 11.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. till filing of the charge-sheet and co-operate the Investigating Officer for the sake of investigation into the crime.Inform the concerned Investigating Officer accordingly.::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::10 921-CriAl-927-19Fees of the learned Advocate Mr. Somani appointed on behalf of respondent No. 2 is quantified at Rs.2000/- (Rupees Two Thousand only), which would be payable by the High Court Legal Services Authority, Sub-Committee, Aurangabad.The present Criminal Appeal stands disposed of in above terms.No order as to costs.[ K. K. SONAWANE ] JUDGE MTK.::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::::: Uploaded on - 15/11/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/11/2019 22:40:45 :::
['Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 504 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 143 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Briefly stated the prosecution case is that the appellant was giving tuition to the prosecutrix Geeta Kumari and her sister at their residence.It is stated that on 30th April, 1989 at about 7 PM the appellant came to their house and in the presence of the family members told Geeta Kumari P.W.1 that he won't be giving tuition on that day and went away.Immediately, thereafter, it is stated that PW-1 left the house telling the members of the family that she was going to grand-father's house to watch television.It is further stated that on the way she met by the appellant and he on the pretext of taking her to a movie took her in his motor cycle towards Muzaffarpur.From Muzaffarpur, he took her in a train to Jasidih from where he took her to Devghar.The prosecution further states that there he forced PW-1 to marry him and made her sign certain papers.JUDGMENT Santosh Hegde, J.The appellant herein was convicted by the Sessions Judge, Sitamarhi in Sessions Trial No. 182/89 for offences punishable under Section 366A and 376 of the IPC and was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for five years on each of those counts but the sentences were directed to run concurrently.On appeal, the High court of Patna has confirmed the said sentence.On 10.5.89, PW-1 was recovered from the house of the appellant by the police.After investigation, a case was registered against the appellant and he was charged as stated above and having been found guilty by the two courts below the appellant has filed this appeal.The factum of the recovery of PW-1 from the house of the appellant is not in dispute.While it is the case of prosecution that it is the appellant who either by inducement or threat took away PW-1 from her house, the defence case is that PW-1 had eloped with somebody and her love affair having failed with the person with whom she eloped and she being scared to get back to the house had come to the house of the appellant who the had informed PW-6, the father of the girl about PW-1 coming to his house.The defence further states that after being annoyed and having found none else to blame her father has foisted a false case against the appellant.As noticed above, one of the charges of which the appellant has been found guilty is under Section 366A which refers to procreations of a minor girl.To establish this charge, the prosecution has to prove that PW-1 was a minor on the date when she was taken away from her house.In regard to this fact, the prosecution relies on the evidence of PW-1 the girl herself, PW-6, her father and PW-10 the Doctor who examined her.So far as PW-1's evidence is concerned it is prima facie not acceptable when she says that she was only 14 years on the date when she was taken way from her father's house.This evidence runs counter to all other material on record to which we shall refer presently.4. PW-6 the father of the girl in his evidence has stated that he was married in the year 1952 and he had two daughters.If that be the year of birth of PW-1 then the incidence in question being in the year 1989, PW1 ought to be 19 years on that day.This witness further says that PW1 had appeared for her Board examination in the year 1988 and had failed.This also gives an indication that it is likely that the age of PW-1 on the date of incidence was around 19 years.5. PW-10 the doctor in his evidence has stated that PW1's X-ray photograph showed partial epiphyte seal fusion of iliac crest.In her opinion, PW1 appeared to be 17 years old which opinion of the Dr. is from the very language used by her shows it to be approximate.The physique of PW-1 as explained by PW-10 also indicates the probability of PW-1 being above the age of 18 years.In this background if we examine the evidence of PWs.6 and 10 it is clear that evidence of PW-1 is wholly unreliable when she states that she was only about 14 years old.Even though PW-10 Dr. stated that PW-1 appeared to be 17 years old cannot be held that this evidence is conclusive enough to come to the conclusion that PW-1 was really below 18 years on the date of incidence, in view of positive statements made by PW-6 the father.We have already referred to the evidence of the father, according to whose evidence PW-1 was 19 years of age when she left the house of the father.In such situation, we think it not safe to come the conclusion that PW-1 was less than 18 years of age on the date when she left the house of her father.While discussing this part of the prosecution case, the Trial court in its judgment has not considered the evidence of PW-6 the father at all.It merely relied upon evidence of PW-10 accepting the same on its face value, without discussing the other material that was available on record.Even the High Court in this regard in its judgment merely stated "Dr. who examined the prosecutrix found her age to be 17 years....." the High Court has not independently given any finding either accepting this evidence or not.In this background for the reasons already stated hereinabove we think that the prosecution has failed to establish that PW-1 was less than 18 years of age as on the date of incidence.If that be so, charge under 366A of which the appellant was found guilty by both the courts below shall fail.The leaned counsel for the State, however, contended that if the charge under Section 366A should fail then, the appellant is liable to be convicted under Section 366 for kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel her to marry.He has referred to the evidence of PW-1 in this regard and contends that even though there is no specific charge under Section 366 still on the material available on record a conviction under Section 366 could be based and no prejudice would be caused to the appellant.But then, we will have to notice that even to establish the charge under Section 366 IPC, there should be acceptable evidence to show that either PW-1 was compelled to marry the appellant against her will and/or was forced to or induced to intercourse against her will.This would therefore, require the prosecution to prove that there was some such undue force on the PW-1 either to marry the appellant or to have intercourse with him.Therefore, both for the purpose of 366 and for the purpose of Section 376 IPC, there should be material to establish that either the alleged marriage or the intercourse has taken place without the consent of PW-1 if she is above the age of 18 years or 16 years as the case may be.In this regard, if we examine the evidence of PW-1, it is clear that on the date of incidence when the appellant came to her house and told her that he will not be taking tuition class as on that day, she decided to go to her grand father's house to watch TV.She says on the way she was met by the appellant who took her on his motorcycle promising her of taking her to a movie at Sitamarhi.She found on the way that he was not going to Sitamarhi but was going to Muzaffarpur Railway Station.According to her, she protested but she was threatened.She alleges that the appellant forced her to sign some papers to marry him.In our opinion, it is extremely difficult to accept her evidence when she states that she was taken by the appellant without her consent.if we see sequence of events starting from 30th April 1989 to 10 of May 1989 it is clear that she has accompanied the appellant willingly.The evidence of PW-1 indicates that there was a prior planning by her with the appellant together to elope, and it is because of that, the appellant came to PW's house on 30.04.1989 and told her that he will not be taking tuition on that day and immediately thereafter PW-1 left her house on the pretext of going to her grand father's house to see Television.It is not her case that when she was accosted by the appellant on his motorcycle, she went with him under a threat.On the contrary, the evidence shows that she willingly went with him on his motorcycle to see a movie at Sitamarhi.She says she was threatened only when she protested as against she being taken to Muzaffarpur.On the contrary, we notice she was with him from 30th of April to 10th of May, during which period she had travelled by train, temp and stayed with the appellant without there being any evidence of her having protested or having made any effort to seek help from others or even trying to run away.Apart from that from the record, it is seen that PW-6 in the FIR had stated that "I got information from my wife in the house that Geeta went away by taking clothes and a gold chain and she took Rs. 500/- in cash in total amounting to Rs. 8500/-.This evidence though subsequently resiled by PW-6 indicates that PW-1 had planned her departure from the house in advance and had willingly gone away with the appellant which also indicates that there was no threat or inducement either in regard to her leaving the house or in regard to accompanying the appellant.In such situation in the absence of any other material to show to the contrary it will be difficult to accept the prosecution case that either there was a forcible marriage or rape as contended by the prosecution to find the appellant guilty under Section 366 or 376 IPC.Since the courts below proceeded on the basis that PW-1 was a girl below the age of 18 on the date she left the house they have not properly appreciated the evidence in regard to her consent which is a mandatory requirement before finding a person guilty under Section 366 or 376 IPC.There is no doubt that the appellant who was a tuition teacher of PW-1 has misused the trust reposed in him by the PW-1's family but then since the prosecution has failed to establish the fact that PW-1 was below the age of 18 and the evidence on record indicates that PW-1 had willingly gone away with the appellant and in the absence of any threat, coercion or inducement, having been established by the prosecution we think it not possible to rely on the prosecution case to come to the conclusion that the appellant is guilty of the charges framed against him under Section 366A and 376 IPC or even 366 as contended by the learned counsel for the State.For the reasons stated above, this appeal succeeds.
['Section 366 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 366A in The Indian Penal Code']
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Through Mr. Sanjay Lao, APP for the State.HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJIV KHANNA HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE S.P.GARG SANJIV KHANNA, J:He has been sentenced to Life Imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.10, 000/-.In default of payment of fine, he will undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for three months.It is not disputed that Sansarwati was the wife of the appellant and they have five children.They were married for thirteen years.In the present case, there is no eye witness and the case of the prosecution is based upon circumstantial evidence of dying declaration, seizures made from the spot of the occurrence, i.e., house of the appellant and Sansarwati at D-17/42, Shahabad Dairy, Delhi, motive and conduct of the appellant.5. PW-2 has stated that Sansarwati, his sister used to complain that the appellant gave her beatings and did not pay for household expenses.His sister's brother-in-law, Sunil and his wife Sunita used to reside in the same locality, i.e., after two-three houses and they used to give beatings to her occasionally.On 29th September, 2004 at about 2.30 p.m., PW-2 was taking lunch at his residence when he was informed by one lady, who was a relative and resided in the same neighbourhood, that his sister was burnt.He rushed to the house of his sister and found her on the ground floor of the house in a burnt condition.Another person Prem Sagar (sic.Prem Kumar) PW-5 had made a telephone call to the police and PCR officials arrived at the spot/residence.Sansarwati was put in the gypsy, and thereafter in the ambulance at G.T. Karnal Road bye pass, and was taken to JPN Hospital.The deceased was conscious, when PW-2 had reached the residence and remained conscious till she was taken and admitted in JPN Hospital.Sansarwati told him that her husband had poured kerosene oil on her and set her on fire with a match stick.He reached the residence of his sister within two-three minutes and it must be between 2.30 to 3 PM.G.T. Karnal Road was at a distance of five kilometres.His statement was recorded on 28th September, 2004 before the death of his sister.His sister expired on 1st October, 2004 at 5.30AM.PW-2 is the brother of the deceased.He was residing very near to the house/residence of the deceased.PW-2, when cross-examined had stated that his house was 2-3 houses away from the residence of his sister, i.e., deceased.His presence at the spot immediately after the occurrence is also proved from the testimonies of the PCR police officers PW6 SI Pradeep Rana and PW20 Head Constable Omender Kumar.The said bottle is clearly visible in the photographs, which were taken by PW-7, Manish, resident of B-688, Shahabad Dairy, Delhi, who was carrying on business in the name of Sonu Photo Studio.He had taken photographs at 8 p.m. The bottle of kerosene oil was seized from the first floor.He had seen the smoke at a distance of about twenty meters.We may note here that the appellant and PW-2 were working in a gas agency and were responsible for supplying gas to customers.She had stated that first at about 2 to 2.30 p.m. she had heard cries "aag lag gayi aag lag gayi" coming from the house of Murari Lal and Sansarwati had received burnt injuries.All five children were crying.Somebody called the police.After some time, accused Murari Lal along with his brother Hari Prasad came there.A. No. 541/2012 Page 12 of 19 date of occurrence at 10 A.M. and she had also come to see him off as he had left for his village.He accepted that the appellant had purchased a plot in the name of his daughter and had rented a shop to a doctor.The prosecution, in support of their case, had examined twenty witnesses.On the question of dying declaration, statement of PW-2, Soudan Singh, brother of the deceased, PW-13, Dr. Ritu Saxena, who CRL.A. No. 541/2012 Page 1 of 19 had recorded the Medico Legal Report (MLC), and SI Praveen Kumar, PW-18 are relevant.We may notice that the trial court has disregarded the dying declaration recorded by PW-18, SI Praveen Kumar, and Exhibit PW-18/A. This aspect has been examined in the paragraphs below.A. No. 541/2012 Page 1 of 19The police officials had also recorded her statement in JPN Hospital.On being cross-examined by the Additional Public Prosecutor, he corrected himself and stated that the date of occurrence was 27 th September, 2004 and not 29th September, 2004, which was stated by him by mistake.When cross-examined by the counsel for the appellant, PW-2 had stated that his bhabi had come and informed him that his sister was CRL.A. No. 541/2012 Page 2 of 19 burnt.He had met his sister on 30th September, 2004 and at that time his sister was unconscious.His sister had given her statement to the police and then told him about the incident.Statement was given to the police on the spot in the presence of the other persons, but his sister had not put any thumb or foot impression on the statement.His sister was married before him and when she was married PW-2 was residing in Bullandshair.A. No. 541/2012 Page 2 of 19He was with Sansarwati when she was admitted in the hospital.PW-13, Dr. Ritu Saxena, CMO, Casualty, LNJP Hospital had admitted and recorded the MLC.The MLC Exhibit PW-13/A records that Soudan Singh, brother of the deceased Sansarwati, had brought her to the hospital in a CATS ambulance.The MLC further records that the patient was conscious and her pulse was 80 per minute, though she had burns all over the body to the extent of 98%.The MLC Ex. PW13/A also records that CRL.A. No. 541/2012 Page 3 of 19 the patient had given alleged history of burns due to pouring of kerosene oil by her husband at her house, in Shahbad Dairy at 2.50PM.It was recorded that this was stated by the patient herself, i.e., Sansarwati, the deceased.A. No. 541/2012 Page 3 of 19There was no reason and cause for the deceased to falsely and wrongly state that the appellant was guilty and responsible for the burns and that he had poured kerosene oil on her and set her on fire, a grave and serious charge against her husband, who was married to her for thirteen years.There was no reason for PW-13 to wrongly record the said statement immediately on the admission of the deceased in the hospital in the MLC Exhibit PW-13/A. It is also clear from the MLC that the deceased despite severe burns the deceased was conscious and oriented.As noted before, her pulse was 80 per minute.There is evidence and material to suggest and show that the relationship between the appellant and the brothers of the deceased were not cordial but this does not mean that PW2 would have falsely implicated the appellant and would have wrongly attributed her injuries/death to the appellant.The statement made by the deceased to the PW2, as already recorded and noted above, was again reiterated to PW13, a doctor.It was also recorded in the MLC.A. No. 541/2012 Page 4 of 199. PW-13, Dr. Ritu Saxena in her cross-examination had stated that when she examined the patient, i.e., the deceased, she was conscious.The deceased was admitted there and till he left, she was speaking.PW-2 was extensively cross-examined by the accused on 11th April, 2005 but he withstood the said cross-examination and remained steadfast on his statement implicating the appellant.He had also stated that he had not seen the appellant accused at the spot as he was busy looking after the deceased sister.In the cross-examination, on the said date, he wanted to substantially change his statement and had stated that his deceased sister was crying "jala diya jala diya" but had not named any person, who had burnt her.He stated that the deceased had not made any statement to the police in his presence.However, when re-examined by the Additional Public Prosecutor, he accepted that the statement made on 11th April, 2005 was his correct statement and the deceased sister had told him that her husband had poured kerosene oil on her and set her on fire.He reiterated that the police officers also reached the hospital and had recorded the statement of his sister.His statement dated 11th April, 2005 was correct.11. PW-18, SI Praveen Kumar, who was also the Investigating Officer, had recorded the statement of the deceased Sansarwati, which is Exhibit PW-18/A. The same forms a part of the rukka resulting in registration of the FIR.Initially, Section 307 IPC was invoked, which CRL.A. No. 541/2012 Page 5 of 19 was converted on the death of Sansarwati into Section 302 IPC.The said endorsement was proved by the prosecution through PW-17, Dr. Arun Goel.He had stated that Dr. Ajay Sagar had left the hospital and his present whereabouts were not known.He identified the handwriting and signatures of Dr. Ajay Sagar and had stated that the endorsement at point B on Exhibit PW-13/A was in his handwriting and duly signed by him.PW-17 was, however, not present in the ward at 6.10 p.m. In his cross-examination, he had stated that the patient had not cried or resisted when she had received 98% burn injuries.It would have been certainly better and wiser if PW-18 had ensured that the dying declaration was recorded by a doctor or Magistrate.This would have assured greater credibility and taken care of any question or contention.It is an additional factor and ground to hold that the two dying declarations should be accepted as true and trustworthy.The dying declarations are identical and implicate the appellant as the person, who had poured kerosene oil and then ignited the fire burning Sansarwati, the deceased, his wife.This aspect has been elucidated from paragraph 17 onwards.A. No. 541/2012 Page 5 of 19It was a plastic bottle, which still had some oil in it.Burnt cloth and match stick was also seized vide memo Exhibit PW-14/A. This is proved from the testimony of PW-14, ASI, Shiv Narain and PW-18, SI Praveen Kumar.The presence of kerosene in the bottle is established by PW-15, Ms. Veena Amba Pd., Junior Scientific Officer, CFSL Laboratory, Hyderabad.The plastic bottle, as per the CFSL report, (Exhibit PW-15/A) had blue coloured liquid which was kerosene.However, kerosene could not be detected in the match box or the burnt clothes.Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that, as per Exhibit PW-19/C, the first report recorded by Police Control Room was that "a wife had caught fire because of gas cylinder".The said information was possibly given by PW-5, Prem Kumar.PW-5 had stated that he saw smoke from the house in question between 2-3 p.m. Public persons were saying that the house of the appellant had caught fire.He came to his house and informed the PCR from his mobile.Naturally and normally, it can be expected that they would be using gas cylinder at home, which is a convenient method of cooking, rather than using kerosene oil stove for the purpose of cooking.PW-14 and PW-18 were not cross- examined and it was not put to them that any kerosene gas stove was available or found in the house.No question was put to them regarding whether the kitchen was damaged or was there anything which indicated that the deceased had got burnt accidently while cooking in the kitchen.A. No. 541/2012 Page 7 of 19Referring to the statement of PW-5, it was submitted that five children of the accused appellant were present in the house but they were not questioned.PW-5 in his cross-examination had stated that children of the accused later came down from the house and were questioned by the firemen.Police did not interrogate the children of the accused appellant.There is no evidence or material to show that firemen had come to the house.PW-2 in his cross-examination had stated that the accused and his sister had five children.The eldest daughter was physically challenged and aged about fourteen years.The second eldest was a boy aged about eight years.The three children used to go to school and two children used to remain in the house.Obviously the said two children were small.The eldest daughter Pavitra had appeared as DW-1 and in her statement, recorded on 29th May, 2006, she had stated that her mother was perhaps pouring CRL.A. No. 541/2012 Page 8 of 19 kerosene in the stove or trying to ignite the stove when she caught fire and started crying.She was sitting in her room and her mother completely got burnt when the police came to their house.Her father Murari Lal was not in the house and telephone call was made by one Lalti Devi informing the police.In the cross-examination, DW-1 had stated that she does not know how to read and write and was an illiterate.She denied the suggestion that her father had poured kerosene oil on her mother and set her on fire and killed her.DW-1 is the daughter of the deceased and the appellant.PW-2 had stated that the children were residing with the grandmother in the village.Her belated statement appearing as defence witness on 29th May, 2006 has to be carefully scrutinized before it is accepted.She was about 13/14 years old at the time of her statement.We have already commented upon the existence and the use of kerosene stove in the house for cooking, by the deceased.Surprisingly, PW-2 was never cross- examined on the said lines and on the basis of statement made by DW-A. No. 541/2012 Page 8 of 19Having lost their mother, DW-1's desire and wish to help and protect their father, the appellant herein, is understandable.Both of them were not cross-examined and questioned as to why and for what reason statements of DW-1 or other children, of the appellant and the deceased, were not recorded.DW-1, Pavitra had stated that she was illiterate and did not know how to read and write because she had not been to any school.This statement was made to justify her presence at home.However, she had signed her statement in Hindi and also written the date.She had also given a wrong time of occurrence.She had stated that the occurrence had taken place at 12 noon/1 P.M. whereas the occurrence had actually taken place around 2.30 to 2.45 P.M. PW- 2 had clearly stated that the three elder children use to go to school.A. No. 541/2012 Page 9 of 19It may be also interesting to note that the appellant in his statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C. recorded on 8th December, 2005 had stated that he was not present at the spot and his daughter had told him that this was a mishap or may be a suicide.The daughter, DW-1 did not state or claim that it was a case of suicide.Relying upon the statements of DW-2 Lalti Devi, DW-3, Mohd. Yakub, DW-4, Hari Prasad and DW-5, Girish Kumar it was submitted that the appellant was not responsible for the said occurrence and had not thrown kerosene oil or ignited the fire.In fact, he was not present in the house at the time of the occurrence.PW-2 had also not seen the appellant.It is correct that PW-2 had not seen the appellant but the appellant's presence is indicated and mentioned in the dying declarations of the deceased Sansarwati.In the cross- examination, she admitted that she had not told the said story or her version to any authority, either police or the court.She was aware that the appellant had been apprehended on the same day on the charge of murdering his wife and she had come to know about the same on the very day.She was not able to give any reason as to why she did not tell to any person and authority, prior to her making the statement in the court that the appellant was not at home and had not been named by the deceased.A. No. 541/2012 Page 10 of 19DW-3, Mohd, Yakub is a beldar, who claimed that he was working with the appellant for the same gas agency.He had stated that (DW-2) Lalti Devi had called him on his mobile and informed the appellant about the said incident, when the appellant was sitting at a tea shop across the road.When cross-examined, DW-3 stated that he had informed the police about his version when police had come to the spot after three days but he could not tell the name or rank of the policeman.Thereafter, he never told the story to any court or police or wrote to any senior officer.More importantly, DW-3 could not explain how (DW-2) Lalti Devi could imagine or know that the appellant and he were together at the date and time of the occurrence.DW-4, Hari Prasad is the brother of the deceased Sansarwati.He had stated that at 2/2-30 P.M. a phone call was received by DW-4 from a lady that there was a fire in the house of the appellant and his wife had received burn injuries.After hearing the message, Murari Lal and he went to the house.He had stated that relationship between the appellant and his wife was cordial and his sister had never complained about her husband or his behaviour.He had spoken to his sister.She never complained against the appellant.His father had come to Delhi after the occurrence to meet the deceased.Statement of DW-4 has to be examined with caution and care before being disregarded as he is the brother of the deceased and has supported the appellant.In his cross-examination, he admitted that he came to know about the arrest of the appellant in the murder case of his sister, after about 2 to 3 days of the incident, but he did not tell the story to the police or any other authority even after the appellant-accused was arrested.He volunteered that he did not know that this could be done.He did not forbid his father or PW-2, Soudan Singh from deposing against the CRL.A. No. 541/2012 Page 11 of 19 appellant.In the cross-examination he tried to resile from his earlier statement recorded on 11th April, 2005 but when he was re-examined by the Public Prosecutor, he accepted that his earlier statement recorded on 11th April, 2005 was correct.We do not think the statement made by DW-4 is credible and truthful.DW4 has not stated what he and Murari Lal did after coming to the spot of occurrence, on the said day.Murari Lal could not be seen at the spot by PW2 Soudan Singh.PW5 did not also see Murari Lal at the spot when they reached, after the deceased was injured and burnt.This apart there is contradiction between the statements made by (DW3) Mohd. Yakub and (DW4) Hari Prasad.DW3 had stated that appellant was with him whereas DW4 had stated that he along with the appellant went to the house of the deceased i.e. the house of Murari Lal.Why and how Murari Lal came to him is not indicated or explained.He had suddenly sprung up and decided to support the appellant, probably keeping in mind the interest of the children.DW-4's statement that he came to know about the arrest of the appellant 2/3 days after the incident is not believable and cannot be accepted.In his statement, he had stated that his daughter deceased used to tell him that the accused used to favour his brother and sister-in-law and was not providing proper food or properly maintaining her.His daughter used to tell her grievances.He used to advise her daughter to reside peacefully as it was a family matter.He had met his daughter on the CRL.His daughter was unhappy on account of some dispute, which had arisen 4-5 months prior to the incident between his two sons and son-in-law, i.e., appellant, who had worked together.He was not, however, aware about the cause of the dispute.His sons were not having ill feeling towards the accused but they were not on visiting terms.It was suggested to him that the deceased had committed suicide.The suggestion was denied.A. No. 541/2012 Page 11 of 19A. No. 541/2012 Page 12 of 19DW-5, Girish Kumar had stated that he was residing in the neighbourhood and on 27th September, 2004, at 2.30 P.M. he heard noise of "bachao bachao" and went to the house of the sister of Soudan Singh, who was shouting and was standing in a gali in a burnt condition.Soudan Singh had put a blanket on her and she was completely burnt.Pavitra met them and told them that her mother had got burnt while preparing tea on the stove and one neighbour had called 100 number.He claimed that he had travelled with Soudan Singh and was with the deceased when she was admitted in the emergency in JPN Hospital, and was treated by a lady doctor.Deceased had not made any statement to the lady doctor.On being cross-examined, he denied that he had not accompanied the deceased to the hospital in the PCR van as well as in the CAT ambulance.His presence was not put to PW-2, Soudan Singh, when he was cross-examined.PW-6, SI Pradeep Rana, Jr. Ambulance Officer, CAT Ambulance Service had stated that there was one attendant.He was not cross-examined that DW-5 was also present.A. No. 541/2012 Page 13 of 19In the said case, the police had failed to examine witnesses essential for unfolding of the narrative on which the prosecution case was based.Some of the eye witnesses to the occurrence named in the FIR, who were important witnesses were not examined and kept back.This, it was indicated, was a special significance given the discrepancy between the FIR and the version of the occurrence given by the prosecution in the Court.20. PW-20, Head Constable Omender Kumar, in his statement had stated that he was posted as Head Constable in PCR, North-West Zone and had received a call that one lady had received burn injuries in Shahabad Dairy.He reached the house and noticed that one lady with burn injuries was lying at the gate of the house and Soudan Singh was present there.She was oriented and speaking.She was taken in the PCR van and then in the CAT van, which was parked at G.T. Karnal bye pass.The lady had given her name as Sansarwati, wife of Murari Lal.In the examination-in-chief, he had stated that the injured lady did not tell anything else to him or his staff.However, when cross-A. No. 541/2012 Page 14 of 19examined by the Public Prosecutor, PW-20 had stated that she had named her husband Murari Lal as the person, who had poured kerosene upon her and set her on fire.This fact was recorded in the Exhibit PW- 19/C, the PCR form, a form in which communication made is recorded.Her husband was not there.He had forgotten the said facts in his examination-in-chief.PW-20 had, therefore, initially denied whether the deceased had said anything to him or his staff, but later on when confronted with Ex. PW19/C PCR form, he had stated that the deceased named Murari Lal as the person who had poured kerosene oil on her and set her on fire.Statement of PW-20 has been relied upon to the limited extent and purpose i.e. that when he had transported the deceased in the PCR van, Soudan Singh was with them and the deceased was oriented and speaking.He had denied that (DW5) Girish Kumar had accompanied them in the PCR van.A. No. 541/2012 Page 15 of 19
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Arguments heard upon the appeal filed under Section 14-A of theS.C./S.T. (Prevention o f Atrocities) A c t on 18/10/2018 o n behalf of appellants viz. Golu Yadav, Halkebhai and Rajkumar.This appeal has been preferred against the order dated 16/10/2019 passed by the Special Judge, S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act Damoh.Case diary of Crime No. 254/2019 registered under Sections 294, 323, 506, 34 of I.P.C. and Section 3 (1)(r), 3(1)(s) and 3(2)(V-A) of S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act registered at Police Station Tendukheda District Damoh also perused.Accordingly, with the aforesaid direction, the appeal stands disposed of.
['Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 3 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Form No.J(1) IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA Criminal Revisional Jurisdiction Present:The Hon'ble Justice Madhumati Mitra C.R.R. 614 of 2019 With CRAN 1613 of 2019 Pramod Kumar Jhunjhunwala Anr.The petitioners have approached before this Court for quashing of the criminal proceedings being C.S.Case No.6173/2018 under Sections 120B/420/406/364/364A/506 of the Indian Penal Code pending before the Learned Metropolitan Magistrate, 11th Court, Kolkata.Before dealing with the rival submissions of the parties, it would be appropriate to set out the facts briefly.The petitioners are husband and wife and they are the accused of the criminal proceeding pending before the Learned Metropolitan Magistrate, 11th Court, Kolkata.Petitioners have stated in their application that they were the owner of a piece of land with an incomplete super structure of (G+2).The petitioners formed a company and became its directors and holders of the entire shares of the said company viz M/s. Precious Plastic Pvt. Ltd. The present opposite party proposed the petitioners to take over the said company and develop the project.There was an agreement between the present petitioners and the opposite party who was the director of three companies to take over the company of the petitioners.It was settled that the opposite party was to pay a sum of Rs. 4 crores at the beginning.After completion of the entire construction, a sum of Rs.5 crores would be paid to the petitioners along with 1st floor of the building with car parking space.Opposite party neither paid Rs.5 crores after completion of the building nor handed over the 1st floor of the building as agreed upon.However, the parties came to an understanding.During the course of that understanding the signatures of the petitioners were obtained on several documents.Petitioners came to know that those signatures were converted into some valuable documents.Present opposite party filed protest petition opposing the prayer of investigating officer to discharge the petitioner.The said protest petitioner was rejected by the Learned Magistrate and accused was discharged.Learned Chief Metropolitan Magistrate after taking cognizance transferred the same to the file of Learned Metropolitan Magistrate 11th Court for enquiry and disposal in accordance with law.On 05.04.2018, Learned Magistrate examined the complainant under Section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and directed the officer in charge of Hare Street Police Station to take necessary steps for causing an inquiry over the allegations made in the complaint as per the provision contained in Section 202 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.Having heard the Learned Counsel for the parties and on perusal of the materials placed on record, it appears to me that the short question that arises for consideration in this application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure is whether the Learned Magistrate was justified in issuing process against the petitioners.The order of issuance of the process has been strongly challenged by the petitioners mainly on three grounds:The 1st ground is that previously the opposite party lodged an FIR in respect of the self-same allegations and police submitted final report after completion of investigation.Opposite party filed protest petition challenging the said final report and that protest petition was rejected.The order of rejection of protest petition has not been challenged.Thereafter, the opposite party instead of challenging the said order filed the present complaint on same facts.It is the specific claim of the petitioners that the present complaint being second complaint is totally barred in the eye of law.Now, I have to deal with the points raised by the petitioners one by one.From the copy of the order dated 05.01.2018 passed in G.R.Case No.2298 of 2015, it transpires that after completion of investigation final report was submitted in connection with Hare Street Police Station Case No. 594 of 2015 and the present opposite party filed protest petition.That order of rejection of protest application had not been challenged by the opposite party.Opposite party filed a second complainant on the same facts."Cognizance taken.Register the case.
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 364 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard the learned counsel for the parties.The applicant is in custody since 20.01.2016 relating to Crime No.6/2016 registered at Police Station Dheerpura District Datia for the offence punishable under Sections 302, 307, 147, 148, 149, 341, 294 and 436 of IPC.Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant is a reputed citizen of the locality, who has no criminal past alleged against him.It is alleged against the accused Hardayal that he assaulted the deceased Thakurdas on his head with a sharp cutting weapon and the deceased Thakurdas died due to head injury.There is no allegation against the applicant either he assaulted the deceased Thakurdas or other victim.No common intention of the applicant can be presumed with the co- accused persons for offence under Sections 302 and 307 of IPC, hence, no such offence is made out against the applicant either directly or with help of Section 34 or 149 of IPC.Similarly it is not mentioned against the applicant that he set fire on any house.No offence under Section 436 of IPC is made out against him.He is in custody without any substantial reason.Under these circumstances, the applicant prays for bail.Learned Panel Lawyer for the State opposes the bail application.Considering the submissions made by learned counsel for the parties and looking to the facts and circumstances of the 2 M.Cr.C. No. 4552/2016 case, without expressing any view on the merits of the case, I am of the view that application under Section 439 of Cr.P.C. filed by the applicant may be accepted.2 M.Cr.C. No. 4552/2016Certified copy as per rules.(N.K. Gupta) Judge Abhi
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 436 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(H.P. SINGH) JUDGE VK V/ -Digitally signed by VINAY KUMAR VERMA Date: 2018.02.07 17:52:20 +05'30'This is first anticipatory bail application filed on behalf of the applicant under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, apprehending his arrest, in connection with Crime No.325/2017 registered at Police Station Pawai, District Panna (M.P.) for the offence punishable under Sections 354, 341, 294 and 506-B of the IPC.There is old enmity due to litigation about the agricultural land between both the parties.The applicant has no criminal antecedents.It is directed that the applicant will surrender himself before Investigating Officer, within ten days from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order and then in the event of arrest the applicant, namely, Kishunlal Choudhary, shall be released on bail on his furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.30,000/- (Rupees Thirty Thousand), with a solvent surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the Arresting Authority.The applicant shall make himself available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required.He shall further abide by the other conditions enumerated in sub-Section (2) of Section 438 of Cr.P.C.Certified copy as per rules.
['Section 354 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Brijesh Choubey, learned counsel for the Objector.This application under section 438 of Cr.P.C. for grant of anticipatory bail to the applicants, namely, Bharat and Hallebhai@ Dhanprasad who are apprehending their arrest in connection with Crime No.520/2016 for offences under sections 323, 324, 341, 307, 294 and 506-B of IPC registered at Police Station-Pathariya, District-Damoh.According to the case of the prosecution, the applicant no.1 is stated to have attacked the complainant with a spade causing an injury on the head.As regards the applicant no.2, he is stated to have attacked the complainant with a lathi, causing contusion over his eye and on the waist.As regards the applicant no.1-Bharat, learned counsel for the applicants has sought the withdrawal of the application.Under the circumstances, the application of the applicant no.1 stands dismissed as withdrawn.As regards the applicant no.2, the injury report depicts that the injuries caused by him are simple in nature and are contusions.The said offences according to learned counsel for the applicant would only constitute the offence under sections 323, 324 of IPC.He further states that he did not share any common intention along with the applicant no.1 of causing any kind of injury that would be grievous to life.C.C. as per rules.(ATUL SREEDHARAN) JUDGE rk.
['Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Through: Mr. Sanjay Lao, APP for State in all Appeals.[Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 1The case of the prosecution is that on 08.10.2001 at about 07:30 PM, DD No. 26 was recorded regarding information received from HC Jagdish about a stabbing incident at Shahabad Kankarkhera.Again DD No.29 was recorded regarding admission of one Vijender to Bhagawan Mahavir Hospital with the history of stabbing.Thereafter at about 08:15 PM DD No.32 was recorded on receipt of the information from Bhagwan Mahavir Hospital regarding death of injured Vijender.On receipt of this, SI Umed Singh (PW-17) with Ct.Bhim Singh (PW-6) went to the hospital and collected the MLC of deceased Vijender.PW-17 Umed Singh recorded the statement of the brother of the deceased, Ravinder Singh (PW-1), whom he met at the hospital.According to PW-1, in the morning a quarrel had taken place between the deceased, Ravi, Soni, Bonny and Amar Singh.It was resolved then due to intervention of some people around.Ravi had threatened the deceased at that time.In the evening when PW-1 and his brother, Shailender were going towards Kankarkhera drain, to ease themselves, they heard cries for help; they both rushed to the spot and saw that Vicky and Neeraj had caught hold of Vijender and Ravi was stabbing him with a knife; Soni was shouting "maro saale ko isme bahut akad hai".PW-1 further stated that he and PW-3 managed to overpower Neeraj and Vicky, however Ravi and Soni managed to escape.On the basis of PW-1s statement, a rukka (Ex.PW-17/A) was prepared and FIR No. 378 of 2001 was registered with PS Bawana.The investigation was handed over to the SHO.The SHO got the spot photographed and on the pointing out of PW-1 got the site plan prepared.The blood stained earth and earth control were seized.The SHO interrogated the accused Neeraj and Vicky and recorded their disclosure statements; the accused were arrested on 09.10.2001 at about 05:30AM by arrest memos Ex.PW-17/C and Ex.The quarrel was settled with the intervention of neighbours and others around.However, according to the account of PW-1, Ravi swore to look out for the deceased.PW-1 deposed that on 08.10.2001 at about 08:00 AM a quarrel took place between the deceased (Vijender) and Ravi, Soni, Bobby and Amar Singh; the matter was settled due to the intervention of local people but Ravi threatened the deceased that he will "see" him later.Thereafter in the evening at about 07:00PM the witness and his brother Shailender (PW-3) were going towards Kankarkhera drain to urinate when they heard the deceased shouting bachao bachao.PW-1 further stated to the police that he and PW-3 managed to overpower Neeraj and Vicky however Ravi and Soni managed to escape.He further stated that his uncle Jagdish (PW-5) was passing from there and on hearing the noise, he too came to the spot and he (PW-5) and PW-3 took the accused Neeraj and Vicky to the police station.PW-1 further stated that he took his injured brother to Nanaks (PW-13s) house in the village from where Nanak informed the police and they took Vijender to Shahbad on a motorcycle.From Shahbad they hired a Maruti Van and took Vijender to Bhagwan [Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 6 Mahavir Hospital where Vijender was declared brought dead.On the basis of PW- 1s statement, the rukka (Ex.PW-17/A) was prepared and an FIR bearing no. 378/ 2001 was registered with PS Bawana.The investigation was handed over to the SHO.The SHO got the spot photographed and on the pointing out of PW-1 got the site plan prepared.The blood stained earth and earth control were seized.The SHO interrogated the accused Neeraj and Vicky and recorded their disclosure statements; the accused were arrested on 09.10.2001 at about 05:30AM by arrest memos Ex.PW-17/C and Ex.PW-17/B.Further on 10.10.2001, PW-1 met the SHO on Kankarkhera Road and informed him that accused Soni was present in the village.He further stated that he took the deceased to Nanaks house; it took 10-15 minutes.He further stated that he had instructed PW-3 and PW-5 to take the accused persons to the police post.In his further cross-examination, he denied that his brother Vijender was lying injured in the field and the accused Vicky and Neeraj brought injured Vijender to his (PW-1s) house.He denied that his mother informed the police by telephone at that time and that all the family members took Vijender to the hospital.He further denied that accused Vicky and Neeraj had been implicated in this case on mere suspicion.He stated that they raised an alarm when they were [Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 8 running towards Vijender; they were at a distance of about 7 to 8 paces from Vijender when they saw him being stabbed.He further stated that he took Vijender to Nanaks house in the chowk and not to his own house.The appellants appeal against a judgment and order of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, dated 2-12-2009 in SC No. 41/01 whereby they were convicted of the offences punishable under Sections 302/34 IPC and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life, with other sentences.PW-17/B. Ravi and Soni were arrested subsequently, the next day.The police conducted the investigation, after [Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 2 which, on the basis of the report, the accused were charged with committing the offences punishable under Sections 302/34 IPC.They denied guilt, and claimed trial.The prosecution in support of its case examined 19 witnesses and relied on several exhibits such as post mortem report, FSL report etc. The defense also examined two witnesses.After considering all these and the submissions of the parties, the Trial Court held the appellants guilty.The Learned Counsel for the appellants submitted that the prosecution failed to prove the case against them beyond reasonable doubt and that this Court should acquit them of all charges.The Counsel submitted that in DDs No.26, 29 and 32 the information was only regarding a stabbing incident and the names of the accused were not mentioned.The Counsel submitted that had there actually been eye-witnesses then the name of the accused persons would have appeared in the DDs.Furthermore the MLC, Ex.However the name of only one accused Ravi is mentioned; the other accused are not mentioned.It was also pointed out that the person whose Maruti Van was hired to take the deceased to the hospital was not examined.The Appellants Counsel argued that PW-1 and PW-3 have contradicted each other on material aspects which go to the root of the case and therefore their testimony should be discarded.He submitted that PW-1 and PW-3 contradicted each other as to whether PW-1 was wearing a T-shirt or a vest.Further PW-1 stated that his statement was recorded on the bench whereas PW-3 stated that PW- 1s statement was recorded on the scooter.The Ld. Counsel further submitted that both the witnesses admitted that there was no electricity at the spot and therefore it would not have been possible for them to see the deceased being stabbed.Further [Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 3 there was full grown Jawar crop in the field and therefore it is highly unlikely that they would have seen the incident taking place.It was submitted that the accused, Neeraj and Vicky in their statements under Section 313 Cr.PC stated that they were going home from their work-place when they found deceased lying in an injured condition in the field; they (Neeraj and Vicky) brought him to the village chowk and informed his family members.The mother of the deceased dialed 100 number and at about 08:30 PM, the police came to the house of Neeraj and Vicky and took them to the police station.To support their story, they have examined two defense witnesses.DW-1, Baljeet deposed that he knew accused Neeraj and Vicky as well the deceased and his family as they were his neighbours.He deposed that about 6-7 days after 2nd October at about 7/7:30 PM, he heard some noise and came out of his house and saw accused Neeraj and Vicky bringing deceased Vijender to the village chowk.He further deposed that immediately the mother of the deceased, his brothers Ravinder and Shailender and uncle Jagdish also reached the chowk.Nanak (PW-13) took the deceased along with Ravinder (PW-1) on his motorcycle to the hospital.He further deposed that after about an hour and a half, the police came to the village and took Neeraj and Vicky away.He further stated that on inquiry, he came to know from Neeraj and Vicky that he was brought from a field where he was lying in an injured condition.He denied the suggestion that he was deposing falsely at the instance of the accused.Counsel submitted that DW-2 Om Narain deposed that on 08.10.2001 he had gone to the shop of Bhure Lal for getting his scooter painted and at about 8 PM a gypsy with 3 police officials came there.He further deposed that accused Ravi was painting his scooter at that time and accused Soni was carrying out painting work [Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 4 on a four wheeler.He further deposed that the police officials took the accused persons away after getting their clothes changed.He denied the suggestion that he had cooked up the story.The Ld. Counsel for the appellants submitted that the deposition of the two defense witnesses proves that the accused have been falsely implicated in this case and that they have been arrested on mere suspicion.These circumstances, coupled with the fact that the names of the attackers were identified at the earliest point, ruled out the possibility of false implication.However they spotted a boy coming on foot about a half kilometer before the village and on the pointing out of PW-1 accused Soni was apprehended.Accused Soni upon interrogation disclosed that co-accused Ravi was hiding in Parhladpur.Thereafter, the accused Ravi made a disclosure statement and got the weapon of offence i.e. a knife recovered from the bushes; the knife was seized and a sketch of the knife was prepared.The police also seized the blood stained clothes accused Ravi was wearing at the time of the commission of the offence.In cross-examination PW-1 stated that they had no enmity with the accused persons.He also stated that his house was "pucca" but there was no toilet due to which all the family members used to go outside to ease themselves.He further stated that he spotted Vijender from a distance of about 40-50 paces when he along with Shailender (PW-3) was easing himself; they were sitting before the pulliya in the agricultural field and no crop [Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 7 had come up at that time.He stated that he heard the noises when he was about to sit.He further stated that the faces of the accused were towards them (PW-1 and PW-3) and they saw Vicky and Neeraj holding Vijender.He further stated that he saw accused Ravi attacking Vijender with a knife when he (PW-1) was running towards the deceased.He stated that when he reached the spot, the deceased was about to fall however he supported him and also caught hold of accused Neeraj; he pulled the collar of Neeraj from behind.He further stated that PW-3 caught hold of accused Vicky; the other two accused ran away.He admitted that as per his visibility, the deceased was stabbed four times.He further admitted that there was no electricity on the road but as it was dawn some natural light was available.He admitted that he alongwith Nanak (PW-13) went to Shahbad on Nanaks motorcycle and from Shahbad they took a van belonging to Shyam Sunder and reached the hospital; the police arrived at the hospital after about half an hour.He stated that the police recorded his statement and from the hospital he alongwith the SHO and the police staff went to the spot in the police car; from the spot they went to the PS where he saw accused Neeraj and Vicky.He further stated that they had left his house at about 06:45 PM and the incident took place at about 7 PM; it took him 15 minutes to reach the chowk from the spot.On reaching the chowk Nanak (PW-13) took out his motorcycle.Blood had fallen on the way to the chowk.He admitted that they reached the hospital at about 8 PM.From the hospital he went to the police post and from the police post he went to the spot.In his further cross-examination he stated that when he reached the spot, accused Ravi and Soni were running away as they heard his cries.He further stated that he informed the police about accused Sonis presence in the village on 10.10.2001 and he was apprehended at about 8/8:30 AM.The accused Soni disclosed about accused Ravis whereabouts and Ravi was apprehended from village Pralhad.He admitted that at the time of the incident Jawar crop was fully grown.He further admitted that after the incident his brother was not able to speak to him due to the injuries and Vijender was not able to tell who had caused the injures.18. PW-3 Shailender who is an eye-witness to the incident has fully corroborated PW-1s version.Both the witnesses were cross-examined at length but the defense was not able to shake their account.Both the witnesses clearly saw accused Neeraj and Vicky holding the deceased and Ravi stabbing the deceased while accused Soni was shouting maar saale ko'.The MLC, Ex.PW-14/A also records the name of accused Ravi.Even PW-5 has deposed that when he reached the spot he saw injured Vijender in a serious condition and accused Neeraj and Vicky were in his custody.The Ld. APP submitted that they have proved the [Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 9 accused persons guilt beyond reasonable doubt and that the Trial Courts decision should not be interfered with.19. PW-10 Dr. RK Punia, the doctor who conducted the post mortem of Vijender and prepared the post mortem report Ex.PW-10 /A has deposed that in his opinion the injuries were caused by a sharp edged weapon and the cause of death was due to shock and hemorrhage as a result of stab injury to the heart.He further deposed that on 08.11.2001 he received a request from the SHO along with a parcel of a weapon.He gave an opinion Ex.PW-10/D that the injuries mentioned in the post mortem could have been caused by the knife examined by him.Therefore, PW-10s deposition also corroborates with the eye-witness account.The injured Vijeder was taken to the hospital, at 8:30 PM (Ex PW-14/A).The rukka was recorded at 11-20 PM (Ex PW-17/A), the FIR registered at 12:20 AM (Ex. PW-2/A).These circumstances, coupled with the fact that the names of the attackers were identified at the earliest point, in the rukka, recorded at 11-20 PM, improbibilizes false implication of the accused.[Crl.A.28, 65, 66/10 & 131/11] Page 10The testimony of witnesses is corroborated by the post mortem report, which says that the deceased had been inflicted four sharp edged injuries; two on the face, and two on the chest.One of the chest injuries was deep enough to penetrate to the heart.The post mortem report and the testimony of PW-10 proved that the knife injury which penetrated the heart was the cause of death.PW-17/B and Ex. PW-17/C are arrest memos in respect of Vicky and Neeraj, who were nabbed at the spot; the police showed their arrest at 5-30 AM.This fact, together with the timing of the FIR and the rukka, in the opinion of the Court, provide external corroboration to the prosecution witnesses version.He clearly was waiting for an opportunity to get even with him.The knife, wielded by him, and the nature of injuries inflicted on a vital part of the body, i.e the chest, which was deep enough to cause the fatality, rule out the applicability of explanation to Section 300 fourth exception, IPC.The intention here was to clearly kill Vijender, and the appellant Ravi succeeded in doing it.The other three accused were unarmed.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 300 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Petitioners are facing prosecution for offences u/s 120B read with Sections 420/468/471 IPC, and u/s 5 of the Imports and Exports Control Act, 1947, on a complaint filed by the Deputy Chief Controller of Imports and Exports.The offences, alleged against the petitioners, though duly investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation in accordance with the provisions of the Code did not, however, culminate in a report u/s 173 of the Code, as an investigation by the Police would normally do, because cognizance of an offence u/s 5 of the Imports and Exports Control Act could not be taken by any court except on a complaint by the competent authority by virtue of Section 6 of the Act. The complainant, respondent herein, is the competent authority for the purpose.In the course of investigation, large number of documents were seized by the Police and a number of persons were examined u/s 161 of the Code.The application was opposed on behalf of the complainant." The trial Court, however, negatived the claim of the accused to copies being supplied before the commencement of the trial, as in a trial on a police report.
['Section 173 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 156 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 4 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 2 in The Indian Penal Code']
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JUDGMENT S.K. Chawla, J.Appellant Mohammad Salam challenges his conviction under Section 302, I.P.C. and sentence of imprisonment for life inflicted thereunder.The prosecution case was that on 8-11-1983 at about 11.15 p.m., deceased Kallu Lal Jain, a Cloth Merchant of Jabalpur, went along with his brother Mulayamchand Jain (P.W.-9) to the house of one Islam for dunning for credit money of Rs. 35/-, being the unpaid price of cloth due from Islam.Two brothers of Islam named Jannu and Salam (appellant herein) were found standing at the door of the house.When the deceased asked them about whereabouts of Islam, appellant Salam replied that he was sleeping inside the house.The deceased insisted upon Islam being woken up because he urgently wanted money from Islam.At that stage Islam showed himself up and stood behind appellant Salam.While the conversation was going on, appellant Salam got down from the doorsill, of his house and reaching up to the place where the deceased was standing on the road, plunged a dagger into the abdomen of the deceased.After inflicting that injury, the appellant took to his heels.Deceased Kallu Lal succumbed to his injury on 16-11-1983 in Victoria Hospital, Jabalpur.The said evidence satisfactorily proved the prosecution case.It was a case of abdominal stab wound which was viscera deep.The death had taken place due to gangrene and paralysis of the intestines resulting from the abdominal wound.It was held that the supervening cause of death being the result of the wound, the offender was responsible for causing the death.The only point seriously urged by Shri Rajendra Singh, learned Counsel for the appellant, was that the only offence brought home to the appellant was the reduced offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder punishable under Section 304, I.P.C. and not the offence of murder under Section 302, I.P.C. of which the appellant was convicted by the learned trial Judge.The nature of the injury sustained by the deceased was described by Dr. S. K. Nema (P.W. 6), who had assisted Senior Doctor Shri Shrivastava (P.W. 16) in performing operation on the injury.Dr. Nema deposed that the stab injury was situated over the lower part of the sternum and went downwards in the abdominal cavity.Exploratory leprotomy was done for operation.There were two perforations measuring 1/2 cm.x 1/4 cm.each through and through over the pyloric part of the stomach, which were repaired by operation.The deceased however developed peritonitis and septicaemia which resulted in his death.Dr. R. D. Sharma (P.W. 16) deposed that the injury sustained by the deceased was likely to cause death.The learned trial Judge found that the appellant had time, however little, for meditation when the deceased was engaged in conversation with him and his brother; that the appellant had thereafter purposely got down from the door-still of his house and after reaching up to the place where the deceased was standing, had plunged a dangerous weapon like the dagger in question into the abdomen of the deceased which was a vital part of the body.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 300 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 299 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The case of the prosecution in brief is as follows: The deceased in this case was one Mr.Selvam.P.W.1 is his wife andP.W.2 is his mother.They were all residing at Varalotti Village inVirudhunagar District.The wife of the first accused is one Mrs.Rajathi.The deceased had developed illicit intimacy with Mrs.Rajaji.Therefore, thefirst accused had developed grudges against the deceased.This is stated tobe the motive for the occurrence.On 19.07.2009, at about 11.00 p.m., the deceased had returned fromVirudhunagar and after taking food, he was sleeping on the pial of the house.P.Ws.1 and 2 were also sleeping on the same pial by the side of the deceased.At about, 11.30 p.m., all the three accused emerged there.The first accusedhad aruval in his hands and the accused 2 and 3 were unarmed.The accused 2 and 3 held the deceased and the first accused mounted repeated attacks witharuval on his body.The deceased cried for help.P.Ws.1 and 2 also raisedalarm.The first accused intimidated P.W.1 by brandishing aruval.Then, allthe three accused fled away from the scene of occurrence.The deceased was lying in a pool of blood.He made arrangement for 108 ambulance.They shifted the deceased to the hospital.Accordingly, the deceased was taken to the Government Hospitalat Virudhunagar.P9 is the accident Register.After first aid treatment, the Doctor referred him to theGovernment Rajaji Hospital at Madurai for further treatment.At about 4.00a.m., he was admitted as in-patient.Intimation was sent by the hospitalauthorities both to the police as well as to the learned Magistrate inrespect of the same.P.W.10 the then Judicial Magistrate No.3, Madurai, rushed to theGovernment Rajaji Hospital, at 4.30 a.m., and recorded the dying declarationof the deceased.P.W.10 reduced the same into writing.At 1.00 p.m., on 20.07.2009, he prepared an observationmahazar and a rough sketch showing the place of occurrence, in the presenceof P.W.6 and another witness.He examined P.Ws.1 and 2 and few more witnesses on the spot.He also recovered the bloodstained earth and sample earth fromthe place of occurrence.On the same day, he arrested the 2nd accused in thepresence of P.W.7 and another witness.Then, on the same day at 4.00 p.m., he arrested the accused 1 and 3 in the presence of P.W.9 and another witness.Onsuch arrest, the first accused gave a voluntary confession, in which, hedisclosed the place, where he had hidden the aruval.(Judgment of the Court was delivered byS.NAGAMUTHU, J.) The appellants are the accused 1 to 3 in S.C.No.3 of 2010 on the fileof the learned Additional District Judge, Fast Track Court, Virudhunagar.The first accused stood charged for the offences under Section 302 IPC andthe accused 2 and 3 stood charged for offences under Sections 342, 302 readwith 34 IPC.By judgment dated 17.06.2010, the trial Court convicted thefirst accused under Section 302 IPC and sentenced him to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default, to undergo rigorousimprisonment for six months and convicted the accused 2 and 3 under Section 342, 302 r/w 34 IPC and sentenced them to undergo simple imprisonment for three months for the offence under Section 342 IPC and sentenced them toundergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default, toundergo rigorous imprisonment for six months for the offence under Section302 r/w 34 IPC.To the Doctor (P.W.11), at the Government Hospital, Virudhunagar,the deceased told that he was attacked by three known persons.P.W.11, noticed the following injuries:A large cut injury over the left side of cheek extend from leftborder of sternum upto the top the left shoulder.Another cut injury over the left arm 10 cm x 8 cm x 5 cm.Cut injury over the nose (the projection part of nose bringseparate) Elevation part of the nose absent.Another cut injury over the right side of upper lip with missing oflittle muscle.Another cut injury over the cheek curve shape size 5 cm x 2 cm x 1cm.Another cut injury over the forehead on the scalp 8 cm x 2 cm x 2cm.A lacerated cut injury over the right side of back near center ofback internal organ seen (nc) the injury exposing of lung seen through theinjury.Another cut injury over right palm size 5 x 2 x 1 cm.Another cut injury over little, index, finger with ?fracture ofmiddle phalanx.Another cut injury over the right thumb near the middle of thefinger with bleeding 2 cm x 1 cm x 0.5 cm.One Dr.Thirumalaimurugan, who was attending on thedeceased, gave opinion that the deceased was in a fit state of mind to makedying declaration.On his part, P.W.10 also satisfied about the mentalfitness of the deceased.Then, he recorded the dying declaration.P8 isthe said dying declaration.P.W.16 the then Head Constable attached to the Mallanginaru policestation rushed to the hospital at 11.30 a.m., on 20.07.2009 and recorded thestatement of P.W.1, as the deceased was taken to the operation theatre.Onreturning to the police station, he registered a case in Crime No.127 of 2009under Sections 342, 324 and 307 IPC at 11.30 a.m. Ex.P14 is the FIR.Heforwarded Ex.P1 and Ex.P14 to the Court and handed over the case diary to theInspector of Police for investigation.P.W.20, took up the case for investigation and proceeded to theplace of occurrence.In pursuance of thesaid statement, the first accused took P.W.20 and the witnesses to VaralottiBus Stop and produced an aruval (M.O.1) from the hide out.The same was recovered.The deceased, who had undergone surgery, was shifted from the ICU ward to the regular ward and after 28 days, due to the complications, hedied.P.W.20 conducted inquest on the body of the deceased on 16.08.2009 between 8.00 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. Then, he forwarded the body for postmortem.2.8. P.W.12 ? Dr.Alaudeen conducted autopsy on the body of the deceased on 16.08.2009 at 12.30 p.m. He found the following injuries:-1.Partly healed infected cut wound on left shoulder extending to leftanterior chest wall 20 cms x 1.5 cm x bone deep.2.Partly healed infected cut wound on nose extending to lips & chin 10cms x 2 cms x bone deep.3.Partly healed infected cut wound on left arm 6 cms x 2 cms x bonedeep.On dissection, the proximal humerus is found repaired surginally.4.Partly healed infected cut wound on right postero lateral aspect ofchest wall 15 cms x 2 cms x muscle deep.5.Partly healed laparotomy wound in front of the abdomen.6.Intercostal drainage wound on both lateral chest wall.P10 is the postmortem certificate.He gave opinion that the deceasedwould appear to have died of multiple cut injuries and the complicationsthereof.Continuing the investigation, P.W.20 forwarded the materialobjects to the Court and made a request to the Court for forwarding the samefor chemical examination.P12 is the chemical examination report andEx.P13 is the serology report.According to these reports, there was humanblood of 'A' origin found on the aruval, lungi as well as on the bill hook.On completing the investigation, P.W.20 laid charge sheet against theaccused.Based on the above materials, the trial Court framed charges asdetailed in the first paragraph of this judgment.The accused denied thesame.In order to prove the case, on the side of the prosecution, 20witnesses were examined, 24 documents and 4 material objects were marked.Out of the said witnesses, P.W.1 is the wife of the deceased.P.W.2 is the mother of the deceased, who have vividly spoken about theoccurrence as eye witnesses.P.W.3 is the neighbour of the deceased, who has stated that at the time of occurrence, he heard a hue and cry from the houseof the deceased.When he went there, he found the deceased was in a seriouscondition in a pool of blood.Then, he arranged for ambulance to take thedeceased to the hospital.P.W.4 has turned hostile and he has not supportedthe case of the prosecution.He has statedthat on receiving information about the occurrence, he rushed to the place ofoccurrence, arranged for ambulance and took the deceased to the hospital.P.W.6 has spoken about the preparation of the observation mahazar, the roughsketch and the recovery of the bloodstained earth and sample earth from theplace of occurrence.P.W.7 has turned hostile and he has not supported thecase of the prosecution.P.W.8 has also not stated anything incriminatingagainst the accused.P.W.9 has spoken about the arrest of the accused 1 and3, the confession made by the first accused and the consequential discoveryof the aruval.P.W.10 is the learned Judicial Magistrate recorded the dyingdeclaration.He has vividly spoken about the same.4.1. P.W.11 ? Dr.Samiappan has stated that at Virudhunagar Hospital atabout 12.30 a.m. on 20.07.2009, the deceased was brought in 108 ambulance service by his wife for treatment and after first aid treatment, he referredthe deceased to the Government Rajaji Hospital.P.W.12 is the Doctor, whoconducted autopsy on the body of the deceased.He has spoken about the same and his final opinion regarding the cause of death.P.W.13 is the Head Clerkof the Magistrate Court, who forwarded the material objects for chemicalexamination.P.W.14 the Head Constable attached to Mallanginaru Police station has stated that he gave intimation to the police that the deceasedwas admitted in the hospital.P.W.15 is the Constable, who carried the bodyfor postmortem.P.W.16 is the Head Constable, who registered the case.P.W.17 has stated that he accompany P.Ws.1 and 2 to take the deceased to the hospital.P.Ws.18 and 19 have turned hostile and they have not supported thecase of the prosecution in any manner.P.W.20 is the Inspector of Police hasspoken about the entire investigation done by him and final report filed.When the incriminating materials were put to the accused underSection 313 Cr.P.C., they denied the same as false.However, on their side,they did not choose to examine any witness nor marked any documents.Their defence was a total denial.Having considered all the above, the trial Courtconvicted all the three accused.We have heard the learned counsel for the appellants, the learnedAdditional Public Prosecutor for the respondent and we have also perused therecords carefully.The learned counsel for the appellants would submit that there arelot of flaws in the case of the prosecution, which would create doubts in thecase and accordingly the appellants are entitled for acquittal.He wouldsubmit that though it is stated that from the Virudhunagar Hospital at about4.30 a.m., the deceased was taken to the Government Rajaji Hospital, theDoctor, who admitted him has not been examined.Thus, according to him, theearliest information passed on to the Doctor had not been produced.He wouldfurther submit that whether the deceased was in a fit state of mind, at thetime, when he was admitted or not has been suppressed, because of the non production of the Accident Register as well as subsequent treatment recordsmaintained in the hospital.The learned counsel would submit that P.Ws.1 and2 would not have been present at all at the time of occurrence.He wouldfurther submit that there was no motive at all for these accused to committhe murder of the deceased.In the alternative, the learned counsel wouldsubmit that at the most, so far as the first accused is concerned, theoffences would fall only under Section 304(i) IPC and the others areconcerned, absolutely, there is no evidence, he has contended.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would vehemently opposethis appeal.According to him, there are no reasons to reject the evidencesof P.Ws.1 and 2, whose evidences are highly convincing and cogent.He would further submit that the dying declaration recorded by the learned JudicialMagistrate cannot be discorded for any reason, wherein the deceased hadcategorically stated that these three accused attacked him.He would furthersubmit that at the earliest point of time, when the deceased was taken to theGovernment Hospital, Virudhunagar, the deceased told him that he was attacked by three known persons.Thus, the medical evidence also corroborates the eyewitness account.Thus, according to the learned Additional PublicProsecutor, the prosecution has clearly proved the involvement of theseaccused.Thus, the conviction and sentence do not require any interference atthe hands of this Court.We have considered the above submissions.The alleged occurrence had taken place at the house of thedeceased, i.e. on the pial.In our considered view,they can be believed though not fully but partly.P.Ws.1 and 2 have statedthat the accused 2 and 3 held the deceased tightly so as to facilitate thefirst accused to cut the deceased.If we look into the postmortemcertificate, it would go to show that there are number of injuries on thebody of the deceased.In our considered view, when two persons are holdingthe deceased so tightly, it would not have been possible for so many numberof injuries on so many parts on the body of the deceased.After the occurrence, P.Ws.1 and 2, had taken the deceased to thehospital.In Ex.P8, the deceased had stated that three accusedcame, out of whom, one was having a stick and he did not notice as to whatwas the weapon held by the other two persons.He has further stated thatwithin a fraction of time, the occurrence had taken place.He has made avery general statement that out of suspicion he was attacked.He has not atall stated that the accused 2 and 3 held the deceased.He has also notstated that the first accused cut him.The death was also not due to shock and hemorrhage due to theseinjuries.The first accused has got no history of anybad antecedents.Subsequent to the occurrence also, he has not committed any crime.Having regard to these mitigating as well as aggravatingcircumstances, we are of the view that sentencing the first accused toundergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years and to pay a fine ofRs.10,000/- would meet the ends of justice.In the result, the criminal appeal is partly allowed in thefollowing terms:(i) The conviction and sentence imposed on the appellants 2 and3/accused 2 and 3 are set aside and they are acquitted of all the charges.The fine amount, if any paid by them, shall be refunded to them.(ii) The conviction and sentence imposed on the first appellant/firstaccused under Section 302 IPC is set aside and instead, he is convicted underSection 304(i) IPC and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for sevenyears and to pay a fine of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only), indefault, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for two months.(iii) The trial Court shall take steps to secure the firstaccused/first appellant to commit him in prison to serve out the remainingperiod of sentence.2.The Inspector of Police Aruppukottai Taluk Police Station Mallanginaru, Virudhunagar District.3.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai. .
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 342 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 299 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 300 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Though said Bapurao used to demand partition of the residential house, yet appellant No. 2 - Laxman was not effecting the same.There used to be frequent quarrels between the two families on account of such demand for partition.The prosecution case is that in the relevantevening, said Bapurao had gone to attend recitation of a religious book (Pothi) at Maroti temple whereas, his two sons had gone to a nearby house of one Ashroba.The deceased was, therefore, alone in the house at about 7.30 p.m. The appellant No. 2 - Laxman then came in front of house of the deceased.He was in drunken condition.He addressed obscenities to her, saying that she had kept illicit relations with all the inhabitants of village Hatkarwadi.She was engulfed by flames of fire and started shouting.The appellants fled away from the house when she started shouting.Her son - Namdeo rushed there on hearing the shouts.He extinguished the fire.Lateron her husband and the son took her to Civil Hospital at Parbhani.In the same night, her dying declarations and Police statement were recorded at the hospital.She narrated to her son as to how she was set ablaze by the appellants.The Police carried out certain investigation into the crime registered on basis of dying declaration given by Muktabai.The dead body was subjected to post mortem examination.The topographical account of the house in question can be gathered from recitals of the spot panchnama (Exh. 29).The residential house is of six feet height.There were eight corrugated zinc sheets on the roof.The spot panchnama (Exh.29) reveals that two corrugated zinc sheets of front side and two of rear side were pushed aside.The surface of the zinc sheets was blackened.A plastic canister containing small quantity of kerosene and a match stick were found in the house.His version reveals that he obtained medical opinion to the effect that Sou.Muktabai was fit to give her statement.He further noticed that she had suffered 86% burn injuries and was unable to sign the statement.He claims that her statement was reduced into writing as per her narration.Muktabai, it may be mentioned that it was recorded by PW7-P.S.I. Babu Pitale.His version reveals that he was attached to Police outpost at Civil Hospital, Parbhani, in the relevant night.He received information at about 23.50 Hrs on 19.2.2004 to the effect that Sou.Muktabai had received 83% burn injuries.He states that he obtained medical opinion regarding physical and mental condition of injured Sou.Muktabai after visiting the Burns Ward.The first dying declaration (Exh. 45) reveals that deceased Muktabai narrated as to how appellant No. 2 -Laxman used to trouble her family members.Her narration shows that appellant No. 2 - Laxman used to regularly trouble herself and used to beat her sons under inebriated condition.His version reveals that in the relevant evening, he and his brother had gone to a neighbouring house whereas, his father had gone to attend recitation of a book (Pothi).His version reveals that he heard voice of his mother and went to the house.Moreover, she immediately gave oral information to him implicating the appellants as authors of the crime.The testimony of PW-4 Munjaji reveals that spot panchnama (Exh. 29) was drawn by the Police at house of the deceased.According to PW-8 Madhav, Muktabai gave oral dying declaration to him when he met her at the Civil Hospital.He is brother of deceased Muktabai.JUDGMENT V.R. Kingaonkar, J.By the impugned Judgment, appellants are convicted for offences punishable under Section 304II read with 34 of the I.P.C. and under Section 457 read with 34 of the I.P.C. They have been sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 7 (seven) years and to pay fine of Rs. 2,000/ (Rs. Two thousand) each in default, to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 6 (six) months and to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 3 (three) years and to pay fine of Rs. 1,000/- (Rs. One thousand) each in default, to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 3 (three) months, respectively, for the above offences.Both the substantive sentences have been directed to run concurrently.The incident giving rise to the prosecution occurred in the evening of 19th February 2004 at residential house of deceased Muktabai.Her husband -Bapurao and appellant No. 2 - Laxman are brothers inter se.Appellant No. 1 is the wife of appellant No. 2 and appellant No. 3 is their son.Said Bapurao and appellant No. 2 were residing separately but there were disputes on account of demand for complete partition of the residential house.So, Muktabai closed the door of her house.The appellants thereafter entered the house by removing corrugated zinc sheets of the roof.The appellant No. 2 -Laxman poured kerosene on her person, appellant No. 1 - Sarubai instigated the other two appellants to do away with her life saying " remove this thorn !".Immediately appellant No. 3 Dnyaneshwar set her ablaze by lighting a match stick.The post mortem examination revealed that Muktabai died as a result of cardio respiratory failure due to septicemia, which was result of 100% burn injuries sustained by her.On basis of material gathered during investigation, the appellants were charge-sheeted for the offences punishable under Sections 302 and 457 read with 34 of the I.P.C.The appellants denied truth into the accusations.They pleaded not guilty to the charge (Exh. 14).They did not raise any specific defence.It is suggested that they have been falsely implicated due to the dispute over demand of partition of the house property.At the trial, the prosecution examined in all 9 (nine) witnesses in support of its case.The defence examined DW-1 Laxman, the village Police Patil, in order to disprove oral dying declaration given by deceased Muktabai to her son.The learned Sessions Judge accepted the prosecution case on basis of the two written dying declarations as well as oral dying declaration of the deceased.The learned Sessions Judge held that the appellants, in furtherance of their common intention, committed house trespass in the residential house of deceased Muktabai in the relevant night in order to commit cognizable offence and they set fire to her person in furtherance of their common intention.Hence, they were convicted and sentenced as mentioned at the outset.Mr. Chatterji, learned Advocate, would submit that dying declarations of deceased Muktabai cannot be safely relied upon.He argued that recording of the dying declarations is not free from doubt.He further argued that versions of the deceased in the two dying declarations are different from one another.He contended that the appellants could not be convicted when the dying declarations are inconsistent with each other and are unreliable.As against this, learned A.P.P. Mr. Adhav supports the impugned Judgment.The prosecution case hinges upon the two written dying declarations of Sou.So also, oral dying declaration given by her to the son and also certain attending circumstances.A half burnt quilt was also found there.The spot panchnama was drawn on 20.2.2004, i.e. next day of the incident.House of the appellants is situated in Northern side of the residential premises of deceased Muktabai.The testimony of PW-1 Vaijnath Jadhav reveals that he was working as Naib Tahsildar at Parbhani and was assigned duty, being Executive Magistrate, of recording the dying declarations.His version purports to show that in the night between 19th and 20th February 2004, around 12.20 Hrs., he received a request letter from Nanalpeth Police Station for recording dying declaration of injured Muktabai.He visited Civil Hospital, Parbhani at about 12.30 a.m. and contacted the Medical Officer.He corroborates the dying declaration (Exh. 27).He took her thumb impression at bottom of the statement.The cross-examination of PW-Vaijnath shows that he had not received any training for appropriate recording of dying declaration.He did not endorse the dying declaration to show that it was read over to injured Sou.Muktabai and that she admitted the contents as correct one.He also did not affix any official seal on the dying declaration.His evidence reveals that some of the relatives of injured Sou.Muktabai were in her proximity but he further adds that they were asked to go outside.His version reveals that while recording the dying declaration (Exh. 27), except himself and injured patient (Sou.Muktabai), no other person was present at the place.He admits that he did not mention the time of completing the recording of dying declaration (Exh. 27) but says that he had forgotten to mention it.He further admits that the thumb impression on the dying declaration is not complete impression of the thumb of Sou.Her dying declaration reveals that at about 9.00 p.m., she had locked the house from inside and was sleeping.The appellants knocked the door but she did not open it.They removed the zinc sheets of the roof and thereafter appellant Nos.2 and 3 entered the house and opened the door.Thereafter, appellant No. 1 -Sarubai entered the house.She narrated to the Executive Magistrate that appellant No. 2 - Laxman doused her with kerosene stored in her house and appellant No. 3 - Dnyaneshwar set fire by means of a burning match stick.She raised hue and cry.She further narrated that her sons came there from outside and extinguished the fire by pouring water on her person.The dying declaration shows that since many days appellant No. 2 - Laxman used to pick up quarrels with herself and her husband.The dying declaration also shows that many a times, the appellant No. 2 - Laxman used to come to house in inebriated condition and used to quarrel with her.Coming to another written dying declaration of Sou.He recorded the statement of injured Sou.Muktabai as per her narration.He corroborates recitals of the dying declaration (Exh. 45).He obtained thumb mark of her right hand and endorsed the dying declaration.The recitals of the dying declaration (Exh. 45) would show that deceased Muktabai narrated to the Police Officer, the genesis of the ghastly incident.The endorsement on the dying declaration shows that Crime No. 17/2004 was registered for offences, punishable under Section 307 and 448 read with 34 of the I.P.C. in the same night at about 12.15 Hrs. by the Police.Obviously, that is the first dying declaration recorded after Sou.Muktabai was admitted in the Civil Hospital.She gave details of genesis of the incident.Her dying declaration shows that in the relevant evening, at about 9.00 p.m., the appellant No. 2 -Laxman came under inebriated condition and started giving abuses to her.He gave abuses saying that she was of loose character and had sexual relations with inhabitants of village Hatkarwadi.She further narrated that she got closed the door of her house.She further narrated that the appellants entered the house by pushing aside the corrugated zinc sheets of the roof.Her dying declaration shows that appellant No. 2 - Laxman poured kerosene on her person, appellant No. 1 -Sarubai instigated the other appellants to kill her, saying that her thorn shall be removed ( ).The appellant No. 3 - Dnyaneshwar thereafter lighted a match stick and set her ablaze.She narrated before the Police Officer that she raised cry and her sons came from outside and extinguished the fire.The dying declaration bears partial thumb mark of right hand of deceased Muktabai.It also bears the endorsements made by the Medical Officer (Exh. 34 and 35) at the beginning and at the bottom thereof.Credibility of the written dying declarations must be examined from the core of the recitals and the manner, in which the recording was done.The dying declaration recorded by PW-7 P.S.I. Pitale is at the first available opportunity.According to him, the Medical Officer examined the patient and opined that she would be able to give her statement.After taking such endorsement on top of the paper, he commenced recording of the statement of injured Muktabai.His version categorically shows that after the statement was written down, it was read over to injured Muktabai.Thereafter, thumb impression of her right hand was obtained at the bottom.The version of PW-P.S.I. Pitale reveals that on 24.2.2004, said Muktabai died.He prepared inquest panchnama in presence of two panchas.The inquest panchnama (Exh.24) is corroborated by him.True, there is inconsistency between the dying declaration (Exh. 45) and the dying declaration (Exh. 27) in so far as manner, in which the appellants entered the house.In the first dying declaration (Exh.45), Muktabai narrated that after pushing aside the corrugated zinc sheets of the roof, all the three appellants made entry to the house.She also narrated that the appellant No. 1 - Sarubai instigated the other two appellants to eliminate her.The second dying declaration shows that the appellant Nos.2 and 3 entered the house by pushing aside the corrugated zinc sheets of the roof and thereafter they opened the door.It was thereafter that appellant No. 1 - Sarubai entered the house.She narrated to PW-P.S.I. Pitale that the appellant No. 2 -Laxman poured kerosene on her person and appellant No. 3 - Dnyeshwar lighted a match stick and set her ablaze.Same is her version in the subsequent written dying declaration (Exh. 27).The Apex Court came across two dying declarations, which were inconsistent with each other.It may be true that the court while considering the credibility of such dying declarations may seek corroboration.PW-8 in her evidence categorically stated that the deceased had stated that it was the appellant who had poured kerosene.The deceased was seen in flames by her.Accused was seen running away from this place.Considering the tenor of the two written dying declarations available in the present case, I am of the opinion that the only inconsistency appearing in both these dying declarations is regarding role played by the appellant No. 1 - Sarubai.Otherwise, both the dying declarations are consistent and would reveal that the appellant No. 2 -Laxman poured kerosene on Muktabai and appellant No. 3 - Dnyandeo @ Dnyaneshwar lighted a match stick and set her ablaze.He saw the mother-Muktabai in burning condition.He extinguished the fire after pouring water on her person, covered her person with a gunny bag and called his father.His version purports to show that the appellants were standing outside the house.The injured told him that the appellant No. 2 - Laxman had poured kerosene on her person, appellant No. 1 Sarubai instigated and, therefore, the appellant No. 3 -Dnyaneshwar set fire to her person by a match stick.It is admitted by PW-Namdeo that when injured was rushed to hospital in an auto rickshaw, his father and Police Patil - Laxman Jorwar had also accompanied them.His evidence reveals that he did not disclose the incident to the Medical Officer at the Civil Hospital.Though PW-Namdeo is not eye witness to the incident, yet his version shows presence of the appellants outside house immediately after his mother was found in burning condition.His version shows that Muktabai was in serious condition at the relevant time.His version shows that Muktabai narrated to him that appellant No. 2 - Laxman poured kerosene and appellant No. 3 -Dnyaneshwar set fire to her person whereas, appellant No. 1 -Sarubai was saying that she be killed.The version of PW-9 A.P.I. Anwarkhan would show the steps taken during the course of investigation.He admits that the Police statement of DW-1 Laxman Jorwar, Police Patil, revealed that deceased Muktabai was not able to talk in the hospital.DW-1 Laxman Jorwar is the Police Patil of the village.His version reveals that he accompanied injured Muktabai and her husband during the journey to Civil Hospital.They went to Civil Hospital in an auto rickshaw.His version only shows that Muktabai had no talk with him.That does not, however, mean her inability to speak at the relevant time.It only shows that she did not confide in him and did not narrate to him as to how she received the burn injuries.Considering the material placed on record, it must be said that medical endorsements on both the dying declarations are duly corroborated by PW-Dr.Narendra Warma.The deceased was conscious and fit to give her statement when the dying declarations (Exh. 45 and Exh. 27) were recorded.Having regard to inconsistency about alleged instigation by the appellant No. 1 - Sarubai, the inconsistency about her entry in the house and also about her immediate presence outside the house with other two accused, she deserves benefit of doubt.Still, however, the appellant Nos.2 and 3 cannot get any benefit out of the minor inconsistency or discrepancy appearing in the two dying declarations.Both the dying declarations are quite truth bearing and acceptable.I am of the opinion that conviction of the appellant Nos.2 and 3 for the offences punishable under Section 304II read with Section 34 of the I.P.C. and Section 457 read with Section 34 of the I.P.C. is, therefore, legal and proper.In the result, the appeal is partly allowed.The impugned order of conviction and sentence against the appellant No. 1 - Sarubai is set aside.The amount of fine, if deposited, be refunded to her.The appeal to the extent it relates to the appellant Nos.2 and 3, is dismissed.The impugned order of conviction and sentence recorded against the appellant Nos. 2 and 3 is maintained.
['Section 457 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 448 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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1 In The High Court At Calcutta Criminal Miscellaneous Jurisdiction Appellate Side Present:-The Hon'ble Mr. Justice Jayanta Kumar Biswas.and The Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dr. Mrinal Kanti Chaudhuri.The State of West Bengal Mr. Abir Ranjan Neogi ... for the petitioner.Mr. A.A.Siddiqui ... for the State.The court below has refused bail on September 13,2013 saying that the offence is under s.302 IPC.Advocate for the State not disputing the correctness of this submission has produced the case diary and submitted that a knife was recovered from the petitioner, the son of Tamuruddin.The case diary materials reveal the following facts.The deceased had an illicit relationship with the petitioner's mother.The petitioner and 2 his father (Tamuruddin) detected the deceased in Tamuruddin's bedroom with Tamuruddin's wife.Getting enraged they together started beating the deceased.The charge-sheet has been submitted.For these reasons, we allow the CRM and direct that the petitioner shall be released on bail on a Rs.20,000 bond with two sureties ( one local) of Rs.10,000 each - all to the satisfaction of ACJM, Alipurduar.Certified xerox.(Jayanta Kumar Biswas, J) sh ( Dr. Mrinal Kanti Chaudhuri,J)
['Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The only allegation against the applicant is that he caught hold of the victim.(S. K. AWASTHI) JUDGE sumathi Digitally signed by Sumati Jagadeesan Date: 22/01/2019 17:53:54
['Section 452 in The Indian Penal Code']
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TN-63-1066, plying between Mudukulathur and Sayalkudi.The duty time was between 5.00 hours to 13.00 hours.After completing the duty, he handed overthe cash and key to the successor.By that time, it was 14.00 hours.Due to the death of three members of Thevar community on 30.10.2012 in Paramakudi area, the vehicle movement were completed suspended including the Government Transport buses.The preventive measures were not effective and genuine.The youthbelonging to Thevar Community were allowed to run their show.The youth werewearing banians in yellow-mixed green colour with the figures of the casteleaders such as Thevar and Maruthupandiar and travelled in a vehicle with acaste flag tied on the vehicle.The villagers felt that the youth wererushing the vehicle only to attack them and their property.It is not knownas to how the driver of the said vehicle died leaving others to escapeunhurt.The petitioner was suggesting the people who were innocent and hisname has been included only to terrorise the members of the weaker section ofParamakudi.On behalf of them, the petitioner was assisting in Court asLawyer.The petitioner has no role in the alleged conspiracy.(1)The confessional statement of Shanmugam (A-5), Arumugasamy (A-6), Bala @ Parambai Bala (A-7) and (2)The statements of P.W.7 Pandidurai, P.W.8-Muthukrishnan, P.W.9- Sethuraman, P.W.20-Thangadurai and P.W.21 Thirumurugan.14.They have detailed the participation of petitioners 1 and 2 in thecommunity meeting held on 28.10.2012 at Pambuvilunthan Village, wherein they were alleged to have provoked Adi Dravida Community men to indulge incriminal acts against the Thevar Community.Fifteen Thevar Community men of Melaperunkarai, who were on their way to Pasumpon Village in a Mahindra Van, were waylaid, chased and attacked by Adi Dravida youth near Pambuvilunthan Tank on 30.10.2012 at 11.15 hours.The occupants escaped unhurt and the van driver Sivakumar was beaten to death on the spot and the van was damaged.This is the incident in respect of which acase in Emaneswaram Police Station in Cr.No.147 of 2012 was registered against 31 Adi Dravida Community men.16.Same day occurrence:On the same day, at 14.00 hours, two Thevar youth who came across Ponnaiahpuram in a motorcycle, were waylaid by Adi Dravida youth and were beaten to death on the spot besides causing damage to the motorcycle.17.Another case in Paramakudi Town Police Station in Crime No.449 of 2012 was registered against 65 Adi Dravida Community men.19.Completion of Investigation:He belonged to Scheduled Caste Community.At the time of Thevar Guru Pooja held on 28th, 29th and 30thOctober 2012, he was working as a Conductor in the bus, bearing RegistrationNo.Therefore, the petitioner along with othershave to stay back in the depot itself.On 05.11.2012, he was pickedup by the Police.When he was produced before the Magistrate, the Magistratedid not ask him anything and mechanically passed the order of remand.Afterfinal enquiry, the police have added the petitioner as Accused No.42 inCr.In the bail order, the observation runs as follows:?The petitioner is in custody for the past 46 days.The petitioner/accused is working at some other place at the time of occurrence and to provethe same, certificate from the competent authority is produced.Materialwitnesses have been examined.?The Investigating Agency had removed the names of fivemen at the time of filing of the charge sheet.Despite the production of thecertificate showing that the petitioner was on duty at the time of allegedoccurrence on 30.10.2012, the Investigating Agency has deliberately includedhim as accused.Therefore, the charges must be quashed.6.In the supporting affidavit of Chandra Bose, it is stated that inrespect of innocent murder that took place on 30.10.2012, the petitioner hasbeen added as accused unnecessarily.7.The Investigating Agency has preferred five persons belonging todominant community and made them as eye witnesses to the alleged conspiracy.They are the stock witnesses.The allegedconspiracy is stated to have taken place on 28.10.2012 at 6.30 p.m. Thisdelay will expose both the author of the statement as well as theInvestigating Agency.Then they participated in the marriage of Mr.Periyasamy, anAdvocate at Madurai.It was at about 7.00p.m.The petitioner had no occasion to go to Paramakudi in the evening at6.30 p.m. Therefore, the charges are vague and it must be quashed.Out of40,000 people in and around Paramakudi, about 30,000 people belonged to Thevar Community.This Taluk is known for the caste clashes which are mostlyinitiated by the dominant community due to its economic and social strength.The members of the Scheduled Caste are at the receiving end.9.As the ruling party is controlled by the dominant community, therewas a police firing on 11.09.2011 and seven persons belonging to ScheduledCaste died in that firing.The CBI is investigating the crime pertaining tofiring and it is almost over.10.On 30.10.2012, the State sponsored celebration of Thevar Jayanthiwas organised in Pasumpon Village in Kamuthi Taluk in Ramanathapuram District.Thepetitioner's name has been included on account of the statement recorded on01.02.2013 stated to have been given by Pandidurai, Muthukrishnan,Sethuraman, Thangadurai and Thirumurugan (list of witnesses 12 to 16) who allbelonged to Thevar community.11.The petitioner was assisting the officers of CBI who wereinvestigating the death of seven dalits due to police firing on 11.09.2011.The petitioner had given 18 documents to the said Agency.This co-operationto the CBI has been treated by the State Police as if he is working againstthe interest of the State Police.The petitioner's name has beenincluded as if he was a party to the alleged conspiracy.13.The sixth respondent has filed the counter affidavit alleging thedetails of the statement of witnesses who have implicated the accusedpersons, as follows:(1)2004 MLJ (Crl.) 360 (Ms.Arokia Mary Lucia v. The State of TamilNadu, wherein it has been held as follows:?29.In the above circumstances, there is no myth in examining thosewitnesses, who are all the accused in the petitioner's earlier complaint withwhom the police have joined hands with, in order to register a false caseagainst the petitioner, under Section 164 Cr.P.C. before the Magistrate andthe witnesses also, like the parrots, have repeated distorted and inventedthe inconsistent facts of the case artificially recorded under Section 161Cr.P.C. against the petitioner in a mechanical and unbelievable manner andthis Court cannot be carried away by such artificially made up case failingto resort to the rescue of persons like the petitioner, which would onlyamount to encouraging such false cases deliberately foisted to cheat thesystem which, if not quashed, would only give the way for dishonest andunreasonable officers maligning and marring the authority of law and thejudicial convictions.30.Therefore, with the given opportunity, such falsely registered casesput down with the iron hand would serve the purpose not only to rescue thosevictims of such cases such as the petitioner from the clutches of those, whoregister the cases crossing the barriers and norms of law but also wouldserve as a deterrent measure for such authorities from taking advantage ofthe loopholes to foist the cases against innocent and service minded persons,who are wedded to the social and right causes, like the petitioner.No doubt, the employermight have given the certificate stating that the petitioner was elsewhere.Thesegrounds may be good grounds for the plea of acquittal, if the plea isestablished during trial and it is not a ground for quashing the proceedings,when there is no supporting material.28.The fact remains that already final report has been filed before theCourt.The very plea taken by the petitioners coupled with the counteraffidavit filed detailing the materials which implicate the petitionersherein would go to show that it is not a case for discharge.The plea takenby the accused persons herein no doubt requires careful scrutiny, detailedexamination and evaluation and if it is established by clinching evidencethat it is true, then they can place the plea for acquittal before the TrialCourt.30.In the result, these Criminal Original Petitions are dismissed.Consequently, the connected miscellaneous petitions are closed.4.The District Collector, Ramanathapuram District, Ramanathapuram.5.The Superintendent of Police, Ramanathapuram District, Ramanathapuram.6.The Inspector of Police, Paramakudi Town Police Station, Paramakudi, Ramanathapuram District.7.The Inspector of Police, Emaneswaram Police Station, Paramakudi Taluk, Ramanathapuram District.8.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai. .
['Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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Needles to mention, that these additional condition are imposed to cope up with the emergent condition:-Let the applicant- Salman Murgi, who is involved in Case Crime No. 140 of 2019, under Sections 379, 411 IPC, P.S. Kidwai Nagar, District Kanpur Nagar, be released on bail on his furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned subject to following conditions.Since the bail application has been decided under extra ordinary circumstance, thus in the interest of justice, following additional conditions are being imposed just to facilitate the applicants to be released on bail forthwith.
['Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 411 in The Indian Penal Code']
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No.1/State.None for the complainant.It is submitted by the counsel for the State that the complainant has been informed about the pendency of this appeal as required under Section 15-A of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (in short, "Special Act") This appeal has been filed under Section 14-A(2) of the Special Act being aggrieved by the order dated 21.12.2017 passed by the Special Judge, Shivpuri rejecting the bail application.The appellant has been arrested on 18.12.2017 in connection with Crime No.357/2017 registered by Police Station Khaniyadhana District Shivpuri for the offence punishable under Sections 452, 436, 435, 427, 323, 147, 148, 149, 294 and 506-B of IPC and Section 3(2)(iii), 3(2)(iv), 3(2)
['Section 436 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 452 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 427 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code']
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P.W.1 is the daughter of the deceased and P.W.3 is his wife.The deceased wasresiding at Thazhakudy Village in Kanyakumari District.Theyalso belong to the same village.Admittedly, there was ill feeling betweenthe two families, which culminated into a motive.It is alleged that on 03.12.2004, P.W.2 was proceeding towardsThazhakudy Amman Temple.At that time, it is alleged that the accused 1 and2 came there and scolded him in filthy language.In course of the saidquarrel, it is alleged that the first accused attacked P.W.2 with an iron rodon the right thumb of P.W.2, which resulted in an injury.The second accusedattacked him with iron rod on the left side of the ear and forehead, whichresulted in injuries.A3 also joined hands with them and he was physicallypresent sharing the common intention.When the accused 1 and 2 were mounting attack on P.W.2, the deceased, who was sitting inside his shop, questionedthe same.Immediately, the accused 1 and 2 armed with weapons, trespassed into the shop and started attacking the deceased also.The first accusedattacked the deceased with iron rod on the left side of the head resulting ina bleeding injury.The 2nd accused attacked him with knife on the left wristof the deceased.The deceased fell down sustaining the above injuries.Then,all the three accused fled away from the scene of occurrence.ThereafterP.W.2 and the deceased were taken to the Government Medical College Hospital at Asaripallam.At 12.30 p.m., P.W.6 ? Dr.Lysander, examined the deceased.He was told that the deceased had sustained injuries at 8.30 a.m. at03.12.2004 due to the attack by a mob of persons.He admitted her also as inpatient.P6 is the Accident Register relatingto the deceased and Ex.On getting intimation from the hospital, P.W.9 the then HeadConstable attached to Aralvaimozhi Police Station, proceeded to the hospitalat 12.11 hours, he recorded the statement of P.W.1, since the deceased was inan unconscious state.He forwarded these documents to theCourt and handed over the case diary for investigation to the Inspector ofPolice.P.W.14, the then Inspector of Police attached to AralvaimozhiPolice Station took up the case for investigation, proceeded to the place ofoccurrence, prepared an observation mahazar and a rough sketch in thepresence of P.W.5 and another witness.He also prepared an observationmahazar showing the place, where the deceased was attacked inside his shop in the presence of the same witnesses.Then, he examined P.Ws.1 to 4 and recorded their statements.While so, on 04.12.2004, the deceased, who wasundergoing treatment in the hospital, succumbed to the injuries.On gettingintimation from the hospital regarding the death of the deceased, P.W.14altered the case into one under Sections 341, 324, 452, 427 and 302 IPC andprepared an alteration report.P17 is the alteration report.(Judgment of the Court was delivered byS.NAGAMUTHU, J.) There are three appellants in this appeal, who are the accused 1 to 3in S.C.No.24 of 2006 on the file of the learned Sessions Judge,Kanyakumari atNagercoil.The trial Court framed as many as eight charges against theaccused as follows:Charge Accused Penal Provisions1A1, A2 and A3 341 IPC 2A1 & A2 324 IPC 3A3 324 r/w 34 IPC4A1 & A2 449 IPC 5A3 449 r/w 34 IPC6A1 & A2 302 IPC 7A3 302 r/w 34 IPC8A1, A2 & A3 427 IPCBy judgment dated 27.08.2010, the trial Court found the accusedguilty under all the charges and accordingly, punished them as detailedhereunder:Accused Conviction under SectionSentence imposed A1 341 IPC one month simple imprisonment 324 IPC Three years rigorous imprisonment447 IPC Three months rigorous imprisonment 427 IPC Two years rigorous imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-, in default,to undergo simple imprisonment for two months 302 IPC Imprisonment for life and fine of Rs.3,000/-, in default to undergo threemonths simple imprisonment A2 341 IPC one month simple imprisonment 324 IPC Three years rigorous imprisonment447 IPC Three months rigorous imprisonment 427 IPC Two years rigorous imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-, in default,to undergo simple imprisonment for two months 302 r/w 34 IPCImprisonment for life and fine of Rs.3,000/-, in default to undergo threemonths simple imprisonment A3 341 IPC one month simple imprisonment 447 IPC Three months rigorous imprisonment 427 IPC Two years rigorous imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-, in default,to undergo simple imprisonment for two months 302 r/w 34 IPCImprisonment for life and fine of Rs.3,000/-, in default to undergo threemonths simple imprisonment Challenging the said conviction and sentence, the appellants have come upwith this appeal.It is brought to our notice that during the pendency of this appeal,the third appellant/third accused passed away.He was also told that oneof the assailants used a knife.When P.W.6 examined him, he found as many as two external injuries on the deceased.The first injury was a laceratedinjury with contusion measuring 5 x 5 cm.on the head.There was anoverlapping injury measuring 4 x 1 x 1 cm.The 2ndinjury was a cut injury measuring 4 x 1 x + cm on the left elbow.P.W.6admitted the deceased as inpatient in his hospital.P.W.2 told him that on the same day, at 8.30 a.m., she was attacked with an iron rod.When P.W.6 examined her, he noticed three external injuries as follows:(1) A lacerated injury measuring 2 + x 1 x + cm on the right hand.(2) a lacerated injury measuring 1 + x , , cm on the left ear.(3) an abrasion extending 2 cm on the forehead.P.W.14proceeded to the hospital conducted inquest on the body of the deceased inthe presence of Panchayatdars and prepared Ex.P18 the inquest report.Then,he forwarded the body for postmortem.4.5. P.W.13 ? Dr.V.Paramasivam conducted postmortem on the body of the deceased on 04.12.2004 at 03.50 p.m. at the Government Medical College Hospital at Tirunelveli.During the postmortem, he noticed the followingexternal injuries:(1) a sutured injury measuring 6 x 1 cm x muscle depth and anotheroverlapping injury measuring 3 x 1 x muscle depth on the head.(2) an irregular abrasion measuring 5 x 3 c.m. on the right side of theback of chest.(3) a sutured cut injury measuring 6 x 2 cm on the left parietal regionof the head.Opening the body,he found the blood clot on all sides of brain.There was no fracture on theskull.On opening the thorax, he found fluid blood measuring 100 ml in theThorax cavity.Finally, he gave opinionthat the death was due to shock and hemorrhage due to the cumulative effectof all the injuries.P14 is the Postmortem Certificate.Continuing the investigation, P.W.14 arrested the accused.Heforwarded the dress materials found on the dead body and the bloodstainedearth recovered from the place of occurrence for chemical examination.P22 is the chemical examination report and Ex.P23 is the Serology Report.According to the said report, human blood was noticed on the dhoti and banianworn by the deceased.P.W.14 examined the Doctors, collected the medical records and finally laid charge sheet against all the three accused.Basedon the above materials, the trial Court framed charges as detailed in thefirst paragraph of the judgment.The accused denied the same.In order to prove the case, on the side of the prosecution, asmany as 14 witnesses were examined, 25 documents were exhibited and 9 material objects were marked.Out of the said witnesses, P.W.2 is the injuredeye witness.He has vividly spoken about the attack made on him by theaccused 1 and 2 and he has also spoken about the presence of the accused No.3 at the time of occurrence.P.W.1 is the sister of P.W.2, who has stated thatshe followed P.W.2, when he proceeded to the Temple.At that time, accordingto her, she witnessed the entire occurrence.She has also vividly spokenabout the attack made by the accused 1 and 2 on P.W.2 as well as on the deceased.P.W.3 is the wife of the deceased.According to her, she was inher house at the time of occurrence along with the deceased.The house ofthe deceased and the shop are in the same hut.P.W.4, though not a resident of thatarea, claimed to have come to the place of occurrence to have tea in theshop.P.W.5 has spoken about the observationmahazar prepared by P.W.14 at the place of occurrence both outside thehouse and inside the house.P.W.6 ? Dr.Lysander has spoken about the treatment given by him to P.W.2 and the deceased and the admission made as inpatients.P.W.7 the Head Constable has spoken about the death intimationgiven by the hospital, which, he duly forwarded to the Aralvaimozhi PoliceStation.P.W.8 Mr.Chandran, the Police Constable attached to Aralvaimozhihas spoken about the fact that he carried the alteration report to the Courtand handed over the same to the Court on time.P.W.10 is theDoctor, who declared the deceased dead and who, in turn, intimated the sameto the police.P.W.11 is the Head Constable was the one, who carried thedead body to the hospital after the inquest was over for conductingpostmortem.P.W.12 - Sub Inspector of Police attached to the same policestation has spoken about the earlier case against the accused, which isstated to be the motive for the present occurrence.P.W.13 has spoken aboutthe postmortem conducted by him and his opinion that the death was due toshock and hemorrhage due to the cumulative effect of all the injuries foundon the deceased.P.W.14 has spoken about the investigation done.When the incriminating materials were put to the accused underSection 313 Cr.P.C., they denied the same as false.On their side, theymarked as many as five documents as defence documents.D1 is the carbon copy of the Accident Register of the deceased.D4 is theAccident Register copy of A1 and Ex.D5 is the treatment records of the firstaccused.The defence of the accused was that the deceased party were theaggressors.Armed with dangerous weapons, they attacked the accused 1 and 2, in which, the accused 1 and 2 sustained serious injuries, in which, one ofthe injury sustained by the first accused was a fracture.In respect of thesaid occurrence, there was a case registered in Crime No.674 of 2004 underSections 341 and 324 IPC as against the deceased party.It is the furthercase of the defence that the said counter case was not investigated properly.Having considered all the above, the trial Court found the accusedguilty and accordingly punished them as detailed in the first paragraph ofthis judgment.That is how, they are before this Court with this appeal.We have heard the learned Senior counsel for the appellants, thelearned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State and we have also perusedthe records carefully.The learned Senior counsel would mainly focus his arguments on theground that the prosecution has not come forward with the true version of theoccurrence.According to the learned senior counsel, admittedly, there was acounter case in Crime No.674 of 2004 on the complaint of the first accused.But the same was not investigated properly.The learned seniorcounsel would next contend that though the accused 1 and 2 sustained seriousinjuries, more particularly, the first accused had suffered a fracture, theinjuries have not been explained away by any of the witnesses.The learnedsenior counsel would further point out that though it is the legal obligationof the prosecution to be fair to produce all the materials collected duringthe course of investigation of the counter case, more particularly, the woundcertificates and the treatment of records of the accused, the prosecution hasdeliberately suppressed the same.The learned senior counsel would furtherpoint out that these documents were, however, proved by way of defencedocument.The learned senior counsel would take us through the evidence ofP.Ws.1 to 4, who are eye witnesses including P.W.2, who is the injured eyewitness.The learned counsel would point out that none of the witnesses haveexplained away anything about either the presence of the injuries or aboutthe cause for these injuries.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would, however, opposethese appeals stoutly.According to him, it is true that Crime No.674 of2004 and Crime No.675 of 2004 are cases in counter.But he would point outthat there was proper investigation done in respect of Crime No.674 of 2004and since it was found that the accused herein were the aggressors, the saidcase in Crime No.674 of 2004 was referred as 'Mistake of Fact'.Thus, according to the learned Additional Public Prosecutor,the prosecution has not suppressed any materials.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would further submit thatthough it is true that P.Ws.1 to 4 have not spoken anything about the injurysustained by the accused 1 and 2, on that score, the accused are not entitledfor acquittal, because their evidences are otherwise cogent and convincing.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would further submit that from theevidences of P.Ws.1 to 4, it has been clearly proved by the prosecution thatthe accused party were the aggressors.The eye witnesses, namely, P.Ws.1 to 4 have not even spokenabout the injuries on the accused.Immediately, after the occurrence, theaccused 1 and 2 were also taken to the hospital.Itshows that there were as many as two injuries, which are as follows:(1) Abrasion 3 c.m x + cm left forearm.(2) Contusion 3 cm x 2 cm left leg.These injuries were noticed by P.W.6 ? Dr.He was told that theywere attacked by four known persons.But absolutely, there is no explanationeither regarding the presence of these injuries and cause for these injuriesby any of the eye witnesses.Applying the above dictum laid down to the facts of the presentcase, if we look into the evidences of P.Ws.1 to 4, undoubtedly, they are allinterested witnesses and they are closely related to the deceased.There isalso enmity between these two families.It isalso the law that during the trial of the case, all the materials collectedin the counter case should be placed and proved in evidence.But in thiscase, unfortunately, except marking the xerox copy of the FIR and the finalreport, no other materials have been proved in evidence.But the prosecution has not chosen to examine anyindependent witness from that locality.Had any independent witness beenexamined from that locality, truth would have come out and in which case, itwould have been possible to find out whether the accused party were theaggressors or the deceased party were the aggressors.Thus, in our considered view, the fact that theaccused are the aggressors has not been duly established by the prosecution.In view of the foregoing discussions, we hold that the prosecutionhas not come forward with the true version of the occurrence and thus, theprosecution has failed to prove the case beyond reasonable doubts.Therefore, the conviction and sentence imposed on the appellants by the trialCourt is liable to the set aside.In the result, the Criminal Appeal is allowed; the conviction andsentence imposed on the appellants are set aside and the appellants areacquitted.2.The Inspector of Police, Aralvaimozhy Police Station, Kanyakumari District.3.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai. .
['Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 452 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 427 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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This petition has been filed to quash the proceedings in Crime No. 339 of 2019 on the file of first respondent police for the offence under Sections 147, 148, 447, 427, 294(b) and 506(ii) of IPC and Section 4 of TNPHW Act as against these petitioners.Without any base, the first respondent police registered a case in Crime No.339 of 2019 for the offences under Sections 147, 148, 447, 427, 294(b) and 506(ii) of IPC and Section 4 of TNPHW Act as against the petitioners.Hence he prayed to quash the same.3.The learned Government Advocate (criminal side) would submit that the investigation is still pending and this petition is in premature stage.He would also submit that the respondent police has deleted the name of the first and second petitioner from the First Information Report and they are ready with the charge sheet and hence, he prayed for dismissal of this petition.http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.(MD) No.17639 of 20194.Heard both sides and perused the materials available on record.A.No.255 of 2019 dated 12.02.2019 - Sau.Accordingly, this criminal original petition is dismissed.Consequently, connected miscellaneous petition is also dismissed.However the first respondent police is directed to file final report within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order as against the other accused persons.28.11.2019 Internet:Yes Index:Yes/no aav ToThe Sub Inspector of Police Surandai Police Station Tirunelveli2.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai.http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.(MD) No.17639 of 2019 G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN, J.
['Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 427 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294(b) in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 447 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The Respondent No.2 further stated that on 28 th January, 2016 the Applicant left the house on the pretext of attending marriage of his friend at Khajurao, Madhya Pradesh.He he did not return and started avoiding her phone calls.She later learnt that the Applicant had left the job at Kandivali, Mumbai.RESERVED ON : 17th MARCH, 2017 PRONOUNCED ON : 17th APRIL, 2017 JUDGMENT (PER ANUJA PRABHUDESSAI, J.).1. Rule.Rule made returnable forthwith.By consent of parties taken for hearing.This is an application filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for quashing the FIR No. 93 of 2016 registered with Mulund Police Station for offences punishable under Section 376, 420, 323, 504 of the Indian Penal Code.::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 :::The Respondent No.2 had lodged the aforesaid FIR alleging that the applicant had sexual relations with her from September, 2014 against her will and under the false promise of marriage.She had alleged that the she was compelled to terminate the pregnancy as the Applicant had avoided to take responsibility of the child.She had further claimed that the applicant had got married to her and subsequently left her alleging that he had performed the marriage ceremony only to avoid the prosecution.Mr. Dubash, the learned Counsel for the Applicant has submitted that the Respondent no.2 is a major.The relations between the Applicant and the Respondent No.2 were consensual.He has further submitted that the allegations made in the First Information Report, even taken at its face value do not make out ingredients of the offence under Section 376 or 420 of the Indian Penal Code.He has submitted that the continuation of these proceedings would be nothing but abuse of process of law.::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 :::Mr. Bodke, the learned Counsel for the Respondent No.2 has opposed the application on the ground that the applicant had physical relationship with the Respondent No.2 against her will and without her consent.He has submitted that the applicant induced the Respondent No.2 to have physical relationship with her on false promise of marriage.He submits that the allegations leveled against the Applicant constitute offence under Section 376 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code.He has relied upon the following decisions:-Bharat Devdas Salvi & Ors.Mohammed Faizan Amir Khan vs. The State of Maharashtra, dated 5th July, 2016 in Cri.Writ Petition No.1721 of 2016Central Bureau of Investigation vs. Ravi Shankar Srivastava, IAS and Anr.2006 DGLS (SC) 646Prashant Bharti vs. State of NCT of Delhi 2013 DGLS (SC)Indian Oil Corporation vs. NEPC India Ltd. & Ors 2006(2) Bom.1 Where the allegations made in the first information report or the complaint, even if they are taken at their face value and accepted in their entirety do not prima facie constitute any offence or make out a case against the accused.2 Where the allegations in the first information report and other materials, if any, accompanying the FIR do not disclose a cognizable offence, justifying an investigation by police officers under Sec.156(1) of the Code except under an order of a Magistrate within the purview of Sec.155(2) of the Code.3 Where the uncontroverted allegations made in the FIR or complaint and the evidence collected in support of the same do not disclose the commission of any offence and make out a case against the accused.Reverting to the facts of the present case, the Respondent No.2 had lodged a report dated 7th March, 2016 wherein she had alleged that she had developed friendship with the Applicant.She had stated that she was not willing to have physical relationship with the applicant without entering into marital ties.However, the Applicant had physical relationship with her several times, by convincing her that their relationship was as good as husband-wife relationship.She has further stated that she had terminated the pregnancy as the Applicant was ready to take the responsibility of the child.She has stated that the Applicant maintained goods relationship with her for about one month after termination of the pregnancy, but latter started avoiding her.The Respondent No.2 further stated that the family of the pps 6 of 10 ::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 ::: cri apl 847-16.doc applicant, particularly his sister, were not supportive and they abused her and told her that the Applicant would not marry her.Hence she went to the Mulund Police Station to lodge a complaint.The police called the Applicant and his sister and thereafter the Applicant told her that he was ready to marry her.She resided at her parental house for about one week and thereafter started living with the Applicant in a rental premises.She has stated that the applicant behaved normally for a few days, but thereafter started demanding unnatural sex and also subjected her to physical and mental cruelty.The applicant, subsequently claimed that the marriage was not valid and that he had married her only to prevent her from lodging complaint against him.::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 :::He also sent an email to the pps 7 of 10 ::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 ::: cri apl 847-16.doc Respondent No.2 asking her to arrange a resident for herself.In these circumstances, she lodged FIR against the Applicant for having physical relations with her since July 2014 under the false promise of marriage.Based on the said FIR, C.R.No. 93/2016 was registered against the Applicant for the offences under Section 376, 420, 323, 504 of the Indian Penal Code.::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 :::The first informant is admittedly a major.The FIR does not indicate that the Respondent No.2 / First Informant had consented to have physical relationship with the Applicant under fear or misconception of facts.On the contrary, the contents of the FIR reveal that the relationship between the Applicant and the respondent No.2 was totally consensual.The Applicant and the Respondent No.2 thereafter got married and continued to maintain physical relationship as husband and wife.In the light of these facts the decision in State of UP vs. Naushad and Karthi @ Karthik (supra) are distinguishable and are not applicable to the facts of the present case.::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 :::The FIR reveals that the initial physical relationship between the Applicant and the Respondent No.2 was consensual.Subsequently they married each other and continued having physical relationship as husband and wife.The relationship between the husband and wife or the consensual relationship between the parties without any deceit or inducement would not constitute the offence of rape and cheating within the meaning of Sections 375 and 415 of Indian Penal Code.::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 :::A bare perusal of the FIR reveals that the Respondent No.2 has made the imputations of rape and cheating only because the Applicant had walked out of the marriage.The allegations leveled in the FIR even if taken at its face value do not disclose essential ingredients of "rape" and "cheating" as defined under sections 375 and 415 of the Indian Penal Code and made punishable under sections 376 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code.Under the circumstances, and in view of the discussion above, the application is allowed.The FIR No. 93 of 2016 registered with Mulund Police Station for offences punishable under Sections 376, 420, 323, 504 of the Indian Penal Code is quashed and set aside.::: Uploaded on - 27/04/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2017 23:39:04 :::
['Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 504 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 415 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 375 in The Indian Penal Code']
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CRL.L.P. 15/2013 Page 1 of 8"Police machinery was set into motion by DD No. 22A lodged at PS Vivek Vihar at 1816 hours dated 2.7.10 regarding presence of a dead body near Railway Line, Ambedkar Camp, Vivek Vihar, This DD was assigned to ASI Desh Raj who reached at the spot.Thereafter IO PW18 Inspector Sanjay Drall reached at the spot i.e. behind ITI, Vivek Vihar, near Railway Line.The dead body was of a female and her neck was found cut.Crime team and photographer were called by IO, who photographed the scene of crime.IO prepared rukka Ex. PW18/A and gave it to HC Sarfuddin for taking it to PS for registration of the FIR.IO prepared site plan and picked samples of blood and earth control from the spot.The dead body was sent to mortuary.The mobile phone make virgin of chocolate colour was recovered from the possession of dead body.The deceased was identified as Mukarrabi by the family of the deceased in the mortuary.IO conducted the inquest proceedings.After post-mortem dead body was handed over to her relatives.The brothers of the deceased showed their suspicion on accused Hasnain, who is husband of the deceased Call details of deceased and accused Hasnain were analyzed and it disclosed that on the day of incident they had talked with each other number of times.Accused Shah Nawaj, who is nephew of accused Hasnain had also talked with accused Hasnain eleven times on the day of incident.Location of both accused and deceased as per their mobile phones were found to be at Vivek Vihar, Jhilmil Industrial Area and Dilshad Garden.The facts and circumstances which gave rise to the registration of the case against the accused person, as per prosecution, are that: CRL.L.P. 15/2013 Page 1 of 8On 27.7.10 accused Hasnain was arrested on the basis of secret information.During interrogation he made disclosure statement admitting his involvement in the crime.On 6.8.10 accused Shah Nawaj was also arrested.After investigation police filed chargesheet against both the accused under Section 302/120B IPC."CRL.L.P. 15/2013 Page 2 of 8Addressing arguments in support of the present criminal leave to appeal, Mr.K.S Singh, Counsel for the State submits that the learned Trial Court erred in ignoring the vital pieces of evidence, which emerged during the course of trial but were not properly appreciated by the learned Trial Court.Counsel further submits that the learned Trial Court has not appreciated the testimony of PW-2 and PW-3, who are the daughter and the son of the deceased respectively and who had specifically stated in their testimonies that respondent No.1, their father used to beat the deceased and used to torture the deceased and they started living with their mother in the house of PW-15, their uncle.Counsel further submits that the learned Trial Court has also failed to appreciate the fact that the respondent No.1 had called 11 times to respondent No.2 on his mobile number 9716758181, which belong to PW-9 Raj Kumar and after the incident both the mobile phones were CRL.L.P. 15/2013 Page 3 of 8 switched off.Counsel further submits that the learned Trial Court had also failed to appreciate the fact that from the testimonies of PW-2, PW- 3, PW-4 and PW-5, the motive of respondent No. 1 to commit murder was very clear as he was suspicious about the character of the deceased.Based on these submissions counsel for the petitioner prayed for the grant of criminal leave to appeal to challenge the said judgment on acquittal.CRL.L.P. 15/2013 Page 3 of 8We have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and given our thoughtful consideration to the arguments advanced by him.We have also gone through the impugned judgment and other material placed on record.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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A case has been registered against the petitioner and three other persons in Cr.No.92 of 2004 for the offences punishable under Sections 304(A), 338, 337 r/w 109 and 34 of I.P.C. by the respondent police.The first accused in the case was a contractor, who has taken contract for construction of a a ground level water tank in the Arunthathiyar Colony in Mittapatti Village in which the petitioner/second accused is an engineer, was assigned duty to supervise the day to day construction work.The third accused is the Extension Officer, fourth accused is the Block Development Officer.On 13.3.2004, the water tank busted causing death of two persons, grievous hurt to four persons besides simple injuries to 11 persons.It is also pointed out by the learned Senior counsel that the Block Development Officer, who succeeded the second petitioner has categorically stated in his statement recorded by the police under Section 161 Cr.P.C. to the effect that only A-1 and A-2 are the persons solely responsible for the irregular construction and acting in a negligent manner while constructing the ground level water tank which resulted in the occurrence and the Block Development Officer has not whispered a word about these petitioners.The leanred Senior Counsel further pointed out that there is absolutely no materials available on record through the statements recorded from the witnesses implicating the accused for the alleged offence under Sections 304-A, 338, 337 r/w 109 and 34 I.P.C."As far as A3 and A4 are concerned they are not at all directly involved and only they were present to see the mixing of cement and sand of construction work.In the above circumstance, the petition is liable for dismissal.
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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It was alleged in the complaint that respondents are of criminal nature and they have terror in the locality.On 8/11/2012 when the complainant/applicant was on his tube-well, at that time the respondents came there alongwith stick, axe etc. and started abusing him and also called him by his caste's name and assaulted him.The non-applicant Jasrath had pulled his father from his hairs and threat to life was extended.offence under Sections 323, 294, 451, 506-B, 147, 148 of IPC and Section 3 (1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities), Act (in short "the Act").He has even not stated that he belongs to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe community.Furthermore, even the caste certificate was not filed before the trial court and the applicant has not given any plausible explanation for not filing the copy of the caste certificate before the trial court, therefore, the trial court as well as the Revisional Court did not commit any mistake in not taking cognizance for offence under Section 3 (1) (x) of the Act.Heard learned counsel for the parties.So far as filing of the caste certificate before the Revisional Court or before this Court is concerned, the applicant has not given any explanation as to why the said document was not filed before the trial court.Under these circumstances, this Court is of the view that the Trial Court as well as the Revisional Court did not commit any mistake in not taking cognizance for offence under Section 3 (1) (x) of the Act. Accordingly, the order dated 28/3/2017 passed by the First Additional Judge to the Court of First Additional Sessions Judge, Bhind in Criminal Revision No.1500171/2016 as well as the order dated 26/8/2016 passed by the JMFC, Bhind in Criminal Case No.2401080/2016 are affirmed.The M.Cr.G.S. AHLUWALIA) JUDGE Arun
['Section 3 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Presently, the petitioners have no access to the records and documents of the hotel under reference.(Debasish Kar Gupta, J.) (Md.Mumtaz Khan, J.)
['Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 156 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(2) The prosecution story reveals that the deceased Amru along with the complainant Babu Adiwasi (PW-1), Ramesh (PW-3) and Paatiram (PW-2) on 26.09.2007 while coming back from the village market met the appellants near the agricultural field where soyabeen was sown.That appellant Balveer was 2 Cr.A. No. 603/08 & 898/08 carrying lathi whereas Harnam alias Harinarayan Sahu was carrying "sariya" (iron rod).That Amru asked for the wages on behalf of his wife, who had worked in Balveer's field, whereon Balveer got infuriated and inflicted blows with lathi.That when Babu (PW-1), Paatiram (PW-2) and Ramesh (PW-3) interfered, they were also given beating with lathi and saria by both the appellants.As a result whereof, Amru succumbed to the injuries whereas Babu (PW-1), Paatiram (PW-2) and Ramesh (PW-3) who sustained injuries.While running away from the place fell on their way.The complaint lodged by Babu (PW-1) was registered as Dehati Nalishi (Ex. P/24) on the basis whereof FIR (Ex. P/25) was registered.Police party was deployed.Investigation was set in motion.Spot maps and inquest were prepared (Ex. P/12, P- 13, P/14).(23.09.2017) Per Justice Sanjay Yadav:These two appeals are directed against the judgment dated 31.07.2008 passed in Special Case No. 14/2008, whereby the appellants having been found guilty of the offences under Sections 302, 326/34 of IPC were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for causing murder of Amru and five years sentence for causing grievous injuries to Ramesh (PW-3) and Paatiram (PW-2).The body of Amru was sent for postmortem.The postmortem was conducted by Dr. S.K. Shainde (PW-9), who gave the report Ex. P/11, wherein following injuries were noticed on the body of the deceased:-2 Cr.A. No. 603/08 & 898/08External Injury - Lacerated wound 4x2x1 cm left temporal region.Lacerated wound 2x2x1 cm above upper lib with and compound fracture of upper jaw with loose of incise and canine tooth.Lacerated wound above left eyebrow with compound fracture of left orbite and laceration of left eye wall.(2x2x1 cm size)."(3) As per doctor's opinion, the cause of death was coma due to head injury.(4) The injuries on Paatiram (PW-2) and Ramesh (PW-3) were examined by Dr. S.K. Shainde (PW-9).As per Ex. P/8 following injuries were found on the body of Paatiram (PW-2):-"1. incise wound 4x2x1 cm right side chin.2. incise wound 2x1x1 cm right side 3 Cr.A. No. 603/08 & 898/08 mouth3 Cr.A. No. 603/08 & 898/083. incise wound 2x1x1 cm lateral to right eye.4. incise wound 3x2x1 cm right side vertexincise wound 2x1x1 cm let side chin6. incise wound 1x1/2x1/2 cm lateral to left eye."And vide Ex. P/9, Ramesh (PW-3) was found having sustained following injuries:-"1. incise wound 1x1/2x1/2 cm above right eyebrow.2. incise wound 2x1x1/2 cm above left eyebrow.3. incise wound 1x1/2x1/2 cm upper lib.4. incise wound 2x1x1/2 cm back of head.swelling and contusion on doram of left hand."(5) The accused were arrested.After necessary investigation charge-sheet was filed.The case was committed for trial.Appellants abjured their guilt and stated that they are falsely implicated.(6) Prosecution examined 12 witnesses, out of these Babu (PW-1), Paatiram (PW-2) and Ramesh (PW-3) were examined as the eyewitnesses, the doctor who conducted the postmortem and examined the injured victims was examined as Dr. S.K. Shainde (PW-9).(7) The defence that as the incident is of night and the police has not seized the articles said to have been purchased by the victims from the market, therefore, there was the possibility that victims were looted by unknown persons and the accused are falsely implicated was discarded by the trial Court on the findings that the assailants, i.e., accused persons and the victims were the residents of same village and were known to each other.And the eyewitness's count corroborated with the 4 Cr.A. No. 603/08 & 898/08 medical evidence cannot be discarded merely because the police had not seized the articles said to have been purchased by the victims from the market.4 Cr.A. No. 603/08 & 898/08(8) The trial Court also discarded the contention of sudden fight and that the incident could be brought within exception four of Section 300 of IPC by taking into consideration the nature of injuries sustained by the deceased.The trial Court found that both the accused were sharing common object, therefore, the accused Harinarayan does not get any benefit of having not inflicted any injury to the deceased Amru.(10) Consequently, the trial Court held both the accused persons guilty of causing murder of Amru and grievous and simple injuries to Paatiram (PW-2) and Ramesh (PW-3) and convicted and sentenced them for life and 5 years' and one year's respectively with fine of Rs.2,000/-, Rs.1,500/- and Rs.500/- each.(11) We have heard the learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.(12) It is first contended on behalf of the appellants that non-seizure of any article of food or vegetable said to be purchased by the victims by the police from the spot from where they collected the blood stained earth creates a doubt to the entire story by the police.Babu (PW-1) who is the complainant in his cross-examination in paragraph 5 stated that the "Potli" in which they were carrying the vegetable and grocery fell at the place of occurrence of crime.He stated that:-^^5- ------eSa vkSj ve: nksuksa gh viuk [kjhnk x;k lkeku vius&vius lkFk iksVyh esa cka/kdj yk jgs FksA ve:5 Cr.A. No. 603/08 & 898/08But with the demand raised, the appellants got infuriated and inflicted multiple blows on the deceased and the persons accompanying him, viz Paatiram (PW-2) and Ramesh (PW-3).
['Section 300 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code']
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He along with other accused is standing trial in the court of the Fifth Additional Special Judge, Madras City on four charges namely:1. 328thly, that you Accused 78 between November 1971 and November 1973 at Madras, in furtherance of the said agreement and conspiracy and in the course of the same transaction accepted or obtained from Approver Kannappan gratification to the tune of Rs. 26,000/- as a motive or reward for inducing by corrupt or illegal means the public servants, to wit, the officials of the Electrical Department, Central Accounts Department Cash Section, Revenue Department of the Corporation of Madras to do or forbear from doing official acts, to wit, prepare, process, negotiate and encash for disbursements bogus muster rolls relating to the employment of temporary labourers in the Electrical Department of the Corporation of Madras and that you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 162 of the Indian Penal Code.2. 329thly that you Accused-78 between August 1972 and November 1973, at Madras in furtherance of the said agreement and conspiracy and in the course of the same transaction abetted Accused 1 to 74 by corrupt or illegal means or other wise abusing their official position as public servants to obtain pecuniary advantage for yourselves and others to the tune of Rs. 6,35,855-25 as set out in the Annexure to Charge No. 326 supra and that you thereby committed an offence under Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Central Act-II) 1947, read with Section 109, I.P.C., and within my cognizance.3. 330thly, that you Accused-78 between November 1971 and November 1973, at the said place, in furtherance of the said agreement and conspiracy and in the course of the same transaction abetted Accused 1 to 74 by corrupt or illegal means or otherwise abusing their official position as public servants to obtain pecuniary advantage for yourselves and others to the tune of Rs. 6,35,855-25 as set out in the annexure to charge No. 326 supra and that you thereby committed an offence under Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Central Act II) 1947 read with Section 109, Indian Penal Code and within my cognizance.Hence this appeal.It requires evidence for its determination.
['Section 5 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 109 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 482 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Learned counsel for the rival parties are heard.
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The appellant was employed in the Cooper Alien Mills at Kanpur and he was occupying one of the quarters in a settlement meant for the labouring classes known as the Allenganj Settlement.On 25-4-1957 when most of the menfolk residing there had gone away to the Mills to attend to their duties the appellant, it is said, came out of his quarters at about 7 A.M. armed with a Gandasa.It is said that Sarju Prasad P.W. 2 who was living with his brother in the Allenganj Settlement was sitting on his bed in front of his house when Rustam Ali came and struck him from behind with the Gandasa.Sarju Prasad tried to struggle for his safety but he was given several blows with the Gandasa in the meantime.Rustam Ali then ran away towards the north leaving Sarju Prasad there.It is further said that Om Prakash the son of Dhani Ram who was sitting on a cot in front of quarter No. 40/15 of his father was given Gandasa blow by Rustam Ali who thereafter ran away further north.During the process of arrest, and subsequently as well, injuries had been inflicted on Rustam Ali by the persons who had assembled there out of natural revolt engendered by the enormity of the crime committed by him.The emergency squad of the police was in the meantime informed by some one.Rustam Ali was handed over to the police and was taken to the hospital where he was attended to for his injuries.JUDGMENT D.N. Roy, J.This is an appeal by Rustam Ali who has been convicted under Section 302, I.P.C. for the murder of Om Prakash, son of Dhani Ram, aged about" four years, and sentenced to death; and who has also been convicted under Section 307 for a brutal attack onSarju Prasad with the intention of killing him and has been sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment.The report of the occurrence was made at the police station by Mustaq Ali at 7-35 A.M. Mus-taq Ali is also employed in the Cooper Alien Mills and he had rushed to the place of occurrence on hearing the alarm of the people who had taken part in overpowering the accused.After the report was made the investigation of the case was taken up by Sub-Inspector Mohammad Sultan, the Second Officer of police station Nawabganj at the instance of Sub-Inspector Chandrapal Singh the Station Officer of that place.Sarju Prasad and Om Prakash were both hurried to the hospital soon after their receiving the injuries, Sarju Prasad's injuries were examined by Dr. D. S. Kapoor, P.W. 19, and the following injuries were found on his person :Incised would 4 1/2" by 1 3/4" muscle deep, On the posterior lateral aspect of the middle 1/3 of the left thigh, directed obliquely and internally and posteriorly.Incised wound, 1" by 1/2", muscle deep, on the left calf, posterior aspect, 5" below the knee.Incised wound 1/4" by 1/3", skin deep, over the knuckle of right index finger.Incised wound 3" by 1", bone deep, over the posterior aspect of head, transversely placed, slightly curved, lower flap sliced down.Incised wound, 2 1/4" by 1", muscle deep, and muscle cut on the left side of the neck 3" below the car of left side passing backwards.The injuries of Om Prakash son of Dhani Ram were examined by Dr. Sharda Prasad (P.W. 18).An incised wound 3 1/2" x 1/2" x 1 1/2" deep, below the occiput, on the back portion of the neck2" to the right and 1 1/2" to the left of the mid-line of the neck, was found.In spite of medical aid Om Prakash did not survive and he died at the hospital on the same date at 12-30 P.M. His body was sent for post mortem examination, which was conducted on that very day at the mortuary at 5-30 p.m. The post mortem examination revealed an incised wound 3 1/2" x 1" bone deep on the back of the neck, middle third, cutting the fourth cervical vertebra and injuring the spinal cord partially.Dr. D. P. Gupta was of opinion that death was' caused by shock due to the injury to the spinal cord in the cervical region.When the first information report was lodged by Mustaq Ali P.W. 1 at the police station, the gandasa recovered from the accused, namely, Ex. 1, was handed over there.At the police station it was sealed up by the Head Constable after the recovery memo, had been prepared.This gandasa was sent to the Chemical Examiner and to the Serologist to Government, and it was found to contain human blood.The accused denied the allegations made against him.He denied that he attacked Sarju Prasad and Om Prakash, son of Dhani Ram.He denied that the gandasa Ex. I belonged to him, or that it was taken away from him when he was overpowered.He did not state anything as to how he was arrested and by whom.It may be stated here that on an earlier occasion when the case came up before the learned Sessions Judge for trial, it was contended on behalf of the accused that he was of unsound mind and incapable of making his defence.An inquiry was therefore conducted in respect of that allegation.The Superintendent of that Hospital later on certified in December 1958 that Rustam Ali was then in a fit condition to stand his trial.He was thereafter transferred to Kanpur Jail and the trial was held.The defence that was taken by the accused in the Court of Sessions was that by reason of unsoundness of mind at the time of the alleged commission of the offence he was incapable of knowing the nature of the act and that what he was doing was contrary to law and, therefore, his act was protected under Section 84, I.P.C. To support that plea it was contended on behalf of Rustam Ali that he used to beat his wife and also used to lock her up inside the quarters when he used to go out for works; that he was of an eccentric type; that off and on he raised objections in the factory where he was employed about the quantity of work that was given to him; and that the very fact that he attacked a number of persons just about the timewhen Sarju Prasad and Om Prakash had been assaulted, affords proof of the circumstance that his mind was unhinged.The fact that Sarju Prasad P.W. 2 and Om Prakash son of Dhani Ham had been attacked by the appellant with the gandasa Ext. 1 on the morning of 25-4-1957 at the respective places stated above and that Om Prakash son of Dhani Ram died as a result of the injury received by him on the same date at the hospital at 12-50 p.m. admits of no doubt whatsoever.That was conclusively proved by the medical evidence referred to above and by the eye-witnesses.The first incident relating to Sarju Prasad was testified to not only be Sarju Prasad who was the victim of the assault, but by two other witnesses, Smt. Sunder P.W. 4 and Smt. Rabia P.W. 7, Smt. Sunder is the wife of Sarju Prasad's brother, who had gone out to work.Sunder was inside the house and she came out when she heard Sarju Prasad and Rabia shouting for help.She deposed that she saw Rustam All striking Sarju Prasad with the gandasa.Smt. Rabia resides in one of the neighbouring quarters.She stated that she saw Rustam Ali passing by her quarters.She inquired from him as to why he had not gone to his work, and Rustam Ali told her that he had taken leave for the day.Rustam Ali then took an onward course and Smt. Rabia applied herself to her own work.She then heard the cries of Sarju and, when she raised her head, she found Rustam.She also raised cries.Sarju fell down and became unconscious.The two ladies lifted up Sarju who was sent to the hospital.The statements of these three witnesses fully established the fact that it was Rustam Ali who attacked Sarju Prasad.There was nothing on the record to suggest or to show that these three witnesses had any motive to implicate the accused falsely.With respect to the second incident we have the statement of three witnesses, Lakshmi (P.W. 10), Ram Pyari (P.W. 11) and Dhani Ram (P.W. 16).Ram Pyari and Dhani Ram are the parents of Om Prakash; and Smt. Lakshmi is the wife of one Hem Nath who was residing in the adjoining quarters.All the three witnesses were inside their respective quarters.Smt. Lakshmi heard some noise outside and she came out to see what the matter was and she saw that Rustam Ali was running with a Gandasa in his hand from the side of Sarju Prasad's quarters.At that time Om Prakash the son of Dhani Ram was sitting over the cot in front of his quarter.Om Prakash was getting into the house when he was alerted and asked by his parents to do so, but before he could get inside the house, Rustam Ali struck him with the Gandasa.Om Prakash was rushed to the hospital and in spite of medical aid he expired at the hospital on the same day at about 12-50 P.M. There was nothing on the record to raise any semblance of doubt about the truth of the matter deposed to by these two witnesses.We have already said that in the process of apprehension, and immediately afterwards, those who apprehended him and those who had gathered at the spot made an attack at Rustam Ali obviously on account of the enormity of the offence and the reckless way in which the accused had attacked innocent persons.Mushtaq Ali (P.W. 1) who was one of the persons who had arrested the accused was quite an independent witness.He showed great couragein apprehending the accused.Rustam Ali had no explanation to give as to how he was arrested and when.From what we have said above there is no reason to disbelieve the prosecution evidence relating to the two incidents.That evidence fully established that it was Rustam Ali who made a murderous attack on Om Prakash with the Gandasa' Ex. 1 which resulted in the death of Om Prakash and he also made a murderous attack on Sarju Prasad witness but Sarju Prasad luckily escaped death.The plea raised by the accused, that he is entitled to the protection under Section 84, I.P.C., was, in our opinion, rightly rejected by the learned Sessions Judge.There was no doubt the evidence of Smt. Sunder (P.W. 4) that Rustam Ali used to lock up his wife and children inside his house when housed to go out for work.There was the further evidence of Smt. Ram Pyari (P. W. 11) who stated that Rustam Ali used to quarrel with his wife and to beat her.The attack on Om Prakash son of Dhani Ram was unprovoked; so was the attack on Sarju Prasad.
['Section 465 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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JUDGMENT A.K. Shrivastava, J.1. Being aggrieved by the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 8.4.1994 passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Ratlam in S.T. No. 172/93 convicting the appellant under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (in short I.P.C.) and sentencing him to suffer rigorous imprisonment of 4 years and fine of Rs. 1,000 in default of payment of fine further rigorous imprisonment of 6 months, the appellant has knocked the door of this Court by preferring this appeal.In brief the case of prosecution is that on 10.5.1993 Kalibai (hereinafter referred to as the deceased) who was living in the house of her parents, ablazed herself.She was sent to the Hospital where a dying declaration of her was recorded.The investigating agency investigated the matter and submitted the charge sheet in the competent Court which on its turn committed the case to the Court of Session and from where it was received by the Trial Court for the trial.The learned Trial Judge on going through the charge sheet framed charge punishable under Section 306 of the I.P.C. against the appellant.Needless to emphasis the appellant abjured his guilt and pleaded complete innocence.His defence is of maladroit implication.In order to bring home the charge the prosecution examined as many as 10 witnesses and placed certain documents on record.The Trial Court on the basis of the evidence placed on record came to hold that appellant did commit the offence for which he was charged and eventually convicted him and passed the sentence which I have mentioned hereinabove.Hence, this appeal.
['Section 107 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 306 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code']
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In Re : An application for bail under section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on 13.9.2018 in connection with Asansol (North) P.S case no. 153 of 2018 dated 2.6.2018 under sections 498A/302/120B of the Indian Penal Code and sections 3 and 4 of the DP Act added secton 406 of the Indian Penal Code And Allowed In Re : Nikhit @ Nikhat Perween @ Rani ...... petitioner Mr. Ayan Bhattacharya Mr. Kunal Ganguly ...... for the petitioner Mr. Partha Pratim Das ...... for the State Heard the learned advocates appearing for the petitioner and the State.Learned lawyer for the State opposes the prayer for bail.Accordingly, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of like amount each, one of whom must be local to the satisfaction of the learned 2 CJM, Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman on condition that the petitioner shall appear before the trial court on every date of hearing until further orders and shall not intimidate witnesses or tamper with evidence in any manner whatsoever.In the event she fails to appear before the trial court without justifiable cause, the trial court shall be at liberty to cancel her bail automatically without reference to this court.The application being CRM 7845 of 2018 is disposed of.(Ravi Krishan Kapur, J.) (Joymalya Bagchi, J.)
['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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He further undertakes that in case he is given bail he be abide by all the terms and conditions of guidance, circulars and directions issued by Central Government, State Government as well as Local Administration regarding measures in respect of COVID-19 Pandemic and maintain hygiene in the vicinity while keeping physical distancing.3 Cr.A. No.3201/2020In view of COVID-19 pandemic, the jail authorities are directed that before releasing the appellant, his preliminary Corona Virus test shall be conducted and if he is found negative, then the concerned local administration shall make necessary arrangements for sending the appellant to his house, and if he is found positive then the appellant shall be immediately sent to concerned hospital for his treatment as per medical norms.Matter is heard through Video Conferencing.The appellant has filed this appeal under Section 14-A(2) of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 against the order dated 21/5/2020 passed by trial Court; whereby, application of appellant preferred under Section 439 of Cr.P.C. has been rejected.He further undertakes to to cooperate in trial and not to be a source of harassment or embarrassment to the complainant party in any manner.Further looking to the situation of pandemic, he intends to serve the Nation by contributing his part by installing Arogya Setu App and contributing in Army Central Welfare Fund.2 Cr.A. No.3201/2020Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer made by the appellant and prayed for dismissal of the criminal appeal.Heard learned counsel for the parties at length through VC and considered the arguments advanced by them.State of M.P. ) Thousands only) with one solvent surety of the like amount to the satisfaction of Trial Court.If the appellant is fit for release and if he is in a position to make his personal arrangements, then he shall be released only after taking due travel permission from local administration.If it is found that the appellant has violated any of the instructions (whether general or specific) issued by the Central Govt./State Govt. or Local Administration, then this order shall automatically lose its effect, and the Local Administration/Police Authorities shall immediately take him in custody and would sent him to the same jail from where he was released.This order will remain operative subject to compliance of the following conditions by the appellants :-THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH 4 Cr.A. No.3201/2020 (Gajendra Vs.State of M.P. )4 Cr.A. No.3201/20201.The appellant will comply with all the terms and conditions of the bond executed by him;The appellant will cooperate in the investigation/trial, as the case may be;The appellant will not indulge himself in extending inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade them from disclosing such facts to the Court or to the Police Officer, as the case may be;The appellant will not leave India without previous permission of the trial Court/Investigating Officer, as the case may be;The appellant shall deposit Rs. 5,000/- in favour of Army Central Welfare Fund having A/C No.520101236373338 of Corporation Bank, Chandani Chowk Delhi within one month..The appellant will inform the SHO of concerned police station about his residential address in the said area and it would be THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH 5 Cr.A. No.3201/2020 (Gajendra Vs.State of M.P. ) the duty of the Public Prosecutor to send E-copy of this order to SHO of concerned police station for information.5 Cr.A. No.3201/2020Appeal stands allowed and disposed of.E- copy of this order be sent to the trial Court concerned for compliance, if possible for the office of this Court.Certified copy/ e-copy as per rules/directions.(Anand Pathak) Judge jps/-Digitally signed by JAI PRAKASH SOLANKI DN: c=IN, o=HIGH COURT OF MADHYA JAI PRAKASH PRADESH BENCH GWALIOR, ou=HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH BENCH GWALIOR, postalCode=474001, st=Madhya SOLANKI Pradesh, 2.5.4.20=287738d30aabaeda9b10cecdf179c ec865c7633f4cfb9e38ce14fcbb05b9522a, cn=JAI PRAKASH SOLANKI Date: 2020.07.24 10:51:38 +05'30'
['Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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In view of the nature of allegations made by the two victim girls in the two cases, the case of the prosecution in its entirety mentioned in both these cases need to be mentioned for better appreciation of the facts and also to understand the plight of the two victim girls.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::4) The two victim girls PW-1 and PW-2 were friends.They were residents of Partur, District Jalna.At the relevant time they had not crossed age of 16 years.Mother of PW-1 was working as maid servant to earn livelihood and she was required to maintain not only the prosecutrix but also other issues as her husband is dead.The parents of PW-2, other prosecutrix, hail from Hiwarkheda.The parents of PW-2 are very poor and as they could not afford to maintain PW-2, they had kept PW-::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::8 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 2 in the house of sister of mother of PW-2 in Partur.PW-2 was not happy due to poverty and also due to bad treatment which she was receiving in the house of her aunt on maternal side.5) On 3-7-1994, PW-2 had some dispute with her maternal aunt.As she was being starved she met PW-1 and expressed that she wanted to work to earn for her livelihood.PW-1 has a relative by name Sham Agrawal and he was running a shop in Parbhani city, District Parbhani.PW-1 expressed that Sham Agrawal can help them in giving job in Parbhani.Due to these circumstances on 3-7- 1994 PW-1 and PW-2 left Partur for Parbhani without informing anything to anybody from Partur.On 4-7-1994 early in the morning they went to Osmanpur railway::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 ::: 9 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 station on foot and there they boarded a train proceeding to Parbhani.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::These boys were also proceeding to Parbhani as they were doing some diploma course in Parbhani.During talk, PW-1 and PW-2 disclosed to these boys that they were going to Parbhani in search of job.These boys advised the victim girls not to go to Parbhani and return to home.They informed that it was not safe for them to go to Parbhani.PW-1 and PW-2 and the two boys alighted at Parbhani from train.As the boys were advising the girls to return home but as there was no train up to 3 p.m. the boys gave tea and food to these girls in a hotel.As there was time upto 3 p.m., the boys took these two girls to Talreja Talkies to see a movie.It was a matinée show and after seeing the movie the girls were expected to return by train to home.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::(accused Nos.1 to 3 from Sessions Case No.121/1994) occupied the seats by the side of the two girls.They opened talk with the two girls and during talk the three accused realised that these two girls wanted to go to Sham Agrawal.Accused Nos.1 to 3 from Sessions Case No.121/1994 falsely represented to these girls that they knew Sham Agrawal and Sham Agrawal was their friend.They gave false promise to the victim girls that they would take them to Sham Agrawal.After arrival of accused Nos.1 to 3 from Sessions Case No.121/1994 in the theatre, the aforesaid two boys viz Raju and Abhay left the theatre.9) Accused Nos.1 to 3 from Sessions Case No. 121 of 1994 took the two girls in an auto-rickshaw first to the house of a friend where they provided meals to the girls.From this house accused Nos.1 to 3 from Sessions Case No.121/1994 took the girls to a banana garden situated at the outskirts of Parbhani city.In the banana garden, accused No.1 of Sessions Case No.121/1994 took PW-1 to::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 ::: 11 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 one side and then he committed rape on her.After that accused No.1 to 3 from that case took PW-1 and PW-2 towards side of a brook known as Pingad-Gad-Nala.There was water in the brook.PW-1 and PW-2 could not resist as threats were given to them.From there, accused Nos.1 to 4 of Sessions Case No.121/1994 took PW-1 and PW-2 to a lodge of Parbhani by name Visawa Lodge.They reached there at about 10.00 p.m. There accused Nos.1 to 4 of Sessions Case No.121/1994 informed to PW-1 and PW-2 that two Sahibs, accused Nos.6 and 7 of Sessions Case No.121/1994, were to come to the lodge and they would::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 ::: 12 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 help PW-1 and PW-2 for getting work.After some time accused Nos.6 and 7 of that case namely Nitin Dudhgaonkar and Kalyan Renge came to the lodge.They gave threats not to disclose the incident to anybody.Accused Nos.8 and 9 of Sessions Case No.121/1994 were managing the lodge and they kept watch to see that there was no interference or there was no help to the victim girls.When accused Nos.6 and 7 left the lodge, accused Nos.1 to 4 of Sessions Case No.121/1994 took PW-1 and PW-2 to campus of Shanti Niketan school.There accused Nos.1 to 4 consumed liquor.Accused Nos.2,3 and 4 then left the campus of the school.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::11) From the campus of the school, accused No.1 took the two victim girls to other place which is called as Wada, big house, where accused No.5 Tukaram Kharat of Sessions Case No.121/1994 was present.Tukaram gave::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 ::: 13 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 threats to PW-1 and PW-2 to facilitate rape which accused No.1 wanted to commit.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::12) From the last place accused No.1 took the two victim girls to Parbhani Railway Station and there he left them.While leaving, he again gave threats to them not to disclose the incident to anybody.Under the pretext that he would help PW-1 and PW-2 he took these two girls to retiring room situated at railway platform.Abbas Baig then called accused No.2 Ashok, who was working as Police Head Constable and accused No.3 Tabuka, who was working as Railway ticket booking clerk to the room.One more person also came with them.The retiring place had many rooms.Accused No.3 Tabuka and the other person took PW-1 to one room and there they raped her.After committing the rape these persons allowed the victim girls to leave the retiring room.The victim girls were very::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 15 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 much frightened and in that condition they went to the bridge of the railway and from there in search of water they went towards railway quarters situated by the side of the railway station.It was day time.There, accused No.4 Bhansing Bundele, who was occupying a railway quarters as he was employee of railway, promised them to help and took them to his residential quarters.In his quarters, accused No.5 Raju was already present and one young boy aged about 12 years was also present.accused No.4 supplied water to the victim girls and then he left the railway quarters by informing to accused No.5 that he would return after some time (after attending the duty).::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::15) At about 2.30 p.m. of 5-7-1994 accused No.4 of the present matter returned to the railway quarters.He had brought with him a bottle of liquor and some food items.He gave the food items to the victim girls and asked the aforesaid young boy to leave the quarters.When the young boy left the quarters, accused No.5 took PW-1::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 16 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 to one room and there he raped her.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::16) Accused Nos.4 and 5 of the present matter virtually used PW-1 and PW-2 upto 4.00 p.m. of 5-7-1994 and then they called accused No.6 Munna @ Ravindra Singh and accused No.7 Mahesh to the railway quarters.From the railway quarters PW-1 and PW-2 were taken by accused Nos.4 and 5 in an auto-rickshaw to other place by name Shakti Bungalow from Parbhani.Accused No.6 and 7 had come on their motor cycle and they followed auto rickshaw to that place on their motor cycle.This incident was going on upto early hours of 6-7-1994 (upto 3 A.M.).PW-1 somehow saved her by giving information regarding her menstruation period.On::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 17 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 the night between 5-7-1994 and 6-7-1994 the two victim girls were present in Shakti Bungalow.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::17) On 6-7-1994, in the morning when PW-2 woke up from sleep, she noticed that PW-1 was not there.Accused No.5 Rameshwar from the present matter was present in Shakti Bungalow and he informed that PW-1 had already left the building.PW-2 searched for some time to find PW-1 and then she went to Parbhani Railway Station as she intended to return to home by railway.In the meantime PW-1 had gone to other station viz. Purna and from there a lady police constable took her in railway to Parbhani Railway Station.At Parbhani Railway Station PW-1 pointed PW-2 to the lady constable and due to that the lady constable took PW-2 to Railway Police Chowki and PW-2 was asked to stay there.18) The lady police constable Giribai reached PW-1 to Partur by train.After returning from Partur, Giribai took PW-2 to Purna Railway Police Station.There, the FIR of PW-2 came to be recorded and the crime came to be::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 18 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 registered.PW-2 was taken to Parbhani for medical examination on 7-4-1994 and she was medically examined.During course of investigation her clothes were taken over.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::19) On 9-7-1994 PW-2 was taken to New Mondha Police Station Parbhani where another FIR came to be recorded and another crime came to be registered.Sessions Case No.121/1994 is filed in the crime registered at New Mondha Police Station Parbhani in respect of the incidents which took place in banana garden, near Pingad- Gad-Nala, Visawa Lodge, Shanti Niketan school and one Wada.She has deposed that first, accused No.6 raped her against her will by removing her clothes.Bleeding through cervical os seen.The vaginal mucosa is contested.57) On 20-8-1994 Jadhav (PW-17) held T.I. parade in which opportunity was given to PW-1 and PW-2 to identify accused Nos.6 and 7 of the present matter.On this occasion he used six dummy persons.accused No.6 also gave statement to him and he prepared memorandum of his statement.73) Sahebrao Vyavahare (PW-23) was working as Police Inspector in CID and he made remaining investigation of the case.He has deposed that, he took over the investigation of CR No.29/1994 registered in Purna Railway Police Station by PSI Khan and he also took over the investigation of CR No.82/1994 registered with New Mondha Police Station which was with Chalak.1) All the appeals are filed against the judgment and order of Sessions Case No.139/1994 which was pending in the Court of the learned Sessions Judge,::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 ::: 6 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 Parbhani.The learned Sessions Judge has convicted and sentenced accused Nos.4 to 7 for offence punishable under section 366 read with section 34 of Indian Penal Code and for offence punishable under section 376(2)(g) of Indian Penal Code.Accused Nos.4 and 5 are convicted and sentenced for offences punishable under section 342 read with section 34 of IPC also.The convicted accused persons have filed the first four appeals.The State has filed Criminal Appeal No.306/1999 as the trial Court has given jail sentence of 10 years rigorous imprisonment to accused Nos.4 to 7 and the State wants to see that they get imprisonment for life.Both the sides are heard.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::2) In short, the facts leading to the institution of the appeals can be stated as follows :--3) Two minor village girls were ravished in Parbhani city and at the outskirts of Parbhani city by different persons.In respect of these incidents two separate charge-sheets were filed and two cases were tried separately against those persons in respect of::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 ::: 7 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 different incidents.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::9) Accused Nos.1 to 3 from Sessions Case No. 121::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:02 :::committed rape on PW-2 and accused Nos.2 and 310) From the side of the brook accused No.1 to 3 of Sessions Case No.121/1994 took PW-1 and PW-2 towards the side of road.There they met accused No.4 of that case namely Rameshwar.In respect of the aforesaid five incidents of rape separate charge sheet was filed and Sessions Case No.121/1994 was tried against the aforesaid 9 accused persons.In that case accused Nos.1 to 4 and accused Nos.6 and 7 are convicted and sentenced for offence of gang rape.Accused Nos.1 to 3 are also convicted and sentenced for offence punishable under section 366 read with 34 of IPC.These accused are convicted for different incidents mentioned above.13) The second part of the prosecution case starts from the incident which took place at Parbhani Railway Station.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::On 7-7-1994 police from Kotwali Police Station Parbhani went to Partur and they brought PW-1 to Kotwali Police Station.PW-1 was then sent to New Mondha Police Station and in the crime registered there, her statement came to be recorded.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::place in retiring room of the railways station, railway quarters and Shakti Bungalow came to be recorded as per the narration made by PW-2 and Sessions Case No. 139 of 1994, present matter, was filed after making investigation of that crime.During course of investigation statements of PW-1 and PW-2 came to be recorded under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.PW-2 took police to various places where the offence was committed against them.Accused persons came to be arrested.Some incriminating articles like clothes, carpets came to be recovered on the basis of statements given by accused persons.Blood samples of the accused persons came to be sent to CA office along with blood samples of the two victim girls along with vaginal swabs collected by medical officer.Charge sheet came to be filed in the present matter in Crime No.29/1994 registered in Purna Railway Police Station and Crime No.82/1994 registered in New Mondha Police Station Parbhani.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::22) Charge was framed against accused separately in accordance with the allegations made against him by the two victim girls and the material collected against accused.All the accused pleaded not guilty.Prosecution examined 23 witnesses who include the two victim girls.All the accused took the defence of total denial.No defence evidence is given.23) The prosecution relied on both, direct and the circumstantial evidence.The trial Court has believed both the victim girls so far as the evidence given by them as against accused Nos.4 to 7 is concerned.The evidence given as against accused Nos.1 to 3 is not believed by the trial Court.The trial Court has held that there is circumstantial check to the evidence given as against::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 21 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 accused Nos.4 to 7 and the evidence as against these accused given by the two victim girls is consistent with each other.In view of these circumstances the evidence of prosecution given as against accused Nos.4 to 7 only and with regard to the incidents in which they were involved need to be considered and appreciated.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::24) Both the victim girls have given evidence in respect of the incidents which took place between 4-7- 1994 till early hours of 5-7-1994 and that evidence shows that prior to the incidents in which accused Nos.4 to 7 were involved both the victim girls were ravished by other persons at various places like banana garden, near brook, in a lodge, in the campus of a school, in Wada and also in the retiring room of Parbhani Railway Station.It needs to be mentioned here that the Court has not believed the victim girls in respect of the incidents of rape took place in the retiring room in which accused Nos.1 to 3 and one unknown person were involved.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::No.1") has given evidence that when the incident which took place in retiring room was over, she and PW-2 (victim girl No.2) came out of the retiring room, went to the stairs of the bridge and stayed there for some time.She has deposed that they wanted to have drinking water and so they started to proceed towards railway quarters of the railway employees situated by the side of the railway station.She has given evidence that on the way one man who was known, accused No.4, Bhansing, met them.This accused is identified by both the victim girls in the Court.She has given evidence that accused No.4 took them to his railway quarters by promising to give them drinking water.She has given evidence that one boy aged about 12 to 13 years was also present in this residential quarters.She has given evidence that accused No.4 gave water to them and then said that there was train for Partur at 3.00 p.m. and he would arrange to send them by train to Partur.She has given evidence that by saying so::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 23 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 he left the quarters but while leaving, he closed the entrance door of the quarters and put a lock on it from outside.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::She has deposed that accused No.4 had brought liquor bottle with him.She has given evidence that accused No.4 supplied food to both of them and then accused Nos.4 and 5 consumed liquor.food to both of them and then accused Nos.4 and 527) PW-1 has given evidence that accused No.4 then took PW-2 to a room of the quarters and closed the door of the room from inside.She has given evidence that accused No.5 then raped her by removing her clothes.She::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 24 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 has described the incident of rape in her evidence.She has given evidence that after some time PW-2 came out of the aforesaid room and she informed that accused No.4 had raped her.She has given evidence that accused No.5 gave threats to finish them by braking glass and so they could not resist and they stayed inside of the quarters.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::She has given specific evidence as against accused No.4 that in the noon time, when accused No.4 returned to the railway quarters, accused No.4 raped her.She has given evidence that the act was against her will.She has given particulars of the incident of rape.She has given evidence that during the incident the lace of her Salwar got broken and so accused No.4 gave lace of his shoe for using it as lace of her Salwar and she used that lace for her Salwar.She has identified accused Nos.4 and 5 in the Court and she has also identified her Salwar having lace of the shoe which was produced by her during course of investigation before police.She has given evidence that when accused No.4::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 25 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 was committing the offence, accused No.5 had done the same thing against PW-1 and that incident was disclosed by PW-1 to her.The evidence given by PW-1 and PW-2 as against accused No.4 and 5 on the incident of rape which took place in the railway quarters of accused No.4 is consistent with each other.There is also circumstantial check and those circumstances are being discussed at other place.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::PW-2 has given similar evidence as against accused Nos.6 and 7 and their evidence leads to inference that it is accused No.4 who had called accused No.6 and 7 to his railway quarters.PW-2 has identified::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 26 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 accused Nos.6 and 7 in the Court and she gave their description also.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::30) PW-1 has given evidence that from the railway quarters of accused No.4 she and PW-2 were taken in an auto-rickshaw by accused Nos.4 and 5 to one bungalow viz. Shakti Bungalow.She has given evidence that accused Nos.4 and 5 were sitting on the two sides of PW-1 and PW-PW-1 has given description of this bungalow and the substantive evidence which is being discussed shows that only due to information given by PW-2, police could trace both, the railway quarters of accused No.4 and Shakti bungalow.Some articles were also recovered in connection with the crime by police at the instance of one accused and on the basis of statement given under section 27 of the Evidence Act.She has given evidence that she was not raped because she was in menses.She has deposed that after coming from the room where rape was committed, PW-2 narrated the incident to her by saying that all the four accused (accused Nos.4,5,6 and 7) had raped her.She has deposed that PW-2 was weeping, she was feeling tired and she was having pains.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::She has specifically pointed accused No.6 in that regard.She has given evidence against accused No.4 that he had raped her in Shakti bungalow against her will.She has given evidence that accused No.7 then committed rape on her and at the end accused No.5 committed rape on her.She has identified these four accused persons in the Court as the persons who had raped her in Shakti::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 28 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 bungalow.She has given evidence that she was ravished for long time by these four persons, till early hours of the next day.She has given evidence that she was having pains, she could not walk and she was frightened and as she was not able understand what to do, she slept in Shakti bungalow on that night for the remaining period.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::33) The remaining evidence given by PW-1 and PW- 2 is with regard to their subsequent conduct.The evidence shows that after the incident of rape which took place in Shakti bungalow they were allowed to leave Shakti bungalow.Their evidence shows that first PW-1 left the Shakti bungalow, she went to Purna station where a lady constable made inquiry with her and by way of precaution the lady constable took PW-1 with her.Evidence of PW-2 shows that after searching for PW-1 for some time, she went to Parbhani Railway Station as she wanted to return to::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 29 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 Partur and there the aforesaid lady constable came to her and then she was taken to railway police Chowki by the said lady constable.The evidence of PW-1 shows that from Purna Railway Station she was taken to Partur to her residential place by the lady constable and she was reached to her house.The evidence of PW-1 shows that when train reached Parbhani, she showed PW-2 to the lady constable and so the lady constable took aforesaid step.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::The evidence of PW-2 shows that in the Parbhani Railway Police Station one PSI Khan made inquiry with her and he recorded her statement.PW-2 has tried to say that her entire version was not recorded by Khan and only the portion which he felt necessary was recorded by him.On that statement her signature was obtained by Khan.She has given evidence that on 7-7-1994 she was taken to Parbhani from Purna::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 30 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 for her medical examination and there she was medically examined.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::35) PW-2 has given evidence that on 8-7-1994 her clothes were taken over by police which were Salwar and Kurta and they were the clothes which were on her person when she was raped in railway residential quarters of accused No.4 and in Shakti Bungalow.She has identified articles 9,10 and 11 as her clothes which were produced before police by her.She has deposed that her signature was obtained on the seizure panchanama (Exhibit 28) when the clothes were taken over by police.She has given evidence that on 8-7-1994 P.S.I. Yeshwant took over inner wear, nicker, which is article 6 and separate panchanama in that regard was prepared.36) PW-2 has given evidence that on 10-7-1994 she showed the places where the incidents narrated by her had taken place.The places were the railway quarters of accused No.4 and the Shakti Building.The evidence as regards the other place viz. retiring room of railway::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 31 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 station need not be considered as that matter is not before this Court.PW-2 has deposed that panchanama of the incidents in which she showed the places was prepared in her presence.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::37) PW-2 has given evidence that during investigation, she was given opportunity to identify the accused persons.She has deposed that in the test identification parade dated 2-8-1994 she identified accused No.4 Bhansing and accused No.5 Raju.This witness has identified accused Nos.4 and 5 during the deposition in the Court also.PW-2 has given evidence on test identification parade dated 20-8-1994 in which she identified accused No.6 Ravindra @ Munna and accused No.7 Mahesh.PW-2 identified accused Nos.6 and 7 during deposition in the Court also.38) PW-2 has given evidence that the Judicial Magistrate recorded her statement (under section 164 of the Cr.P.C.) during the course of investigation.It is brought on the record in her evidence that the term used::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 32 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 in Marathi by her viz. "Angawar Haat Takla" (v ax koj gkr Vkdyk ) means the commission of rape.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::39) PW-1 has given evidence that on 7-7-1994 PSI Yeshwant took her from her residential place from Partur to Parbhani Police Station and then her report was recorded.PW-1 has given evidence that PSI Khan recorded her statement in Parbhani on 8-7-1994 but that statement was not recorded as per the version given by her.PW-1 has deposed that her clothes viz. article Nos.4 and 5 (shown to be seized in Sessions Case No.121/1994) were taken over during investigation and she was wearing these clothes viz. Salwar and Kurta at the time of the incidents in question.40) PW-1 has given evidence that opportunity was given to her to identify accused persons in test identification parades.She has deposed that in the test identification parade dated 2-8-1994 she identified accused No.4 Bhansing and on that occasion she was::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 ::: 33 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 asked to identify associate of the accused who raped her.PW-1 has deposed that on 20-8-1994 in other test identification parade she identified accused No.6 Munna and accused No.7 Mahesh.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::41) PW-1 has given evidence that her statement was recorded by the Judicial Magistrate (under section 164 of the Cr.P.C.) but she could not give the narration of the incidents correctly when the statement was recorded as she was still in shock.She has given evidence that she was referred for medical examination and she was medically examined.42) The prosecution has given other circumstantial evidence.His evidence shows that PW-1 produced Salwar and Kurta and they came to be seized.Panchanama of seizure of the clothes of PW-2 is also proved in his evidence as Exhibit 37and there were blood stains on the underwear of PW 2.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::dated 17-7-1994 in which he stated that he would show the places of the incidents like residential quarters of the railway and Shakti bungalow.No recovery or seizure of articles took place on the basis of the statement.However, there is circumstance that only after showing the places of the incidents by PW-2 and after arrest of accused No.4, accused Nos.6 and 7 were traced and arrested.They were not known to PW-2 prior to the date of incident.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::35 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999Panchanama of seizure of underwear and 'T' shirt of accused No.6 is proved at Exhibit 48 and the clothes were recovered on the basis of statement mentioned in Exhibit47.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::The evidence on record shows that this motor cycle is not identified by the two victim girls.44) Vaijnath (PW-12) is another panch who has given evidence on the seizure of clothes of accused No.4 Bhansing and on his arrest panchanama.His evidence shows that PW-2 was with police and panchas when they visited the quarters.One underwear having stains of blood was also taken over.A pair of shoes was taken over and to one shoe there was no lace.Here only it needs to be again mentioned that it is the case of PW-2 that she was given lace of this shoe by Bhansing as the lace of her Salwar got broken during the incident.Another document at Exhibit 77 is proved in the evidence this witness.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::46) Dr. Jaishri Deshpande (PW-14) is examined by prosecution to give medical evidence.She examined PW-2 on 7-7-1994 at about 4.p.m.On local examination she noted following things in respect of PW-2 :-Matting of pubic hair was seen.Blood stains on clothes and genitals.No evidence of external injuries over genitals.Hymen - torn, congested+ oozing through tear present.P.S. : Speculum could be passed with difficulty tenderness i.e. severe tenderness.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:03 :::38 Appeals 144, 151 158, 216, 306 of 1999 On PV examination she found following things :Vagina admits one finger with pains i.e. severe tenderness.Bleeding through cervical was present.This document is consistent with the oral evidence of the witness.47) Dr. Jaishri (PW-14) examined PW-1 on 8-7-1994 at 9.00 p.m. She has deposed that on local examination she found following things :-Matting of pubic hair not seenBlood stains on the clothes and genitals were seenPosterior fourchette congested and redness.Lebia minora was slightly congested.Hymen torn (old tear), no oozing bleeding through vagina was present.No evidence of injury over the external genitals.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::"Medium size speculum passed with a minimum tenderness means pains.Vagina admits two fingers with tenderness.Uterus - normal size, retroverted bleeding through cervical seen.No living or dead spermatozoa. 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Municipal Corporation by this hospital.Challenge with regard to the surname of the mother mentioned in the register is being discussed at later place.Original record was brought to the Court and Exhibit 84 is consistent with the original record.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::medical officer in the Department of Registration of Births and death of Municipal Corporation Amarawati is examined by the prosecution to prove the registration of birth of PW-1 on the basis of information give by Dhapibai Maternity Home
mentioned above.Entry was made at Sr.No.2131 in the register in respect of PW-1 and he has given evidence that it is in respect of female child name of whose father was Rameshwar Gangabhishan Mor and the name of the mother of the child was Kiran.The date of birth is recorded as 12-3-1979 and the girl was born in Dhapibai Maternity Home Amarawati.It was the second female child to this couple.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::Bahadur Shastri High School Partur is examined by the prosecution to prove the date of birth of PW-2 on the basis of her school record.The transfer certificate issued by C.P.S. is proved in Sessions Case No.121/1994 as Exhibit 229 and its copy is produced in the present matter.He has given evidence that as per original transfer certificate which was received by his school
the PW-2 was admitted on 10-7-1981 and accordingly the date of birth was recorded by his school.Copy of the transfer certificate is taken on the record at Exhibit 175 in the present matter.In the school register entry of the admission was taken and the original school record was also brought to the Court.Thus
there is medical evidence and also the evidence given on the basis of school record by the prosecution to show that the age of PW-2 was not more than 16 years at the relevant time.The dates of birth of both the victim girls show that their age was less than 16 years at the relevant time.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::54) Namdeo Jadhav (PW-17)
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he collected information about the case and then he arranged for conducting T.I. parade.The evidence of T.I. parade was seriously challenged before the trial Court.Though the learned Senior Counsel for the present appellants-accused submitted that the trial Court has discarded the evidence of T.I. parade
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who were identified by them in the Court and identification in Court is sufficient.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::55) Namdeo Jadhav (PW-17) has given evidence that in the T.I. parade held on 2-8-1994 PW-2 identified accused Nos.4 and 5 of the present matter.The evidence of Jadhav shows that he used 7 dummy persons for T.I. parade dated 2-8-1994 and they were resembling to the accused persons in appearance
in age and in height.He has given evidence that opportunity was given separately to PW-1 and PW-2 to identify accused Nos.4 and 5 though accused Nos.4 and 5 were standing in the same group of aforesaid 7 dummy persons.He has given evidence that PW-1 and PW-2 were asked to identify the accused persons who had raped them and also the persons who had acted as associates in the incidents.He has given evidence that PW-1 identified accused No.4 Bhansing as an associate.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::This record is consistent with the evidence of Jadhav and also the substantive evidence given by PW-1 and PW-2 on T.I. parade.Evidence of Jadhav shows that in the T.I. parade dated 20-8-1994 the position of accused Nos.6 and 7 was changed and second opportunity was given to both PW-1 and PW-2 to identify these two persons.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::investigating officers also.Khan (PW-18) is the first investigating officer and he was attached to Purna Railway Police Station as Police Sub Inspector.He was in charge of Parbhani Railway Police Station also.According to him
the railway quarters of the employees of the railway like accused No.4 is not within his local jurisdiction.This circumstance needs to be kept in mind as some incidents are omitted in the report recorded by Khan (PW-18).He took over the clothes of PW- 2 which were on her person like Salwar
Odhani and Kurta (articles Nos.9
10 and 11) under Exhibit 28 in CR No.29/1994 registered by him in Purna Railway Police Station.According to him
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Khan was cross-examined by the learned Special Public Prosecutor.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::61) In the examination-in-chief itself Khan (PW-18) has deposed that PW-2 was appearing weak and she was not able to speak and so he had obtained the information by putting some questions to her.This evidence also needs to be kept in mind as some incidents were not recorded by him.62) Here only it needs to be observed that the mental condition of these two girls needs to be kept in mind at the time of the appreciation of the evidence of PW-1 and PW-2 and at the time of consideration of absence of some incidents in the first disclosures made by them to police.They had left the shelter of their parents/::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 ::: 50 Appeals 144
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they were minor and were afraid of some action against them.It also needs to be kept in mind that their evidence shows that their guardians/parents preferred to stay away from them and they did not opt for the custody of these two minors and the minors were required to be kept in Remand Home.These victims girls must have felt that they were responsible for everything including the incidents that had taken place against them.The circumstance that PW-1 had given her age as 18 years at the relevant time also needs to be kept in mind.However
PW-2 had given her age as 14 years.It can be said on the basis of evidence of PW-1 that she was little more mature than PW-2 at the relevant time.Even when their evidence was being recorded
they were kept in Female Reformatory school.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::63) Chandrabhan (PW-19) was attached to Kotwali Police Station Parbhani as Police Sub Inspector.He has deposed that he recorded statement of PW-1 and then sent her to New Mondha Police Station Parbhani.He registered crime at CR No.73/1994 in Kotwali Police::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 ::: 51 Appeals 144
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near brook
in the lodge
in the campus of the school and then in one Wada.On the basis of the evidence of Chandrabhan it can be said that only after recording of the statement by Chandrabhan of PW-1
he realised that some more incidents had taken place and then PW-1 was referred to other Police Station
New Mondha Police Station as other incidents had taken place within local jurisdiction of New Mondha Police Station.Police realised that in the disclosure recorded on 7-7-1994 of PW-2 by Khan (PW-18) many incidents were not recorded.He recorded the age of PW-1 as::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 ::: 52 Appeals 144
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brook
Visawa Lodge
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Chalak could have made investigation of all the incidents of rape.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:04 :::65) Chalak (PW-21)
Circle Police Inspector
has given evidence that aforesaid two police stations were under his jurisdiction he had power to make investigation of all the incidents.However
he has given evidence that he took over the investigation of CR No.82/1994 registered in New Mondha Police Station from Shaikh Mujib (PW-20).He has given evidence that he arrested accused No.4 Bhansing on 9-7-1994 and during his arrest he took over the clothes of Bhansing (articles
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10 and66) Chalak (PW-21) has given evidence that on 10- 7-1994 PW-2 showed to him the places where the incidents of rape had taken place.He has deposed that the railway quarters of Bhansing
accused No.4 was also shown by PW-2 and during that incident he took over the articles like a pair of shoes in which one shoe was not having lace under panchanama at Exhibit 77.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::He has given evidence that he had requested the learned Executive Magistrate to hold T.I. parade.He has given evidence that he collected blood samples of these persons and sent them to CA office along with covering letter which is at Exhibit::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 ::: 55 Appeals 144
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306 of 1999::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::He has given evidence that he had sent PW-1 and PW-2 to the learned Judicial Magistrate for recording statements under section 164 of the Cr.P.C.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::He has deposed that he took over investigation of CR Nos. 73/1994 and 81/1994 which were registered in Kotwali Police Station from P.S.I. Yeshwant and P.S.I. Jagadale.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::He has given evidence that he had sent a lace of the shoe which was recovered from the house of accused No.4 in the present case along with lace of PW-2 to CA office for comparison purpose along with covering letter at Exhibit75) The record of investigation and the aforesaid evidence show that blood samples of all the accused were collected and the samples of blood of the two victim girls were collected.Similarly
vaginal swab collected by the medical officer along with pubic hair so also the clothes of the accused mentioned above and the mattresses used at the time of rape in the lodge
in railway quarters of accused No.4 and in the Shakti bungalow were sent to C.A. office.The CA reports in respect of these articles are produced before the Court.The trial Court has considered all the aforesaid evidence for giving conviction against the appellants in the present appeals.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::PW-2 is at Exhibit 189
the articles like clothes Salwar
Odhani
Kurta.Covering letter dated 12-7-1994 is there.On the article Salwar
blood mixed with semen stains was found.Group of the blood of PW-2 is ""A"" and the stains gave reaction for both ""A"" and ""B"" groups.C.A. report at Exhibit 194 is in respect of carpet shown to be recovered on the basis of statement given by accused No.6 and blood group ""B"" was found on it.Similarly
on the clothes of PW-1 like Salwar
Kurta
jangiya human blood was found.Though it is true that she was observing menses
as per CA report
on other article like Kurta blood was found and this fact needs to be kept in mind.The blood group of PW-2 is ""B"".::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::it transpired that accused Nos.6 and 7 were involved in the incident of rape which took place in Shakti bungalow
they were not available and they came to be arrested after about one month.78) Challenges of the accused to the aforesaid evidence of the prosecution and other contentions of the accused made during arguments of these matters are as under :(i) Both the victim girls did not disclose the incidents immediately even when they had opportunity to disclose the incidents to the persons in the vicinity and even to the parents.They disclosed the incidents only when police specifically made inquiry with them.(ii) Both the victim girls gave different versions when different police officers recorded the reports.Both the victim girls did not narrate some of the incidents of rape::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 ::: 60 Appeals 144
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306 of 1999 distress as the financial condition of their parents/ guardians was not that good and they were feeling that they had no prospects with their guardians/parents.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::81) For proving the age of PW-1 the prosecution has relied on the evidence of PW-1
the evidence of entry in the birth register
the entry in the hospital where PW-1 was born
the evidence of opinion of doctor about age which is on the basis of clinical and radiological examination.82) Learned Single Judge of this Court (one of us) had occasion to consider the evidence which can be available for proving the date of birth
the age of a person and the importance of various kinds of evidence which can be available for proving the date of birth or the age.In the case reported as 2014(2) Mh.L.J. (Cri.) 353 (Mahesh vs. State of Maharashtra) this Court has made following observations on the basis of the observations made by the Supreme Court in the case reported as AIR 1982 SC 1297
Jaya Mala vs. Home Secretary
Government of Jammu and Kashmir and others).::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::63 Appeals 144
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306 of 1999 ""13. 'Age' as ingredient of both the aforesaid offences is required to be proved beyond reasonable doubt.This 'proved' under section 3 of Evidence Act need to be proved like any other fact in criminal case.Oral evidence as to the age may always be available in such a case.Corroboration need not be only of expert evidence.Corroboration may be of circumstances which may differ for each case.The opinion of doctor on clinical or radiological examination cannot be accepted straight way as a legal proof.The margin of error is of two years on either side even when the age is ascertained on the basis of radiological examination.(Reliance placed on AIR 1982 SC 1297
Jaya Mala vs. Home Secretary
Government of Jammu and Kashmir and ors.].It is only medical opinion and other evidence including oral evidence cannot be discarded only because the medical evidence is in conflict with the oral evidence.Further
the medical evidence cannot stand against entries made in birth register
which are properly authenticated.Entry made in birth register has presumptive value in view of section 17(2) of Birth and Death Registration Act
1969 and this position of law needs to be kept in mind
when there is conflict between medical evidence and the other evidence.In view of section 35 of Evidence Act
the entry made in school register about the date of birth also needs to be treated as relevant.Such register is kept in regular discharge of duty by school and it is required to be kept as per the Rules made by the State Government.When such entry was made before starting of dispute
many years prior to the commission of offence and when entry is proved by giving oral evidence of the concerned
due weight needs to be given to such entry.Such entries need to be treated as relevant and admissible in evidence
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she had not informed the date of birth to police.It is already observed that the mind set of such girls needs to be kept in mind at the time of considering the discrepancies which can be there in the disclosures made by them and the record which is available.Further the record in respect of date of birth in such cases has the precedence.It appears that PW-2 had given age more than 16 years on different occasions to police.Her evidence shows that she was frightened and she did not want to inform the incident even to her mother.The evidence on the record also shows that when she was reached to Partur by a lady constable she did not disclose the incident to her mother and she disclosed the incident only when the report of PW-2 was recorded and she was brought to Parbhani from Partur for the purpose of investigation.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::85) In the cross-examination
PW-1 has specifically deposed that at the time of the incident her age was 15 years.In the cross-examination some questions were to put to her in respect of her two sisters.Even if the::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 ::: 66 Appeals 144
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those answers have not created probability that she had crossed the age of 16 years at the relevant time.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::86) In the record of birth register initially the surname of her parents was recorded as ""Mor"" and the surname ""Agrawal"" was shown as other surname.PW-1 is cross-examined at length to test as to whether she was knowing the particulars of the family of her grandfather from paternal side
Gangabhishan Mor @ Agrawal.She successfully faced the test of cross-examination and she gave the particulars of the family of Gangabhishan.Father of PW-1 is dead though mother is alive.The record shows that evidence of PW-1 is on the basis of information supplied by mother and it can be said that it is also on the basis of the record of her birth.She has received eduction::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 ::: 67 Appeals 144
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one employee of the hospital where PW-1 was born
is on the basis of record of the hospital.If the evidence of PW-1 is compared with the description of the parents given in the register of the hospital
the description tallies.In view of this check and the manner in which the record was maintained
this Court has no hesitation to observe that there was no possibility of interpolation.There is only suggestion from defence that surname Agrawal was added subsequently in the register.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::This register was also regularly maintained.Names of father and mother mentioned in the register of the issue tally with the names given in the present matter.The entry was made on the basis of information supplied by Dhapibai Maternity Home.In the cross-examination of this witness it is brought on record that in the original register there is one correction and name of the hospital which was initially mentioned as ""Ji.Ru."" was changed to make it as Dhapibai Maternity Home.This change was not only for the present entry but it was for many entries.The present entry is shown at Sr.Thus
the correction was made in respect of many entries viz. 2125 to 2131 and it does not look probable that for the present matter any manipulation was done by the local body.Thus
at the relevant time
in July 1994
the age of PW-1 was below 16 years.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::She has given evidence that she received education in Lal Bahadur Shastri High School Partur till 6th Standard.Her evidence shows that she was kept in Partur by her parents who are residents of Hiwarkheda and so she was admitted in this school by her uncle living there.Her evidence shows that prior to her admission in Lal Bahadur Shastri High School she was receiving education in Ganj school Partur.Even before police she had given her age as 14 years.Her cross-examination shows that when she was a kid
she was shifted to Partur.She does not know even the particulars about her brother and sister
what they are doing.Her evidence shows that her parents visited Partur only twice after sending her to Partur from Hiwarkheda.These circumstances show that whatever happened to her was due to her poverty and absence of care and protection of the parents.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::Lal Bahadur Shastri High School Partur shows that it is on the basis of the original admission form in respect of PW-His evidence shows that Ganj school had given transfer certificate and on that basis PW-2 was admitted in Lal Bahadur Shastri High School.Original register was brought to the Court and it was found to be regularly maintained.Though Kukde (PW22) could not say as to who had admitted PW-2 in the school on the basis of the signature
there is evidence of PW-2 that her uncle/guardian at Partur had admitted her in the school.In view of nature of evidence and the record there was no possibility of interpolation or manipulation.This record is very old and it is relevant in view of provision of section 35 of the Evidence91) In the evidence
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the parents and guardians of PW-1 and PW-2 disowned them
they did not even turn up to give evidence for the prosecution.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::92) The provisions of Birth and Death Registration Act
1969 quoted already
and the provision of section 35 of the Evidence Act show that even without examining the official
certified copy of entry made in the birth register is admissible in evidence.Further
when there is such record giving specific date of birth
such record needs to be given precedence over the school record if there is inconsistency between the two records.Similarly
the opinion given by doctor on age if it is inconsistent
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the medical evidence is also consistent with this record and no probability is created in this matter that age of PW-1 was more than 16 years at the relevant time.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::It was also argued that Dr. Jaishri used a chart given by civil hospital for ascertaining the age in which tests/data were given.There is no force in both the challenges.Evidence of Dr. Jaishri shows that under her instructions and supervision the X-rays were taken by the technician.She has completed post graduate course after completing MBBS.This Court holds that the age of both the victims was below 16 years at the relevant time.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::94) Both the sides placed reliance on some reported cases.There was no record of birth register.Mother's evidence on factual aspect was not found convincing and the Court held that the opinion of the Radiologist was necessary
which was not available.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::95) In the case reported as (2010)1 SCC 742 (Sunil v. State of Haryana) on which reliance was placed by the counsel for the accused
the facts were different.The prosecutrix was not certain about her age and there was no record on the basis of which she had given age.In that case the doctor had clinically examined the prosecutrix and had sent the prosecutrix to Dental Surgeon/ Radiologist for verification but such verification was not done.Thus
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the Apex Court held that the age of the prosecutrix was not below 16 years.However
the Apex Court made it clear that there is no rule as such that such examination needs to be done in every case.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::96) In the case reported as 2010 Cri.There cannot be dispute over this proposition.Evidence on wrongful confinement and abduction:::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::residential quarters under pretext that he will supply drinking water is consistent with each other.It can be said that there could have been charge against accused No.4 for this incident also.There was intention of accused No.4 right from the beginning to commit the offence of rape by exploiting the situation in which PW-1 and PW-2 were found.The evidence shows that accused No.5 did not allow them to leave from the quarters when the key was with him.In the noon time
accused No.4 returned to the quarters and even after that they did not allow the two victim girls to leave the railway quarters.Both the victim girls were kept in the railway quarters and from there they were taken to Shakti Bungalow by accused Nos.4 to 7 in the evening time.This evidence is sufficient to prove that there was wrongful confinement from accused Nos.4 and 5 of PW-1 and PW-2 and they committed offence punishable under section 342 read with 34 of Indian Penal Code.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::PW-1 has given evidence that accused No.5 committed rape on her.PW-2 has given evidence that accused No.4 committed rape on her.The trial Court has considered some omissions in the first disclosure made by the girls in respect of this incident and that point is being discussed at later place.It can be said that accused Nos.4 and 5 both wanted to commit offence as both the victim girls were available.Considering the intention of accused Nos.4 and 5 and the fact that both girls were kept in the railway quarters with that intention
this Court holds that the act amounts to gang rape.99) The evidence of PW-1 and PW-2 given on rape committed on PW-2 in Shakti Bungalow is consistent with each other.The evidence of these two girls shows that after every incident they used to disclose about the incident to each other as they had no other option.The::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 ::: 78 Appeals 144
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306 of 1999 evidence shows that to Shakti Bungalow PW-1 and PW-2 were taken by accused Nos.4 and 5 in a vehicle and accused Nos.6 and 7 had followed that vehicle up to Shakti Bungalow.The evidence on the record shows that accused Nos.6 and 7 were using that premises
Shakti Bungalow.The very nature of the evidence given by PW-1 and PW-2 shows that it is accused Nos.4 and 5 who had contacted accused No.6 and 7 and it was informed to accused No.6 and 7 that these two victim girls were available for commission of rape.The evidence of PW-2 shows that accused Nos.4 to 7 raped her one by one by many hours on that night
till 3.00 a.m. Thus there is specific evidence from PW-2 that in Shakti Bungalow accused Nos.4 to 7 raped her one after other and they committed offence of gang rape.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::100) The record which is referred during cross- examination of PW-1 and PW-2 by the defence counsels for proving the inconsistencies in the versions of the PW-1 and PW-2
the omissions and the contradictions show that the relevant portions were confronted to the witnesses::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 ::: 79 Appeals 144
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the relevant portions are exhibited.Much was argued on this circumstance by the learned Senior Counsel and other counsels for the appellants.At the time of considering these inconsistencies or omissions
it is necessary to keep in mind in a case like the present one that many police officers have recorded the statements of PW-1 and PW-2 and many supplementary statements were recorded by them.Even statements under section 164 of the Cr.P.C. were recorded many times.PW-1 and PW-2 have made allegations against investigating officer Khan (PW-18) that their versions were not correctly and completely recorded by him.It needs to be kept in mind that two girls are from very poor families and there was no support of anybody to them at the relevant time.Some accused persons from the two cases were employees in Railway and some were involved in politics.It can be said that only the officer of C.I.D.
who ultimately took over the investigation
made an attempt to record the statements in detail and those statements cover all the incidents.Police officers acted as per their notions.Even
the learned Judicial Magistrate did not record the statements in respect of all the incidents and it can be said that the learned Judicial Magistrate had not gone through the record of the investigation already made by police before recording the statements.When statement is being recorded under section 164 of the Cr.P.C.
it is the duty of the learned Judicial Magistrate to ascertain the nature of allegations
disclosures already made by the witnesses and then elicit the information from the witness by putting questions if they are missing something while disclosing the incidents before him.It can be said that most casual approach was used by the Judicial Magistrates while recording statements under section 164 of the Cr.P.C. What is important in a criminal case like the present one is the substantive evidence given by the victim girls.Due to the existence of the circumstances like::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 ::: 81 Appeals 144
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the Court can look for corroboration but the Court cannot discard the substantive evidence only due to the existence of such circumstances.The circumstance that the two victim girls did not know the accused and only on the basis of disclosures made by them the accused were traced and police went to the various places where the incidents took place need to be kept in mind while considering the defence of the aforesaid nature of the accused.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::There was contention that due to something which was::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 ::: 82 Appeals 144
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narrations of the victim girl before police in entirety need to be considered and then the nature and extent of the omission needs to be ascertained by the Courts.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:05 :::102) PW-2 has given evidence on the rape committed on her by accused Nos.4 to 7 in Shakti Bungalow.In that regard also some omission is brought on record in the previous statement about the actual act.In the previous statement
PW-2 had stated before police that she was feeling drowsy due to liquor but she was feeling that these persons were doing something against her and she could see that.What is said above
needs to be applied in respect of this omission also.In the subsequent disclosure made to police they had specifically contended that accused No.4 had raped PW-2 and accused No.5 had raped PW-1 in the railway quarters.PW-2 had disclosed that she and PW-1 both were raped in Shakti bungalow one by one by accused Nos.4 to 7 and it can be said that::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 ::: 83 Appeals 144
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306 of 1999 to some extent there is inconsistency and even contradiction in the evidence of PW-2 in relation to such previous statement.PW-1 has deposed that as she was observing menstruation period and that disclosed by her to the accused
she was not raped in Shakti Bungalow.While considering such inconsistencies
omissions and contradictions the evidence as a whole needs to be considered and the evidence as a whole shows that they had named accused Nos.4 to 7 as the persons who had exploited the situation
who had raped them at two places.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::103) In the statements recorded under section 164
Cr.P.C. of PW-2 there are some omissions and also inconsistencies.If the evidence of PW-2 is compared with the disclosures made to Judicial Magistrate on 29-7-1994 it can be said that in the statement dated 29-7-1994 these witnesses did not disclose the incidents of Shakti Bungalow.Necessary observations in respect of this omissions are already made by this Court.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::PW-2 had recent tear of hymen.There were other signs showing that there was sexual intercourse with these two minor girls.Dr. Jaishri was extensively cross- examined by the defence counsel on the opinion given by her on the basis of her observations but she stood to the test of the cross-examination.Such things were there as from the railway quarters itself on 7-7-1994 PW-2 was picked up and she was referred by police for medical examination.PW-14 Jaishri noticed bleeding through cervical OS.On PV examination
speculum tenderness and vagina admitted one finger with pains.The record of the examination of PW-2 is at Exhibit 79 and it is consistent with the oral evidence of the doctor.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::noticed posterior fourchette congested and redness and she noticed that hymen was congested.She found that vagina was admitting one finger with minimum pains
bleeding through cervical was present.The record of the examination is at Exhibit 79 and it is consistent with the oral evidence.107) Many persons had raped these two victim girls.Though it is possible for the accused from the present case to say that these two victim girls were raped already in other incidents which had already taken place and so the medical evidence cannot be used for the purpose of corroboration in the present matter
that proposition could not have been accepted by the trial Court.These persons exploited the situation in which PW-1 and PW-2 had found themselves and there are specific allegations against the accused from the present matter.As the acts against PW- 2 were continued till 3.0 a.m. of 7-7-1994
there were aforesaid signs of rape.Only due to the period expired
living spermatozoa could not be noticed by the doctor.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::108) While considering the challenge to the prosecution evidence on the ground of delay caused in giving F.I.R. and on that ground it is very difficult to ascertain as to which was the first statement given in respect of the incident by PW 2
this Court holds that whatever is said in respect of approach and conduct of PW-1 and PW-2 already is applicable as explanation to the delay caused in making the disclosure.To add few more circumstances it can be said that these girls were new in the city and they must have been shocked due to the behavior of the accused persons with them and the things which were done to them by many persons who included some influential persons and some persons holding posts in Government departments.Further
PW-1 has given specific evidence that she did not want to disclose the incident out of fear to anybody including to her mother.They had left the shelter of their guardians without::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 ::: 87 Appeals 144
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the girls would not have even approached police on their own.Due to these circumstances
this Court holds that not much can be made out due to delay caused in disclosing the incidents to police.In such cases due to delay caused in making disclosures
the Court can scrutinize the evidence minutely but only on that ground the Court cannot discard the substantive evidence.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::109) In respect of the challenge to the evidence given on T.I. parade it can be said that there is substance in the contentions that there was no strict compliance of the guidelines given in Criminal Manual in paragraph 16 of Chapter I by this Court.Number of dummies used by Jadhav at the time of conducting T.I. parade were less than the number expected in the guidelines.There is no record to support the evidence of Jadhav that the dummy::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 ::: 88 Appeals 144
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the evidence of Jadhav shows that he was satisfied about the identification of the accused persons made by the two victim girls during T.I. parade.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::110) Accused No.4 was identified by PW-1 though as associate.PW-2 identified all the remaining accused in T.I. parade.These two girls were together.Evidence of PW-1 shows that accused No.4 had not raped her.Thus
the evidence of PW-2 on identification given as against accused No.5 can be used in the present matter.111) The trial Court has considered the CA reports in respect of incriminating articles recovered during investigation by police.Different police officers had taken::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 ::: 89 Appeals 144
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some stains of blood were found on the clothes of some accused persons.Accused Nos.6 and 7 came to be arrested after many days though accused Nos.4 and 5 were arrested immediately.Due to the circumstances of the present matter even if this circumstantial evidence is ignored
there is more than sufficient evidence against accused Nos.4 to 7 to hold them guilty for the offences for which they were charged and tried.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::112) The prosecution has proved that both the victim girls had not crossed the age of 16 years at the relevant time.Thus the defence of consent is not available to any of the accused from the present appeals.The tenor of the cross-examination made by learned counsels of the accused show that indirectly it was suggested that the prosecutrix was the consenting party.It was also suggested that the prosecutrix did not resist or did not raise hue an cry when the offence was taking place.It is already observed that the accused persons were not known to both PW-1 and PW-2 though by referring to previous statement of PW-2 the defence tried to show that::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 ::: 91 Appeals 144
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306 of 1999 probably PW-1 had initial talk with accused No.4 before going to his railway quarters.The circumstance that PW-1 had disclosed that she had girl friend at that place or probability that she knew accused No.4 cannot make difference in the present matter.Admittedly PW-2 was not acquainted with any of the accused and it is due to the information supplied by her the police traced accused persons.Further
the evidence of the investigating officer does not show that at any time they treated PW-1 as an accused person.The evidence given by her is already discussed and it shows that she was also raped.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::113) Some argument was advanced by the counsels for the accused on the circumstance that Sham Agrawal
a person from Parbhani who is relative of PW-1 was not::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 ::: 92 Appeals 144
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306 of 1999 traced.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::It is accordingly considered a safe rule of prudence to generally look for corroboration of the sworn testimony of witnesses in court as to the identity of the accused who are strangers to them
in the form of earlier identification proceeding.There may
however
be exceptions to this general rule
when for example
the court is impressed by a particular witness
on whose testimony it can safely rely
without such or other corroboration.The identification parades belong to the investigation stage.They are generally held during the course of investigation with the primary object of enabling the witnesses to identify persons concerned in the offence
who were not previously known to them.This serves to satisfy the investigating officers of the bona fides of the prosecution witnesses and also to furnish evidence to corroborate their testimony in court.Identification proceedings in their legal effect amount simply to this: that certain persons are brought to jail or some other place and make statements either express or implied that certain individuals whom they point out are persons whom they recognise as having been concerned in the crime.They do not constitute substantive evidence.These parades are essentially governed by Section 162 of the Criminal Procedure Code.""::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::It was case filed for offences punishable under sections 302
392
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34 etc. of Indian Penal Code.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::The provision of section 376(2)(g) which was applicable at the relevant time is as under:::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::In the result
all the appeals stand dismissed.The appellants-accused to surrender to bail bonds for undergoing sentence.::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 22/11/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 24/11/2017 14:09:06 :::"
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 375 in The Indian Penal Code']
Analyze the legal case and identify the corresponding section it comes under.
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Even since the marriage, the petitioner C and his family members had been harassing and persecuting h the victim in connection with their demand for a Mahindra ig car, Rs.1,00,000/- in cash and gold and silver ornaments in H dowry.The petitioner started to harass the victim sexually.He would have oral and anal intercourse with her.He would insert wooden pieces in her private part and anus.He had relations with other women and he has been keeping one girl namely Kavita Pal as his concubine.hy Heard on this first application for anticipatory bail under ad section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on behalf M of petitioner Premlal Dhurve in Crime No. No.524/2016 registered by P.S.- Pandurna, District-Chhindwara under of Sections 498-A read with section 34, 377 and 506 of the rt Indian Penal Code.Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a constable in police department.Originally only offence under section 498-A read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the petitioner.The petitioner was granted anticipatory bail by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge.However, later the victim moved an application before the Superintendent of Police, Chhindwara.sh On his direction, offence under section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was also added.The petitioner did not hy misuse the liberty granted to him under section 438 of the ad Code of Criminal Procedure earlier.Now, he is apprehending arrest due to addition of section 377 of the Indian Penal Code M in the case after lapse of about one year.If he is arrested, he of stands to lose his Government job.Therefore, it has been prayed that the petitioner be granted the benefit of rt anticipatory bail.ou Learned Government Advocate for the respondent/State on C the other hand has opposed the application mainly on the ground that the victim had made allegations regarding h ig unnatural sexual conduct in the written report given by her.H However, since, the petitioner was a constable, the police did not register offence under section 377 of the Indian Penal Code against the petitioner at the first instance.The allegations made against the petitioner are grave in nature.Therefore, he is not entitled to be released on anticipatory bail.However, keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case in their entirety, particularly the facts that : (1) though there is a mention of unnatural sexual conduct in elaborate written report lodged by the victim, she had failed to support those allegations in her statement under section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure;sh (2) no corroborating medical evidence is available; (3) the petitioner was earlier released on anticipatory bail and e ad has not misused his liberty; (4) the offence under section 377 has been added after filing of charge sheet in the case, Pr a-in the opinion of this Court, the petitioner deserves the hy benefit of anticipatory bail.ad Consequently, this first application for anticipatory bail under section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, filed on behalf M of petitioner Premlal Dhurve, is allowed.of It is directed that in the event of his arrest, the petitioner shall be released on bail on furnishing a personal bond in the rt sum of Rs.40,000/- with one solvent surety in the same ou amount to the satisfaction of the Arresting Officer for his C appearance before the trial Court on all dates fixed in the h case and for complying with the conditions enumerated in sub ig section (2) of section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.H Certified copy as per rules.(C V SIRPURKAR) JUDGE BIJU b BABY 2017.11.07 21:36:59
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 438 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Respondent Nandlal is the brother of respondent Dnyaneshwar.Respondent Chudman is the father of Dnyaneshwar.The accused areresidents of Khamkheda.The parents of deceased hail fromPungaon, Tahsil Chopda.3) The deceased was given in marriage to accusedDnyaneshwar two years prior to the date of incident.There wassome dispute in family and due to that, accused persons hadreached the deceased to the house of mediator Baburao Koli,resident of Jalod.She stayed there for about one and half months.4) The accused persons were not happy with her due to herreturn to matrimonial house, they became angry.They started givingbeating to her every day.Ultimately, on 22.7.1999, the day ofincident, at about 2.00 to 2.30 p.m. all the accused started givingbeating to her and then in the incident, mother in law of deceasedSumanbai poured kerosene which on her person and kerosene waspresent in one bottle and lantern was used.The brother of thehusband held the deceased.The wife of brother of husband Kalpanastarted giving instigations to others to finish the deceased.Similarinstigation was given by father in law.Then husband of the deceasedused match stick and set fire to the deceased.When she was set onfire, she ran out of the house and she extinguished the fire herselfby lying on the ground.The persons like Shravan and Omkar fromthat locality rushed to the spot and they shifted her to ShirpurGovernment Hospital and accused like husband, mother in law alsowent with them to the hospital.5) On the same day, at about 6.05 p.m. the statement ofthe deceased was recorded by police in presence of Medical Officerand on that basis, the crime at C.R. No. 163/1999 came to beregistered for the offences punishable under sections 307, 498-A, 34etc.of IPC in Shirpur Police Station.Police gave requisition to theExecutive Magistrate for recording dying declaration and on the ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 4same day, at about 5.40 p.m., dying declaration of the deceasedcame to be recorded.She gave similar account in the dyingdeclaration recorded by the Executive Magistrate.Post mortom wasconducted on the dead body and doctor gave opinion that the deathhad taken place due to cardiorespiratory failure due to hypothalamicand septicemic shock and that was due to 75% burns.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::6) Statements of neighbours of the accused came to berecorded.Statements of parent and relatives of deceased fromparents side also came to be recorded.This document shows that it was prepared in presence ofpanch witnesses on 22.7.1999 between 19.40 hours and 20.45hours.The spot panchanama shows that the incident in questiontook place in the house of accused.The house consist of three roomsand there is separate bathroom.The ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 2respondents are acquitted of the offences punishable under sections302, 498-A r/w. 34 of Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as'IPC' for short).Both the sides are heard.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::2) In short, the facts leading to the institution of the appealcan be stated as follows :-Deceased Ratnabai was the wife of respondentDnyaneshwar.Respondent Sumanbai is the mother of Dnyaneshwar.As the accused persons did not show interest to take her back tomatrimonial house, on her own she returned to the matrimonialhouse and that was happened prior to five days from the date ofincident.She has left behind daughter.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::Appeal No. 384/2000 3The chargesheet came to befiled for aforesaid offences and the charge was also framed foraforesaid offences.There was charge for offence under section 109of IPC also as against the father in law and wife of brother in law.Prosecution examined in all 14 witnesses.Accused took the defenceof total denial.Dnyaneshwar gave written submission when hisstatement was recorded under section 313 of Criminal ProcedureCode (hereinafter referred to as 'Cr.P.C.' for short).He contendedthat the deceased did not want to cohabit with him and so, she hadleft the matrimonial house.He contended that they had fear in themind that she would do something with her life, if she wascompelled to cohabit with him.He contended that even after suchbehaviour of the deceased, the deceased was left forcibly against her ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 5will to the matrimonial house by the husband of her sister and dueto that, she probably set fire to herself.He contended that on thatday, he was not present in the house at the relevant time and hehad gone to bank for withdrawing the cash amount of cheque givento him by his society.He contended that when he learnt in the bankat about 3.00 p.m. about the incident, he rushed to the house andthen he went to hospital.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::7) It is not disputed that the death took place due to 75%burn injuries.Inquest panchanama at Exh. 16 is also not disputed bythe accused persons.It needs to be ascertained as to whether theaccused set fire to the deceased.8) The spot panchanama at Exh. 19 is also admitted by thedefence.Kitchen was situated in theseparate room.In the kitchen, the articles like kerosene lantern andglass bottle in which kerosene was kept were noticed.The spotpanchanama was shown by Pandharinath and he had also shown onequilt which was used for extinguishing the fire.It was found in the ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 6front room of the house.Pieces of partly burnt clothes of thedeceased were found inside of the house.Pandharinath then showedanother spot to the police which was at the distance of 40 feet fromthe house of accused.His house is adjacent to the house of accused.In the courtyard of the house of Pandharinath, the pieces of burntclothes of the deceased were lying.The houses of Pralhad Koli andChudaman Koli were adjacent to this house.Similarly, in the vicinityof the said house, there were houses of Tukaram Koli andChandrabhaga.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::9) C.A report at Exh. 21 shows that in the empty lanternand kerosene bottle, which were taken over from the aforesaid spot,kerosene residues were detected.Similarly, on partially burnt clothesof the deceased and on the quilt, which were taken over from thespot, kerosene was detected.No kerosene was detected on matchbox.10) The aforesaid circumstances show that the deceasedcaught fire inside of the house, but she ran outside and probably thefire was extinguished outside of the house.In the dying declarations,she had mentioned the names of two persons like Shravan andOmkar, who had taken her to the hospital, but she had notmentioned the name of the person who had extinguished the fire.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::Appeal No. 384/2000 7She had disclosed to police and Executive Magistrate that she herselfhad extinguished the fire.The dying declaration given beforeExecutive Magistrate is proved by examining the ExecutiveMagistrate Arun (PW 1).His evidence shows that after obtaining theopinion of doctor regarding condition of the patient, the dyingdeclaration was recorded.There is endorsement which is also provedas patient was conscious to give the statement.He had also obtained opinion ofthe Medical Officer regarding fitness of the deceased beforerecording the dying declaration.The contents of this dyingdeclaration are almost similar to the contents of other dyingdeclaration recorded by the Executive Magistrate.11) Dr. Purushottam (PW 11) has given evidence that atabout 4.55 p.m. Executive Magistrate had requested him to giveopinion regarding fitness of the deceased to make the declarationand accordingly, he gave opinion that she was physically fit andmentally conscious to make the statement.He has deposed that thisopinion was given in writing after examining the patient.In the crossexamination, he has given evidence that he remained present by theside of deceased when Executive Magistrate was recording the dying ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 8declaration.He could not say as to whether the contents recorded inthe dying declaration were read over to the deceased beforeobtaining her thumb impression on it.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::12) There is record of two dying declarations made by thedeceased.But there are also other circumstances showing that shewas not ready to disclose as to who had extinguished the fire.Onone hand, she disclosed that the relatives of the husband had shiftedher to hospital, but on the other hand, she also disclosed that somepersons whose names were not known to her were also there fortaking her to Government Hospital.Her disclosure that she had livedin the house of Baburao Koli for about one and half month prior tothe date of incident and she had returned to matrimonial house onher own needs to be checked to ascertain as to whether the standtaken by the husband is true or the disclosure made was true.TheTrial Court has disbelieved the dying declarations on other counts.But, in view of the allegations made against many persons and thecircumstances that the deceased could run out of the house whenshe caught fire and people learnt about the incident as she wasshouting, the evidence of neighbours needs to be considered toascertain the truth.If there was the intention to finish her by settingfire to her, persons setting fire would not have kept the door open toallow her to run out of the house.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::Appeal No. 384/2000 913) Shravan (PW 3), whose name is mentioned in dyingdeclaration is examined by the prosecution.His house is situated atthe distance of around 50 ft.from the house of accused.He hasdeposed that he was sleeping in the house, he heard the shoutingand due to that he came out and he noticed that the deceased hadcome out of the house of accused and there was fire on her clothes.He has given evidence that he himself tried to extinguish the fireand then he took her back to the house of accused.He has givenevidence that she was shifted to hospital in tractor.In the TrialCourt, he was declared as hostile witness as on so called allegeddisclosures made by the deceased to him, he had not givenevidence.The fact remains that his name was taken by the deceasedin dying declaration and due to that, entire evidence of Shravancannot be thrown away only because learned APP preferred to crossexamine him.In dying declaration itself, she had not disclosed thatshe had narrated the incident to two persons whose names arementioned in the dying declaration.14) Pandharinath (PW 4), whose name appears in the spotpanchanama, has given evidence that after hearing shouting of thedeceased, he came out and then by using quilt, he extinguished thefire.His evidence is similar to the evidence of Shravan (PW 3).::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::Appeal No. 384/2000 10Pandharinath was also declared as hostile witness by the prosecutionas he has not given expected evidence on the so called disclosuresmade by the deceased to him.It needs to be mentioned here thatname of Pandharinath is not there in both the dying declarations andso, not much weight could have been given to his evidence even ifhe had given evidence on oral dying declarations.As police believethat he was involved in extinguishing fire to some extent, hisevidence needs to be believed and inference can be drawn that heand others were involved in extinguishing the fire.The evidence ofthese witnesses further shows that they had not seen the husbandand his relatives in the house at the relevant time.Similar evidenceis given by Omkar (PW 5), but he is not declared as hostile.Hisevidence shows that mother in law of deceased was available in thehouse and she had come to the hospital when they had shifted thedeceased to the hospital.There is the evidence of other neighbourTirinabai (PW 6), but that is of no help to the prosecution and she isalso declared as hostile.15) Prosecution has examined Vaijayantabai (PW 7), motherof the deceased.Her evidence shows that during the visits of thedeceased to the parents' house, she was disclosing that there wasilltreatment to her.Accused No. 1 - Dnyaneshwar was alreadymarried.Her evidence shows that after the death of father, the ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 11deceased had expressed desire to return to the matrimonial house.Thus, she admits that she was living with her parents for the periodwhich was not normal.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::16) Vaijayantabai (PW 7) has given evidence that she learntabout the incident after three days and then she went to the cottagehospital after three days of the incident and there oral disclosurewas made by the deceased to her against the accused of theaforesaid incident.It needs to be mentioned that there is no medicalevidence like bed head ticket of the deceased to ascertain as towhether on that day, she was conscious or not conscious.Further,the evidence of so called disclosure given by this lady is notconsistent with particulars mentioned in the recorded dyingdeclaration.17) Vaijayantabai (PW 7) has given evidence that the fact ofprevious marriage of accused No. 1 - Dnyaneshwar was not knownto the deceased.She admits that even when it was the first deliveryof the deceased, the delivery had taken place in the house ofaccused.She has given evidence that there was suspicion about hercharacter to accused No. 1 and due to that there was illtreatment.In recorded dying declaration deceased had not ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 12disclosed that accused had suspicion about her character.Thus, theevidence of mother of the deceased shows that deceased had nointention to resume cohabitation and this circumstance is notconsistent with the contents of the recorded dying declaration.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::18) Apparently, there was no reason for which accused couldhave given illtreatment to the deceased.Such reason is also notmentioned in the recorded dying declaration.Evidence is also givenby Dinkar (PW 8), brother of the deceased.His evidence is vague onthe illtreatment and also on disclosure was made by the deceased tohim.His evidence is similar to the evidence of mother of deceasedabout the so called disclosures made by the deceased three daysafter the incident.His evidence is also not that convincing.19) Bhaskar (PW 9) is the mediator, whose name ismentioned in dying declaration, has given evidence that about onemonth prior to the date of incident, accused had reached thedeceased to his house.He has given evidence that accused used tosuspect about her character and they used to give beating to her.Hisevidence shows that they were questioning about the first marriageof the deceased.Thus, it appears that it was also second marriage ofthe deceased.He has given more evidence by saying that accusedwere asking divorce from the deceased and they were ready to give ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 13Rs.60,000/- to the deceased.He has given evidence that deceasedhad refused to do so.In the statement given to police, he had statedthat he had reached the deceased to the matrimonial houseimmediately on the next day when she was reached to his house byaccused.This circumstance is admitted by him.He admitted that hehad not stated before police that accused were asking the deceasedas to why her first marriage was broken.The mother of thedeceased has not supported the version of this witness as she hasnot given evidence that accused were asking divorce from thedeceased and there was such talk.His evidence is not consistentwith the evidence of mother of deceased as mother has admittedthat the deceased had no desire to return to matrimonial house.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::20) Prosecution has examined one Joharlal (PW 10) to showthat the husband was asking for divorce from deceased and he wasready to pay Rs.60,000/-.He has deposed that he was taken by thehusband of deceased with him when he had gone to the deceased togive such proposal.His evidence does not show as to whether heknew that the deceased had stayed in the house of Bhaskar Koli formore than one month.He is not relative of the accused or thedeceased.21) The aforesaid evidence shows that the evidence of third ::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 ::: Cri.Appeal No. 384/2000 14persons is not consistent with the evidence of close relatives of thedeceased.It was second marriage for both accused No. 1 and thedeceased.There was apparently some dispute between accused No.1 and the deceased.But, on the basis of aforesaid evidence, itcannot be inferred that there was illtreatment to the deceased fromthe accused as mentioned in section 498-A of IPC.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::22) There was some dispute and the evidence shows thatthird persons, not the husband and father of the husband, shiftedthe deceased to the hospital.It was noon time.Though accused No.1 has tried to take the defence of alibi, the initial burden was on theprosecution to prove that all the accused were present in the houseat the relevant time.There can be many reasons fora lady to set fire to herself.There is no circumstance to show thatthe accused had the intention to finish her and with that intention,they had used force against her and then set fire to her.Due tothese circumstances, this Court holds that it is difficult to believethat the accused persons had set fired to the deceased and theincident had taken place as narrated in the recorded dyingdeclarations.::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::::: Uploaded on - 05/08/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 06/08/2017 00:31:52 :::Appeal No. 384/2000 1523) The learned counsel for accused placed reliance on theobservations made by the Apex Court in the case reported as AIR1987 SC 1083 [Tota Singh Vs.State of Punjab] and submittedthat the probability which is accepted by the Trial Court was thereand so, it is not possible to interfere in the decision given by the TrialCourt.The learned counsel submitted that the evidence is properlyappreciated by the Trial Court and there are reasons for not relyingupon the recorded dying declarations.The learned counsel placedreliance on other case reported as 1999 (Supp.1) Bom.C.R. 215(Bombay High Court) [Manohar Dadarao Landge Vs.Therecannot be dispute over this proposition.This Court holds that in viewof the reasons given by the Trial Court and the material discussed bythis Court, it is not possible to interfere in the decision of acquittalgiven by the Trial Court.In the result, the appeal stands dismissed.::: Uploaded on - 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['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 109 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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