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Shri Ashok Kumar Pali, learned counsel for the appellant.Shri S.K. Kashyap, learned P.L. for the State.The appeal is admitted for hearing.Heard on I.A. No.4913/2016, an application on behalf of the appellant-applicant, T.S. Sengar, for suspension of sentence and grant of bail, who has been convicted under section 467/471 IPC to undergo R.I. for 3 years and fine of Rs.25000/-; under Section 468/471 IPC to undergo R.I. for 2 years and fine of Rs.10,000/-; and under Section 120-B IPC to undergo R.I. for 1 year and fine of Rs.5000/-, and in default to undergo further R.I. for six months on each count.Fine amount has been deposited and the accused- appellant has been released on bail till today.Keeping in view totality of the circumstances, I.A. No.4913/2016 is allowed and it is directed that the jail sentence of the appellant-applicant shall remain suspended and he shall be enlarged on bail on his furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.1,00,000/- (Rs.One lakh) with one surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court for his appearance before the Registry of this Court on 01-12-2016 and on such other dates as may be directed in that behalf.As the appellant has been acquitted of the charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act and he has been convicted under the Indian Penal Code, Office to examine as to whether this matter has to be listed before the Division Bench or not.Accordingly, I.A. No.4913/2016 is allowed and stands disposed of.Call for the record of the Court below.List along with the record for hearing.
['Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 467 in The Indian Penal Code']
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JUDGMENT Usha Mehra, J.(1) This revision petition has been filed by one Shri Daulat Ram assailing the order passed by the Additional Sessions Judge dated 18th February, 1991 thereby discharging the accused Rajinder Motwani and dismissing the complaint of the petitioner under Section 211/500 Indian Penal Code .(2) In brief, the facts of this case are that the petitioner is a landlord/owner of property bearing No. 3493, Gali Lallu Nissar, Qutub Road, Sadar Bazar, Delhi, and one Shri Sajjan Dass of Narain Market, was a tenant under him in respect of one room used as a godown on a monthly rent of Rs. 25.00 .The respondent and his father in order to blackmail the petitioners, started claiming the tenancy in the name of their firm M/s. Popular Stores.This they claimed because once upon a time Sajjan Dass was a partner in the said concern.Since the petitioner refused to recognise them as a tenant, the respondent and his father filed a civil suit on which a local commissioner was appointed to ascertain the possession of the party in the suit premises.The local commissioner found that the respondent was not in possession of the alleged godown.Having failed in their object, the respondent tried to dispossess the petitioner through illegal help and backing of the police and also tried to implicate falsely the petitioner in criminal cases.(3) The police officers visited the petitioner on 25/26th October, 1986 and informed him that there is a police report lodged against him for dispossessing the respondent and theft of articles and that he should report to the police station.The police official while contesting the bail application brought on record the report filed by the on the day when he applied his mind and passed the order of summoning.Therefore, the complaint which was filed by the petitioner dated 28t October, 1986 is hit by the Provisions of 195(l)(b), Criminal Procedure Code .Anticipatory bail was sought on 31.10.1986 because of the complaint filed by the respondent against the petitioner regarding the theft.Since the Magistrate exceeded his jurisdiction hence the Additional Sessions Judge was justified in quashing the order.Since the complaint itself was not maintainable, hence the revision is also not maintainable.(4) On the other hand, Mr. G.D. Gandhi appearing for the petitioner contended that Magistrate took cognizance on the day the petitioner filed the complaint i.e. 28th October, 1986 when the complaint was taken on record, it amounted to taking of the cognizance.Hence on 28th October, 1986, when the Magistrate took the cognizance no proceedings were pending.His complaint dated 23rd October, 1986 had been concealed by the police throughout.It this regard I am also supported by catena of judgments of the Supreme Court and High Court, reference can be had to the following authorities:1.Gopal Dass Sindhi and others Vs.2.Kamlapati Trivedi Vs.State of West Bengal .3.State of Punjab Vs.Brij Lal Palta .Allbert Accused No.1 Vs.5.Rejeshwar Prasad Misra Vs.6.Baijnath Vs.State of Madhya Pradesh .7.State of Himachal Pradesh Vs.Krishan Lal Pardhan and others 1987 Crl.8.State of West Bengal Vs.Bejoy Kumar Bose .
['Section 500 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The liberty was granted by the Division Bench to dispose of the above-mentioned application being IA No.9770/2011 without being influenced by the impugned order.8.2 Being aggrieved by the illegal and criminal actions of the office bearers of the Society, defendant no. 3 made representations at the office of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies but there was no effective action.Thereafter defendant no.3 had sent a representation to the Lt. Governor of Delhi requesting his intervention also requesting Lt. Governor to direct the Society to continue him as regular and bonafide member.Hence defendant no. 3 filed an arbitration petition being 37/JR1/CH/92-93 before the Registrar Cooperative Societies Act claiming that he had not resigned from membership of the Society and he did not have any disqualification under any provision of law and thereby he is a regular and bonafide member of the Society.8.7 Defendant no. 3 also contends that the office bearers have played fraud on him.The office bearers have also put up a false case that Paras Nath Pathak is not the one and the same person and that the real Paras Nath Pathak had resigned from membership.Allegations are also made that Mr. Shekhar Vashisht played an instrumental role in the sale proceedings for some ulterior motive as the purchaser was his mother in law, the plaintiff herein.8.20 The Society wrote a letter bearing No. UCGHS/GK/08-01/05 dated 31.08.2005 to DDA knowing about the status of the Flat No. B-Thereafter Society took possession of the said flat vide its letter dated 14.02.2006 and intimated certain information to DDA.By this order, I propose to decide the third application filed by the plaintiff, bearing I.A. No.9770/2011 filed under Section 94 read with Order XXXIX, Rules 1, 2 & 3 CPC.It is the admitted position that the plaintiffs earlier applications, both under Order XXXIX, Rules 1 & 2 CPC bearing I.A. No.4897/2007 & I.A. No.7083/2008 were dismissed vide order dated 20.09.2010 and the ex-parte injunction order granted on 11.08.2008 was vacated.The said order was passed by the Court after hearing both the parties.Thereafter, the plaintiff filed an appeal against the said order, bearing FAO(OS) No.117-18/2011 before the Division Bench, which was dismissed as withdrawn.The parties were also granted liberty to raise their all respective contentions.Thus, the learned counsel for the plaintiff states that the present application is maintainable on the grounds of fresh cause of action and the same be disposed of.The Plaintiff's CaseThe plaintiff filed the present suit under Sections 31, 33 & 34 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 for declaration, and in the alternative, claiming a compensation to the tune of Rs.82,16,000/- from the defendants apart from other reliefs.4.2 The plaintiff submits that the defendant No. 2 had issued a No Objection Certificate dated 29.12.2003 in favour of defendant No.1 and consequently, the said flat was allotted in her favour.Thereafter, the defendant No.1 got the said flat registered in her favour.The said I.A. No.9770/2011 in CS(OS) No.774/2007 Page No.2 of 21 property was then converted from lease-hold to free-hold vide registered deed dated 24.08.2004 making the defendant No.1 the absolute owner.4.3 Defendant No.1 now being the absolute owner of the said property and being in possession thereof entered into a sale agreement with the plaintiff and executed a Sale Deed dated 09.05.2005 and by virtue of the same, the plaintiff became the absolute owner of the property.Thereafter defendant No. 1 & 2 started claiming that defendant No.1 had, in fact, ceased to be a member of the Society and hence not entitled to the said flat.The plaintiff states that there is absolutely no relationship between the plaintiff and the defendants.The defendant No.1 had conveyed a deed in favour of plaintiff, by the title paramount and 4.5 There were no proceedings initiated qua cancellation of the said Sale Deed and a duly registered document cannot be superseded or become non-existence by an executive action/order and in the absence of a registered document.4.6 The plaintiff also submits that the communication dated 16.3.2007 on the face of it is null and void and is any event an outcome of connivance of defendant No. 1 & 2 as the flat in question continues to be vested upon the plaintiff as she is the lawful/legal owner as she had got the flat legally and with proper procedure.4.7 Alongwith the suit, the plaintiff also filed an application for interim relief.Ex-parte order granted on 11.08.2008 and was vacated vide order dated 20.09.2010 after hearing the parties.While dismissing the interim applications filed by the plaintiff, the Court has dealt with submission of the parties and given its findings in paragraphs-15 to 20 of the order which are against the plaintiff.The same read as under:-In other words, the entire thrust of the plaint of the plaintiff is that the defendant no.1 did not have the title to the property and yet she sold the same in favour of the plaintiff and consequently, she became a victim of fraud and yet she wants to be declared as bonafide purchaser.In view of the order passed by the Division Bench, now the plaintiff is insisting for an interim order in the second application being IA No.9770/2011 i.e. for same relief.I.A. No.9770/2011 in CS(OS) No.774/2007 Page No.6 of 21It is argued by the plaintiff that the documents executed in his favour would show that the Registrar of Cooperative Societies is not vested with any jurisdiction to allow allotment of the said flat.It is stated that under the garb of the communication, no third party right can be created of the said flat depriving the rights of the plaintiff.The plaintiff also submits that if defendant No.2 acts on the basis of the communication dated 13.05.2011, then the plaintiff would suffer irreparable loss and hence prayed for status quo.The matter was assigned to the Assistant Registrar Cooperatives Society.Defendant no. 3 filed an appeal against the order of Assistant Registrar before the Presiding Officer of Delhi Cooperative Tribunal.The same was dismissed on the ground that the writ petition was filed on disputed question of facts.8.8 With regard to that Paras Nath Pathak submitted a representation at the concerned police station and asked the police officials to register a F.I.R. but the police officials refused to register an F.I.R. Defendant No.3 claims that the police officials were under the influence from the office bearers.On 14.12.2002 Sri Paras Nath Pathak gave a written complaint to the Commissioner of Police, Police Head Quarter, I.P. Extension requesting them to register a complaint against the office bearers of the Society for fabrication of documents, criminal breach of trust and falsification of accounts.I.A. No.9770/2011 in CS(OS) No.774/2007 Page No.9 of 21 8.9 Despite the representations no complaint/F.I.R was registered by the police or the CBI.Hence defendant no. 3 approached the High Court and filed a Writ Petition being W.P (Crl) No. 26/2005 for issuance of a direction to the State to register and F.I.R. in this regard.8.10 Pursuant to the directions of the High Court, an enquiry u/s 55 of the Delhi Cooperative Societies Act was initiated and Shri S.M. Agarwal, ADJ (Retired) was appointed as Enquiry Officer.The High Court vide its order dated 21.03.2006 in W.P. (Crl) No. 26/2005, directed the DCP, EOW Cell Delhi Police to take up enquiry and file report within four weeks.8.11 Pursuant to the orders dated 21.03.2006 by the High Court a F.I.R. was registered being No. 133 dated 19.04.2006 under sections 420, 468, 471 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code and investigation was conducted by Insp.S.S. Gill and the Writ Petition was disposed of.8.12 Thereafter, defendant no. 3 approached the Registrar of the Cooperatives Society and wanted to opt for his legitimate claim on a flat in the housing society.8.13 Defendant no. 3 again approached the Court for clarification of the order dated 26.04.2001 and the Court vide order dated 17.08.2007 passed in C.M. No. 10539/2007 in W.P. (C ) No. 2614 of 2001 has observed "having considered the materials on record I am of the opinion that no clarification is required to be made; the events relied on are all subsequent to the dismissal of the petition and therefore if the petitioner has any remedies available in law it is open for him to pursue the same.the order dated 26.04.2001 was on the basis of that adjudication in the writ petition entails investigation into the disputed questions of facts; there was no decision on merits of the case"8.14 Hence defendant no. 3 approached the Registrar of Cooperative Society for confirmation of his membership and allotment of his flat B- 47, the only vacant flat.A detailed proceedings went on at the office of the Registrar who vide order 16.04.2008 approved the report of Enquiry Office Shri S.M. Aggarwal and membership of defendant no. 3 was approved.8.15 It is also alleged that a Writ Petition being W.P. (C) No. 4324/2008 titled as Seema Bijlani Vs.Registrar Cooperative Societies & Ors was filed before this Court to frustrate the claim of defendant no. 3 and he was not made a party.I.A. No.9770/2011 in CS(OS) No.774/2007 Page No.11 of 21 8.16 A publication was made in the two daily newspapers namely Statesman, Rashtriya Sahara dated 23rd July 2008 for draw of a flat (B-47) any persons having any objections may submit representation to Assistant Registrar within 15 days of the said publication.In the meanwhile a suit was filed by the plaintiff against Smt. Gayatri Kukreja.Thereafter DDA vide letter dated 16.03.2007 that the Deed of Conveyance dated 24.08.2004 stands cancelled by the L.G. of Delhi.Reply of Defendant No.2 SocietyDefendant No. 2 has also filed reply to the application, stating therein that the plaintiff is not the owner of the flat as alleged.The flat in fact was allotted to Smt. Gayatri Kukreja who through proceedings initiated against her, submitted her resignation and the same was accepted by the Registrar Cooperative Societies.9.1 After knowing of this fact, Mr. Shekhar Vashist, son in law of the plaintiff and a member of the society manipulated the documents for getting flat done to free hold as DDA organized a Riverside camp in Mayur Vihar Phase I and converted the said flat from lease hold to I.A. No.9770/2011 in CS(OS) No.774/2007 Page No.13 of 21 freehold.It is alleged that a manipulation was done by Mr. Vashist and the flat was sold at a throw away price for a consideration of Rs. 7.90 lac as against the proper market value of 30 lac who was fully aware of the fact that defendant No. 2 Smt. Gayatri Kukreja had already resigned from the membership.9.2 The plaintiff had intentionally not stated all the facts in the matter despite of having knowledge of all the facts.The alleged NOC dated 29.12.2003 was never issued by defendant no. 2 but a mere manipulation of documents by Mr. Vashist who also witnessed the conveyance deed.9.3 The defendant no. 1 gave her resignation from the membership of the Society and hence had no title to the said flat.Defendant no. 2 till date is the owner of the flat and plaintiff has no right whatsoever.The defendant No. 2 states that Mr. Shekhar Vashist is the owner of flat no. D-139 in the society and his wife (daughter of the plaintiff) is residing in flat no. C-92, both in the society.Infact there was collusion between plaintiff and Mr. Shekhar Vashist and the documents were manipulated.The plaintiff got a stay in CS (OS) No. 774 of 2007 but after detailed arguments the stay was vacated.The plaintiff also filed a review application but the same was also dismissed.The plaintiff I.A. No.9770/2011 in CS(OS) No.774/2007 Page No.14 of 21 also filed an appeal against the vacating of stay order but that too was dismissed.The same read as under:-The plaintiffs preferred an appeal being FAO (OS) No.281/2008 against the dismissal of first application for interim relief.
['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']
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Heard learned counsel for the applicants and learned A.G.A.It is contended by the learned counsel for the applicants that this casemay be sent to Mediation Centre for the purpose of settlement betweenthe parties for which the applicants are ready to deposit the cost.Considering the submission made by the learned counsel for theapplicants, it is directed that applicants shall deposit Rs. 10,000/- withintwo weeks from today in the account head of Registrar General,Mediation and Conciliation Centre, Allahabad High Court,Allahabad.In case, the aforesaid amount is deposited the notice shall beissued to O.P. No.2 returnable within a period of four weeks.The threefourth of the above mentioned deposited amount shall be paid to O.P. No.2 as expenses.This case shall be sent to Mediation Centre for furtherproceedings.After proceedings of the Mediation Centre, list this case before this Courton 1.4.2010.Till then no coercive step shall be taken against theapplicants in Case No. 806 of 2009 under sections 98-A, 323 I.P.C. andsection ¾ of D.P. Act pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate Rampurin case the receipt of the aforesaid deposited amount is filed beforethe court concerned.List on 1.4.2010 for orders.Order Date :- 21.1.2010N.A.
['Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A for the State and perused the record.By means of this application, the applicant who is involved in case crime no.147 of 2018, under Section 376 IPC Police Station-Phephna, District-Ballia is seeking enlargement on bail during the trial.Submission made by learned counsel for the applicant is that the FIR was lodged by the victim herself against as many as four persons including the applicant.The allegation is that after extending promise to marry, the applicant has established physical relationship with the victim at the pre-marital stage.She understands the far-reaching repercussions of pre-marital sex with unknown persons and now, when the applicant has wriggled out from his promise, she has lodged the present FIR.Learned A.G.A opposed the prayer for bail but could not dispute the aforesaid facts and the legal submissions as argued by the learned counsel for the applicant.Let the applicant-Manoj Kumar, involved in case crime no.147 of 2018, under Section 376 IPC Police Station-Phephna, District-Ballia be released on bail on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions which are being imposed in the interest of justice:-(i) THE APPLICANT SHALL FILE AN UNDERTAKING TO THE EFFECT THAT HE SHALL NOT SEEK ANY ADJOURNMENT ON THE DATE FIXED FOR EVIDENCE WHEN THE WITNESSES ARE PRESENT IN COURT.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 IPC.(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., MAY BE ISSUED AND IF APPLICANT FAILS 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 IPC.(iv) THE APPLICANT SHALL REMAIN PRESENT, IN PERSON, BEFORE THE TRIAL COURT ON DATES FIXED FOR (1) OPENING OF THE CASE, (2) FRAMING OF CHARGE AND (3) RECORDING OF STATEMENT UNDER SECTION 313 CR.P.C. IF IN THE OPINION OF THE TRIAL COURT ABSENCE OF THE APPLICANT IS DELIBERATE OR WITHOUT SUFFICIENT CAUSE, THEN IT SHALL BE OPEN FOR THE TRIAL COURT TO TREAT SUCH DEFAULT AS ABUSE OF LIBERTY OF BAIL AND PROCEED AGAINST HIM IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW.
['Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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['Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Fracture 17 cm long right and left parietal bone region;Fracture Left zygomatic arch;{11/01/2018 } Per J.P.Gupta, J :This appeal has been filed assailing the judgment dated 16/10/2006 passed by the 2 nd Additional Sessions Judge, Khandwa, in Sessions Trial No.103/2006 whereby the appellant has been convicted under section 302 of IPC for committing murder of Lakhan and sentenced him to undergo R.I. for life imprisonment as mentioned in the impugned judgment.It is undisputed in the case that Pintu (PW-5) is son of the deceased, Sulochna Bai (PW-4) is wife of the deceased and Ranju Bai (PW-1) and Manda (PW-6) are daughters of the deceased and house of the deceased and the appellant are situated in the same vicinity.In brief, the facts of the case emerge from the findings of the learned trial court and evidence on record are that one day before the incident altercation were taken place between the deceased and the appellant on account of throwing of live electric wire towards the house of Lakhan.On 21/03/2016 near about 6.30 PM Lakhan went towards the betel shop and his son Pintu (PW-5) was coming towards his house, he saw that the appellant was beating his father Lakhan with the stick.Then Pintu (PW-5) got frightened came to his house and informed to his mother and sisters, then he along with his mother Sulochan Bai (PW-4) and his sisters Ranju Bai (PW-1) and Manda (PW-6) went towards the place of the incident and they found Lakhan lying in the front of the house of the appellant.He was injured and dead.Then Sulochan Bai (PW-4) called for Shivlal (PW-7) and Rameshchand (PW-8).They came on the spot and Sulochan Bai (PW-4) informed that Pintu (PW-5) had narrated that appellant assaulted the deceased with the stick and caused his death.Thereafter Rameshchand (PW-8) telephonically informed to the police station Piplod.Thereafter police party reached on the spot near about 11 PM where Dehati Nalish (Ex.P-5) and Marg Intimation (Ex.P-7) was recorded on the basis of information given by Sulochan Bai (PW-4) and thereafter FIR (Ex.P-13) was registered at Police station Piplod, Tehsil Khandwa as Crime No.80/2006 under sections 302 of the IPC.During the investigation the dead body of the deceased was examined by Dr. Anil Kumar (PW-2) and after completing the other formalities of the investigation, the charge sheet for commission of offence punishable under section 302 of IPC against the appellant was filed before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Khandwa, who in turn committed the case to the court of Session Khandwa from where it was received on transfer by the 3rd Additional Session Judge (Fast Track Court) Khandwa who conducted the trial.During trial against the appellant/accused charge for the offence punishable under sections 302 of the IPC was framed.He abjured his guilt and claimed to be tried.His defence is that he has been falsely implicated in this case and in his defence no witness has been adduced.Learned Trial court after completion of the trial, convicted and sentenced the appellant for commission of the offence punishable under section 302 of IPC on the basis of evidence of Pintu (PW-5) finding his testimony creditable and getting corroboration from the statements of Sulochan Bai (PW-4), Ranju Bai (PW-1) and Manda (PW-6) as well as Shivlal (PW-7) and Rameshchand (PW-8) and further getting corroboration from the statement of Dr. Anil Kumar (PW-2).Apart from it, there is no compliance of section 157 of Cr.P.C. The FIR is antedated with a view to falsely implicate the appellant.Further contended that Dr. Anil Kumar (PW-2) has not opined that any single or all injuries in cumulative effect was sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature.In such circumstances, looking to the alleged motive, nature of weapon, it cant be said that the appellant assaulted the deceased with the intention to kill him or caused injuries intentionally which were sufficient to cause his death in ordinary course of nature.The same was caused on account of assaulting by other person.Therefore, the nature of the death was homicidal.As per Ex.P-1 according to Dr. Anil Kumar (PW-2) following injuries were found on the body of the deceased:-i. Lacerated wound 2 X1X1 cm over lateral end of left eyebrow;Contusion 15X2 cm over chest extended from just above left nipple to down ward to Right nipple region; iii.Contusion 17 X2 cm over chest extend from below 3 cm from Left nipple to right nipple;Contusion 16 X2 cm over left hypchorid region and Epigestric region extend from near mid axillary line lower chest left to downward epigestric region; v. Abrasion 1 X1 cm lateral to 2 cm from No.1 On dissection following injuries were found:-Fracture Left 5th rib near sterrium bone region;Sub dural and extra dural haemorrhage present and large haemorrhage present;He opined that cause of death was excessive haemorriage and shock due to multiple fracture of body and chest injury.Leading to cardio respiratory arrest.Injuries are homicidal in nature and duration of injuries were within 24 hours.Now the question is that whether the aforesaid injuries was caused by the appellant with the stick.In this regard Pintu (PW-5), who is son of the deceased has categorically stated that on the date of incident near about 7 pm when he was coming to his house in the front of the house of appellant, he saw appellant was beating his father with the stick.Seeing this incident, he was frightened and go home from the way of back side and told his mother that the appellant is beating his father.Thereafter he along with his mother and sisters went towards the appellants house and saw his father was lying dead and there were injuries on forehead, chest and stomach of his father.Sulochan Bai (PW-4), Ranju Bai (PW-1) and Manda (PW-6) have also stated the same thing in their statements.As per statement of Sulochan Bai (PW-4) she called for Shivlal (PW-7) and Rameshchand (PW-8) and told them the facts of the incident and then Rameshchand (PW-8) informed to the police.Shivlal (PW-7) and Rameshchand (PW-8) have supported this story and Investigating Officer, N.P Dhada (PW-11) have also stated that near about 10 PM Rameshchand (PW-8) telephoned to the police station Piplod and informed that one person is killed in his village and thereafter he sent police force to the village.Sulochan Bai (PW-4) also stated that in the night police force came, she informed to them about the incident and Dehati Nalish (Ex.P-5) and Marg Intimation (Ex.P-7) was recorded by the police.In the statement of the aforesaid witnesses, there is no material contradiction and omission.Shivlal (PW-7) and Rameshchand (PW-8) are independent witnesses and they have reached on the spot very soon where Sulochan Bai (PW-4) have categorically disclosed them that his son Pintu (PW-5) saw the incident and the deceased was beaten by the appellant with stick.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The complainant was not in picture at all.As far as the sale deed is concerned, he was neither vendor nor vendee nor middle man or attesting witness of the instrument.He is completely a stranger to the aforesaid disputed sale deed.Two of them are related to vendee and two are said to be middle man in the deal but their roles have not been delineated at all.One Subodh Kumar Jain, respondent no. 2/complainant lodged an FIR despite the fact that he was not the party to the said transaction in any manner.This FIR was registered on 1.11.2011 at P.S. Kotwali Muzaffar Nagar vide Case Crime No. 1149 of 2011, under Sections 420,467,468,471,379 IPC and 120-B IPC.The matter was investigated and the Investigating Officer initially submitted the final report in the matter on the premise that the dispute relates to the evasion of stamp duty for which proceedings were already pending before the competent authority but subsequently the investigation was transferred, legal opinion obtained from the senior prosecutor and charge sheet under Section 420 IPC was filed against five accused including vendee Padma Jain, her husband Sunil Kumar Jain, her son Sarad Jain, alleged middle man V. K. Jain and his son Anmol Jain.The matter was adjudicated by the competent authorities.Remaining stamp duty was ordered to be paid and further a penalty of Rs. 40,990/- was also imposed.
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 467 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The brief facts leading to the filing of this petition as disclosed in the F.I.R are thus :- On 5.5.2016, complainant Yatendra Singh Chauhan, who is respondent no.5 herein, lodged the written complaint with police station Maharajpura Gwalior stating that he is the owner of the M/s Yatendra Chauhan Contractors and Suppliers.brother Dinesh Valecha are the Directors of the Valecha Engineering Pvt. Ltd Co. (for short "the company").Kapil Valecha and Karan Valecha are the sons of the petitioner.M.H.Mehta is the General Manager of the company.On 10.10.2014, on behalf of the company, M.H.Mehta had entered into a written agreement with him in his residence at DH 89 DD Nagar Gwalior.According to the agreement, he had to supply 2,50,000/- metric tons "crushed stones aggregate" at the work site of the company as it has got the contract of construction of four lane road of Etawah-Mainpuri Purawali at that time.The company paid him only 10,00,000/- (ten lac) rupees against the aforesaid amount.Both the cheques were dishonored by the drawee bank of the company.The directors and the employees of the company fled away from the work site.Bajaj also lodged an FIR at Police Station Jhansi Road Gwalior for the similar type of the offences having been committed by them.3. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that as per the F.I.R, M.H.Mehta had entered into an agreement on behalf of the company for the supply of crushed stones.The police have not made him an accused of the case, whereas he is the main accused.he was being brought by the police, he escaped from the custody of police at Railway-Station Bina.learned Public Prosecutor.For respondent No.5 :- Shri Awdhesh Singh Bhadoria learned counsel._______________________________________ O R D E R.(Passed on the 4th day of January, 2018) The petitioner has filed this petition under Section 482 of the CrPC seeking quashment of the First Information Report in respect of him registered at Crime No.155 of 2016 in Police Station Maharajpura Gwalior against him and three other accused persons for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 406, 506, 294 and 34 of the I.P.C.In that case, the police arrested Dinesh Valecha from Mumbai.When he was being brought to Gwalior, he escaped from the custody of the police at Railway-Station Bina.Now, the aforestated persons would hurl at him various kinds of filthy abuses and would give him death threats on phones.Upon the complaint, Police Mahajarajpura Gwalior registered the FIR at Crime No.155 of 2016 and have made the petitioner, Dinesh Valecha, Kapil Valecha and Karan Valecha the accused persons of the case for committing the offences punishable under Sections 420, 406, 506, 294 and 34 I.P.C.cheques towards the outstanding amount.But, he had mentioned in the FIR only cheque numbers without the dates on which the cheques are issued, amount of each of the two cheques, the name(s) of drawee bank(s), the name(s) of signatory(s) of the cheques and the date(s) of dishonour of the cheques.He further submitted that Kapil Valecha and Karan Valecha are neither directors of the company nor the employees of the company.He further submitted that the complainant has made general and vague allegations against them for giving abuses and life threats to him because in the FIR the dates, timings of the telephone calls, telephone number(s) through which they would give him abuses and death threats and the telephone number(s) on which he had received the same are not given.He further submitted that the complainant has made Kapil Valecha and Karan Valecha accused of the case with an ulterior motive to bring pressure upon the petitioner and Dinesh Valecha for payment of the outstanding amount.the petitioner and Dinesh Valecha had intention to cheat him or commit breach of trust against him before the execution of the agreement.He further submitted that the real dispute between the company and the complainant is that he had supplied the crushed stones of poor quality to the company resulting in non-payment of the amount as demanded by him.Thus, the dispute between the complainant on one side and the accused persons and the company on the other is of purely monetary dispute of civil nature.Thus, no offence against the petitioner under Sections 420 (for cheating), 406 (for breach of trust), 294 (giving filthy abuses) and 506 (for giving life threats) I.P.C are made out.Therefore, the FIR be quashed in respect of the petitioner.In support of the submissions, he placed reliance on the decisions rendered in the case of State Of Haryana And Ors Vs Ch.Bhajan Lal And Ors, AIR 1992 SC 604, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and new Materials (ARCI) & Others Vs.1 SCC 348, M.Cr.C.No.1942 of 2004 and M.Cr.C.No.2005 of 2004, cause-title Wolfang Rein & ORS Vs.State and ANR, date of orders dated 2.7.2012 passed by the Delhi High Court and a few orders passed by this High Court and the Bombay High Court under Section 482 CrPC in unreported cases.In all these cases, gravamen of accusations against them are that they had entered into agreements with the complainants for supply of crushed stones and thereafter they did not make payments and they and their employees fled away from the work site.He further submitted that the police of police station University arrested Dinesh Valecha in said Crime No.98 of 2016 at Mumbai.Thereupon, Crime No.355/2015 against him is registered at G.R.P police station Bina under Section 224 I.P.C. He further submitted that the registrations of the aforesaid cases upon the complaints of the different complainants in the aforestated police stations are prima facie proofs that the petitioner and the three other accused of the present case had intention to cheat the complainant or commit criminal breach of trust against the complainant at the time of execution of the written agreement which had been entered into with him on behalf of the company by its General Manager M.H.Mehta.He further submitted that the petitioner had also filed M.Cr.C.No.8307 of 2016 for the quashment of the FIR registered against him and others in Crime No.98 of 2016 at police station University Gwalior.
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 415 in The Indian Penal Code']
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HON'BLE MS.JUSTICE MUKTA GUPTA BAIL APPLN.1113/2017 & Crl.M.A.No.244/2018 BAIL APPLN.Represented by: Mr. Sanjeev Narula, CGSC, Mr. Amit Mahajan, CGSC, Mr. Nitesh Rana, SPP and Ms. Anumita Chandra, Advocate.Represented by: Mr. Sanjeev Narula, CGSC, Mr. Amit Mahajan, CGSC, Mr. Nitesh Rana, SPP and Ms. Anumita Chandra, Advocate.BAIL APPLN.1113/2017 & 1114/2017 Page 1 of 81114/2017 & Crl.By way of the present applications, petitioners Virendra Jain and Surender Kumar Jain, the two brothers seek regular bail in ECIR/01/DLZO- II/2017 dated 11th February, 2017 under Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (in short 'PMLA').The above-noted complaint was lodged after an order dated 28th October, 2013 was passed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs directing investigation by Serious Fraud Investigating Officer (in short 'SFIO') into affairs of the various companies.On the basis of the investigation report a Criminal Complaint No. 57463/2016 dated 29 th November, 2016 was filed by SFIO against 31 accused persons including the two petitioners for violation of the provisions under Sections 233/628 read with Sections 211/240 (3) of the Companies Act and under Sections 420/468/477-A/120B IPC before the learned Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Central) Special Acts, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi.These bail applications came up before this Court earlier and vide order dated 20th September, 2017, this Court dismissed the two bail applications.Aggrieved by the order dated 20th September, 2017 dismissing the bail applications, the petitioners preferred Special Leave Petition before the Hon'ble Supreme Court and vide order dated 23 rd November, 2017 in a batch of writ petitions and criminal appeals, the Hon'ble Supreme Court declared the two further conditions imposed for release on bail in Section 45 BAIL APPLN.1113/2017 & 1114/2017 Page 2 of 8 (1) of PMLA to be unconstitutional, violative of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India and remanded back the matter to the respective Courts which denied the bail, to be heard on merits without application of the twin conditions mentioned in Section 45 of the PMLA.Thus in both the petitions additional applications challenging the order dated 8 th December, 2017 passed by the learned Special Judge have also been filed.BAIL APPLN.1113/2017 & 1114/2017 Page 2 of 8Appeals filed before the Commissioner, Income Tax were dismissed however, the challenge before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal succeeded and both the orders of the Assessing Authority and CIT (Appeals) were set aside and the matter remanded back with directions to provide adequate opportunity to the petitioners after confronting them with the entire material.BAIL APPLN.1113/2017 & 1114/2017 Page 3 of 8This Court during the course of arguments repeatedly inquired from the learned counsel for the respondent that even if assuming there was rotation of entries to the tune of approximately 8,000 crores and since substantial investigation has been carried out, what was the financial stability of the companies and the amount available with the companies however, no clear figure could be given by learned counsel for the respondent.It is not disputed by learned counsel for the respondent that a complaint and a supplementary complaint have already been filed in the case.The case of the prosecution rests primarily on the documentary BAIL APPLN.1113/2017 & 1114/2017 Page 7 of 8 address the same will be duly informed to the court by way of an affidavit and in case the petitioners are found interfering in the process of further investigation or tampering with the evidence or violating the conditions imposed, the respondent will be at liberty to take appropriate remedies in accordance with law.Petitions and applications are disposed of.Order dasti.(MUKTA GUPTA) JUDGE JANUARY 25, 2018 'vn' BAIL APPLN.1113/2017 & 1114/2017 Page 8 of 8BAIL APPLN.1113/2017 & 1114/2017 Page 8 of 8
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Case diary perused.This is first application filed by the applicant / accused under section 438 of Cr.P.C. for grant of anticipatory bail, apprehending his arrest in connection with Crime No.400/16, Police Station Kotar, District Satna (MP), offences registered under Section 326, 294, 323, 506-B & 34 of I.P.C.So far as the other co-accused Mahendra Singh and Gyan Singh are concerned, in the said incident their role was different from the applicant and the applicant cannot get relief on the ground of parity.Hence, the applicant is not entitled to be released on anticipatory bail.Hence, the bail application is rejected.(J. P. GUPTA) JUDGE vj
['Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The sentences imposed on the accused were directed to run concurrently.Challenging the said conviction and sentence, the appellants have come forward with the present appeal.The case of the prosecution is that the deceased Rajeshkanna, A1 and P.W.2 were doing business in sago under the name and style of J.S.R, in which they were all partners.Subsequently, since some dispute arose between them, the deceased and P.W.2 left A1 and started their own business.A1 and A2 alone were doing the said business .When the deceased and P.W.2 urged A1 to settle the accounts, A1 asked them to come on 26.4.2001 so that the accounts could be settled.On 26.4.2001 at 9.30 p.m., when P.W.1 went to the shop of A1, the deceased, P.W.2 and A1 were present.When they demanded A1 to settle the amount, A1 took patta knife from the drawer and attacked the deceased.A2 also attacked the deceased and P.W.2 with knife.P.W.2 was taken to Hospital by P.W.5 one Kannan.The deceased was taken to Gokulam Hospital by P.W.1 and then the deceased was taken to Government Hosptial, where the Doctor declared the deceased Rajeshkhanna dead.Thereafter P.W.1 gave a complaint to the Chevvapet Police Station.P.W.11 Sub Inspector of Police registered a case in Cr.No.340 /2001 under Sections 302, 307 IPC and prepared Ex.P15 FIR.On receipt of the copy of the FIR, P.W.12 the Inspector of Police, took up investigation, proceeded to the scene of occurrence at 2 a.m. and prepared an observation mahazar Ex.P3 and a rough sketch Ex.He completed the investigation and laid the charge sheet against the accused under Sections 302 and 307 read with 34 IPC.Before the trial court on the side of the prosecution P.Ws.1 to 12 were examined, Exs.P1 to P17 were filed and M.Os. 1 to 18 were marked.On the side of the defence, D.Ws 1 to 4 were examined, Exs.D1 to D16 were filed and M.Os. 1 and 2 were marked.When the accused was questioned under Section 313 Cr.P.C. in respect of the incriminating materials appearing against them through the evidence adduced by the prosecution, the accused denied their complicity.The trial court on consideration of the oral and documentary evidence convicted the appellants and sentenced them as stated above.As there was no representation on behalf of the appellants, notice was issued to the learned counsel for the appellant who reported no instructions.Even though notice was taken to the accused, there was no representation for the appellants.Hence Mr.Parthiban was appointed as legal aid counsel and he has appeared in this matter.The learned Government Advocate (Criminal Side ) has no objections for the same.From the records it is seen that during the incident, the deceased and other persons attacked the accused and in this regard no investigation was made.P.W.2 Jai Ganesh has given dying declaration before D.W.1 Judicial Magistrate,.D.W.4 Doctor in his evidence would state that A1 sustained fracture on his nose, which was grievous in nature and A1 also sustained simple injuries.D.W.4 Doctor in his evidence would state that A1 sustained fracture on his nose, which was grievous in nature and A1 also sustained simple injuries.He would further state that as A1 complained of pain, he sent him for taking X ray.D.W.4 would also state that A2 also sustained simple injuries.D.W.2 Doctor in his evidence would state that A1 sustained nose injury and he took X ray of the nose injury and gave Ex.D5 report .From the above materials, I am of the view that the investigation has not been properly made and the injury caused on the accused has also not been considered.Without considering this aspect, the trial court has convicted the accused for the offence under Sections 304 Part II read with 34 IPC and 326 read with 34 and sentenced them to undergo 10 years rigorous imprisonment under Section 304 Part II IPC read with 34 and two years under Section 326 read with 34 IPC.I am of the view that the sentence of ten years rigorous imprisonment under Section 304 Part II IPC is on the higher side.Considering the fact that the A1 also suffered grievous injuries and further the accused have to maintain their families, I am of the view that in order to meet the ends of justice, the sentence imposed by the trial court under Section 304 Part II read with 34 IPC could be reduced to seven years and accordingly sentence is modified into seven years of rigorous imprisonment instead of 10 years.In other respects the conviction and sentence imposed by the trial court under Section 326 read with 34 IPC is confirmed.With the above modification, the appeal stands dismissed.The counsel appearing for the accused is entitled to get remuneration from the Tamil Nadu Legal Services Authority, Chennai.I Additional Sessions Judge cum Chief Judicial Magistrate, SalemThe Public Prosecutor High Court, Chennai
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The complaint proceeds that A1 to A14 have executed three power of attorneys in favour of the second respondent defacto complainant vide document nos.178/1998, 297/2007 and 1787/2008 and on the strength of the same, the power of attorney mortgaged the property for Rs.1 lakh.In pursuance of the same, the power of attorney entered into an agreement for purchase of the property and put up compound wall and grill gate and obtained service connection and conducted three cases before the Court at Chengalpet and thereafter, executed a sale deed in favour of one Shanthi on 13.7.2011 vide document no.7424/2011 and the defacto complainant has been insisting A1 to A14 to receive the balance sale consideration, but the accused have been postponing the same.While so, the defacto complainant on behalf of Shanthi applied for patta and they come to know that the property was already sold to one Jinnah, who is the petitioner herein.The complaint further proceeds that the sale deed in favour of Jinnah is not valid and the same is executed by his principals without the knowledge of the power of attorney, after obtaining part of the sale consideration and thereafter creating encumbrance to cheat the purchaser who is the power of attorney holder and without handing over the original documents, which are in the custody of the power of attorney holder.Thus, the principals of the defacto complainant i.e., A1 to A14, in order to cheat their power of attorney, have created illegal sale deed and committed an act of land grabbing.The complaint was lodged on 31.3.2011 and was registered as FIR in Cr.No.100/2013 on 24.12.2013 against the principals and the petitioner herein.3.The petitioner/A15 has come forward with the present petition to quash the proceedings on the ground that the allegations raised in the FIR failed to make out any offence in law, much less offence of cheating and none of the ingredients of the offences as referred to above is made out and the complaint came to be lodged only to wreck vengeance against the petitioner herein and to counter blast the complaint and the civil suit filed by the petitioner herein and that, the dispute raised herein is more of civil in nature and there is no element of crime involved in it and the criminal jurisdiction invoked is an abuse of process of law.It is further stated herein that A1 to A14, being the owners of the property, executed sale deed in favour of the petitioner as well as in favour of the second respondent's wife and the sale deed in favour of the petitioner was earlier in point of time and the sale deed in favour of his wife executed by the second respondent by using the power of attorney, which is said to have been executed by A1 to A14, was much after the sale of the property to the petitioner with the knowledge of the sale transaction in favour of the petitioner and it is only the complainant along with the second respondent's wife trying to dispossess the petitioner of the property by using the power of attorney and the sale deed and the complaint filed by the second respondent is hence tainted with malafide and with ulterior motive and the same is registered as FIR without any enquiry.It is also his case that the allegations raised in the FIR disclose cognizable offences and make out a prima facie case.According to the second respondent, the property was offered for sale by the owners and he agreed to purchase the same for more than Rs.20 lakhs as sale price and obtained registered deed of power of attorney in his favour, authorising him to deal with the property and thereafter he constructed compound wall in and around the property and put up grill date and obtained electricity connection and defended three civil suits filed against the principals and thereafter sold and executed registered sale deed in favour of his wife Shanthi.Only on making application for patta, he came to know about execution of sham and nominal sale deed in favour of the petitioner by the principals without any right to do so and A1 to A15 have thus defrauded the second respondent and A1 to A14 committed criminal breach of trust by falsification of records along with A15 and pendency of the civil suit cannot absolve them from the criminal prosecution and FIR was registered only after holding detailed enquiry.It is further submitted that the petitioner committed fraud on his vendors by creating two forged documents i.e. one for Rs.1,20,00,000/- and another for Rs.25,07,000/- and the same requires thorough probe.5.Heard the rival submissions made on both sides and perused the records.6.It is not in dispute that the property belongs to one Raghavan and A1 to A14 are his sons and grand sons through the deceased son and A1 to A14 have executed registered power of attorneys in favour of the second respondent defacto complainant and during the currency of the same, A1 to A14/owners of the property executed a sale deed in favour of the petitioner vide Document No.3529 of 2011 dated 31.3.2011 without reference to the power of attorney and after execution of the sale deed in favour of the petitioner, the power of attorney holder executed a sale deed in favour of his wife on 13.7.2011 on the strength of such power of attorney.The second respondent has come forward with the present complaint stating that the sale deed executed in favour of the petitioner herein, after agreeing to sell the property to the second respondent and after obtaining Rs.20 lakhs as part of the sale consideration and after allowing the defacto complainant to mortgage the property and to execute a sale deed and to defend three civil suits and without obtaining the original title deeds from the power of attorney holder and without verifying the encumbrance on the property, is dishonest and fraudulent act and is outcome of the collusion between A1 to A14/owners on one hand and A15/purchaser on other hand to create encumbrance on the property in order to harass the power of attorney and his purchaser.Insofar as the petitioner is concerned, he also lodged a complaint against the second respondent and others in this regard.The petitioner has also filed the civil suit in OS No.349/2013 against the purchaser Shanthi, defacto complainant and A1 to A14 for various reliefs, i.e., to declare the power of attorneys dated 15.4.1998, 24.1.2007 and 13.9.2008 in favour of the second respondent herein vide Doc.Nos.179 of 1998, 292/2007 and 1787/2008 on the file of SRO, Guduvancheri as null and void and not binding on the plaintiff; to declare the sale deeds dated 13.7.2011 executed by the second respondent herein in capacity of power agent of the Principals in favour of his wife, which was registered as Doc.No.7424 of 2011 on the file of SRO, Guduvancheri as null and void and not binding on the plaintiff; and for permanent injunction restraining the first defendant/purchaser from in any manner dealing with the suit schedule property in pursuance of the sale deed dated 13.7.2011 executed in her favour by the power of attorney.The suit was filed along with IA.No.1707/2013 for interim relief.A1 to A14 as the respondents/defendants 2 to 16 therein, have filed their counter and written statement in I.A.1707/2013 and the wife of the second respondent defacto complainant and the second respondent as defendants 1 and 17, filed their detailed written statement in the suit and counter in the application.8.The perusal of the avements raised in the FIR would reveal that A1 to A14 as different set of defendants in the suit filed two different counters and written statements in the same.As far as the Second respondent is concerned, he has come forward with improved but different version at every stage.9.It may be true that the second respondent has by way of typed set and additional typed set, produced the copies of the documents in support of his theory regarding execution of mortgage, pendency of civil suit against the principals and cash receipts for payment of part of the sale consideration etc. The fact that the deed of power of attorney was executed in his favour by the principals and he mortgaged the property on the strength of the same and he defended the suits on behalf of the principals, may be evident from the documents as referred to above.However, other documents filed on his behalf by way of agreement of sale and cash receipts and statement of accounts are more in the nature of self serving documents and are the matters for appreciation of evidence.Till date, the second respondent, who have allegedly paid huge amount by way of sale consideration, has not come forward with any civil suit to declare the earlier sale deed executed by the owners, not binding on him.His principals i.e., A1 to A14 being the owners of the property, the validity of the sale deed executed by them cannot be seriously attacked herein.
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code']
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% (ORAL) Quashing of Criminal Complaint No.8/2013 for the offences under Sections 323/379/392/411/509/34 of IPC and Sections 25/54/59 of the Arms Act is sought on the basis of Settlement arrived between the parties before the Counselling Cell, Family Courts, New Delhi.
['Section 482 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 509 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 411 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 320 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 392 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code']
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In Re: - An application for anticipatory bail under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on 19/06/2019 in connection with Chakdha P.S. Case No. 203 of 2019 dated 06/05/2019 under Section 448/325/326/354B/34 of the Indian Penal Code.And In the matter of: Abtab Sk. @ Atabiddin Sekh @ Atabuddin Sekh & Ors.....petitioners.The application for anticipatory bail is, thus, disposed of.(Manojit Mandal, J.) (Joymalya Bagchi, J.)
['Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 448 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 325 in The Indian Penal Code']
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a) A-1 and A-2 are cousin brothers.P.W.2-Mariamma is the wife of the deceased Thiruvannamalaiyan.Both the accused family and the deceased family were living at Melpattu village.A-2 owned 1 acre 40 cents of land in the said village.This land was leased out to the deceased for Rs.3,000/- for a period of five years.He also allowed the deceased to possess and enjoy the said land and take the yield arising therefrom.After five years period was over, the deceased demanded for the return of the lease amount.But, A-2 refused to make the payment.Due to this, there was a frequent quarrel between A-2 and the deceased.P.W.2 was often sent by the deceased to the house of A-2 asking for the return of the payment.b) On the day of occurrence, i.e. on 16.05.1994 at about 5.30 p.m, while the wordy quarrel was going on between the deceased and his wife P.W.2 near the land of A-1, she pleaded with A-1, who was passing that way, to save her by his intervention.Then, A-1 asked the deceased not to beat P.W.2 anymore and he tried to pacify both of them.But, the deceased scolded A-1, stating that he was supporting P.W.2, because he was having illegal relationship with her.Efforts taken by A-1 to separate them failed.Therefore, he took a wooden log found near a tree and beat the deceased on his head.At that time, A-2 also instigated A-1 to attack the deceased.The incident was witnessed by P.Ws.3 to 5, who are the villagers.Both of the accused on seeing them, sped away from the scene.c) Next day i.e., on 17.05.1994 at about 10.00 p.m, A-1 went to Village Administrative Officer-P.W.1 and gave an Extra-Judicial Confession, confessing that he attacked the deceased with the wooden log due to the quarrel and also handed over the said wooden log-M.O.1 to the Village Administrative Officer.d) Then P.W.1 and P.W.6 proceeded to the scene of occurrence along with A-1 to see the dead body.Since the dead body was not found at the spot, they went to the house of the deceased where the body was kept and saw the dead body with the injuries.e) Thereafter, they went to the police station on 18.05.1994 at about 9.00 a.m. P.W.1 prepared Ex.P-2 report and produced the accused as well as M.O.1 wooden log and also handed over the report Ex.P-1 to P.W.15, the Sub Inspector of Police, on the basis of which, P.W.15 then registered a case for an offence under Section 302 and 302 r/w 109 IPC.He sent the complaint and the First Information Report to the Court and the superior officers.f) P.W.16 the Inspector of Police went to the spot at 12.30 p.m. He observed all the formalities by preparing the Observation Mahazar and the Rough Sketch and he conducted inquest over the body of the deceased.On the same day, he examined P.Ws.2 to 5 and the panchayatdars.The dead body was then sent for postmortem.g) P.W.11, the Doctor conducted postmortem on 19.05.1994 at about 9.00 a.m. He found as many as three injuries on the body of the deceased and gave opinion that the deceased would appear to have died of shock and hemorrhage due to the injuries on the head.JUDGMENT M. Karpagavinayagam, J.The appellant Arunachalam was tried and convicted for an offence under Section 302 IPC, for having caused the death of one Thiruvannamalaiyan.Originally, the appellant Arunachalam and another accused, namely Subramani (A-2) were tried for offence under Sections 302 and 302 r/w 109 IPC, of whom, A-2 has been acquitted, and the appellant alone has been convicted as referred to above.Ex.P-8 is the postmortem certificate issued by him.He then arranged for sending the material objects for chemical analysis.After completion of the investigation, he filed the charge sheet against the accused.In the trial Court, on the side of the prosecution, P.Ws.1 to P.W.16 were examined, Exs.P-1 to P-20 were filed and M.Os. 1 to 4 were marked.Both the accused while being questioned under Section 313 Cr.P.C denied their complicity in crime in question.Ultimately, the trial Court acquitted A-2 and convicted A-1 alone for the offence under Section 302 IPC.Challenging the conviction, Mr. V. Murali, the counsel appearing for the appellant, would contend that though eye witnesses were examined, those witnesses turned hostile and as such, there is no sufficient evidence to convict the accused and the only piece of evidence is the Extra-Judicial Confession, which would suffer from various infirmities and as such, this is a case of no evidence and consequently, the accused is entitled to be acquitted.We have heard the learned Additional Public Prosecutor in respect of these aspects.We have carefully considered the submissions made by the respective parties.We have also gone through the records.According to the prosecution, on 16.05.1994 at about 5.30 p.m, when the wordy quarrel was going on between the deceased and his wife P.W.2, A-1 and A-2 intervened and at that time, the deceased uttered abusive words against A-1, as if he was having illegal relationship with his wife P.W.2 and this made him to take a wooden log found nearby and attack the deceased.In that process, A-2 also attacked the deceased with the hands.As referred to above, A-2 was acquitted as there is no evidence against him.Now, to connect the appellant (A-1) with the crime, the only piece of evidence that is available is the Extra-Judicial Confession made by the first accused to P.W.1, the Village Administrative Officer.All the other eye witnesses, namely, P.Ws.2 to 5 turned hostile.The recording of Extra Judicial Confession has been spoken to by P.W.1, the Village Administrative Officer and P.W.6, the Village Menial.It is settled law that even though there is no other evidence except the Extra-Judicial Confession, if the same is taken to be a reliable piece of evidence, then the conviction can be based.According to the prosecution, the occurrence took place on 16.05.1994 at about 5.30 p.m. P.W.1 recorded the Extra-Judicial Confession on 17.05.1994 at about 10.00 p.m. Only next day, the Village Administrative Officer (P.W.1) produced the accused along with the complaint and the report to the Sub Inspector of police P.W.15 at about 9.00 a.m.Though it is the case of the prosecution that the Extra-Judicial Confession has been made by A-1 to P.W.1 before the commencement of the investigation, the evidence of P.W.6 and P.W.7 would make it clear that the statement was given by the accused to P.W.1, the Village Administrative Officer at the spot in the presence of the police officer.They also admit the same in the cross examination.Thus it is obvious that the Extra-Judicial Confession cannot be said to be a voluntary one and as such, it loses its value.Further, it is noticed that the Doctor P.W.11 would state in his evidence and Ex.P-8-Post Mortem Certificate that the deceased would have died 96-100 hours prior to the commencement of postmortem.A according to the prosecution, the death had occurred only on 16.05.1994 about 5.30 p.m as per Ex.P-1, Extra-Judicial Confession.Therefore, the time of death as opined by Doctor P.W.11 also would not tally with the case of the prosecution.Consequently, this Court is constrained to hold that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt against the appellant.Under those circumstances, we are unable to sustain the conviction imposed by the trial Court and therefore, the conviction and sentence imposed on the first accused are set aside and he is acquitted of the charge.The bail bond executed by the first accused shall stand cancelled.The appeal is allowed accordingly.
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The prosecution case briefly stated is as under :(i) That Mahendra Mehta, then aged about 30 years, was residing with his parents, wife Surabhi and a year old son Amit in Flat No.309, Ravi Kiran Building, Carter Road No.3, Borivali (E), Mumbai.He was one of the partners in Riddhi Jewellers situated at 285/305, Krishna Niwas, Office No.22/A, URS 4 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 5 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc Zaveri Bazar.PW 3 Rakesh Jain, his brother Manojkumar Jain and Vimal Mehta, brother of Mahendra Mehta, were the other partners of Riddhi Jewellers.PW 1 Mukesh Mehta, brother of Mahendra Mehta, was residing intervening 6-7 buildings from Ravi Kiran building, Borivali (E), Mumbai where Mahendra Mehta was residing with his family and parents.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(ii) On 21/03/2007 morning, Mahendra Mehta was to travel to Gujarat.At about 4.30 a.m., PW 3 Rakesh Jain returned to Bombay from Baroda.He went to the house of Mahendra Mehta in Ravi Kiran building.PW 3 Rakesh delivered two samples of gold to Mahendra.Those samples were to be taken to Gujarat by Mahendra.That time, Rakesh also handed over a mobile phone to Mahendra which was being used by them in Gujarat.At 5.30 a.m., PW 3 Rakesh went to Ganesh temple which was situated in the compound of the same building.Rakesh was one of the partners of Riddhi Jewellers.According to him on 21/03/2007 at around 4.30 a.m., he returned to Bombay from Baroda and straight way went to the house of Mahendra Mehta as Mahendra was to go to Gujarat at around 6.30 a.m. on the same day.Rakesh URS 16 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 17 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc handed over two samples of gold to Mahendra and a cell phone which was being used for transaction in Gujarat.After handing over gold samples, Rakesh left the house of Mahendra at around 5.30 a.m. and went to Ganesh temple situated in the compound of Ravi Kiran building.On his way to temple, PW 3 Rakesh saw a lady and a man at the gate of the building.He proceeded ahead.He then saw two motorbikes near Saibaba temple.Two persons were sitting on each motor bike.Thereafter PW 3 Rakesh reached his residence.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::At 6.30 a.m., Rakesh received phone call from Vimal Mehta informing him that some persons attempted to snatch away the bag and assaulted Mahendra.He was also informed that Mahendra was being carried to Bhagwati Hospital by PW 1 Mukesh and his father Devichand.On receiving information, PW 3 Rakesh went to Bhagwati Hospital.Medical Officer declared Mahendra as dead.SEO Ismail Khan conducted the identification parade.During identification parade, PW 3 Rakesh identified accused no.1 James and accused no.5 Rakesh Bachchawat.ig PW 3 Rakesh misidentified accused no.4 Shabbir who was not in the TIP.(iii) It is further stated by PW 3 Rakesh that on the same day i.e. on 08/05/2007, he was taken to Byculla prison.During TIP conducted in Byculla prison, he identified accused no.6 Swapnali as the same lady to whom he saw at the gate of Ravi Kiran building.Thereafter on 05/06/2007, TIP was held at Arthur Road jail.In that TIP, PW 3 Rakesh identified accused no.7 Vishal as the person sitting on motorbike.He stated that victim did not leave the bag.Thus, we do not find any reason to disbelieve their evidence on incident.(xi) So far as TIP is concerned, it is a matter of record that the eye witnesses have mis-identified some of the accused as discussed above.PW 4 Mahesh identified accused no.3 Raju @ Dheknya on 05/06/2007 during the TIP.(xii) The star witness on TIP is PW 17 SEO Ismail Khan.He stated that PI Darekar called him at Crime Branch office, Dahisar, and requested to hold identification parade in Crime No.11/2007 of Crime Branch.Accordingly letter was issued to him.It is stated by PW 17 SEO Khan that in the TIP held on 08/05/2007, Sukhdeo Shinde and Nagesh Jangam were the two panch witnesses.ASI Deshmane introduced PW 17 SEO Khan to Jailor.The identifying witnesses i.e. PW 3 Rakesh Jain, PW 4 Mahesh Vyas and PW 6 Mitesh Shah were made to sit in a separate room.This TIP was in respect to accused no.1 John, accused no.2 Vishal and accused no.5 Rakesh Bachchawat.PW 17 SEO Khan selected 18 dummies.Out of 18, he asked 12 dummies to stand in a line.He took care to see that place of identification parade was not visible to outsiders and particularly to the identifying witnesses.Initially accused no.1 James and accused no.2 Vishal were called.They were given idea of conducting identification parade.Accused were given a choice to select their own place, change the clothes if they desired and take the position in the line as per their wish.Accused declined to URS 23 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 24 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc change the clothes.Thereafter panch witness Sukhdeo was sent to bring identifying witness PW 3 Rakesh Jain.PW 3 Rakesh identified accused James and Vishal by touching them with finger.(xiii) Another panch was sent to call PW 6 Mitesh Shah.He was asked to identify the culprits.PW 6 Mitesh identified accused James and Vishal by touching their bodies.The proceedings were accordingly recorded by PW 17 SEO Khan.The same procedure was followed in respect to the third identifying witness PW 4 Mahesh Vyas.He too identified accused James and Vishal.Memorandum of TIP was drawn.(xiv) In the process of identification, PW 17 SEO Khan selected six dummies.Accused no.5 Rakesh Bachchawat was then called.He was identified by PW 3 Rakesh Jain during TIP.Memorandum of identification was drawn by SEO URS 24 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 25 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc Khan.Witness identified article 9 - Jeans Pant, article 10 - Banyan and article 11 - Mobile hand set.He could not identify accused Jambo before the URS 34 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 35 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc Court.PW-23 - P.I. Darekar identified him in the dock.It is pertinent to note that accused No.1 Jambo was acquainted with accused No.6 Swapnali.PW-14 - Radheshyam Amrutlal Bind was running a Mechanic Shop of repairing motor bikes.He stated that motor bike bearing No. MH-02/HA-1715 was sold by him to accused No.2 Vishal Chauhan for Rs. 20,000/-.He identified accused No. 2 - Vishal Chauhan in the dock.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::JUDGMENT (PER SMT.I. K. JAIN, J,) :-By the said Judgment and Order, the trial Court convicted the Appellants/original accused nos.1 to 7 under Section 396 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced each of them to life imprisonment and fine of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only); in default R.I. for two years.For the sake of convenience, we shall refer the Respondents as accused as they were referred before the trial Court.(iii) At around 6.00 a.m., Mahendra left the house and walked down to catch train for Surat which was scheduled at URS 5 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 6 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc 6.30 a.m. On the way, at some distance from his house in front of Jain Milk Dairy, four persons came on two motorcycles and snatched the bag which was being carried by Mahendra.Mahendra resisted the same, so those persons assaulted Mahendra by means of choppers over the head and wrist.That time, one male and one female were loitering at the gate of Ravi Kiran building.After assault, assailants ran away on the motorcycles.Mahendra was severely injured and lying in a pool of blood.PW 3 Mukesh, elder brother of Mahendra, was informed about the incident.He rushed to the spot.Devichand, father of Mahendra, also came to know and he too came to the spot.They shifted Mahendra to Bhagwati Hospital.Medical Officer at Bhagwati Hospital declared Mahendra dead at around 7.45 a.m. Matter was reported to Kasturba Marg Police Station.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::He received a telephonic message at around 7.05 a.m. on 21/03/2007 that Mahendra was admitted to hospital as MLC URS 6 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 7 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc case.He communicated information to PI Dalvi and proceeded to hospital.Mahendra was admitted in ICU.He was not in a condition to give statement.On the death of Mahendra at 7.45 a.m., PSI Mandavkar recorded report of Mukesh.He returned to police station and registered C.R.No.55 of 2007 under Sections 393, 397 and 302 of IPC.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::It appears that ADR entry no.22/2007 was also registered on the basis of report lodged by Mukesh.Investigation was set into motion.During investigation, it was revealed that accused no.7 Vishal Jain was serving in Sejal Jewellers.He was knowing Mahendra Mehta.This information was passed on by accused no.7 Vishal to accused no.5 Rakesh who, with the help of accused nos.1 to 4 and 6, executed the plan to rob Mahendra.It was also revealed that on 21/03/2007 when Mahendra was on the way, accused nos.1 to 4 snatched away the bag which was being carried by Mahendra and URS 7 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 8 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc when Mahendra resisted, they assaulted him and caused his death.Then accused were arrested.On completion of investigation, charge-sheet came to be filed.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::In due course, case was committed to the Court of Sessions.The Appellants/accused pleaded not guilty to the charge and claimed to be tried.Their defence was of total denial and false implication.On going through the evidence of 26 witnesses examined in the case, the learned Additional Sessions Judge convicted and sentenced the Appellants as stated in para 1 above.Hence these Appeals.We have heard the learned Advocates for the Appellants and the learned APP for State.After giving our anxious consideration to the facts and circumstances of the case, arguments advanced by the learned Advocates for the parties, the Judgment delivered by the learned Additional URS 8 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 9 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc Sessions Judge and the evidence on record, for the reasons stated below, we are of the opinion that on facts prosecution succeeded but for want of proper compliance of Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, trial vitiates and judgment and order of conviction and sentence needs to be quashed and set aside.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::The fact of homicidal death is seriously in dispute.As such, exclusive burden lies on the prosecution to not only overrule the possibility of natural, accidental or suicidal death but also to prove homicidal death beyond reasonable doubt by reliable and convincing evidence.To establish the factum of homicidal death, prosecution has relied upon -(i) Inquest panchanama,(ii) Medical evidence and(iii) Circumstantial evidence.(i) Inquest panchanama -Accused have not disputed genuineness of inquest URS 9 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 10 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc panchanama (Exh.52).It was drawn on 21/03/2007 between 8.40 to 9.30 hours at Bhagwati Hospital dead house, Borivali (West).It can be seen from the panchanama that several injuries were noticed on the head, forehead, right hand, right wrist and right arm.These injuries clearly indicate that the death in question was unnatural.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(ii) Medical evidence -After inquest panchanama was drawn, dead body was sent for post-mortem examination.PW 13 Dr.On 21/03/2007, Dr.Sanap received the dead body of Mahendra Devichand Mehta through Kasturba Marg Police Station for post-mortem.On the same day he conducted post-mortem between 1.30 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. He noticed the following external injuries on the dead body -i) Incised wounds over left hand, index finger 1 st phalgnx posteriorly, size 4cm X 2 cm X bone URS 10 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 11 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc deep, over ring finger, size 2cm X 2cm X 1cm, over wrist, size 4cm X 3cm X bone deep and over thumb, size 3cm X 1cm X bone deep.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::ii) Incised wound over left arm size 7cm X 6cm X muscle deep.iii) Incised wound over scalp, forehead 3cm X 1cm X 1cm and 5.3cm X 1cm X bone deep and over occipital area 3cm X 1cm X bone deep.iv) Incised wound over right shoulder 3cm X 1cm X muscle deep, over right arm 6cm X 2cm X muscle deep, over right wrist 7cm X 3cm X muscle deep and 6cm X 3cm X bone deep, over right dorsam of hand, thumb cut completely of SBC, size 6.3cm X 5cm X bone deep.On internal examination, Dr.Sanap noticed the following injuries -::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::According to PW 13 Dr.Sanap, all the injuries were ante-mortem and caused by sharp and hard cutting object like chopper, sword, etc. The probable cause of death opined by PW 13 Dr.Sanap was haemorrhage and shock due to multiple injuries.PW 13 Dr.Sanap opined that it was an unnatural death.Post-mortem report was proved at Exh.59A.Sanap stated that such injuries could be possible by assault with weapon like chopper and spear (Arts.1 and 2).In this connection, it was vehemently contended by Mr. Chitnis, learned Senior Advocate for Appellants, that deceased met with an accidental death.Referring to the nature of injuries stated by PW 13 Dr.Mr. Chitnis pointed that ADR entry was deliberately suppressed as the death was due to accident.He submitted that had ADR entry been produced, the truth would have come to the light.In view of the submissions advanced on behalf of the Appellants, relevant ADR entry No.22/2007 was called by URS 12 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 13 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc us and verified.The learned APP has produced its true copy on record which shows the history of homicidal death and not an accidental death, as submitted by the learned Senior Advocate for Appellants.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::On ADR, evidence of PW 19 PSI Chandrakant Mandavkar is important.On 21/03/2007, he received a telephonic message at around 7.05 a.m. that Mahendra was admitted to the hospital for treatment and it was a MLC case.He communicated the information to PW 22 PI Dalvi and proceeded to the hospital.He found Mahendra in ICU undergoing treatment.He stated that Mahendra was not in a condition to make statement and expired at 7.45 a.m. His brother PW 1 Mukesh was in the hospital.PSI Mandavkar inquired from Mukesh.On inquiry, he recorded the report (Exh.47) as per the say of Mukesh.In view of the evidence of PW 19 PSI Mandavkar and true copy of ADR entry No.22/2007 which came to be URS 13 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 14 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc verified from the original register, we do not find merit in the contention raised by the learned Senior Advocate for the Appellants that the death in question was an accidental death.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::Further it is significant to note that before the trial Court, factum of homicidal death was not seriously in dispute.The defence set up in cross-examination of PW-13 Dr.Sanap was that injuries which were found during post-mortem could be caused by fall from any height on hard and blunt object.It indicates that there is no consistency in the defence raised by the accused.On the other hand, we find overwhelming evidence in the form of inquest panchanama, post-mortem report supported by testimony of PW 13 Dr.Sanap which exclusively tilts in favour of homicidal death overruling the complete possibility of natural, accidental or suicidal death.We, therefore, do not find any reason to take a view different then taken by the trial Court on the mode and cause of death of Mahendra Mehta.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(iii) Circumstantial evidence -In addition to uncontroverted inquest panchanama (Exh.52), post-mortem report (Exh.59A) and Cause of Death Certificate (Exh.83), prosecution has placed strong reliance on the following circumstances -Oral dying declaration to PW 1 Mukesh.(D) Discovery of the incriminating articles.circumstances would be necessary at an appropriate stage.Suffice it to state that prosecution could establish the above circumstances through the evidence of PW1 Mukesh Mehta, PW3 Rakesh Jain, PW4 Mahesh Vyas, PW6 Mitesh Shah, PW8, Kishor Nikam, PW11 Manoj Shah, PW-14 Radheshyam Bind, PW15 Sultan Siddhiqui, PW16 Sandeep Jain, PW17 Ismail Khan, PW18 Sanjay Jain, PW20 Ankush Chavan, PW22 PI URS 15 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 16 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc Raghunath Dalvi, PW23 PI Sunil Darekar and PW26 PI Ramakant Pimple.These circumstances too indicate that the death in question was a homicidal death.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::To prove the authorship of the accused and to attribute the specific role to each of them in commission of act also prosecution relied upon the aforesaid circumstances.After two days, PW 3 Rakesh had been to Dahisar Police Station and informed police that he saw a lady and a man at the gate of Ravi Kiran building and also two persons each on two URS 17 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 18 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc motor bikes.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(ii) On 08/05/2007, PW 3 Rakesh was called at Thane prison for identification parade.(iv) On 25/06/2007, TIP was held in Arthur Road prison in respect to accused no.4 Shabbir.PW 3 Rakesh could not URS 18 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 19 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc identify accused no.4 Shabbir in TIP and mis-identified accused no.3 Raju @ Dheknya during the parade.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(v) From the entire evidence of PW 3 Rakesh, it is apparent that he had seen accused nos.5 and 6 at the gate of Ravi Kiran building and accused no.1 sitting on the motorbike.(vi) The next eye witness examined by the prosecution is PW 4 Mahesh Vyas.He used to go to Jain Milk Dairy early in the morning for bringing milk.He stated that on 21/03/2007 at about 6.00 a.m., he was returning home after purchasing milk.Near Maru General Store, he heard shouts.He looked to the direction of shouts and saw four persons snatching away a bag from the hands of one person.He stated that the person holding the bag was resisting.According to PW 4 Mahesh, out of four persons, two assaulted the person with sharp edged weapons and remaining two caught hold the victim.He saw two motorbikes parked to the left side of place of incident.He URS 19 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 20 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc stated that after assault, assailants ran away with their motorbikes in the Southern direction.However in the Court, he identified accused no.5 Rakesh Bachchawat holding the victim and accused no.2 Vishal assaulting the victim.So far as accused no.3 Raju @ Dheknya is concerned, PW 4 Mahesh identified him in the TIP as well as in Court.However in the TIP conducted on 25/06/2007, PW 4 Mahesh identified accused no.4 Shabbir, he could not name the accused in Court.In respect to accused no.2 Vishal and accused no.3 Raju @ Dheknya, his evidence is consistent.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(vii) Another eye witness is PW6 Mitesh Shah, who was going to National Park for morning walk.When he reached the main road, he heard shouts "Bachao, Bachao".PW 6 Mitesh turned back and saw two persons holding the victim and two snatching bag from the victim.The assailants assaulted the URS 20 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 21 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc victim with sharp edged weapons.After assault, all four went away on two motorbikes parked near the place of incident.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::Thereafter PW 6 Mitesh went near the victim lying in pool of blood.After two days, he informed Dahisar police about the incident.(viii) In the TIP held on 08/05/2007, PW 6 Mitesh identified accused no.1 James, on 25/06/2007 he identified accused no.4 Shabbir during TIP.(ix) The evidence of PW 3 Rakesh, PW 4 Mahesh and PW 6 Mitesh is assailed by the defence on several grounds.Those are -(i) Vimal Mehta who informed PW 3 Rakesh, not examined.(ii) PW 4 Mahesh Vyas introduced a new story that injured person went to Jain Milk Dairy and made phone call to his house.(iii) Delay in recording statements of these witnesses not explained.In support, reliance is placed on Lahu Kamlakar Patil and Another V/s.State of Maharashtra1(iv) Their evidence on identification of the accused is confusing, concocted and forged.1 (2013) 6 Supreme Court Cases 417 URS 21 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 22 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(v) The testimonies of PW 3 Rakesh, PW 4 Mahesh and PW 6 Mitesh are not consistent and cannot be relied.(x) On going through the entire evidence of PW 3 Rakesh, PW 4 Mahesh and PW 6 Mitesh, it can be seen that their evidence in respect to manner of occurrence of incident is cogent and consistent.Except a minor contradiction in the evidence of PW 6 Mitesh, nothing substantial could be elicited in the piercing cross-examination of the eye witnesses.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::The proceedings were noted by PW 17 SEO Khan.Then PW 3 Rakesh was sent to different room.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::Then dummies, accused and panchanama of TIP were handed over to the Investigating Officer.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(xv) On the same day, PW 17 SEO Khan conducted identification parade in Arthur Road prison.In the parade, PW 3 Rakesh Jain identified accused no.6 Swapnali as the lady standing at the gate of Ravi Kiran building.Its separate memorandum was drawn by PW 17 SEO Khan.(xvi) At the time of second parade held on 05/06/2007, accused Raju @ Dheknya Thakre was subjected to identification parade.Shaku Qureshi and Ramsagar were the panch witnesses.PW 17 SEO Khan stated that 3 identifying witnesses Rakesh Jain, Mahesh Vyas and Mitesh Shah were called at Arthur Road prison.He selected six dummies.Accused no.3 Raju stood in between dummy nos.3 and 4 as per his wish.Then identifying witnesses were called one by one.They identified accused no.3 Raju in the identification parade.Memorandum of identification parade (Exh.90) was accordingly drawn.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::same procedure as followed in the earlier parades, this identification parade was held.Identifying witnesses PW 3 Rakesh Jain, PW 4 Mahesh Vyas and PW 6 Mitesh Shah identified accused no.4 Shabbir @ Khadda in the TIP.There is no reason to disbelieve the same.There was no animosity between identifying witnesses, SEO who conducted TIPs on one hand and the accused on the other.In our view, the evidence of eye witnesses and PW 17 SEO Khan inspires confidence and clearly establishes the manner of incident of assault on Mahendra and the role played by each of the accused in occurrence of incident.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(C) Oral dying declaration to PW 1 Mukesh -To prove oral dying declaration, prosecution examined PW-1 Mukesh Mehta.He is the real brother of deceased Mahendra.It is stated by Mukesh that on 21.3.2007, in the morning at around 6.30 a.m. when he was sleeping in the house, his wife Mamta received a phone call of Veena Mehta, wife of his real brother Vimal Mehta asking her to send Mukesh immediately as Mahendra met with an accident.Therefore, his wife woke him up and informed the message of Veena.Immediately, Mukesh rushed to the house of Mahendra.On the way,he saw Mahendra lying in URS 27 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 28 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc injured condition on the road near his house.At the same time, his father arrived there.Mukesh inquired from Mahendra what had happened.On that, Mahendra told him that four persons arrived on two motor bikes.They were snatching his bag and he resisted the same.Those persons then assaulted him.When Mukesh asked him about identity of those four persons Mahendra told that they were unknown to him.Thereafter, Mahendra fell semi-unconscious and he was taken to Bhagwati Hospital in a rickshaw.He was declared as dead by Medical Officer.Mukesh proved Exh. 47 report lodged by him after Mahendra was declared dead.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::On going through the evidence of Mukesh, it is apparent that Mahendra did not name accused persons.From the evidence of Mukesh, at the most it can be said that Mahendra met with homicidal death.So far as authorship of the accused to cause death of Mahendra is concerned, evidence of Mukesh is not helpful to the prosecution as deceased had not implicated the appellants/accused in the commission of alleged act.(D) Discovery of incriminating articles -::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::On discovery under Section 27 of the Evidence Act the learned Senior Counsel for accused Nos. 1,3 and 4 relied upon Prabhoo V/s.State of Uttar Pradesh2 in which it has been held that -The main difficulty in the case is that the evidence regarding the recovery of blood stained axe and blood stained shirt and dhoti is not very satisfactory and the courts below were wrong in admitting certain statements alleged to have been made by the appellant in connection with that recovery.According to the recovery memo the two witnesses who were present when the aforesaid articles were produced by the appellant were Lal Bahadur Singh and Wali Mohammad.He did give evidence about the production of blood stained articles from his house by the appellant.The witness said that the appellant produced the articles from a tub on the eastern side of the house.The witness did not, however, say that the appellant made any statements relating to the recovery.Wali Mohammad was not examined at all.This witness said that a little before the recovery the Sub- Inspector of Police took the appellant into custody and interrogated him; then the appellant gave out that the axe with which the murder had been committed and his blood stained shirt and dhoti were in the house and the appellant was prepared to produce them.These statements to which Dobi Baksh (PW 3) deposed were not admissible in evidence.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::Section 27 provides that when any fact is deposed to and discovered in consequence of information received from a person accused of any offence, in the custody of a police officer, so much of such information, whether it amounts to a confession or not, as relates distinctly to the fact thereby discovery may be URS 30 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 31 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc proved.In Pulukuri Kotayya v. King Emperor the Privy Council considered the true interpretation of Section 27 and said :::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::On going through the evidence of PW-8 Kishor Nikam, it can be seen that he was called by Police Officer Darekar to act as a Panch.Accused No.4 Shabbir was in police custody that time.It is stated by PW-8 Kishor that accused Shabbir made a statement to discover chopper and pant, which was thrown by him near Naigaon.The statement of Shabbir was accordingly recorded.It is further stated by PW-8 Kishor that after memorandum was drawn, Shabbir led them to Naigaon.He discovered a pant and chopper which were lying between the trees.He proved memorandum and recovery panchanama accordingly.Nothing substantial could be elicited in the cross-23, Investigating Officer - Sunil Darekar.On 12.6.2007, he voluntarily gave a memorandum URS 32 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 33 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc in the presence of Panch witnesses to discover chopper and pant.He stated that chopper and pant were recovered at the instance of Shabbir near a field at Naigaon.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::Memorandum and Panchanama exhibits 69 and 70 are duly proved by the Investigating Officer and Panch Witnesses.There is no reason to disbelieve their testimonies.Trial Court has properly appreciated the evidence on discovery and there is no reason for us to interfere with the same.So far as accused No.3 Raju @ Dheknya is concerned, evidence of PW-18 will have to be looked into.One Police Officer requested him to act as Panch.So he accompanied the Officer to Police Station.Accused Raju gave memorandum in his presence to discover a chopper and a pant.It is stated by PW-18 Sanjay that after memorandum, accused Raju discovered chopper and clothes in their presence.None of the accused persons except accused No.3 cross-examined this witness.Nothing otherwise could be brought by accused No.3 in the cross-examination to discard the URS 33 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 34 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc testimony of Panch Witness Sanjay.His evidence is fully corroborated by PW-23 PI Darekar.We are, therefore, not inclined to take a view different than one taken by the trial court in this regard.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(E) Recovery of clothes at the instance of accused no.1 from the flat of accused no.6 -On 28.4.2007, he was called at Unit No XII of DCB, CID.Accordingly, he went there.He stated that one person in custody of police gave his name as Jambo.He made a statement to discover his Shirt, Banyan, Pant and a Mobile.According to PW-11 Manoj, after memorandum, Jambo led them in a jeep to a flat in Udisha Apartment, Room No. 501, owned by accused No.6 - Swapnali.A person by name Sharad Mahadik was present there.Jambo made discovery of Jeans Pant, Banyan and a Mobile Phone of Nokia Company.These articles were seized and Seizure Panchanama Exhibit 78 was drawn.No plausible explanation was given by accused No.1 Jambo and accused No.6 Swapnali in respect of recovery of clothes from the house of accused No.6 - Swapnali.This is the most clinching circumstance against accused No.1 Jambo and accused No.6 Swapnali.We find no reason to disbelieve the same.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::(F) Recovery of motor bikes -This motor bike was recovered at the instance of accused No.2 Vishal Chauhan.In this connection, PW-20 ASI Ankush Chavan stated that on 24.4.2007, the abovesaid motor bike was recovered at the instance of accused Vishal Chauhan.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::Another motor bike bearing No. MH-01/HA-802 was sold by PW-15 Sultan Siddiqui, who runs a Shop "City Motors".PW-15 deals in sales and purchases of old motor bikes.He identified accused No.1 Jambo in the dock.This motor bike was recovered at the instance of accused by PW-22 P.I.Raghunath Dalvi.Memorandum Exhibit 108 given by accused No.1 to discover the said motor bike and discovery panchanama of the motor bike Exhibit 109 are proved by PW-22 - P.I. Raghunath Dalvi.Accused No.1 Jambo and accused No.2 Vishal Chauhan could not elicit anything adverse in the cross-examination of these witnesses.According to prosecution, deceased Mahendra Mehta was known to accused No. 7 - Vishal Jain.On 19.3.2007, PW-16 - Sandip Jain alongwith Mahendra Mehta had been to Zaveri Bazar, Mumbai for purchasing gold chain.At around 4.00 p.m. when they were proceeding to Zaveri URS 36 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 37 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc Bazar, accused No.7 Vishal Jain met them near the shop where he was working.It is alleged that accused No.7 - Vishal Jain passed on this information to accused No.5 Rakesh Bacchawat, who then, with the help of other accused planned to rob Mahendra and accordingly, the plan was executed on 21.3.2007 when Mahendra was proceeding towards railway-station to catch the train.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::The trial court has relied upon the confessional statement of Vishal Jain recorded by learned Magistrate Mr. Agrawal.It is apparent from confessional statement Exhibit 106 that the same is exculpatory.Accused Vishal Jain does not implicate him in the entire confession made before URS 37 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 38 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc PW-21 Mr. Agrawal.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::There is no evidence to show that he passed on the information to accused No.5 Rakesh Bacchawat.In the absence of such link, we find that evidence against accused No.7 is not sufficient to convict him.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::Even so, there must be material to show that the overt act or acts of one or more of the accused was or were done in furtherance of the common intention of all the accused or in prosecution of the common object of the members of the unlawful assembly.In this case, such evidence is lacking and hence the appellants cannot be held liable for the individual act of A-16."4 (1989) 3 Supreme Court Cases 605 URS 39 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 ::: 40 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:34 :::In the light of the ab
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on facts
in fact
6 and 7 even according to prosecution was limited
as accused Nos. 5 and 6 were guarding at the gate of the building and accused No.7 passed on the information to accused No.5
who
executed the plan.The statements under Section 313 of the Code URS 58 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:35 ::: 59 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc were recorded just by cut-copy-paste.Most of the questions put to each of the accused were irrelevant and misleading.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:35 :::The accused have demonstrated from the questions put to them that serious prejudice has occasioned to them as statements were recorded in the total disregard of the provisions of Section 313 of the Cr.P.C. In this premise we are not inclined to order retrial from the stage at which provisions of Section 313 of the Cr.P.C. were not complied with.In the result
appeals succeed.Accordingly
we pass the following order :-[a] The impugned judgment and order of conviction and sentence in Sessions Case No. 642 of 2007
passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge
Greater Bombay
is hereby quashed and set aside ;[b] The accused are acquitted of the offence punishable under Section 396 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code.[c] Accused Nos.1 to 5 and 7 who are in jail shall be released forthwith
if not otherwise required in any URS 59 of 60 ::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:35 ::: 60 CrAppeal 415.10.Gr.doc other case.::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:35 :::[e] Registry to communicate this order to the accused in jail through the concerned jail authorities.[f] We quantify fees to be paid by the High Court Legal Services Committee to the appointed Advocate Mr. A.V. Bedekar at Rs. 5000/-.[SMT.I.K. JAIN
J] [SMT.V.K.TAHILRAMANI
J] grt/-::: Downloaded on - 24/04/2015 00:00:35 :::"
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 397 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
Analyze the legal case and identify the corresponding section it comes under.
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Prosecution case, as alleged, against the appellant is to the effect that a matrimonial dispute was pending between him and his wife, Rakhi Singha, the deceased.Maintenance proceeding was instituted by Rakhi against the appellant.Appellant failed and/or neglected to pay maintenance dues and was taken into custody.Out of grudge, in the night between 25/26th July, 2008 while Rakhi was sleeping with her sister Sikha Singha, P.W.1 at the Paikpara residence, the appellant attacked her.Hearing the shouts of her sister, Sikha woke up and found her sister with a deep cut injury on her neck.She saw the appellant running away with a 'batali' (a sharp cutting weapon) in his hand.Sikha chased him but he succeeded to flee away.She sent information about the unfortunate incident to her mother Dulali Singha, P.W.2 through a taxi driver.Dulali and other relations who were residing in a nearby house rushed to the spot.The victim was taken to hospital but was declared dead.From the analysis of the evidence on record, it appears that P.W.1, Sikha Singha is the most vital witness in the instant case.She deposed she was sleeping with her sister Rakhi Singha on the fateful night.After dinner they had gone off to sleep around 12.30 a.m. Suddenly, she woke up hearing shouts of her sister and found Rakhi bleeding from her neck.She also noted Ananda, her brother-in-law trying to flee away with a batali.She chased him but he succeeded in escaping.She informed the matter to her mother through a taxi driver.Her mother and other sisters arrived at the spot.The victim was taken to Beniagram Hospital where the doctor declared her dead.She further deposed Ananda, her brother-in-law had been taken into custody for non-payment of maintenance dues in connection with a maintenance case.He had threatened to kill his wife, Rakhi if the case was not withdrawn.She was extensively cross-examined with regard to a dispute over land between themselves and their uncle Haripada.However, cross-examination of the witness did not dislodge her from her stance that she was present at the place of occurrence when her sister was assaulted on the neck and that she had seen the appellant run away from the place of occurrence.Evidence of P.W.1 is corroborated by her mother P.W.2, Dulali Singha and other sisters, viz., P.W.3, Sanju Singh, P.W.8, Anuradha Singha and P.W.10, Priyanka Singha.These witnesses deposed upon hearing the incident they rushed to the spot and found Rakhi in bleeding condition.Cut injury in the Larynx, blood in the traks.Both the Larynx congested and cut injury in the cardiatic vessels (Lt. Side)."He opined that death was due to hemorrhage, shock and hypoxia and ante-mortem in nature.P.W.13, Manik Lal Dey, is the investigating officer in the instant case.He proved the formal first information report.He went to the hospital at 5.45 a.m. in the morning.AS/SS & PA Item No.221 IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Present:The Hon'ble Justice Joymalya Bagchi and The Hon'ble Justice Tirthankar Ghosh C.R.A.287 of 2011 Ananda SinghaState of West Bengal.For the Appellant : Mr. Shataroop Purkayastha, Adv.The appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 28.7.2010 and 29.7.2010 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, 4th Fast Track Court, Jangipur, Murshidabad in Sessions Trial No.206/June/09 arising out of Sessions Sl.No.05/09 convicting the appellant for commission of offence punishable under Sections 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay fine of Rs.5,000/- in default to suffer further rigorous imprisonment for six months more.On the next day, Sikha lodged written complaint scribed by P.W.9 at the police station resulting in registration of Farraka P.S. Case No.107 of 2008 dated 26.7.2008 under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.In the course of investigation, police seized the weapon of offence and other articles.The appellant was arrested.In conclusion of investigation, charge sheet was filed and charge was framed against the appellant under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.The appellant pleaded not guilty and claimed to be tried.In the course of trial, prosecution examined 13 witnesses and exhibited a number of documents.In conclusion of trial, trial judge by impugned judgement and order dated 28.7.2010 and 29.7.2010 convicted and sentenced the appellant, as aforesaid.Taxi driver who informed the other witnesses has not been examined.Name of the appellant did not transpire before the doctor to whom the victim had been taken and was declared dead.There was enmity between the family of the deceased and one Haripada Singha, their paternal uncle.Hence, possibility of murder committed at the behest of Haripada cannot be ruled out.Hence, it is argued that the appellant may be acquitted.On the other hand, Mr. Arun Kumar Maity, learned Additional Public Prosecutor submitted that P.W.1 a natural witness to the incident who woke up and saw the appellant running away from the spot with a batali.Immediately after the incident, first information report was registered and post mortem doctor corroborated the evidence of P.W.1 with regard to the nature of injury caused on the deceased.Weapon of offence was also recovered from the place of occurrence probabilising the prosecution case.Hence, the appeal is liable to be dismissed.She was removed to hospital where she was declared dead.P.W.4, Dr. Sajal Pandit, Medical Officer at Beniagram B.P.H.C. deposed Rakhi was brought to the Health Centre by her mother and others where she was declared dead.P.W.7, Dr. Md. Hamid Ali, post mortem doctor found the following injuries on her person:-"cut injury on the left side of the neck, 1 " X 1"X 3", below the Angle of the mandible, slightly oblique.He held inquest over the dead body of Rakhi.He examined witnesses and seized articles including weapon of offence from place of occurrence.He seized wearing apparels of Rakhi (P.W.12).He handed over the investigation to S.I., Surajit Sadhukhan who sent the seized articles for F.S.L. examination and submitted charge sheet.Evidence of P.W.1 is, therefore, corroborated not only by her relations viz., P.W.3, P.W.8 and P.W.10 who rushed to the place of occurrence soon after the incident but also by P.W.7, post mortem doctor who noted a cut injury on the left side of the neck.Hence, ocular version of P.W.1 appears to find support from the medical evidence with regard to the manner of assault on the deceased resulting in her death.Her version is criticised by the learned Advocate appearing for the appellant on the score there was no light in the room.It is also argued that it is unnatural that P.W.1 did not sustain any injury on her person during the assault.I am unable to accept such contention.P.W.1 has categorically stated in the FIR that light was burning in the room at the time of occurrence.Her presence in the room along with her sister at night is most natural.P.W. 1 woke up upon hearing cries of her sister and saw the appellant running away with a batali.Faint plea with regard to animosity between the victim's family and their uncle is of little relevance.Motive of the appellant to commit crime has clearly been established.He had been detained for non-payment of maintenance dues and had threatened his wife.Thereafter he came to her residence and assaulted her.In the light of the aforesaid discussion, I am of the opinion that the prosecution case against the appellant is proved beyond reasonable doubt.Copy of the judgment along with L.C.R.s be sent down to the trial court at once.Urgent Photostat Certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied expeditiously after complying with all necessary legal formalities.I agree.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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2.The prosecution case is that the appellant/Murugan had physical intimacy with the victim on the promise that he will marry her.But he went back on his words.As a result of the appellant's conduct, the marriage that was scheduled to be performed between the victim and her relative was also stopped.In this regard, victim lodged Ex.The learned counsel for the appellant also submitted that having regard to the evidence on record, he would not challenge the conviction imposed on the appellant under Section 417 of I.P.C. He only wants leniency to be shown in the matter of punishment.The appellant appears to have spent 45 days in prison.The appellant also comes forward to pay a sum of Rs.30,000/- as compensation to the victim.The appellant also undertakes to execute an affidavit conveying his unconditional apology to the victim for what he has done.The appellant was tried along with three others in Spl.The appellant was convicted for the offence under Section 417 of I.P.C. and Section 3(1)(xii) of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989 and sentenced to undergo one year rigorous imprisonment for each offence.He was also sentenced to pay a sum of Rs.10,000/- as fine.The other accused were acquitted.Questioning the same, this criminal appeal has been filed.P.1/complaint.Since the offences under Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe were also involved, the investigation was done by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Samayanallur.Final report was filed before the learned Judicial Magistrate No.VI, Maduari.The case committed to Sessions Court in P.R.C.No.116 of 2006 and was taken up for trial in Spl.S.C.No.147 of 2008, on the file of the learned III Additional Sessions Judge (PCR), Madurai.Charges were framed against all the accused as follows:-“1st charge : Cheating by the 1st accused by false representations that he would marry the complainant and thereby punishable u/s 417 IPC against 1st accused, 2nd charge : Committing rape of the complainant by 1st accused u/s 376 IPC against the 1st accused, 3rd charge : Committing criminal breach of trust by selling 4gm gold stud belonging to the complainant, punishable u/s 406 IPC against 1st accused, 4th charge : Committed an offence of cheating by misrepresenting the complainanthttp://www.judis.nic.in 4 regarding causing miscarriage punishable u/s 417 IPC against A1 to A4, 5th charge : Against A2 to A4 committed an offence causing miscarriage to the complainant punishable u/s 312 IPC, 6th charge : Against A1 to A4 intentionally insulted a member of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe and the complainant being a woman belonging to the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe, exploited her sexually to which she would not have agreed punishable u/s 3(1)(x) and 3(1)(xii) of SC/ST(PA) Act.” Accused pleaded not guilty and claimed to be tried.On the side of the accused no evidence was adduced.4.The learned Trial Judge after a detailed consideration of the evidence on record acquitted A2 to A4 but convicted and sentenced the appellant herein as mentioned above.Her testimony evokes the confidence ofhttp://www.judis.nic.in 5 this Court.The victim belongs to a notified Scheduled Caste community.The appellant belongs to Kallar community.The victim was working in the field of the appellant's father.Section 3(1)(xii) of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989, reads as under:-“Being in a position to dominate the will of a woman belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe and uses that position to exploit her sexually to which she would not have other agreed;”5.The learned counsel appearing for the appellant brings it to my notice that apart from Section 3(1)(xii) of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989, the appellant was charged for offence of rape.The appellant was also acquitted of the charge under Section 376 of I.P.C. He therefore contends that when once the appellant is acquitted of the charge of rape, the charge under Section 3(1)(xii) of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities Act), 1989, also has to go as a natural corollary.In this regard, the learned counsel forhttp://www.judis.nic.in 6 the appellant drew my attention to a decision of the Honourable Kerala High Court made in Crl.A.No.865 of 2006, (Thomas Kashy Vs.State of Kerala) dated 06.03.2013 in paragraphs 10 and 13 of the said decision, the Honourable High Court held that when the finding is to the effect that there was no rape or forceble sexual assault, it becomes difficult to understand how the victim can be sexually exploited.6.Now comes the question as to whether the conviction imposed on the appellant under Section 417 of I.P.C. will have to be maintained.The appellant is directed to deposit a sum of Rs.30,000/- to the credit of Spl.S.C.No.147 of 2008, on the file of the learned III Additional Sessions Judge (PCR), Madurai, within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment.The Court below shall hand over the compensation amount of Rs.30,000/- to the victim along with a copy of affidavit of apology to be executed by the appellant.This Court condemns the appellant for having taken a false defence before the Court below that he never had any relationship with the victim.That is why a direction to executehttp://www.judis.nic.in 8 an affidavit of apology has been issued.If the appellant fails to comply with the direction now given namely., deposit of compensation of Rs.30,000/- within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this judgment and execution of the affidavit of apology, the sentence imposed by the Court below for the offence under Section 417 of I.P.C. will stand restored.Criminal Appeal is partly allowed.1.The III Additional Sessions Judge (PCR), Madurai.2.The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Samayanallur, Nagamalai Pudukkottai Police Station, Madurai District.http://www.judis.nic.in 9 G.R.SWAMINATHAN,J.ias Crl.A.(MD)No.62 of 2011 19.07.2019http://www.judis.nic.in
['Section 417 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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C.R.R. 3137 of 2006 SB Ct. No. 34 + C.R.A.N. 1650 of 2006 In Re : Mr. Shyamal Dey None appears for the parties.No accommodation is sought for.I find from the records of the case that C.R.A.N. 1650 of 2006 was filed by way of a joint compromise petition at the instance of both the petitioner and the opposite parties for withdrawal of criminal case being C.G.R. No. 2173/2003 arising out of Bhowanipore P.S. Case No. 182 dated 04.08.2003 under sections 120B/420/467/468/471/477a/408 of the Indian Penal Code.The application so filed was not pursued.The revisional application being C.R.R. 3137 of 2006 along with C.R.A.N. 1650 of 2006 as such is dismissed.(Tirthankar Ghosh, J.)
['Section 467 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard, Case-diary perused.As per prosecution story, 04/01/2020 complainant/prosecutix lodged an F.LR.against the present applicant that applicant is working with heruncle namely Manoj Meena, they are working in home loan business.On 03/11/2019 applicant came to house of prosecutix to collect the loan file, when prosecutix open the door, after that applicant collect the loan file and committed rape with her, on same day she informed to her father and mother but they did not lodged the FIR, again on 03/01/2020 applicant came to house of prosectix and try to commited rape with her, but due to shouting applicant run away from spot.She informed to her father and mother thereafter they lodged the FIR.Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant is innocent and he has falsely been implicated in the present crime.Even then, they have not taken any action against the applicant nor an FIR was lodge.There is no criminal antecedents against the applicant.Now the investigation is over and charge-sheet has been filed.Conclusion of trial will take considerable time.Under these circumstances, learned counsel for the applicant prays for grant of bail to the applicant.Learned Public Prosecutor as well as learned counsel for the complainant/objector submits that no sufficient ground is made out for releasing the applicant on bail, hence the application filed by the applicant be dismissed.Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and the arguments advanced by learned counsel for the parties, but without commenting on the merits of the case, the application filed by the applicant is allowed.The applicant is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand only) with one solvent surety of the like amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court for his regular appearance before the trial Court during trial with a condition that he shall remain present before the court concerned during trial and shall also abide by the conditions enumerated under Section 437(3) Cr.P.C. In case of bail jump this order shall become ineffective.Certified copy as per rules.(S.K. AWASTHI) JUDGE Vibha Vibha Pachori 2020.09.08 10:35:52 +05'30'
['Section 3 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 450 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Both the appeals arising out of a common judgment have been argued together and are being disposed of by a common judgment.Present appeals have been instituted under Section 374 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.) against the judgment dated 10.11.2014 and order on sentence dated 13.11.2014 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge (Trial Court) in Sessions Case 08/2014 arising from FIR 17/2013 Police Station Ambedkar Nagar, by virtue of which both the appellants have been convicted under Section Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 1 of 42 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as IPC) and sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for life with a fine of Rs.20,000/- each and in default of payment of fine, to further undergo simple imprisonment for one year.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 1 of 42The present case pertains to the murder of one Rohit (deceased) at the hands of the appellants and one Asif (declared juvenile in conflict with law JCL)."1. DD No.51-A regarding stabbing of a person near the bus stop of Bus Route No. 521, Sector 5, Ambedkar Nagar, was received in Police Station Ambedkar Nagar on 14.01.2013 and the said DD was marked to ASI Mam Chand for necessary action.After receiving the DD No.51- A, ASI Mam Chand along with Ct.Ram Avtar reached near bus stand 521, the road dividing C and D Block, Dakshin Puri, but could not find any public witness there.Police officials came to know that injured has been taken to hospital in PCR Van.In the meanwhile, staff of the beat also reached the spot.ASI Mam Chand left beat HC Ratan Lal and Ct.Vineet at the spot and proceeded to Trauma Centre, AIIMS with HC Ram Avtar and in the hospital collected the MLC of Rohit Gupta s/o Sh.Rakesh Kumar Gupta, The injured was declared dead in the hospital by the concerned Doctor and no public witness was found at the hospital.ASI Mam Chand came at the spot and found lot of blood there.No public witness was found at the spot.Hence, an FIR u/s. 302 IPC, PS Ambedkar Nagar was Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 2 of 42 lodged and investigation was marked to the SHO PS Ambedkar Nagar Inspector Abhay Singh Yadav, the then SHO PS Ambedkar Nagar.The spot was got inspected by the crime team, photographs were taken.Investigating Officer prepared the site plan of the spot.Investigating Officer collected the chappals of the deceased, earth control and blood samples from the spot and got them sealed in sealed pullanda and deposited the same in the police station.Thereafter Himanshu, brother of the deceased, came to the spot and Investigating Officer recorded the statement of Himanshu.Himanshu in his statement u/s 161 Cr.PC stated that he is running a dhaba at Bus Stand Route No. 521, Dakshin Puri and his brother Rohit used to come to his dhaba occasionally to assist him.On 14.01.2013, at about 11 pm when Himanshu and deceased Rohit were in the process of closing the dhaba, accused Raj Kumar @ Lala, Rahul @ Bhuri and Asif, who were known to Himanshu came to the dhaba and demanded food from Rohit.Rohit told them that dhaba has been closed and food is not available.On hearing this accused Raj Kumar and his associates started abusing Rohit.Himanshu intervened and rescued his brother and accused Raj Kumar @ Lala, Rahul @ Bhuri and Asif left the dhaba.After sometime, Himanshu and Rohit closed the dhaba and started going to their house.Himanshu was 20-25 steps ahead of Rohit, when all of a sudden Rohit cried and when Himanshu turned back, he found that Raj Kumar, Rahul and Asif were fighting with Rohit.Himanshu was terribly scared.After sometime, PCR Van came to the spot and took Rohit to Trauma Centre.Himanshu reached Trauma Centre after sometime and found that Rohit was unable to speak and Rohit was declared dead by the Doctor.Himanshu was highly perturbed and stayed outside the hospital for one and half hour.After sometime, when Himanshu became normal, he went to his house and from the house he went to the spot.Himanshu specifically stated in his statement u/s 161 Cr.PC that accused Raj Kumar, Rahul and Crl.Thereafter, Investigating Officer searched for the accused but the accused could not be found.The dead body was got identified by relatives.On 17.01.2013, Investigating Officer received a wireless message that three boys have been apprehended in case FIR No.18/13 and one of those boys is juvenile and those three boys have disclosed their involvement in the present case.On receiving this information, Investigating Officer along with his staff reached big park at H-Block, Dakshin Puri and Inspector Investigation presented the three boys to the Investigating Officer and told him that these three boys have admitted their involvement in the present case.The names of those boys came to be known as Asif, Raj Kumar and Rahul.Asif was found to be juvenile and separate proceedings were conducted with respect to Asif as per the directions of the Juvenile Justice Board.Accused Rahul @ Bhuri and Raj Kumar @ Lala were interrogated by the Investigating Officer and they were arrested in the present case.Accused Raj Kumar got recovered a knife used in the commission of the crime from the H-Block park, Dakshin Puri.chief deposed that his family consists of parents and three brothers including him.Rahul is the eldest brother, the deceased was the middle one, while he is the youngest.On 14.01.2013 at about 11:00 PM, he alongwith his elder brother/deceased were present in their dhaba and were closing down for the day.Three persons, being the appellants and Asif (JCL), came to his dhaba and demanded food to be served, to which his deceased brother declined and told that the Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 14 of 42 dhaba had closed for the day.They then started using abusive language and grappled with the deceased.He intervened and rescued his brother.Thereafter, all the three persons left.After 5-10 minutes of their leaving, they closed their shop and started walking towards their home.Somewhere before the park, he heard the cries of his deceased brother.On looking behind, he saw the appellant Raj Kumar stabbing the deceased 4-5 times on his thighs.The other two persons including appellant Rahul were holding his deceased brother.He started shouting due to which the appellants and Asif (JCL) fled away from the spot.He rushed towards the deceased, who was bleeding extensively and had fallen infront of the shop of PW-1 Sharwan.Thereafter, his neighbouring shopkeeper PW-1 Sharwan, who sells flowers, informed PCR officials.PCR vehicle came and took the deceased to Trauma Centre.PW-2 followed them to the Trauma Centre by an auto rickshaw.He was informed by the doctor that his brother had died.He became highly perturbed for 1-1 hour.Thereafter, he returned home and informed his parents as he was not carrying his phone at that time.He alongwith his family returned to the hospital at about 2:30/3:00 AM.His statement was recorded by the police in the hospital.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 14 of 42The witness was thoroughly cross-examined, where he stated that he had left the dhaba first and was followed by the deceased.At the time of the incident, there was no public witness around.He had tried to lift his brother up.The deceased had moved in the direction of their shop and had come near the flower shop of PW-1 Sharwan.All other shops in the area were closed and only the flower shop of PW-1 Sharwan was open, who was the first person to come near Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 15 of 42 them.The deceased had not stated anything to PW-1 at the time.He remained with the deceased till the PCR vehicle reached the spot and remained at the spot for about 25-30 minutes after PCR van left the spot.Police officials had started investigation when he left for the Trauma Centre.He further stated that he had first taken a lift on motorcycle from a passerby till the corner, from where he had taken an auto rickshaw.He categorically denied the suggestion that he had any conversation with the police officials who had come to the spot before he left for the Trauma Centre.Upon reaching the Trauma Centre, he first saw his brother and on seeing him, became perturbed and came out.He was unable to gather his senses for one and a half hour.It was only later that the doctor had informed him that his brother had died.At the stage, the PCR officials were still in the hospital.His statement was recorded by the PCR officer when he had returned to the hospital after visiting his house.From the hospital, he was taken to the scene of incident and later to the police station.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 15 of 42The only other public witness is PW-1 Sharwan Kumar who deposed that he is engaged in the business of selling flowers and has a shop opposite bus stop of route no.521 in the area of Dakshin Puri, New Delhi.A dhaba is run close to his shop by two brothers, namely Himanshu and Rahul along with their father who used to come off and on.On 14.01.2013 at about 11-11.30 PM, he saw deceased Rahul to have come and fallen in front of his flower shop with bleeding injuries.He informed the police on 100 number from his mobile 9716078703 and informed the Police officials.The deceased was drenched in blood.Thereafter, Police reached the spot.His statement was recorded by Police after a week or 10 days.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 16 of 42During cross-examination, he denied the suggestion that he had disclosed the name of the deceased to the police officials.He had known Rahul and his brother for over 2-2 years prior to the incident.He stated that he had left for home after the police had arrived at the spot.On the day, he was neither questioned by the police nor did he volunteer to make any statement to the police.He had informed PW-2 Himanshu using the same mobile phone.PW-2 Himanshu had arrived at the spot within 5-7 minutes of the telephone call.Thereafter, PW-1 left for his home.He had later enquired from PW-2 Himanshu and learnt that the Rahul had died.This conversation had been picked up by the elder brother Rohit and had taken place at about 1:30 AM.He further stated that the PCR officials had removed the injured/deceased to hospital in their official vehicle and PW-2 Himanshu had followed them in some other conveyance.He further stated that when he had called PW-2 Himanshu, he seemed perturbed and told that he was coming in his direction only.The information was received by PW-20 ASI Rameshwar, who was posted at K-55, PCR Van, who deposed that at about 11:35 PM, a call was received from the Control Room to the effect that one person had been stabbed near Bus Stand of Bus Route No.521 near Baba Street, Dakshin Puri.He along with his staff members reached the spot in the PCR Van where one person had sustained stab injuries on both thighs near groin region was lying there.They removed him to Trauma Centre, AIIMS.They came to know that the name of the injured was Rohit Gupta.During cross- examination, he stated that besides him, there was one driver and gunman in the PCR and no relative or friend of the injured was present.He stated that he cannot comment if the relatives or friends of the injured were present in the hospital as he did not know them.He further stated that when they were removing the injured in the van to the hospital, they were told by some person that his name was Rohit Gupta and he was running a dhaba in the vicinity.PW-20 had passed on the particulars at the time of preparation of MLC.PW-13 Ct.Jagbir was posted in Police Station Safdarjung Enclave and was on duty in the Trauma Centre, AIIMS.He deposed that sometime after midnight, PCR Van No.K-55, of which PW-20 ASI Rameshwar was the in-charge had brought an injured person, whose name was probably Rakesh and again said Rohit.He was examined by the doctor and declared brought dead.He had conveyed the information to PS Ambedkar Nagar on telephone.In his cross- examination, he stated that he had collected the name and address of the deceased person from the MLC.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 18 of 42PW-7 ASI Mam Chand deposed that on 14-15.01.2013 at about 11:50 PM, he had received the information through DD 51-A (Ex.PW-7/A), which was handed over by PW-15 HC Rattan Lal.Thereafter, he along with PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar reached the spot and noticed that blood was lying on the road.The injured was removed to the hospital.No eyewitness was available and in the meantime, PW-15 HC Rattan Lal and Ct.Vineet also came there.On his direction, PW-15 HC Rattan Lal and Ct.Vineet remained at the spot in order to guard the same; PW-7 proceeded with PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar to the Trauma Centre, AIIMS.The deceased was found admitted in an injured condition.He was declared dead by the doctor.He did not find any eyewitness in the hospital.He received the MLC and returned to the spot.But again, no eyewitness was present there.The copy of the FIR was brought by PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar at about 3 AM and handed over to the SHO.At that stage, one public witness PW-2 Himanshu in highly perturbed state came to the spot and told the facts about the incident to the SHO.PW-2 disclosed that he is the brother of the deceased and narrated the incident in detail also disclosing the names of the assailants.The SHO (PW-22) then took over the investigation and prepared the site plan, which had been signed by PW-7 as a witness.During cross-examination, PW-7 stated that when he had received DD 55-A, he was outside the police station and around the place of Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 19 of 42 Mahila Mandal.PW-15 HC Rattan Lal was with him when he went to the spot.He had made enquiry to find out if anyone connected with the victim was present in the hospital or not, but no one could be found there.When he returned to the spot from the hospital, only PW-15 HC Rattan Lal and Ct.Vineet were present at the spot.He had arrived there at about 1:15 AM and prepared the rukka while sitting on his motorcycle at the spot.No other police official or public witness had arrived before the rukka was sent.PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar had returned to the spot after the SHO had arrived at the spot.He further stated that he had not seen PW-2 Himanshu arriving and therefore, could not comment on the mode of transportation used by him; he went on to voluntarily state that he only saw him coming to the SHO.He was unaware of the facts disclosed to the SHO by PW- 2 Himanshu.He further stated that he had assisted the SHO in preparing the site plan (Ex.PW-7/C) by pointing out the place where the blood had been found and chappals were lying.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 19 of 42PW-15 ASI Rattan Lal deposed that on 14.01.2013, he was posted as Head Constable in police station Ambedkar Nagar and at 11:40 PM, ASI Liyakat Ali handed over DD 55-A to him.He took the DD entry to the bus stand on Route 521 in Dakshin Puri, where he met PW-7 ASI Mam Chand and PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar and handed over the DD entry to him.There was blood lying on the road at the said place.PW-7 ASI Mam Chand made efforts but could not find any eyewitness.It was learnt that the injured had been taken to Trauma Centre, AIIMS by PCR vehicle.PW-7 ASI Mam Chand left him at the spot and proceeded to Trauma Centre.He returned at about 1:15 AM on 15.01.2013 from the hospital.PW-7 ASI Mam Chand made further enquiries, however he was unable to locate any eyewitness Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 20 of 42 even at that stage.Around the same time, PW-22 SHO Abhey Singh had also arrived at the scene.The tehrir was sent by PW-7 ASI Mam Chand at about 2:25 AM.The SHO had inspected the scene.The site plan (Ex.PW-7/C) was prepared at the instance of PW-7 ASI Mam Chand.Around the time of proceedings, PW-9 Ct.During cross-examination, PW-15 stated that he had reached the spot at about 11:50 PM and left the spot at about 3:45 AM the next morning.Public persons were standing at a small distance from the place of occurance and upon enquiry by PW-7 ASI Mam Chand, they informed that one person had been stabbed and after a call to 100, he has been taken to Trauma Centre.In his presence, PW-7 ASI Mam Chand did not record the name and address of those persons and voluntarily stated that in his presence, PW-7 ASI Mam Chand was conducting enquiries from public persons.PW-7 ASI Mam Chand left the spot at about 12:15 AM and returned at about 1:15 AM.The SHO reached the spot after the rukka was prepared and sent.In his presence, the SHO had recorded the statement of one public witness, namely PW-2 Himanshu, who had reached the spot.He stated that he did not know the mode of transport used by PW-2 Himanshu and voluntarily stated that he had seen him coming on foot.The site plan was prepared by the SHO in his presence and he had signed the site plan.PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar had accompanied PW-7 ASI Mam Chand, who deposed that on the intervening night of 14-15.01.2013, he was on Crl.After receiving DD 51-A, he had proceeded with PW-7 ASI Mam Chand to the spot.Blood was lying there and no eyewitness was found.PW-15 HC Rattan Lal and Ct.Vineet had also reached the spot.They were left at the scene of incident, while PW-9 and PW-7 ASI Mam Chand went to the Trauma Centre, AIIMS.One injured person named Gupta was found in the hospital and he had been declared dead.PW-7 ASI Mam Chand collected the MLC; no eyewitness was present in the hospital.They returned to the spot.Again, no eyewitness was found.PW-7 ASI Mam Chand had given him the rukka at 2:25 AM on 15.01.2013, which was taken by him to the police station where FIR was registered.PW-9 brought the copy of FIR and rukka back to the spot.PW-22 Ins.Abhey Singh was also present there and he took over the investigation.During cross- examination, PW-9 stated that they had learnt from a public person that the victim had been taken by PCR vehicle to Trauma Centre AIIMS.He further stated that he did not know the particulars of the public person.They stayed at the Trauma Centre from about an hour and had reached there about 12:30 AM or so.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 21 of 42The investigation in the matter was undertaken by PW-22 Ins.PW-7 ASI Mam Chand, PW-15 HC Rattan Lal, Ct.Vineet and PW-9 Ram Avtar were present at the place and PW-7 was in the process of preparing his rukka.He informed the entire sequence of events and sent his rukka through PW-9 Ram Avtar, on which the FIR 17/2013 (Ex.PW-10/A) was registered.PW-22 further deposed Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 22 of 42 that he had prepared the site plan (Ex.PW-7/C) at the instance of PW-7 ASI Mam Chand.PW-22 was thoroughly cross-examined, wherein he stated that on 15.01.2013 at 1:15 AM, he had received the information of the incident.He returned at 5 AM after conducting the proceedings.The distance between the place of occurrence and the dhaba of the deceased is about 25-30 steps.When he had prepared the site plan PW-1 and PW-2 were not present at the spot and immediately said that only one witness PW-2 Himanshu came at the spot.He voluntarily stated that PW-1 was involved afterwards in the investigation.PW-2 Himanshu had come to the spot after the exhibits were collected and had come at about 3 AM.The site plan (Ex.PW-7/C) was not prepared in the presence of PW-2 Himanshu; again said that the final site plan was prepared in the presence of PW-2 Himanshu.The site plan was signed by PW-2 Himanshu and PW-7 ASI Mam Chand.The site plan was prepared on the pointing out of PW-7 ASI Mam Chand.No specific location was indicated separately by PW-2 Himanshu.The exact location of point A and B in the site plan (Ex.PW-7/C) were described to PW- 22 by PW-7 ASI Mam Chand and voluntarily stated that the same was also confirmed by PW-2 Himanshu.He further stated that he went for the search of the accused at different places.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 23 of 42 person was accompanying him.He did not visit the house of the accused in the course of the search.Coming back to the story unfolding from ocular evidence on record.The deceased was stabbed on two occasions between point A and B when appellant Rahul and Asif (JCL) tried to immobilize the deceased and appellant Raj Kumar gave stab blows.As per Ex.PW-1 Sharwan had called the Police Control Room; which was inturn relayed to Kite 55 PCR Van under the charge of PW-20 ASI Rameshwar.The PCR Van rushed to the spot, where someone had informed PW-20 of the name of the deceased.Indubitably, the information sent by Kite 55 at about 1 AM states that "ghar wale saath hain" (relatives are along) and the same remains in clear contradiction with the ocular account, however it cannot shake the otherwise consistent ocular account supported by medical evidence.PW-20 has stated that no relative or friend of the injured was present.The deceased was received at the Trauma Centre by the PW-13 duty officer.The PCR Van reached the Trauma Centre sometime after midnight and declared by the doctor to be brought dead.The MLC (Ex.PW-6/A) was prepared wherein the particulars of the deceased are given, though in the column of relative name, the name of Rameshwar, i.e. PW-20, is written.This is once again in tune with the testimony of PW-20 that he, as Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 26 of 42 the in-charge of Kite 55, had taken the deceased to the Trauma Centre.The information was also relayed by the control room to the police station, where DD 51-A was recorded and allotted to PW-7 ASI Mam Chand.Accordingly, PW-7 along with PW-9 reached the spot where they were joined by PW-15 HC Rattan Lal and Ct.There was no eyewitness there.Upon coming to know that the injured had been removed to the Trauma Centre, PW-7 proceeded with PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar to the Trauma Centre, AIIMS at about 12:15 AM.The deceased was found and he was declared dead by the doctor.Again, no eyewitness was found.They returned to the spot at about 1:15 AM and investigation ensued.Abhey Singh have deposed that on 17.01.2013, during the course of investigation of another FIR 18/2013, Asif (JCL) had pointed to the appellants herein as his accomplices and thereafter, pursuant to his disclosure statements (Ex.PW-15/A and Ex.The appellant Raj Kumar @ Lala was also convicted under Section 27 of Arms Act, 1959 and was sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of three years with a fine of Rs.10,000/- and in default of payment of fine, to further undergo simple imprisonment for a period of six months.Both the sentences awarded to the appellant Raj Kumar @ Lala were ordered to run concurrently.Himanshu run [sic: ran] to save his brother and found that accused Rahul @ Bhuri and Asif have caught hold of Rohit and Raj Kumar @ Lala attacked Rohit on his thigh with a knife a number of times.When Himanshu cried for help, accused Raj Kumar @ lala and Rahul @ Bhuri alongwith Asif (juvenile in-conflict with law) ran away.Someone called 100 number.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 3 of 42 Asif (juvenile) have killed his brother in pursuance of a conspiracy.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 2 of 42The knife was seized and kept in a pullanda.The place of incident was identified by both the accused persons."After completion of the investigation chargesheet was filed against both the appellants.Charge under Section 302 read with Section 34 of IPC was framed against both the appellants.A charge under Section 27 of Arms Act was also framed against the appellant Raj Kumar.To bring home the guilt of the appellants, prosecution examined 23 witnesses in all.The statement of the appellant Rahul was recorded under Section 313 Cr.P.C wherein he pleaded innocence and stated that he was picked up from his home and falsely implicated in the present case.In his statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C., the appellant Raj Kumar stated that on 15.01.2013, he had gone to Karkardooma Court Complex to attend the proceedings of his case; his father was forced to call him to the Police Station and Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 4 of 42 after attending the case at Karkardooma Court, he went to the Police Station where he was falsely implicated.The appellants examined three witnesses in their defence.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 4 of 42The Trial Court found that the testimonies of PW-2 Himanshu and PW-1 Sharwan Kumar coupled with the medical evidence if properly appreciated, without taking into consideration the defects in the investigation, it could safely be concluded that the accused/appellants had committed the murder of the deceased and convicted the appellants as noticed in paragraph 2 aforegoing.Mr. Jitender Sethi, learned counsel appearing for the appellant Rahul submits that the judgment of the Trial Court is based on surmises and conjectures.The Trial Court has failed to take into consideration that PW-2 Himanshu was in fact not an eyewitness as he was not present at the time of the crime, which is evident from the fact that PW-2 did not accompany his injured brother from the place of the incident to the hospital.Moreover, his name does not find mentioned in the MLC prepared by the doctor and further from the testimony of PW-7 ASI Mam Chand, it has emerged that there was no eyewitness at the spot.Elaborating his arguments further, Mr. Sethi contends that the statement of PW-2 Himanshu who is real brother of the deceased cannot be believed as having been present at the place of the incident he would have tried to save his brother or at least made a call to police officials or his own family members.It is, thus, contended that the testimony of PW-2 is unreliable and cannot be trusted.Reliance is placed on the judgments in the cases of State (Govt. Of NCT of Delhi) v. Naresh & Anr, 2012 (2) JCC 830 (paragraph 8) and Balraj Singh v. The State of Punjab, 1976 Crl.LJ 1471 (P&H) (paragraphs 13 and 20).A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 5 of 42Relying on the testimony of PW-7 ASI Mam Chand, it is further contended that this witness has deposed that he received a call at 11:50 PM on the intervening night of 14-15.01.2013 and thereafter he came at the spot and found no eyewitness either at the spot or in the hospital.Reliance was placed on the rukka to show even at that stage no person was named and PW-2 appeared only around 03:00 AM.i.e. after three and half hours of the incident.Mr. Sethi contends that a phone call was made to the Police by PW-1 Sharwan Kumar from his mobile phone No.9716078703 who is running a flower shop near the place of the incident.This witness has also testified that he had informed Himanshu (brother of the deceased) about the incident.PW-1 also deposed that Himanshu arrived at the spot within 5-7 minutes of the telephone call.It is also contended that had Himanshu been at the spot there was no occasion for PW-1 Sharwan Kumar to inform PW-2 Himanshu.The attention of this Court has been drawn to the PCR form, wherein the name of Himanshu also does not find mention though it is stated that at 01:00 AM family members were present at the hospital but how the deceased was stabbed was not known.This is in direct contravention to the testimony of PW-2 that after the incident he went home to get his family members while according to the PCR form, his family members were already present at 01:00 AM at the hospital.Mr. Sethi, learned counsel for the appellant Rahul further goes on to submit that PW-2 Himanshu being an eyewitness, the site plan should have been prepared at his instance while the testimony of PW-22 Insp.Abhay Singh would show that the site plan was prepared by him at the instance of PW-7 ASI Mam Chand.It is Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 6 of 42 strenuously argued before us that PW-2 has been introduced as an eyewitness which is evinced by a careful examination of serial number of witnesses at the site plan, which would show that initially PW-2 was not shown as a witness, but as a mere cover up his name was added by renumbering the witnesses.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 6 of 42Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that on a careful examination of the site plan placed on record would show that there were three places where the incident took place; firstly, where the deceased was stabbed; secondly, where the deceased was stabbed again; and thirdly, where the deceased dropped while no such description was given by PW-2, who claims to be an eyewitness, which casts a serious doubt with regard to his presence.by the Investigating Officer and sent to the Doctor with a request to conduct post-mortem does not show the name of either PW-2 Himanshu as an eyewitness or the name of the appellants.No question was put for recording of the statement at the hospital or at the place of the incident.Sheikh Israr Ahmed, learned counsel appearing for the appellant Raj Kumar, additionally contended that the testimony of PW-2 would show that he knew all the accused persons and appellant Raj Kumar resides at a distance of 250-300 meters from the place of Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 8 of 42 incident and 30 meters from the dhaba of PW-2 Himanshu and deceased and in case, PW-2 would have disclosed the names of the appellants, then his house would have been raided, but no such raid had taken place.The deceased and his brother were known to the appellant Raj Kumar as they had been tenants for two years in the house of appellant Raj Kumar and they would have raided the house of appellant Raj Kumar within hours of the incident which was not done.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 8 of 42The incident took place in the heat of moment, when the deceased had refused to serve food to the appellants claiming that the dhaba had been closed.It is also contended that the appellant Raj Kumar stabbed the deceased not on a vital part of the body but only on the thigh.If there was an intention to kill the deceased, he would have attacked one of the vital parts of the body and not only on the thighs.The post-mortem report and the opinion of the doctor does not state that any blow which was inflicted on the deceased could have resulted in his death.Learned counsel submits that much should not be read into where the statement of PW-2 was recorded as PW-2 in his testimony has stated that after the incident, he went to the Hospital from where he went to the place of the incident and was then taken to the Police Station and in such a situation, his answer could have been misunderstood and in any case no prejudice would have been caused to the appellants herein.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 9 of 42A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 12 of 42We have heard the learned counsel for the parties, considered their rival submissions and given thoughtful consideration to the matter.The prime prosecution witness remains the brother of the deceased PW-2 Himanshu.(v) The factum that PW-1 had to call PW-2 and inform about the incident proves the absence of PW-2;A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 13 of 42(vi) The name of PW-2 is absent in the PCR Form, though it is mentioned that the family members were present though how the deceased was stabbed was unknown;Since numerous contentions have been raised regarding the evidence and the inconsistencies in the sequence of events, we proceed to analyse the testimonies of the police witnesses.PW-18 L/Ct.The information was passed on to the network/PCR van/Police Station at 23:35:15 hours.PCR Form Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 17 of 42 (Ex.PW-18/A) also reads "ek admi ko chaku mar diya hai" (one person has been stabbed with a knife).Thereafter, PW-7 prepared the rukka on the above information and handed it over to PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar at 02:25 AM on 15.01.2013 with a direction to take it to the police station for getting FIR registered.PW-22 SHO Abhey Singh Yadav had also arrived at the spot.Ram Avtar had returned with copy of FIR and the original tehrir.During the proceedings at the spot, PW-2 Himanshu (brother of the deceased) had also joined.SHO recorded his statement and thereafter, efforts were made to trace the assailants, but no one could be found on the day.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 20 of 42PW-9 had returned with a copy of FIR and handed over the same to him/SHO with the original tehrir.Then the witness tried to trace the assailants.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 22 of 42When he reached, PW-7 ASI Mam Chand was writing the rukka.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 23 of 42We may also notice the medical evidence, which corroborates the ocular testimony on record.Both the MLC (Ex.PW-6/A) and the postmortem report (Ex.PW-17/A) show two stab wound on the inner aspect of the right thigh of the deceased.Though at first blush, the contentions of the learned counsel for appellants seem persuasive, however, on a careful analysis of the ocular evidence of the aforegoing witnesses, we find that a complete sequence of the chain of events is established.On the fateful night intervening 14-15.01.2013, the deceased and PW-2 Himanshu were in the process of closing down their dhaba, when three person
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who started abusing and grappling.The PW-2 Himanshu intervened and saved his elder brother.Then they closed the shop and started walking towards their home.PW-2 Himanshu was 22-25 paces ahead of the deceased when the accused returned and stabbed the deceased.The appellant Rahul and Asif (JCL) tried to hold the deceased
while the appellant Raj Kumar gave two stab blows on his thighs.The shrieks of his brother drew the attention of PW-2
however
the accused were able to flee.The deceased was extensively bleeding and fell infront of shop of PW-1 Sharwan.This was witnessed by PW-1 Sharwan
who called the Police Control Room (PCR) at 23:33:23 (Ex.PW-18/A) from his Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 24 of 42 mobile number 9716078703 and informed that ""ek admi ko chaku mar diya hai"" (one person has been stabbed with a knife).A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 24 of 42We stop here to note as to which place the appellant was actually stabbed.PW-2 Himanshu had specifically stated in his cross-examination that his brother ""had moved in the direction of our [their] shop and had come near the shop of Sharwan."" Similarly
PW-1 Sharwan deposed that he saw the deceased ""to have come and fallen"" infront of his shop.PW-7 ASI Mam Chand
PW-15 ASI Rattan Lal and PW-22 Ins.Abhey Singh had consistently testified that the site plan (Ex.PW-7/C) was prepared by PW-22 at the instance/pointing out of PW-7 ASI Mam Chand
who had pointed based on the blood and the chappal.PW-2 Himanshu had come at about 3 AM
when the site plan (Ex.PW-7/C) was being prepared and had confirmed the points.His name was
accordingly
added and probably because there was no space to add the name of a witness at the bottom of the page
the name of PW-2 Himanshu was added at serial number 1 after renumbering the witnesses.The same can
by no means
lead to the conclusion that the document was tampered as the same remains in consonance with the ocular testimony.We have also gone through the photographs (Ex.PW-5/1 to Ex.PW-5/15) placed on record and particularly Ex.PW-5/10
Ex.PW-5/11
Ex.PW-5/14 and Ex.PW-5/15
which clearly show the Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 25 of 42 presence of blood at points A and B infront of shop Om Sai Service in the background in consonance with the site plan (Ex.PW-7/C) and the scaled site plan (Ex.PW- 3/A
the distance between points A and B is 730 cms (about 24 ft) and from B to C
where the deceased finally collapsed infront of shop of PW-1 Sharwan is 2490 cms (about 82 ft).We proceed to the events after the stabbing.Rukka was prepared and sent through PW-9 Ct.Ram Avtar at about 2:25 AM for the registration of FIR.In the meantime
PW-22 Ins.Abhey Singh arrived at the spot and took over the investigation.At about 3 AM
PW-2 Himanshu came to the spot on foot and his statement was recorded.In this sequence of events
there was no question of the name of the eyewitness
i.e. PW-2 Himanshu
or of the assailants being present in the rukka or the PCR Form.The question then is where was PW- 2 Himanshu after witnessing the murder of his brother? The answer is found in the testimony of PW-2 only.He had deposed that when he had heard the cry for help of his brother
he had turned around to witness the stabbing of the deceased.He started shouting and rushed to his brother
however
the assailants ran away.He tried to lift his brother.He became extremely perturbed and went into a state of trance.PW-2 Himanshu waited till the PCR Van (Kite 55) Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 27 of 42 took his brother.His perplexed state did not allow him to approach the police.Both PW-1 Sharwan and PW-7 ASI Mam Chand have confirmed that they found PW-2 in a highly perturbed state.We find no reason to disbelieve the same as it is not unusual for one to get disturbed after witnessing the death of his own brother first hand.After the PCR van left
PW-2 took a lift on motorcycle from a passerby till the corner
from where he had taken an auto rickshaw.He reached the Trauma Centre and was informed by the doctor about the death of his brother.A coordinate bench of this Court was faced with a similar situation in Noor Mohd. v. State NCT of Delhi
2012 Cri LJ 28: 2011 SCC OnLine Del 3604 wherein the appellant had alleged that the brother of the deceased
an alleged eyewitness
was unreliable as the MLC was silent about the name of the injured and recorded that the police had brought the body.The same was rejected by the Bench while observing as under:A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 27 of 42It is urged by learned counsel for Dalip that PW-3 could not be believed because there was no corroborative material in support of his assertion about having accompanied his brother to the hospital.Reliance was placed upon the MLC (Ex. PW-15/A)
which is silent about the name of the injured; besides it recorded that the police had taken the body.Learned counsel argued that if indeed Rahisuddin had witnessed the incident and had either accompanied the PCR or had gone with it
there was no reason for the hospital authorities to exclude the mention of his name. ... ...Often the relatives who accompany the injured Crl.It might well have been that when he was admitted
PW-3 had not reached or having reached
was searching for the place where his brother had been taken.""A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 28 of 42(Emphasis Supplied)The details in the MLC
infact
show that PW-2 had approached the doctor
though he missed the police officials.The knowledge of the death of his brother
further worsened the mental condition of PW-2
who came out from the Trauma Centre and lost senses for 1 and a half hours.Since PW-2 had already left the Trauma Centre
there was no question of him being found by the police officials (PW-15 or PW-9).It was only when he regained his senses did he return home and came back with his family.Now
there is a contradiction as to the place where the statement of PW-2 was recorded
but considering the state of PW-2 Himanshu
not much can be made from such a minor contradiction.Similarly
we do not find that the inconsistency of PW-2 and PW-1 regarding the phone call and the possession of mobile phone by PW-2 Himanshu is sufficient to discredit their testimonies in toto
which otherwise are reliable and consistent.Such inter-se discrepancies are normal and can be attributed to errors of observation and lapses of memory [See Asha v. State of Rajasthan
1997 SCC (Cri) 712 (paragraph 9); Leela Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 29 of 42 Ram (Supra) (paragraphs 9
10
12 and 13); and Sukhdev Yadav (Supra) (paragraphs 1 to 3)].This erupted into a sudden fight
which was pacified by PW-2 Himanshu.Thereafter
the deceased and PW- 2 closed their dhaba and within a couple of minutes
the appellants and Asif (JCL) returned and appellant Raj Kumar stabbed the deceased while the other two held him.There was no cooling off period and the tempers continued to run high [See Jite (Supra) (paragraphs 38-43) and Arjun v. The State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi)
Crl.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 40 of 42 Crl.A. 983/2015 dated 14.07.2017 (paragraph 35)].Accordingly
the conviction of the appellant is modified from Section 302 to one under Section 304 Part II of the Indian Penal Code.A. 1702/2014 & 158/2015 Page 40 of 42We had also called for the fresh nominal rolls of the appellants
as per which
appellant Raj Kumar has undergone about 5 years 5 months imprisonment including remission
while appellant Rahul has undergone 5 years 1 month imprisonment including remission.The order of the Trial Court with regard to fine under Section 302 shall be read as for one under Section 304 Part II and remains the same.The appeals stand disposed of."
['Section 300 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code']
Analyze the legal case and identify the corresponding section it comes under.
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His first wife was one Mrs.Sharmila.They had no issue.3.P.W.1 was not at his house at that time.He was on duty.He received a message that both the children (D.1 & D.2) were lying dead in the water tank.He found the dead bodies of the children (D.1 & D.2).The Post mortem Doctor has opined that both the children (D.1 & D.2) were died not due to drowning but due to smothering.6.When the investigation was in progress, it is stated that the accused appeared before P.W.13, the then Village Administrative Officer on 14.02.2010 around 8.00 am and made a voluntary confession.It is stated that she told that she had the feeling that the children born to her and her husband would be affected in future, if, the deceased were alive.Because of the said motive, according to her confession, she killed both the children (D.1 & D.2) by smothering and threw the dead bodies into water tank.(Judgment of the Court was delivered by S.NAGAMUTHU, J.) The appellant is the sole accused in S.C.No.44/2011 on the file of the learned Additional District and Sessions Judge, Namakkal.She stood charged for offences under Sections 302 (2 counts) & 201 I.P.C. By judgment dated 30.01.2012, the trial Court convicted the accused under both the charges and sentenced her to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.500/- for each count in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month, for offence under section 302 I.P.C., and to undergo rigorous imprisonment for five years and to pay a fine of Rs.250/- in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months for the offence under Section 201 I.P.C. Challenging the said conviction and sentence, the appellant is before this Court with this Criminal Appeal.2.The case of the prosecution, in brief, is as follows:-P.W.1  Mr.Nehru is a resident of Namakkal.He was a Driver working in a Transport Corporation.They had taken one Shakthivel in adoption (hereinafter referred to as D.1).After some time, Mrs.sharmila passed away.Therefore, he married one Ms.Rasia as his second wife.Through his second wife, he had a daughter by name Shalini (hereinafter referred to as D.2).After 25 days of the birth of Shalini, Mrs.Rasia died.Thereafter, with a view to bring up both the children viz., adopted son Sakthivel & Shalini, P.W.1 married the accused.Out of the said wedlock, there are two children born to them.Thus, all the four children were in the care and custody of P.W.1 and the accused.It is alleged that on 14.02.2010, around 5.00 am, the accused killed both the children (D.1 & D.2) by smothering them by pushing a pillow against their faces and killed them.Thereafter, she threw the dead bodies into a water tank to make it as though, the children died due to drowning.The accused did not disclose anything about the occurrence.P.24 is the complaint and Ex.P.25 is the F.I.R. Then both the documents were sent to the Court.5.The Investigation was taken up by P.W.16, the then Inspector of Police.He went to the place of occurrence, conducted inquest on the body of both the deceased and forwarded the same to Doctor for post mortem.P.W.13, reduced the said extra judicial confession in writing and then he took the accused to P.W.16 and produced her.P.W.16 arrested the accused and forwarded her to Court for judicial remand.On completing investigation, he laid charge sheet against the accused.7.P.W.6 - Dr.Parameswari, conducted autopsy on the body of Sakthivel (D.1) and found the following injuries:-External Examination No visible external injuries.White frothy fluids comes out from the nose.Eye lids closed.Mouth & lips closed Tongue: inside the oral cavity.P.7 is the post mortem certificate.She opined that D.1 would have died due to smothering and not because of drowning.8.P.W.7 - Dr.Mohan, conducted autopsy on the body of Shalini (D.2) and found the following injuries:-Could not make out.Frothing in the both the nostrils.Internal examination: Opening skull no fracture of skull bone.Brain: Pale.Thorax: No fractured Ribs.Lungs: Odematus, Pale Heart: Partly filled with blood.Hyoid Bone  sternum preserved for the Forensic Analysis. Ex.P.12 is the post mortem certificate.He opined that D.2 would have died due to smothering and not because of drowning.9.Based on the above materials, the trial Court framed charges as stated in the first paragraph of this judgment.The accused denied the same.Material Objects were marked.10.Out of the said witnesses, P.W.1, the father of the deceased (D.1 & D.2) and the husband of the accused has turned hostile and he has not supported the case of the prosecution in any manner.P.W.2, the neighbour has stated that he heard about the death of the children (D.1 & D.2), he came to the place of occurrence and found the dead bodies.P.W.3 is yet another neighbour of the deceased.He has also stated about the same facts.P.W.4 is yet another neighbour has turned hostile and he has not supported the case of the prosecution in any manner.P.W.5 has spoken about the preparation of observation mahazar, rough sketch and the recovery of material objects at the place of occurrence.P.W.6 has spoken about the post mortem conducted on D.1 and her final opinion regarding the cause of death.P.W.7 has spoken about the post mortem conducted on D.2 and his final opinion regarding the cause of death.P.W.8 is yet another neighbour.However, she has also not spoken anything incriminating against the accused.P.W.9, a Constable has stated that he handed over the dead bodies to Doctors for post mortem.P.W.10 has also spoken about the same facts.P.W.12, the Head Clerk of the Magistrate Court has stated that he sent the material objects for chemical analysis as per the order passed by the learned Magistrate.11.P.W.13, the then village Administrative Officer has spoken about the extra judicial confession made by the accused, recorded by him.P.W.14 has spoken about the registration of the case.P.W.15 has spoken about the investigation done and the final report filed in this case.12.When the above incriminating materials were put to the accused under Section 313 Cr.P.C., she denied the same as false.However, she did not choose to examine any witness nor did she mark any document on her side.Her defence was a total denial.13.Having considered all the above materials, the trial Court convicted the appellant/accused as stated in the first paragraph of this judgment.14.We have heard the learned counsel for the appellant and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the State and we have also perused the records carefully.15.As we have already stated, there is no denial of the fact that both the deceased (D.1 & D.2) were living with P.W.1 and the accused.It is also in evidence that the children were lying dead in the water tank.The medical evidence would clearly go to establish that the death of the deceased (D.1 & D.2) were not due to drowning but due to smothering.Thus, the prosecution has established that the death of the deceased (D.1 & D.2) were due to homicidal violence.But, the learned counsel for the appellant would submit that the evidence of P.W.13 cannot be believed for more than one reason.He would point out the evidence of P.W.3, the neighbour of the deceased that when the Police arrived at the place of occurrence on 14.02.2010 at 9.00 am, the accused was very much available and she was interrogated by the Police and the accused told them that the children were accidentally jumped into the water and died.P.W.8, yet another neighbour has also stated that when the Police came to the place of occurrence, the accused remained there and faced the enquiry.She did not abscond.She was thus, very much in the custody of the Police on 14.02.2010 around 9.00 am.When that be so, it is highly unbelievable that on 14.02.2010 at 8.00 am, the accused had gone to P.W.13, the then Village Administrative Officer and made the extra judicial confession.We find force in the said argument.17.Above all, it is highly unbelievable that the accused would have chosen the then Village Administrative Officer, who is a total stranger to make the voluntary confession.For these reasons, we find it difficult to act solely based upon the said extra judicial confession made by the accused.Further, as per the settled law, since, an extra judicial confession is a very weak piece of evidence, unless, the same inspires the fullest confidence of the Court and there are evidences from other sources to corroborate the said extra judicial confession, it is not safe to rely on the doubtful extra judicial confession and to convict the maker of the confession.Since, there is no corroboration from any other independent source, on material particulars, then, we cannot convict the accused solely based on the said extra judicial confession.Thus, the appellant/accused is entitled for acquittal.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code']
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These appeals are directed against the judgment dated 21 st December 2013 passed by the learned Special Judge, NDPS in SC No. 82 of 2008 convicting Jagdeo Singh @ Jagga (Accused No.1) (A-1) (Appellant in Crl.A. No. 527 of 2014) for the offences under Section 21 (c) and 29 of the Narcotics Drugs Psychotropic Substance Act (NDPS), Section 489 C and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 25 of the Arms Act; Gurdeep Singh (A-2) (Appellant in Crl.529 of 2014) for the offences under Section 21(c) and 29 of the NDPS Act, 489 C and 120 B IPC; and Sukhwinder Singh @ Sukhi (A-3) (Appellant in Crl.A. No.607/2014) for the offences under Section 21(c) and 29 of the NDPS Act and 489-C and 120- B IPC.The appeals are also directed against the order on sentence dated 30th January 2014, sentencing A-1 to undergo twelve years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) with fine of Rs. 1.5 lakh for each of the offences under Sections 21 and 29 of the NDPS Act and in default to undergo simple imprisonment (SI) for six months, and imprisonment for three years with fine of Rs.10,000 and in default to undergo SI for one month Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 2 of 57 for each of the offences under Sections 489-C and 120-B IPC and further seven years RI and fine of Rs.50,000 and in default to undergo SI for three months for the offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act. All three sentences were directed to run concurrently.A-2 was sentenced to RI for ten years with fine of Rs.1 lakh and in default to undergo SI for three months for each of the offences under Sections 21 and 29 of the NDPS Act, RI for three years and fine of Rs.10,000 and in default to undergo SI for one month for each of the offences under Section 489-C and 120-B IPC; further A-3 was sentenced to RI for fifteen years and fine of Rs.1.5 lakh and in default to undergo SI for six months for the offence under Section 29 and 21(c) of the NDPS Act and three years RI and fine of Rs.10,000 and in default to undergo SI for one month and for the offence under Section 489-C and 120-B IPC.PW-16 endorsed the said information and discussed it with the ACP of the Special Cell.He then constituted a raiding team comprising of himself, Sub-Inspector (SI) Harbir Singh (PW-1), SI Ramesh Sharma, SI Ranbir Singh (PW-4), SI Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 3 of 57 Kishan Lal, Head Constable (HC) Suresh Chand, HC Ramesh Kumar, Constable Anil Kumar, Constable Ajay Kumar, Constable Hawa Singh and Constable Om Prakash.They left the office of the Special Cell in a government vehicle and reached the spot.On the way, as well as at the spot, the police asked two or three passersby to join the raiding team, but none agreed.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 3 of 57At around 7.30 pm, a Pulsar motorcycle No. DL 7SAZ 2142 stopped near the public toilet at Patparganj Road, Ganesh Nagar crossing.It was driven by Gurdeep Singh (A-2) who was carrying a black colour bag on his shoulder and on the pillion was Jagdeo Singh (A-1).A-2 took out a polythene bag from the black colour bag he was carrying and handed it over to A-1. A-2 remained on the motorcycle and A-1 stood at the Ganesh Nagar crossing.Both of them were served with notices under Section 50 of the NDPS Act. They were apprised of their legal right to be examined in front of the Gazetted Officer or Magistrate.Both refused to exercise such right.Their refusal was signed by them on the notices issued to them.From the polythene bag carried by A-1, two packets wrapped in yellow colour tape were recovered.They were weighed at 1 kg each.Upon opening they were found to contain light skin colour powder which A-1 revealed to be heroin.The samples were drawn out of the substance and the remaining substance was sealed in a separate pullanda.The seizure memo was prepared and FSL form was filled.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 4 of 57A cursory search of A-1 conducted by PW-1 revealed a pistol, one magazine and eight live cartridges.They were sealed in a separate cloth pullanda and a separate memo and FSL form was prepared.The black bag carried by A-2 was checked.It contained two packets wrapped in yellow colour tape weighing 1 kg each.They too contained skin colour powder which A-2 revealed to be heroin.Again samples were drawn and the remaining substances were sealed in separate pullanda.The seizure memo was prepared and the FSL form was formed.The case then was registered and investigation was handed over to Inspector Upendra Solanki (PW-17).Their disclosure statements were recorded.Both purportedly disclosed that the currency notes were counterfeit; that they were in the business of drugs, arms and ammunitions as well as fake currency along with Sukhwinder @ Sukhi (A-3).Twenty seven currency notes of Rs.1000 denomination were seized from the amount recovered from A-1, and two currency notes of Rs.1000 denomination were seized from the amount recovered from A-2, and a FSL form was prepared in respect of the said seizures.Investigation and chargeThe call detail records of the mobile phones recovered from A-1 and A-2 Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 5 of 57 were obtained.The statements of witnesses were recorded.The recovered pistol, eight cartridges, samples of heroin was sent to the FSL, Rohini.The report of the FSL confirmed that the currency notes were counterfeit and the samples contained high percentage of diacetylmorphine (DAM).Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 5 of 57The disclosure statement of A-3 in that case, and the intercepted calls on electronic surveillance in the said case revealed that A-3 was dealing in drugs, illegal arms and fake currency in conspiracy with A-1 and A-2. A-3 had been in continuous touch with A-1 and A-2. A-3 was thereafter produced and arrested in the present case.An application was also filed for taking the voice sample of A-1 and A-2 for comparison with the voice appearing in the intercepted mobile conversations.However, both A-1 and A-2 declined to give their voice samples.On 20th January 2009, a supplementary charge sheet was filed against A-3 for being in conspiracy with A-1 and A-2, for supply of drugs, arms and fake currency in Delhi.On 13th July 2009, charges were framed against three accused for having conspired to deal in drug trafficking and having been found in possession of commercial quantity of heroin and fake currency and thus Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 6 of 57 having committed offences punishable under Section 21 read with Section 29 of the NDPS Act, Section 120-B and Section 489- C IPC.14. A-1 denied having come to the spot on the motorcycle or even knowing A-2 before the arrest in the present case.He stated that on 23rd March 2007 at 5.30 pm, he was forcibly picked up by the police in Faridabad and the contraband and arms were planted on him by the police officials.He stated that he was residing in rented premises E-874, Dabau Colony, Faridabad.While he was in the market with his wife and eight years old daughter, PW-1 and other police officials stopped him and asked him to accompany them in their gypsy vehicle.PW-1 is stated to have told A-1 that "Sahib" wants to inquire something from him and that A-1 should accompany them and when A-1 declined, PW-1 and other police officials pushed him into the gypsy and tied his hands with rope and covered his face with the cloth.The vehicle was taken to Dhaula Kuan and thereafter to Laxmi Nagar.Further, in his presence, no site plan was prepared by PW-17 and no motorcycle was taken into possession.As regards notice under Section 50 of the NDPS Act he admitted that "I did tear it off as I was very tense and troubled on my false implication".He denied that any counterfeit currency, arms and ammunitions were recovered from him.He had shifted to outside Delhi after his release from jail and he wished to lead his life afresh.PW-1 (SI Harbir Singh) is related to SI Ombir Singh as they are cousins.Statement of A-2 under Section 313 Cr PCIn his statement, A-2 claimed that he was never a member of KZF.Although he had been arrested in two bomb blast cases, he had been acquitted.He denied having come to the spot on a motorcycle.He claimed that he did not know A-1 before his arrest.Though the motorcycle belonged to him, he was forcibly picked up by the police on 23 rd March 2007 at around 2:30 pm outside Gurudwara Sheesh Ganj.20. A-2 stated that one police official, SI Ramesh Sharma, Special Cell kept visiting him and inquired about his activities after his acquittal.Thereafter, he started working as a Sewadar in Gurudwara Sheesh Ganj and SI Ramesh Sharma used to visit him and also asked him to appear before the Special Cell.This continued for till two years, and when A-2 got fed up, he told SI that if he continued to harass him, he would file a petition in the Court.After about 1 months of his telling him that, SI Ramesh Sharma came at around 2:30 pm on 23rd March 2007 and asked A-2 to accompany him.At that time, A-2 was standing near the STD booth near Gurudwara.SI Ramesh Sharma spoke very politely to A-2 and told him that it was last time "Sahab" wanted to talk to him and, therefore, A-2 agreed to go along with him to the Special Cell.Along with him, Gurlal, another sewadar was standing.A-2 gave the key of his motorcycle to Gurlal.He told Gurlal that the motorcycle was parked in the parking lot of Gurudwara.21. A-2 stated that he was not apprehended in the manner stated by the prosecution; nor was he apprised of his legal rights to get himself searched before a Magistrate or a gazetted officer.He was mercilessly beaten and was forced to write the words on Section 50 notice.Before he wrote the words, the document was blank.He denied that any contraband was recovered from him.He denied recovery of any mobile phone.He stated that only a SIM card bearing No. 9999579926 was recovered from his possession.No mobile phones were recovered from A-1 in his presence.No site plan was prepared by PW-17 and no motorcycle was taken into possession in his presence.He claimed that the police had planted a notice on him and when he received the said notice pursuant to the order of the Court, he tore it off as he was very tense and troubled due to his false implication.He claimed that no currency was recovered nor did he give any disclosure that the currency was fake.He claimed that the entire proceedings were false and manipulated.No arms or ammunitions were recovered from him.22. A-2 stated that he knew A-3 because on a few occasions he had come to Gurudwara Sheesh Ganj and being a sewadar, one room had been allotted to him.Once or twice A- 3 had called him to confirm about the availability of the room in the Gurudwara.He had nothing to do with the intercepted calls.25. A-3 stated that he had no knowledge of the interception of the mobile phone conversations.He stated that he did not even know A1 before his arrest in this case.He claimed that he had been falsely implicated and nothing had been recovered from him - neither any contraband nor pistol nor mobile phone.He claimed that even in FIR No. 77/2007 he had been falsely arrested.He claimed that he never had any conversation with A-1 or A-2 regarding heroine and that the intercepted calls did not pertain to him.He claimed that DVDs and CDs did not contain any calls made by him.He claimed that his signatures were taken on many blank and written documents forcibly and that the police officials used to beat him if he refused to sign.He claimed that the voice or conversation which he had heard in Court did not pertain to him and that "though the said voice sounds similar to my voice, the CDs and the DVDs have been tampered."The first witness for the defence was Dr. Anand Kumar (DW-1), Medical Officer attached with CJ-4 dispensary at Tihar Jail.A-2 had complained that Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 13 of 57 he had been beaten by the police.On examination "pattern bruises were found present over the left side of the back and he was prescribed medication for the pain." Apart from the suggestions to him that the document wrongly recorded that bruises were found and that A-2 had been seen by Dr. Rakesh, who prepared the report, nothing much was elicited in the cross-examination of this witness by the learned APP.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 13 of 57He was standing with A-2 and other sewadar Gurlal at the STD booth situated near the entrance of Gurudwara at around 2:30 pm on 23 rd March 2007 when a person of medium height and slightly dark complexioned told A-2 "sahib bula rahe hain." A-2 addressed the said person as Mr. Sharma and asked him what happened but the said person merely repeated the statement made earlier. A-2 then told Gurlal that his bike was parked in front of the museum opposite Gurudwara and that he should bring the bike inside the Gurudwara premises and park it.The next day when he came to the Gurudwara, Gurlal told him that he had handed over the keys of the motorbike to the brother and father of A-2, who had come to the Gurudwara after coming to know of his arrest.It was found that A-2 had been taken away by the police and his bike was also taken away by the police after breaking its lock.Director, CFSL, Chandigarh (DW-3).DW-3 clarified that although in reply to the RTI application of A-1 (Ex. DW-3/B), it had been stated that no official from the CFSL, Chandigarh had attended the trial Court, he stated that he had appeared in the trial Court on 12th January 2009 to record the voice sample.He also brought an attested copy of the office movement register showing his movement from Chandigarh to Delhi (Ex. DW-3/E).The 4th defence witness was Mr. Deepak DW-4), the Nodal Officer who brought the summoned record (Ex. DW-4/A and 4/B respectively).It was not functional thereafter.DW-4 also brought the records pertaining to mobile No.9873836607 (Ex. PW-4/C) which showed that the phone was functional till 23rd March 2007 in the Delhi circle.The last call in the said phone received was at about 19:38:08 hours.Thereafter, it was not in network in Delhi circle.As per the cell chart ID, the location of the mobile at that time was Nangla Rai at Delhi Cantt., and at about 18:00:50 one outgoing call was made from the same cell tower.At about 18:07:10, an incoming call was received from the same tower.At about 18:18:15, an outgoing call was made from the same mobile tower.Another outgoing call was made at about 19:06:18 from the tower at Lajpat Nagar, Part-II.(i) Although A-2 had contended that his motorcycle had been forcibly taken by the police from the parking lot after breaking open the lock, in an application filed by him before the learned Special Judge on 7th June 2007 (Mark R-1), he took a very different stand.He stated that at around 6-6:30 pm, when he was standing with his friend near the STD booth near the Gurudwara, SI Ramesh Sharma had come there and asked him to accompany him to his Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 17 of 57 office for some inquiry; that A-2 followed the SI on his own motorcycle and that only after he and the vehicle of SI passed the Lal Qila red light, SI Ramesh Sharma asked him to leave his bike and accompany in his vehicle since he had received a message that a senior officer was leaving and would return only after 9:00 pm and SI Sharma did not want A-2 to spoil his whole night.(iii) The intercepted mobile conversations proved on record by the prosecution totally corroborated the version put forth by the prosecution with respect to the manner of apprehending the accused persons.The intercepted mobile conversations proved that A-1 and A-2 were known to each other, much before 23rd March 2007 and were together involved in some business.Even on 23rd March 2007, A-1 and A-2 were in continuous touch with each other till 7:30 pm.The mobile conversations were played in Court and the transcripts were also filed in the judicial record.It showed that at around 4:45 pm, A-1 called up A-2 and both of them decided to meet near a tea vendors shop.The learned trial Court also adverted to the further Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 18 of 57 conversation that took place between the two at 5:13 pm, 7:05 pm and 7:35 pm.At around 7:35 pm in the conversation between A-1 and A-2, A-1 informed A-2 that he was able to reach the designated spot by taking a lift and told A-2 that he was standing near a banana vendor.Two minutes thereafter, A-2 made a call to a person, whom he addressed as Raju stating that the said person Raju should be able to spot him and tried to tell him where A-1 was standing.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 18 of 57(iv) The intercepted mobile conversations were of unimpeachable quality and could not be doubted merely because they were produced belatedly.The prosecution was able to satisfactorily explain the delay.The depositions of PW-s 1, 17 and 30 revealed that the four mobile phone Nos. 9876933745, 9317534945, 9811328172 and 9817060613 were under the surveillance of the Special Cell, much before the apprehension of A-1 and A-2 and the conversations that took place on the said mobile phones were automatically saved in the server of the Special Cell.The call related information was automatically recorded at the time the calls were made and thereafter transferred to the server of the Special Cell using a software application.The allegation that the signatures of A-1 on various documents was forged was false as the evidence of the handwriting expert did not conclusively prove that the signatures of A-1 were forged.Right from the supply to them of the chargesheet and documents, they were taking the plea that no contraband had been recovered them.The percentage of diacetylmorphine in the four samples, i.e., S-1, S-3, S-5 and S-7 showed that these were of commercial quantity.An attempt had been made to remove number 3 (from 31.6%) and 41 (from 41.2%) which was noticed by the learned trial Court.The deposition of PW-14 put to rest any doubt as to the discrepancy that resulted as a consequence of such tampering.(x) Even in the absence of the public witnesses, the prosecution has been able to prove recovery of 4 kg.While PW-1 deposed that A-1 had approached the spot from the Laxmi Nagar side, PW-4 deposed that he approached from the Seelampur side; PW-10 stated that he approached from Patparganj side and PW-16 stated that he approached from Seelampur side.It is pointed out that the site plan is not prepared and the identification by PW-16 is different from the site plan filed by the IO (PW-17).(ii) PW-1 deposed that there was a goal chakkar at the place of arrest, whereas the site plan did not show any such goal chakkar.In fact, it was a red light crossing.(iii) Even as regards the time of arrest, there were inconsistencies.The journey on the motorcycle from Sarai Kale Khan to the place of arrest takes at least 20-30 minutes in peak hours.The prosecution story that A-1 was at goal chakkar on 23rd March 2007 was, therefore, false and fabricated.The Nodal Officer (PW-29) confirmed that the said mobile number was at Laxmi Nagar Chowk at 7:30 pm, which was 2 kms.There was no explanation as to why the said mobile conversations were not part of the original charge sheet.The alleged information that A-3 was using from the mobile No.9876933745 for contacting KLF was not part of the original charge sheet.There was no evidence to show that any of the mobile phones pertained to A-3 or how the phones were intercepted.The technology used in the system was capable of being manipulated.The procedure for interception was full of loopholes and Section 65B of the Evidence Act has not been complied with.The report of Dr. Rajender Singh (PW-28) regarding matching of the voice samples of A-3 on the taped conversations with the sample voice was doubtful and has not been proved in accordance with law.Mr. Jain submitted that the prosecution had failed to prove that A-3, at any time, either subscribed to or owned mobile Nos. 9876933745 and 9317534945 and, therefore, he could not have been convicted under Section 20 NDPS Act. The tampering of the CDs containing the taped conversations cannot be ruled out.At around 6.10 pm information was received by PW-16 that A- 1 and A-2 would come near Pandav Nagar Mother Diary around 7.30 pm for supply of smack to one Negro and the said information was passed on ACP Ravi Shankar who instructed PW-16 to conduct a raid.In any event since the secret information was not in respect of the contraband being in some house, the provision of Section 42 NDPS Act was not attracted.As regards the occurrence at Pandav Nagar, Mother Diary, Mr. Katyal pointed out that although notices were in fact issued under Section 50 NDPS Act to each of accused, i.e., A-1 and A-2 separately, both of them had destroyed the copies of the notices served upon them.In any event, contraband was recovered from the polythene bag of A-1 and from bag of A-2 and thus the contraband was not present on their person.The contraband was sealed with the seal of HS and handed over to PW-16 along with FSL forms and PW-16 left the spot at around 10.20 pm.It was taken to PS Lodhi Colony at about 11.15 pm and handed over to SHO Paras Nath (PW-13) who affixed his seal of PNS on all the parcels and FSL forms and deposited the same in the malkhana.Turing to the facts in the present case, there is a whole chain of events that has taken prior to the interception orders of the mobile phones.The interception orders were in respect of the mobile phones (Ex.PW20/A, Ex.PW20/B, Ex.PW26/A, Ex.PW26/B and Ex.PW26/C).PW-1 stated that after the after the bomb blasts that took place in 2005 at Liberty and Satyam Cinemas the mobile phones of the suspects were kept under surveillance.PW-1 had been deputed to listen to those conversations.He learnt that A-3 was in constant touch with Daya Singh Loharia, a Member of KLF.There was a specific instruction from senior officers that the surveillance of the mobile phones had to be kept secret.PW-17 explained that after hearing the conversations of all the calls, he copied all of them in DVD and CDs (Ex.P-29, P-36 and P-38).The computer system installed in the Special Cell was under the supervision and control of PW- 30 and the password of the same remained with him.It was stated that during the relevant period there was no problem in the operation of the computer system while recoding the calls nor was there any break down.58. PW-17 clarified that it was PW-1 who downloaded and handed over the transcripts to him for observation.He had opened the file in the office computer giving it the name of Upender.He spoke of the preparation of the transcripts of all mobile phone calls.As far as A-1 Jagdeo Singh and A-2 Gurdeep Singh are concerned the case of the prosecution has to be considered de hors the electronic evidence produced i.e., the CDRs of the mobile phones stated to have been used by each of them.The specific case of the prosecution is that at around 7.30 pm on 23 rd March 2007 both the accused came near the public toilet Patparganj Road at Ganesh Nagar Crossing.According to the prosecution, the motorcycle was driven by Gurdeep Singh (A-2) who was carrying a black colour bag on his shoulder.Jagdeo Singh (A-1) was the pillion rider.A-2 took out a polythene bag from the black colour bag that he was carrying and handed it over to A-1. A-2 remained near the motorcycle and A-1 stood at the Ganesh Nagar Crossing.At that point of time, both were apprehended." This is purely a surmise since the burden was entirely on the prosecution to show that the signatures on the seizure memo, recovery memo and the inspection memo etc., were in fact only of A-1 and no one else.On his part A-1 has probablised his defence that those signatures were not his.The evidence of CW-1 is more than sufficient to probablise that defence.Evidence of torture of A-1 and A-2The plea of A-2 is that he was picked up from Gurudwara Sheesh Ganj forcibly and his motorcycle was also picked up from the parking area.He examined Pargat Singh (DW-2) to prove this plea.He also has alleged as being tortured by the police while in custody.In respect of that plea he examined Dr. Anand Kumar (DW-1).The relevant pages of the said register has been brought by me today and are Ex.DW1/B".He produced the medical record of A-1 (Ex. DW5/A).He deposed that "As per the said medical record, the accused Jagdeo was first examined on his admission to jail on 4 th April 2007 and had complained that he had been beaten by police on 2 nd April 2007 and that he had pain over his whole back.On examination, pattern bruises were found present over the whole back, left arm upper and lower, left thigh, and the legs and he was prescribed medication for the pain".(emphasis supplied)The aforementioned sentences were directed to run concurrently with the sentences already imposed upon A-1 in FIR No.164 of 2007 at Police Station (PS) Sidhwabet.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 2 of 57Case of the prosecutionAdditionally, A-1 was charged with having been found in possession of one pistol along with eight live cartridges and thereby committing an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act. All the accused pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 6 of 57The prosecution examined twenty nine witnesses.When the evidence was put to the three accused under Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr PC), each of them denied it and claimed to have been falsely implicated.In Laxmi Nagar under the railway bridge Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 7 of 57 the vehicle was stopped.The police officials then tried to shift him to a private Wagon R in which A-2 and PW-17 were already sitting.When A- 1 raised hue and cry a lot of people gathered at the spot and questioned the police as to why they were taking A-1 away.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 7 of 5715. A-1 denied having been apprised of any legal right under Section 50 of the NDPS Act. He was beaten by the police officials who forced him to write on the notice.He denied that any contraband or pistol was recovered from him.He also claimed not to know A-3 prior to his arrest in the present case.In respect to the transcript of the intercepted calls, A-1 denied having been part of this conversation or having made the conversation shown in that transcript.He stated that it was correct that on 2nd January 2009 he had agreed to give his voice sample but he had specifically requested that he should be taken to CFSL Chandigarh since he was apprehensive that in Delhi the police officials would manipulate his voice samples.Although the trial Court had permitted this but A-1 was not taken to CFSL Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 8 of 57 Chandigarh.On 12th January 2009 he refused to give the voice sample in Court apprehending that it would not be taken properly and would be manipulated.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 8 of 57When asked if he wished to say anything else, A-1 stated that he had been falsely implicated in the case.He stated that he has been in judicial custody from 2001 to 15th August 2006 since more than 21 cases has been registered against him in various police station and that he has been acquitted in most of them.In six cases he has been convicted and in two cases he has filed appeals which are pending in the High Court.A-1 alleged that consequently PW-1 had been responsible for A-1 being falsely implicated in the present case.He denied that the conversations recorded on the CDs and DVD between him and the other co-accused persons were in his voice.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 9 of 57He denied the intercepted calls.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 11 of 57As regards voice samples, A-2 stated that he did agree on 2nd January 2009 to give his voice sample but requested that he should be taken to CFSL, Chandigarh for that purpose.However, they were not taken there.On 12 th January 2009, he had refused to give the voice sample in the Court as he was apprehensive that it would be manipulated.An additional statement was recorded of A-2 on 11th July 2013 when he denied all the intercepted calls.Statement of A-3 under Section 313 Cr PCIn his statement, A-3 stated that he used to go and meet Daya Singh Lahoria while he was lodged in Nabha jail as he was a good friend of his.He stated that he used the mobile No.9876933745 but thereafter stated that he had never used the said mobile phone and that he was not dealing in fake currency notes, drugs, arms and ammunition.He stated that he did not know A-1 but knew A-2 who was a sewadar in Gurdwara Sheesh Ganj, New Delhi.He had got in touch with A-2 when he had come to Delhi for pairvi of cases of Daya Singh Lahoria in the Supreme Court and in Jaipur courts.He claimed that no mobile phone was recovered from his Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 12 of 57 possession.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 12 of 57Gurlal had since left the services of the Gurudwara and was presently residing in Punjab.In his cross-examination, DW-2 stated that neither he nor Gurlal made any complaint to the police about the motorcycle of A-2 being taken by some police officials.He also did not complain to the police after coming Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 14 of 57 to know from his father and brother that A-2 had been picked up by the police.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 14 of 57The third defence witness was Mr. S.K. Jain, Dy.At about 17:58:44 an outgoing call was made from that mobile for 61 Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 15 of 57 seconds.At around 19:32:15 an outgoing call for 29 seconds was made from the same cell tower at Sarai Kale Khan.At about 19:32:47 an incoming call was received for 16 seconds from the cell ID tower of Bhairon Marg, Pragati Maidan.The mobile phone was used with IMEI No.354540018396220 for all the aforementioned calls.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 15 of 57An attested copy of the first medical examination of A-1 was (DW-5/A) was brought on record.A-1 had complained that he was beaten by the police on 2nd April 2007 and had pain over his whole back.On examination, pattern bruises were found present over the whole back, left arm upper and lower left thigh and the legs.A-1 was prescribed medication for the pain.He was unable to speculate how A-1 could have received the injuries.Head Constable Sanjeev (DW-6) attached to PS Special Cell, Lodhi Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 16 of 57 Colony was examined next.He brought the malkhana register No.19 for the year 2007 and the daily diary register for the same year.He pointed out that the register with respect to the duty roster of the year 2007 had been destroyed within a period of two years.He stated that there was no entry as to PW-17 (Inspector Upendra Solanki) receiving any case property from malkhana.He further stated that PW-17 had made the said entry at NR Rohini where he was then posted.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 16 of 57The trial Court judgmentBy the impugned judgment dated 21st December 2013, the learned trial Court found the three Appellants to be guilty of the offences under Section 21(c) and 29 of the NDPS Act, Section 489(c) and 129-B IPC and Section 25 of the Arms Act. By the order on sentence dated 30th January 2014, the learned trial Court sentenced the A-1, A-2 and A-3 in the manner indicated hereinbefore.Therefore, A-2 sat in the vehicle with SI Sharma and his bike was driven by a police official.Since this application was filed three months after his arrest, the answers given under Section 313 Cr PC was false.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014, 529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 17 of 57Three minutes thereafter, A-2 again called Raju and while talking, he screams, telling him to run away.Consequently, both A-1 and A-2 had taken a false defence before this Court.As per the deposition of PW-17, after listening the calls in the DVD, he copied them in the CDs (Exs. P-29, 36 and 38).Thus, the conditions laid down under Section 65-B of the Evidence Criminal Appeal Nos. 52
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529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 19 of 57 Act had been complied with.Since there was no manual intervention
it could not have been tampered with.When the CDs were played in Court
i.e.
before the arrest of the accused.(vi) The contention of the accused was that the mobile transcripts showed that A-1 and A-2 were having conversation around 7:45 pm was contrary to the stand of the prosecution that they were arrested at around 7:30 pm.The members of the raiding party deposed that Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 20 of 57 the time of apprehension of accused persons ""was about 7:30 pm."" and this did not mean exactly 7:30 pm.Further
the cell tower catches the frequency of a mobile phone if the location of the said mobile is within 1-2 km range.Therefore
there was no discrepancy if the cell tower at Pragati Maidan was able to catch the frequency of mobile phone used by A-1 when he was near Ganesh Nagar.The said spot was within 2 km. of Pragati Maidan.The evidence of Dr. Rajender Singh (PW-28)
who was the head of the Foreign Voice Identification Unit
CFSL proved that the questioned voice of A-3 in the taped conversations tallied with his specimen voice.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 20 of 57(vii) Dr. S.K. Jain
Dy.(DW-3) had come to the Court on 12th January 2009 to record the voice sample of A-1 and A-2 but they had refused.An adverse inference
therefore
was drawn against them.They did not take the plea that no mobile phone had been recovered from them
although the recovery memos were duly supplied to them with the chargesheet.(viii) Since the recoveries in the present case had not been effected from the persons of the accused
but from the bags carried by them
hence Section 50 NDPS Act was not applicable.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 21 of 57(ix) Dr. Madhulika Sharma (PW-14)
the FSL expert
explained that the colour of the samples which were received for analysis
which were of cream colour
could change to brown colour due to moisturization.PW-14 was not examined on this aspect.After A-1 and A-2 were apprehended
A-3 spoke about the arrest to at least three persons from his mobile.After the arrest of A-1 and A-2
the conspiracy in question had come to an end and
therefore
the statements made by A-3 thereafter could not be read against his co- conspirators under Section 10 of the Evidence Act
but they could be read against A-3 himself under Section 8 of the Evidence Act.Consequently
all the three accused were held guilty for the offences with which they were charged and sentenced in the manner indicated Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 22 of 57 hereinbefore.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 22 of 57Submissions of counsel for the AppellantsOn behalf of A-1
Mr. Rana made the following submissions:(i) The prosecution story regarding the arrest of A-1 was totally false.While PW-4 stated that A-1 is arrested at 7:30 pm on 23rd March 2009
the CDR and the call locations contradict the whole story.The CDR and the call locations filed by the prosecution for mobile nos. 9811328172 and 9873836607 allegedly recovered from A-1 shows that the said mobile was at Sarai Kale Khan at 7:32 pm and at Bhairon Marg on 7:32:47 pm
which is approximately 6-7 kms.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 23 of 57from the place of arrest shown by the prosecution.from the place of arrest and 8-10 kms.from Sarai Kale Khan.(v) Although the place of arrest was a busy public place with many markets
shops etc. being there
PW-17 did not bother to involve any public witness.(vi) The signature of A-1 on the different memos and notice under Section 50 NDPS Act were forged by the IO.Reliance has been placed on the decisions in Vijaysinh Chandubha Jadeja v. State of Gujarat (2011) 1 SCC 609
Rakesh @ Shanker v. State (decision dated 8th January 2014 in Crl.PW-17 uploaded the said transcripts in his computer on 24th January 2008
i.e. after 2 months and 22 days.The voice samples along with the said CD and DVD made from the said copies were sent to CFSL on 6th October 2008
i.e.
8 months after taking the sample
but it had not been verified by the FSL Lab as to whether the CD was an original one or a fake one.(ix) The recoveries were planted on the accused.There was discrepancy in the depositions of PWs 13 and 16 as to whether the case property was deposited in the Malkhana or MHMC Malkhana was called to the office handed over the properties recovered.(x) PW-17 stated that he had opened the sealed pulanda on 4th April 2007 without permission of the Court
and then took out Rs. 27
0
while keeping Rs. 1
740 there.A question arose as to how Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 25 of 57 he knew that Rs. 27
000 were fake currency
whereas Rs. 1
740 were genuine.Moreover
Ms. Deepa Sharma (PW-12)
the FSL expert deposed that she received Rs. 27
000 in loose condition.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 25 of 57(xi) The linking evidence regarding chain of events of the source from which the contraband was produced and its final destination was not proved.(xiii) As per judicial as well as other records
the time of arrest of A-1 on 23rd March 2007
was 7:30 pm the CDR for mobile number 9873836607 showed that A-1 was still making calls to A-2 at around 19:41:07 pm to 19:41:35 pm (call No.8629).Further
DW-4 deposed that at around 19:32:47 pm he was in Bhairon Marg and not Ganesh Nagar.If
as per DW-4
the said mobile remained switched off w.e.f. 12:03 noon on 15th March 2007
there was no need to obtain any sanction for interception of such call.The circumstance in which A-3 was arrested was also doubtful.He was arrested on 26th July 2008 while he had already been arrested Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 26 of 57 in FIR No. 77/07 with the same Special Cell.This happened after the report of the handwriting expert was received by the learned trial Court on 5th May 2008
which showed that the signature of A-1 on various documents were forged whereupon the prosecution panicked and to do damage control
made A-3 an accused in the cases.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 26 of 57He had complained against ASI Ombir Singh
who was then dismissed from service after a departmental inquiry.Apart from reiterating many of the above submissions
Mr. Gautam
learned counsel for A-2 pointed out inconsistencies in the prosecution witnesses as to the time and place of arrest and the steps taken thereafter.It was pointed out that the mobile phone remained with the IO for a long time.Therefore
his statement could not be said to be voluntary.Mr. Gautam submitted that inasmuch as the case property was taken to the office and not deposited at the nearest PS
an adverse inference ought Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 27 of 57 to be drawn against the police.There was no evidence to prove that A-2 was a member of the KZF.The mobile phone seized from A-2
i.e.
9821060613 was not in his name.It was not shown to him either.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 27 of 57Mr. Anurag Jain
learned counsel appearing for A-3
submitted that he was falsely implicated in this case.The mobile conversations which allegedly took place between the accused persons were false
and concocted.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 28 of 573 were missing.There was no evidence to show that A-3 had entered into a criminal conspiracy with the other accused to deal in trafficking of fake currency
arms and ammunition and heroine.He further stated that he handed over the parcels to MHC (M) HC Mahavir Singh (PW-5) who affirmed the same.As regards the deposit of parcels and FSL forms
PW-Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 29 of 578 stated that four samples sealed with the seal of HS and PNS along with FSL forms were handed over to PW-11 by a road certificate.PW-11 affirmed the same and stated that he deposited the samples with FSL Rohini.PW-14 affirmed that she received the four sealed parcels along with FSL form and specimen seal impression as HS and PNC for chemical examination.According to Mr. Katyal
the site plan (PW-17/A) when read in consonance with the evidence of the witnesses shows that there was no discrepancy as regards the place of apprehension at the spot.The reports under Section 57 NDPS Act (Ex.PW-6/C) & Ex.PW-6/E) having the receiving of office of ACP
Special Cell
NR were also proved by Ex.PW6/D and F.As regards the mobile phones used by A-2
Mr. Katyal pointed out that from the CDR of Mobile No. 9871060613 it was apparent that it was being used on both the mobile phones i.e.
Nokia 2300 (IMEI 355361003085245) having a SIM of Airtel and Nokia 8310 (IMEI 350700106948921) having SIM of Hutch.The mobile Phone No. 9999579926 was admittedly in the name of A-2 himself that was used on Nokia 8310 as evidenced from the CDR.As regards A-1
the mobile instrument is Motorola 5960 (IMEI 358612004213070) with the SIM of Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 30 of 57 Hutch.The second phone was recovered from A-1 was Nokia 1110 with IMEI 354540018396 as 6223) with the SIM of Hutch.On these mobile instruments the mobile numbers of 9888979849 and 9811328172 were used.The third was Sony Eriksson with the IMEI 354244013209750 having a SIM of Hutch.Till placing on record the intercepted conversations
A-2 took the stand that the mobiles were not recovered from them.The intercepted conversations showed that A-1 and A-2 knew each other very well and were involved in some clandestine activity.Neither the CDRs nor the voice interceptions could be manipulated with the mobile phone.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 30 of 57As regards the beatings given to A-1 and A-2
Mr. Katyal pointed out that during police custody of A-1 and A-2
they were produced before doctors for their medical check-up and in none of the reports there was any complaint made regarding the alleged beatings.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 31 of 57It was pointed out that the retraction statements of A-2 showed that when he was produced before the Court
he did not complain of any torture.The plea that they were kept standing outside the Court of the learned MM
when remand was sought
was not substantiated.Inspector Preetam Singh (PW-24)
SHO
PS Sidhwa Bet confirmed that A-3 had been arrested in FIR No. 164 of 2007 and mobile phones and other materials had been recovered from him.Mr. Katyal took the Court through the various interception orders.The intercepted calls were copied on DVD/CD and were seized by seizure memo.He Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 32 of 57 submitted that the trial Court had extensively dealt with the evidence on record and had rightly convicted them in the manner indicated hereinabove Electronic evidence and Section 65-B of the Evidence ActCriminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 32 of 57Among the critical pieces of evidence the intercepted conversations on the mobile phones allegedly used by the three accused and the call detail records (CDRs) of those phones.PW-1 revealed some facts to PW-16 by keeping his operation to be secret.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 34 of 57PW-1 stated that he was given permission only on 2nd April 2008 to hand over the intercepted phone conversations transcriptions in a pen drive to SI Upender Solanki (PW-17).The conversations between the accused persons were intercepted and provided to the office of the Special Cell.They were translated into Hindi.Since A-3 knew only Gurumukhi
the calls pertaining to him were translated.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 35 of 57When the DVD prepared by PW-17 (Ex.P-26) for reference was produced
defence counsel objected to it in view of Section 65B EA.They also objected to marking of CD (Ex.PW-29) containing the questioned conversation with the specimen voice sample taken of A-3 during investigation.The transcripts of those conversations were also exhibited as Ex.P30 to Ex.Likewise
the CD containing the selected calls of each of the other accused were tendered in evidence.They too were objected to by the defence counsel.Those conversations were nevertheless played in Court and transcripts thereof also produced.In his cross-examination PW-17 stated as under:""The original device on which the intercepted call records pertaining to this case was not sent for examination to the FSL.I was only given the pen drive in which the said intercepted call details were copied by SI Harbir Singh.I did not see from where these call details were copied.PW-17 further stated as under:Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 36 of 57An application was filed by the prosecution before the trial Court under Section 311 Cr PC.In the further examination-in-chief
PW-17 stated as under:""After SI Harbir Singh handed over the said pen drive to me at about 7 pm and I copied the data from the same in the hard disk of the computer system that I was using at that time.Since the calls ran into thousands
it took me almost three months to hear all the calls and thereafter
I copied all the calls in DVD Ex.P26 and the relevant calls in the CDs Ex.P29
P36
and P38 (the CDs and the DVD will be heard by this Court during the final arguments).I had returned the pen drive to SI Harbir Singh on 2 nd April 2008 itself and after copying the data in the computer system.I had copied the data in a file which could only be accessed by using the password which was known to me only.Nobody could have accessed to file made by me without my knowledge.During the three months period
no fault occurred in the computer system in which the relevant file was stored and neither was the said file corrupted in any manner.I state that the calls recorded in the CDs and the DVDs Ex.I have no personal knowledge whether Harbir Singh could have tampered or manipulated the data in the pen drive.I did not Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 37 of 57 at any time hear the original intercepted calls.I did not seize the hard disk of the original computer system from which the intercepted calls were copied.""I did not have access to any such record.A separate folder was prepared.In effect what was happening in the process was that electronic data was copied from one device to a pen drive.When he was examined in detail it became apparent that what was being spoken of was the making of further copies of those copies.The original remained on a server which none of the other persons had occasion to access.No such person was examined in the present case.It has also come in the evidence of PW-17 himself that ""I did not at any time make an enquiry whether the original computer monitoring system which was recording the intercepted call had a breakdown or not.""Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 41 of 57The other piece of electronic evidence is the intercepted mobile conversations.PW-28 Dr. Rajinder Singh
the CFSL expert
who analysed the voice samples stated in his cross-examination: ""The intercepting machine was not sent to us and the questioned sample was sent in a cassette."" As far as Inspector Sandip Malhotra (PW-30) is concerned
his evidence is to the effect that he was the administrative head of the system which was used for monitoring the calls.The password of the said system remained with him.He opened the system using the password and in his presence PW-1 copied the relevant calls."" In his cross-examination by counsel for A-1
he stated ""I was throughout present with SI Harbir Singh when he copied the data from the monitoring system.It took about 8-9 hours to copy the data.It further declared:Case against A-3As far as the case of A-3 Sukhwinder Singh @ Sukhi (the Appellant in Crl.A. No. 607 of 2014) is concerned
the entire case of the prosecution against him is based on electronic records.It may be recalled that Sukhwinder was already arrested in some other case when the investigation of the present case was underway.Initially
the FIR did not include the name of Sukhwinder.Therefore
as far as A-3
Sukhwinder @ Sukhi is concerned
the entire electronic records have to be kept out of consideration.There is no dispute that as far as A-3 is concerned
there is absolutely no other evidence to connect him to the two accused
i.e.
A-1 and A-2 and to bring home the charges framed against him after the filing of the supplementary chargesheet.In the view of the matter
the impugned judgment of the trial Court convicting A-3
Sukhwinder @ Sukhi for the offences with which he was charged with cannot be sustained.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 45 of 57Case against A-1 and A-2The members of the raiding team who were present at the spot and have deposed in this behalf are SI Harbir Singh (PW-1)
SI Ramvir (PW-4)
HC Ajay Kumar (PW-10) and Inspector Anil Dureja (PW-16) who was heading the raiding team.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 46 of 57The case of the prosecution is that from the polythene bag carried by A-1
two packets of 1 kg each of heroin was seized.Also from the personal search of A-1
PW-1 recovered one pistol
1 magazine and 18 live cartridges.From the back bag carried by A-2
two packets of 1 kg each of heroin were recovered.Thereafter
PW-17 conducted personal search of both the accused
wherein he recovered from A-1
Rs. 28
740 consisting of 27 currency notes of Rs. 1
000 denomination and from A-2 Rs. 2
025 consisting of two currency notes of Rs. 1
000 denomination.The third set of recoveries were made from the personal search of both the accused.A perusal of the trial Court judgment shows that extensive reliance has been placed on the intercepted telephone conversations which were produced by the police with the supplementary chargesheet.The trial Court reproduced the intercepted conversations in paras 43 and 44 and also relied upon the evidence gathered from the intercepted conversations which were recorded in the CDs in paras 46 toOn the aspect of arrest of A-1 and A-2
the genesis of the case assumes significance.Compliance with Section 42 NDPS is thrown into doubt on account of the fact that in the supplementary charge sheet the Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 47 of 57 prosecution has come up with the theory that the information regarding the possible handing over of narcotics by A-1 and A-2 to a Nigerian was chanced upon while tapping the mobile conversations.This is very different from the secret informer giving that information to Anil Dureja.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 47 of 57Compliance with Section 50 and the evidence of the handwriting expertCriminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 48 of 57Para 54 of the trial Court judgment deals with evidence of the handwriting expert Mr. T. Joshi of CFSL
Chandigarh examined as CW-1. A-1's specimen writings and signatures were collected and sent to CW-1 for examination.As such
it is not been possible to link the authorship of the mark Q-1 to Q-11 with the standard writing S-1 to S-4
AS-1 and AS-2.""CW-1 further categorical stated ""I could not link the authorship of questioned writing Mark Q-1 to Q-11 with the standard writing Mark S-1 to S-4
AS-1 and AS-2"".In his further cross-examination he stated that ""the writing features that were observed in the questioned writings were not observed in the standard writing as we consider the strokes
curvatures
alignment and other parameters were different in the questioned and standard writings but one of the parameter
i.e.
pressure could not studied from the questioned signature and meaning thereby the writing features of questioned documents and standard writing could not be linked."" When asked to elaborate what was the parameter which was lacking
he clarified ""The parameter was the greater pressure in the Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 49 of 57 questioned writing not in the standard writing and the same cannot be asked from the agency.""It was for the prosecution to explain under what circumstances different signatures
other than those of A-1
appeared on those documents.The trial Court took exception to both A-1 and A-2 tearing up the notices under Section 50 NDPS Act that were served on them.In this context
the plea of the accused that they were subject to torture while in custody assumes significance.On the aspect of torture of both A-1 and A-2 while in custody
the trial Court failed to appreciate the evidence in that regard.It merely called for a report and directed the Police Commissioner to hold an enquiry to determine who the erring police officials were and thereafter to take necessary action against them.The trial Court overlooked the fact that normally the accused is unable to produce any direct evidence to make the good the plea that he was tortured in the police custody.In this case however apart from taking the plea in his statement under Section 313 Cr PC that he was tortured in the police custody he also produced a defence witness Dr. Anand Kumar
Medical Officer in Tihar Jail (DW-1).DW-1 produced the medical record of A-2 (Ex.He categorically stated ""on examination
pattern Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 51 of 57 bruises were found present over the left of the back and he was prescribed medication for the pain.As per the in and out register record
this accused was examined by then medical officer Dr. Rakesh.He was not shaken in his cross-examination.He further clarified ""The first medical examination of an accused admitted in jail is conducted immediately on the entering of the accused in the jail premises and he is not allowed to go inside the jail premises without the said examination and therefore the injuries mentioned on the first examination record of an accused cannot ever be received by him inside the jail.""Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 51 of 57Nothing significant was elicited by the APP in the cross-examination of DW-1 and DW-5 to discredit their testimony.The Court concludes that both A-1 and A-2 have probablised their version that they were subjected to torture in police custody.Consequently
their so-called confessional statements could hardly be taken to be voluntary.The defence evidence ought not to have been overlooked while assessing the Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 52 of 57 story of the prosecution about both A-1 and A-2 being apprehended from the spot i.e.
outside the public toilet near Patparganj.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 52 of 57Contradictions in evidence of PWs as to the place of arrestIn para 56 of the trial Court judgment
the various contradictions pointed out in the statements of the prosecution witnesses have been dismissed by holding that it has no major significance which goes to the root of the matter.These inconsistencies pertain to certain important aspects regarding the place from where both the accused A-1 and A-2 were apprehended.According to the prosecution both the accused were intercepted when they were outside the public toilet near Ganesh Nagar crossing.This implied that they had come from the Laxmi Nagar side.However
none of the witnesses had spoken in one voice on this aspect.It has been pointed out that Anil Dureja (PW-16) in his cross-examination stated that the deployment of the police personnel was near the Mother Dairy on both sides.He did not remember what the distance was between the Ganesh Nagar chowk and the Mother Dairy.The distance between the Laxmi Nagar bridge and the Mother Dairy is stated to be 150 meters.The distance between the toilet at Ganesh Nagar and the Mother Dairy is almost 50 meters.If the police personnel were deployed within 10-15 meters on Mother Dairy then it is clear that they were not at the spot where the two accused were.PW-10 on the other hand stated that he had taken the position near the 'roundabout' near Mother Dairy.There was in fact no roundabout within 50 meters from the bridge.Even PW-1 talks about taking position near the crossing of the gol chakkar after getting Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 53 of 57 down from the over bridge.There is no gol chakkar at that spot.The site plan filed by the prosecution does not show any gol chakkar.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 53 of 57The further contradictions are that while PW-1 stated that both the accused came to the place from the Laxmi Nagar side
PW-4 stated that they came from the Shakarpur side.Even if both Shakarpur and Laxmi Nagar bridge are on the same side
this is contradicted by PW-10 who states that they approached the place from the Patparganj side which is opposite to the Laxmi Nagar side.It is also clear that with respect to the recovery of three things from the personal search of the accused i.e. fake currency notes
the mobile phones and the pistol and live cartridges
the seizure and recovery memos had to be proved beyond reasonable doubt by the prosecution.With the signatures of A-1 on the said documents not being proved beyond reasonable doubt the prosecution has been unable to establish whether the seizures took place in the manner indicated.There is another aspect of the recoveries which has completely been missed by the trial Court.PW-16 has stated that he deposited the recoveries in the malkhana
whereas
PW-13 stated that he called the MHC(M) HC Mahavir Singh and handed over the articles to him.PW-17 states that he took out Rs.27
000/- from the sealed pullandas and kept back Rs.1740 there.In his cross examination
PW-17 states that ""It is correct that fact that the sealed envelope which was opened to take out the notes was preserved was not mentioned Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 54 of 57 in my records.I do not remember whether the envelop used by me for keeping the balance of Rs 1740 was the same envelope in which the original amount of Rs 28740 was kept.It is correct that no description of the seal which was affixed on the said envelop has been mentioned in Ex. PW4/A. Even on 4 th April 2007
I had not verified the contents of the case property but had only opened the pullandas of jamatalashi.I do not remember whether I had even broken the seal on the envelope containing the currency notes or I had managed to take out the notes without breaking the said seals.I do not remember whether I had resealed the envelope.I do not know how the remaining currency notes were kept.It is incorrect to suggest that no counterfeit currency was recovered from the accused"".Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 54 of 57109. PW-17 fails to explain how he knew that Rs.27
000 which he had taken from there were the fake currency notes and that the rest of the amount was of counterfeit.Ms. Deepa
Assistant Director FSL Rohini (PW-17) stated that she received the notes (29 notes of 1000 each
27 recovered from A-1 and 2 from A-2) in loose condition.This is again a serious lapse on the part of the prosecution.While one mobile phone seized from A-3 was shown to belong to him
the prosecution failed to connect the mobile phones recovered from A-1 and A-2 with them.The relevant records show who the subscriber to the SIM was but not whose photo was on the customer application.Those subscribers were not examined as witnesses.It appears to the Court that the trial Court proceeded essentially on the basis of the intercepted conversations and the transcripts of those conversations and therefore overlooked the serious lacunae as far as the other evidence is concerned.Criminal Appeal Nos. 527 of 2014
529 of 2014 & 607 of 2014 Page 55 of 57It is seen that the trial Court discarded the evidence of A-2 that the motorcycle was seized from the parking lot.It noted that in his bail application A-2 took a stand different from what he stated in his statement under Section 313 Cr PC.In his bail application
he claimed that up to the Lal Qila signal
he himself drove the motorcycle following SI Ramesh Sharma and thereafter he was forced to accompany them in a car.Finding these pleas to be to be contrary
the trial Court drew an adverse inference against him.The Court finds this approach of the trial Court to be an unsafe one to adopt in a criminal case where an accused has a fundamental right against self- incrimination.Apart from saying that it was perhaps thrown away by the accused
there appears to be no effort made to recover the key from near the place of interception.When viewed in the background of the totality of the prosecution case
this appears to be a significant lacuna.Each of the above aspects when considered separately may not be sufficient by themselves to create a doubt about the case of the prosecution
but when viewed in totality
the prosecution evidence cannot be said to inconsistent with the innocence of the accused and point unmistakably to their guilt.The records be returned to the trial Court forthwith."
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A perusal of the CD file shows that the Child Welfare Committee,Kanyakumari District, also after examining the detenu and the unwillingnessof the parents of the detenu to take the detenu back to their home, entrustedthe custody of the minor detenu with the fifth respondent, namely,R.Jeyarani, W/o.Ramu, who is the sister of the petitioner herein.The documents produced by the learned Additional Public Prosecutorshows that the detenu in her own handwriting wrote a letter stating that sheis not ready and willing to go with her parents and yet another statementgiven by the fifth respondent, namely, R.Jeyarani, W/o.Ramu, shows that sheis prepared to take care of the detenu at her home.Therefore, the ChildWelfare Committee keeping in mind the fact that the detenu is a minor, took adecision to send her back to her parental home.But, peculiarly andsurprisingly, the parents expressed their unwillingness to take the detenu totheir home for the reason that the fourth respondent has been frequentlygiving phone calls threatening them not to interfere with the life of thedetenu.Therefore, the detenu was sent along with the fifth respondent, whois the sister of the petitioner.It is seen that the registration of the case against the fourthrespondent has ultimately ended in granting anticipatory bail to him by theFast Track Mahila Court, Kanyakumari at Nagercoil.We are surprised to seethat how this is possible for the Mahila Court to grant anticipatory bail tothe fourth respondent, who is said to have kidnapped a minor girl.In view of the above stated facts and circumstances, since theparents are not willing to take back the detenue with them, we areconstrained to send the detenu, namely, Jesila, to Vidiyal Home, Muthupatti,Near Palanganatham, Madurai, till she attains the age of 18 years.Wedirect the Authorities of the Home not to permit the fourth and the fifthrespondent at any point of time, to see the detenu.With above directions, this Habeas Corpus Petition is closed.1.The Superintendent of Police, O/o.The Superintendent of Police, Kanyakumari District.5.The Superintendent, Vidial Home, Muthupatti, Near Palanganatham, Madurai..[Order of the Court was made by T.RAJA, J.] The petitioner, namely, K.Vijayarani, the mother of the detenu, namely,Jesila, has come to this Court seeking a Writ of Habeas Corpus, directing therespondents No.1 to 3 to produce the person or body of the Petitioner's minordaughter, namely, Jesila (17/17), D/o.Kannan @ Morris, before this Court andset her at liberty.2.The learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submitted that thepetitioner, her husband and the detenu are residing peacefully.Takingadvantage of the fact that the petitioner's husband is a physicallychallenged person, who has lost his hands and one leg in an accident, thefourth respondent Mr.M.Neveen forcibly knocked the door of the petitioner'shouse at 11.30 p.m., on 10.09.2016 and opened the door and finally, kidnappedthe petitioner's minor daughter at knife point.The petitioner's husband,who is a physically challenged person was unable to stop the said illegalactivity made by the fourth respondent, who is already a married man andhaving two children.In themeanwhile, the fourth respondent has obtained Anticipatory Bail byapproaching the Fast Track Mahila Court, Kanyakumari at Nagercoil, inCr.Now, the Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Kanyakumari, is conducting investigation inthat case.Pursuant thereto, the detenu was secured and producedbefore us.Parents of the detenu and the fifth respondent, who is sister of thepetitioner also appeared before us.After a formal interrogation with thefather and mother of the detenu, the parents have expressed their difficultyin taking the detenu back to their home citing a reason that everyday, thefourth respondent, namely, M.Naveen is frequently visiting the fifthrespondent's house, wherein the detenu has been taking shelter and he hasbeen giving unnecessary phone calls to the parents of the detenu threateningthat if they further interfered with the life of the detenu, they would bedone away with.In view of the said statement, we posed a question to the parents ofthe detenu, since the detenu is minor as on today, her custody should betaken by them as legal guardian.The parents of the detenu jointly repliedstating that they are not in a position to take the custody of the detenuapprehending further complications for the reason that the police had nottaken any legal action against the fourth respondent when they reported tothe police station on receipt of threatening phone calls from the fourthrespondent.At this point of time, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor hasproduced the CD file.We are also giving liberty to the parents of the detenu to approachthe jurisdictional police station for police protection if situationwarrants.If any such complaint is lodged by the parents of the detenu, theconcerned Police Officers are directed to register a case against theintruder.2.The Inspector of Police, Ethamozhi Police Station, Kanyakumari District.3.The Inspector of Police, South Thamaraikulam Police Station, Kanyakumari District.4.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai.
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Shri G.G. Bade.The appeal is already listed for final hearing today.The appeal is taken up for final hearing.2] The appellant assails the judgment and order dated 05.04.2002 in Sessions Case 33/1998, by and under which, the Ist::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 ::: apeal232.02.J.odt 2 Ad hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Gadchiroli convicted the appellant for offence punishable under section 435 and 436 of Indian Penal Code and imposed sentence of rigorous imprisonment for three years and payment of fine of Rs.500/-.3] Shri G.G. Bade, the learned counsel appearing for the appellant (hereinafter referred to as "the accused") would submit that the judgment impugned is manifestly erroneous and occasions serious miscarriage of justice.He would urge that the prosecution has made no attempt to prove the very sine quo non for constituting offence under section 435 or 436 of Indian Penal Code.::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 :::::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 :::Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage to amount of one hundred or (in case of agricultural produce) ten rupees.-- Whoever commits mischief by fire or any explosive substance intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, damage to any property to the amount of one hundred rupees or upwards [or (where the property is agricultural produce) ten rupees or upwards], shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.Classification of offence.-- The offence under this section is cognizable, bailable, non-compoundable and triable by Magistrate of the first class.Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house, etc.-- Whoever commits mischief by fire or any explosive substance, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, the destruction of any building which is ordinarily used as a place of worship or as a human dwelling or as a place for the custody of property, shall be punished with [imprisonment for life], or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.Classification of Offence.-- The offence under this section is cognizable, non-bailable, non- compoundable and triable by Court of Session.The first ingredient which the prosecution is required to establish is that mischief is committed.Mischief is defined in::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 ::: apeal232.02.J.odt 4 section 425 of I.P.C. thus:::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 ::: apeal232.02.J.odt 5::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 :::The prosecution was therefore, statutorily mandated to prove that the accused set afire his own hut with the intention to cause, or with the knowledge that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person.7] I have scrutinized the record to ascertain as to what weighed with the learned Sessions Judge in recording a finding that charge under section 435 and 436 of I.P.C. is brought home by the prosecution, but in vain.The prosecution case is that the accused set afire to his own hut which admittedly was located on government land.It is not the case of the prosecution that there were any hut or dwelling around or in the immediate vicinity and that the accused intended to cause damage or loss to some other building or dwelling or property and with such intent set afire his own hut.The learned A.P.P. makes an attempt to support the judgment impugned by contending that one Shamrao Kisan Dhore had kept his tur sticks (fodder) in the open land in the vicinity of the hut of the accused.The person who allegedly kept the fodder near the hut of the accused is not examined.Nothing is brought on record by the prosecution to suggest much less conclusively prove that the intent of the accused in burning down his own hut was to cause loss to any other person.::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 ::: apeal232.02.J.odt 6 8] I must also record, that three witnesses who allegedly witnessed the incident were examined by the prosecution.Out of the three witnesses P.W.1 admits in the cross-examination that he did not witness the accused doing the act.Even P.W.5 also admits in the cross-examination that he did not witness the accused burning down the hut.He states that he heard shouts, saw the accused running and some persons chasing him and therefore, joined the chase.I must observe, that not only is the prosecution a miserable failure in proving the basic ingredient of section 435 and 436 of I.P.C., as noted supra, even the evidence on record is grossly insufficient to prove, much less proved beyond reasonable doubt that accused set afire to his own hut.::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 :::9] I am afraid that the judgment impugned is manifestly erroneous.It is a matter of some concern that neither the learned Sessions Judge nor the battery of defence counsel, applied mind to the scope and ambit of section 435 and 436 of I.P.C. nor did they make any attempt to find out or ascertain from the material on record as to whether the basic ingredient of 435 and 436 of I.P.C., which is that mischief must be committed, is established.::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 ::: apeal232.02.J.odt 7 10] The appeal is allowed.The accused is acquitted of offence punishable under section 435 and 436 of I.P.C.::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 :::::: Uploaded on - 08/09/2017 ::: Downloaded on - 10/09/2017 01:54:47 :::
['Section 436 in The Indian Penal Code']
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found that there was prima facie case against six persons, namely, Virbal, Bihari, Shishupal, Kandiya, Gangadhar and Gyasiya and he fixed the date for further proceedings against these six persons.Subsequent to the filing of this private complaint, in respect of the same matter, the Police filed a Challan Under Section 307, IPC against five persons, namely, Bihari, Shishupal, Gyasiya, Ramchand and Manphool.Of these Bihari, Shishupal, Gyasiya, are common accused in the complaint and the Challan.All the accused filed an application before the trial Court that both the complaint case and the Challan of the Police should be tried together.The Magistrate rejected this application against which the accused filed a revision before the Additional Sessions Judge, who has referred the case to the High Court.
['Section 417 in The Indian Penal Code']
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A.No.120/2011 Page 1 of 18A.No.120/2011 Page 1 of 18On 24.07.2005 at about 04.00 or 04.15 A.M. ASI Jaipal Singh, Head Constable Jagdish Prasad and Constable Raj Rao were on duty in PCR van at Madhuban Chowk, Rohini.An informer told them about hearing cries of a woman from a park towards Deepali Chowk.Immediately, they went to the spot and found a man committing rape upon a lady while the other wearing kurta-pyjama had caught hold of her hands.Constable Raj Rao apprehended him when he attempted to escape.The person who was performing sex with the lady was apprehended by ASI Jaipal Singh.Daily Diary (DD) No.9A was recorded at Police Station, Rohini.SI Harjinder Rana went to the spot and took custody of the appellants.She recorded ASI Jaipal Singh's statement and lodged First Information Report.Prosecutrix 'G' (assumed name) and both the appellants were taken to Sh.Baba Sahib Ambedkar Hospital (in short 'BSA) for medical examination.Statements of the witnesses conversant with the facts were recorded.The exhibits were sent to Forensic Science Laboratory.Pursuant to the appellant's disclosure statements their involvement in case FIR No.338/2005 under Section 457/380 IPC at Police Station, Rohini surfaced and their correct names were ascertained Virender @ Lala and Kailash.The prosecutrix 'G' was admitted for treatment at IHBAS.After completion of investigation, a Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 2 of 18 charge-sheet was filed against the appellants.A.No.120/2011 Page 3 of 18 emerged in the testimonies of PCR officials as to where they were stationed; at what distance the spot of occurrence was and at which specific place the prosecutrix was found.There were residential houses nearby, but no independent public witness was associated.It is highly unbelievable that none of the residents would hear cries of the lady from the nearby park.The appellants have not challenged their presence and apprehension by PCR officials on the relevant date and time.They claimed that they had confrontation with the PCR officials and were falsely implicated when they did not accede to their demand to pay illegal gratification.A-2 had consumed liquor and it was detected during medical examination (Ex.PW4/B).A-2 in 313 statement admitted that they were drunk.They did not elaborate when and at which place, they had consumed liquor.DD No.9A (Ex.PW-15/K) recorded at 04.31 a.m. at Police Station Rohini reveals that two men have been apprehended with a lady in the park, near Deepali Chowk from where her cries were coming.The prosecutrix 'G' a hapless lady lived alone on the footpath.She was mentally retarded.Kuldeep Singh, recorded in the MLC (Ex.PW-4/A) that she was talking 'irrelevantly'.Considering her mental condition, she was sent to IHBAS for examination.On 28.07.2005, after considering report from IHBAS, she was admitted there for treatment.She was diagnosed having 'Unspecified Psychosis'.The Investigating Officer was not able to record her statement under Section 161 Cr.P.C. She was taken to Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Rohini at 07.20 a.m. on 24.07.2005 where her MLC (Ex.PW-4/A) was prepared.The MLC records that she was a victim of rape at about 03.45 P.M. that Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 5 of 18 day.He disclosed that at about 04.15 A.M. they got information from a vehicle owner that he had heard cries of a lady from a park at Deepali Chowk.When they reached in the park at A-3 Block, Sector-8, Rohini, they saw 'G' was lying naked on the ground and was crying.A boy wearing kurta-pyjama had caught hold of her hands and the other person was performing sex with her.The boy wearing kurta-pyjama attempted to escape but was caught hold by Constable Raj Rao.The man who was in naked condition was caught hold by him.Their names were ascertained Ravinder and Satyawan @ Sultan.He apprised the control room.Local police arrived at the spot.The occurrence took place at 4/4.15 A.M. First information Report was lodged promptly without any delay at 06.00 A.M. ASI Jaipal Singh attributed specific role to the each accused in his statement Ex.PW2/A given to the police at the earliest- soon after the incident.While appearing as PW-2, he (ASI Jaipal Singh) proved the said version without any variation and deposed that on 24.07.2005, he was posted at PCR, North-West Zone.On getting information from some vehicle owner Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 6 of 18 at about 04.00 a.m. about hearing cries of a lady in the park near Deepali Chowk, he informed PCR Commander for further direction to reach the spot.On reaching in the park at A-3 Block, Sector -8, Rohini, they saw a lady crying.Two persons were there, one of them had caught hold of her hands while the other was committing rape upon her.The lady was asked to put on her clothes.On inquiry from the victim, he came to know that she was not of stable mind.SI Harjinder Rana reached the spot with senior officers and recorded his statement (Ex.PW-2/A).In the cross- examination, he stated that the distance between Madhuban Chowk and Deepali Chowk was 2.5 kilometer.He fairly admitted inability to furnish description of the informer.He was not able to refer to the make of the car.They entered inside the park from the ring road side.There were trees in the park.SI Harjinder Rana reached the spot after half an hour.He stayed there uptill 08.30 A.M. He further admitted that he did not hand over any report regarding calls made to headquarters.There were lights in the park.Information to the local police was sent around 04.15 a.m. He denied that the accused going in the car, were stopped at Madhuban Chowk and money was demanded from them.The place of occurrence was residential area.He was not aware if the accused's car was parked near the place of incident or not.On scanning his deposition, Crl.He had no prior animosity with the accused to falsely implicate them in the incident.The investigation was carried out subsequently by local police at Rohini and PCR officials had no say to fabricate the evidence.He and his colleagues had reached the spot in the performance of their official duties and were able to apprehend the accused with the lady.No suggestion was put in the cross-examination that he was not on official duty that time.Thereafter, they rushed to the spot.They saw that a man was committing sex with a lady Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 8 of 18 and another person wearing kurta-pyjama had caught hold of her hands.The lady was crying.On seeing them, the person who had caught hold the lady's hands tried to run away.He immediately apprehended him and his name was ascertained Ravinder.The person committing rape was apprehended by ASI Jaipal Singh.He was not wearing any clothes at that time.He disclosed his name Satyawan.The prosecutrix was unable to furnish her details and it appeared that she was mentally retarded.ASI Jaipal directed her to wear her clothes.After 10-15 minutes, local police arrived and recorded their statements.In the cross-examination, he explained that the person who gave the information had come in a car at around 04.00 a.m. ASI Jaipal had not noted down the description of the person and the car.It had taken 7-8 minutes to reach the spot.They left the spot after 10-15 minutes on arrival of the Investigating Officer.He denied that the accused were implicated as they refused to pay bribe to them.He admitted that there were residential houses around the place of incident.Material facts regarding the incident remained unchallenged in the cross-examination of this witness.No suggestion was put to him that he with ASI Jaipal Singh had not gone to the park and prosecutrix 'G' was not recovered from there.It was not specifically put as to which of the Crl.They came back along with a lady and two persons.He identified both the appellants A-1 and A-2 brought by ASI Jaipal Singh and Constable Raj Rao.Message was given to the control room and police official of police station Rohini reached the spot.In the cross-examination, he stated that he remained at the spot for about ten minutes.He further stated that their statements are recorded by the Investigating Officer.Again nothing was suggested to PW-1 that ASI Jaipal Singh and Constable Raj Rao had not gone inside the park and had not returned with the prosecutrix and the appellants.She deposed that when she was sleeping on the road on footpath, two men took her to a park 'when morning was to commence'.One of them caught hold of her and the other did 'jabardasti' with her.She further elaborated that the said person opened his pants and removed her salwar and did 'galatkam' with her forcibly.Then PCR van came and the police officials got her released from those two men.She identified and re-cognized Kailash who committed rape upon her and Virender who had caught hold of her hands.The incident took place around 04.30 a.m. She could guess the time by 'seeing stars'.She elaborated that she was woken up by two persons present in the court and they dragged her.She did not shout as both of them did 'jabardasti' with her.PW-4/A).There is no conflict between the ocular and medical evidence.They did not furnish their correct particulars and gave incorrect names.Subsequently, it was found that their correct name were Virender and Kailash.Both had consumed liquor.They did not explain their presence in the park at odd hours with the prosecutrix.The appellants who had consumed liquor exploited innocence of a mentally retarded lady whose mental faculties were under developed and who lived alone on footpath.They took her to a nearby park to satisfy Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 16 of 18 their lust and committed rape upon her.Due to her metal conditions, she was not able to put resistance.A young lady leading a vagabond life was subjected to gang rape under the cover of her mental condition.The appellants Virender @ Lalla @ Bhura (A-1) and Kailash @ Satyawan @ Sultan @ Kala (A-2) challenge judgment dated 13.12.2010 in Sessions Case No.109/2009 arising out of FIR No.729/2005 registered at Police Station Rohini by which they were convicted for committing offences punishable under Section 376 (2) (g) IPC.By an order dated 04.01.2011, they were sentenced to undergo RI for ten years with fine of `5,000/- each.They were duly charged and brought to trial.The prosecution examined 15 witnesses to substantiate the charges.In their 313 statements, the appellants pleaded false implication.On appreciating the evidence and considering the rival contentions of the parties, the Trial Court, by the impugned judgment held both the appellants perpetrators of the crime and sentenced them.A.No.120/2011 Page 2 of 183. Learned counsel for the appellants urged that there was no legal evidence against the appellants to base conviction.The Trial Court did not appreciate the evidence in its true and proper perspective and fell into grave error in relying upon the testimonies of police witnesses with whom the appellants had an altercation on demand of bribe.Statement of the prosecutrix was not recorded during investigation.In her cross- examination, she categorically admitted that she was tutored by the Investigating Officer.Presence of ASI Jaipal Singh, Head Constable Jagdish Prasad and Constable Raj Rao at the spot is highly doubtful.No log book/register maintained in the vehicle was produced.The informer was not cited as a witness.The prosecution witnesses were unable to disclose the name of the informer and the vehicle in which he was travelling.The MLC and FSL reports do not establish appellants' involvement in the incident.Vital contradictions and inconsistencies have Crl.Test Identification Proceedings were not conducted.Learned Additional Public Prosecutor urged that the prosecutrix's statement has been corroborated by PCR officials and there are no good reasons to discard their statements.A.No.120/2011 Page 3 of 18I have considered the submissions of the parties and have examined the Trial Court record.They did not specify as to which of the police official Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 4 of 18 had demanded bribe from them.PCR officials came into motion when an unknown informer disclosed that he had heard cries of a woman in the park at Deepali Chowk.Both the appellants were apprehended from the park with the lady.There was no occasion for the PCR officials to have confrontation with the appellants at Madhuban Chowk.It lends credence to the prosecution version that she was found in the park and was a victim of sexual assault.A.No.120/2011 Page 4 of 18A.No.120/2011 Page 5 of 18The Investigating Officer lodged First Information Report on the statement of ASI Jaipal Singh (Ex.PW-2/A).The accused did not deny their apprehension with the lady from the park.PW-2 (ASI Jaipal)'s statement that rape was being committed upon the lady while the other had caught hold of her hands has remained uncontroverted and unchallenged in the cross-examination.A.No.120/2011 Page 6 of 18A.No.120/2011 Page 7 of 187. PW-8 (Constable Raj Rao), another police official posted in PCR van has corroborated PW-2's testimony in entirety.He also deposed that on 24.07.2005 he was posted in PCR vehicle stationed near Madhuban Chowk.At about 04.15 A.M. some vehicle owner informed ASI Jaipal that a lady was crying in a park, Sector-8, Rohini.ASI Jaipal Singh immediately sent a message to command room.A.No.120/2011 Page 9 of 18 PCR officials had demanded bribe and for what reason.PW-8 was not acquainted with the accused prior to the incident.A.No.120/2011 Page 8 of 18A.No.120/2011 Page 9 of 188. PW-1 (Head Constable Jagdish Prashad) has supplemented the statements of PW-2 and PW-8 on material facts.He also deposed that on 24.07.2005, he was on duty with ASI Jaipal Singh and Constable Raj Rao in PCR vehicle Commander 41 parked at Madhuban Chowk.On 04.00 A.M. the informer told them that he had heard cries of a woman from the side of Deepali Chowk park.He along with other staff went near the park at A-3 Block, Sector-8, Rohini.ASI Jaipal Singh and Raj Rao went inside the park.PW-1 had no ulterior motive to fabricate a false story.A.No.120/2011 Page 10 of 18A.No.120/2011 Page 10 of 18All the three police witnesses PW-1, 2 and 8 have corroborated each other on vital facts.They were not nurturing any grievance or ill-will with the appellants to falsely implicate them in the heinous offence.They were posted on duty in PCR van and on getting information about the commission of a serious offence, in the discharge of their official duties, they rushed to the spot and were able to apprehend the appellants and the lady with whom the sexual assault was committed.The Trial Judge put preliminary questions to her to ascertain if she was capable to give rational answers and was mentally fit to depose.She further deposed that she was taken to the hospital where she was examined.She identified her clothes (Ex.P-1) seized at the hospital.In the cross-examination she stated that the incident took place about three months back.She used to reside permanently on the road.She had no jhuggi or pucca residence.Nobody else resided with her on the road at that time.Five police officials were present in the police vehicle.She further stated that the police vehicle came when she was on the road.She admitted that she identified Kailash and Virender at the instance of the Investigating Officer.She further admitted Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 13 of 18 that she did not know the accused prior to the incident.They were shown to her by the Investigating Officer when she attended the court on earlier two dates.She further admitted that when the incident took place she was not mentally fit.She denied the suggestion that Kailash did not commit rape upon her and the accused Virender had not caught hold of her.She further denied that the statement was made falsely by her at the instance of Investigating Officer.Prosecutrix's statement, who was mentally retarded, is to be examined as a whole.The whole of the evidence in chief and cross examination has to be read together to find out the truth.Mere reading of a portion of the cross examination, ignoring the chief examination would be misleading.It is true that at some places in the cross-examination she has admitted that both the accused were shown to her by the Investigating Officer and she identified them at her instance.PW-7 is a poor hapless lady who was leading a vagabond life.She used to sleep on footpath.She belonged to the poor section of the society.She was illiterate and rustic witness.She was not expected to recapitulate all minute details of the incident correctly and exactly.However, she was categorical in her deposition before the Court that Kailash committed rape while Virender caught hold of her.In the cross-examination no suggestion was put to her that Kailash and Virender were not found in the Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 14 of 18 park with her.Nothing was suggested that the prosecutrix was not subjected to sexually assault or that the police officials had not recovered her from the park with the accused.The case was investigated by the police officers of police station Rohini who were having no animosity with the accused.PW-7 'G' was also not acquainted with the accused to falsely identify them at the instance of the investigating officer.She attributed specific role to the each accused.She corroborated statements of PWs 2 and 8 on all material facts.Her testimony consistently matches with the version of every other witness.Minor deviation in the cross- examination on some aspects does not efface her entire deposition.In the decision reported as State of Himachal Pradesh V.Asha Ram AIR 2006 SC 381, Supreme Court highlighted the importance to be given to the testimony of the prosecutrix as under:-A.No.120/2011 Page 12 of 18A.No.120/2011 Page 13 of 18A.No.120/2011 Page 14 of 18"........It is now well-settled principle of law that conviction can be founded on the testimony of the prosecutrix alone unless there are compelling reasons for seeking corroboration.The evidence of a prosecutrix is more reliable than that of an injured witness.The testimony of the victim of sexual assault is vital unless there are compelling reasons which necessitate looking for corroboration of her statement, the Courts should find no difficulty in acting on the testimony of a victim of sexual assault alone to convict an accused where her testimony inspires confidence and is found to be reliable.Even minor contradictions or insignificant discrepancies in the statement of the prosecutrix should not be a ground for throwing out an otherwise reliable prosecution case.A.No.120/2011 Page 15 of 18Her version that she was sexually assaulted finds reflection in MLC (Ex.PW-4/A).PW-4 (Dr.Kuldeep Singh) examined her on 24.07.2005 at 07.20 a.m. She was taken to hospital by SI Harjinder Rana.In the MLC it is recorded that she was a victim of sexual assault.She was referred to senior gynecologist and was examined by Dr.PW-6 (Dr.Nidhi Tiwari) identified signatures of Dr.Shilpa at point 'X' on MLC (Ex.A.No.120/2011 Page 16 of 18Minor contradictions, discrepancies and improvements highlighted by the counsel for the appellants are inconsequential.They are not of such magnitude to materially affect the trial.These deviations on trivial matters without effecting the core of the prosecution case are not enough to reject her testimony in its entirety.Their presence with the prosecutrix inside the park has been established and proved beyond reasonable doubt.Both were apprehended at the spot and were taken to hospital for medical examination.Their vehicle was seized at the spot.Non-examination of informer or independent public witness from the locality is not fatal.The informer set the police machinery into motion.He was not a witness to the occurrence and had heard unusual cries of the lady from the park at odd hours.The Trial Court has dealt with appellant's contention regarding FSL report, absence of injuries etc. minutely and no interference is called for to disturb the said findings.In their 313 statements, the appellants did not offer plausible explanation to the incriminating circumstances proved against them.It is unbelievable that both the appellants would be falsely implicated in heinous offence on their Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 17 of 18 alleged refusal to pay bribe to the PCR officials.PW-7 'G' had no extraneous consideration to identify the accused as culprits.The testimony of all the witnesses including the prosecutrix is consistent and inspires confident.A.No.120/2011 Page 17 of 18In the light of the above discussion the appeal lacks merits and is dismissed.Trial Court record be sent back forthwith.(S.P.GARG) JUDGE May 10, 2013 sa Crl.A.No.120/2011 Page 18 of 18A.No.120/2011 Page 18 of 18
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He has further submitted that on 3.10.2007 the mother of the deceased Sapna Goel along with other near relatives had given an application in writing to the ACP, Tilak Nagar, Delhi that the post mortem on the dead body of her daughter Sapna Goel be waived and the dead body be handed over to them for cremation.He further stated that it is mentioned in the application that deceased Sapna Goel was Crl.P. No. 13/2010 Page No. 1 of 4 happy in her matrimonial home and there was no complaint against the accused persons.So keeping in view the application moved by her mother and other relatives no case is made out against the accused persons.He has further submitted that Dr. L.C. Gupta who has conducted the post mortem is a tainted doctor and some enquiries were pending against him so no reliance can be placed on the report of the post mortem of the said doctor.This revision petition has been filed by the petitioners u/s 397/401 Cr.P.C. read with section 482 Cr.P.C. with a prayer that the order dated 30.9.2009 (Order on Charge) and 17.11.2009 (framing of Charge) whereby the learned trial Court has framed Charge against the petitioners under section 302/34 IPC may be set aside and quashed.He has further submitted that learned trial Court had wrongly framed Charge and the petitioners are liable to be discharged.P. No. 13/2010 Page No. 1 of 4On the other hand learned counsel for the State stated that there is sufficient material on record for framing of Charge against the petitioners and the learned trial Court has rightly framed Charge against all the accused persons on the basis of statement recorded by the police of the mother of the deceased and various other near relatives who have made serious allegations against all the petitioners having killed the deceased.I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.Although the mother of the deceased Sapna Goel had moved an application before ACP that the post mortem on the dead body of her daughter be waived but it was only because of the fact that she and other near relatives were present at the house of the accused persons and when the I.O S.I. Dharmpal arrived there the accused persons had told her mother and the other relatives and also the police officer that Sapna Goel was drying cloths on the roof of the house and due to giddiness she fell down from the roof and died.Thereafter at the instance of the accused persons an application was moved in writing to ACP, Tilak Nagar, Delhi, for waiving of post mortem of deceased.All the accused persons also moved a similar application to the police for Crl.P. No. 13/2010 Page No. 2 of 4 waiving of post mortem giving the same story in the application.S.I Dharmpal reached the spot when the accused persons were about to take the dead body of the deceased for cremation.S.I Dharampal reached the spot on the basis of a DD No. 21A dated 3.10.2009 wherein somebody had informed the police that a lady has died on account of hanging.On the receipt of this DD, SI Dharampal reached the spot but the S.I. refused to waive of the post mortem and thereafter post mortem was got conducted by Dr. L.C. Gupta on the following day at 4.10 p.m and Dr. L.C. Gupta has given his opinion regarding cause of death as under:-P. No. 13/2010 Page No. 2 of 4Dr. L.C. Gupta has given a clear finding in the post mortem report that all the injuries are ante mortem in nature and homicide cannot be ruled out.So from the findings of doctor in the post mortem report it is clear that this is a case of homicide and the injuries on the dead body are ante mortem in nature and possibility of homicide cannot be ruled out.The arguments of the learned counsel for the accused cannot be accepted that there are some allegations against doctor and some enquiry is pending.Post mortem report cannot be rejected merely on this ground.The mother of the deceased gave statement to the police leveling serious allegations against all the accused persons.Similarly statements of other witnesses have also been recorded by the police in which they Crl.P. No. 13/2010 Page No. 3 of 4 have leveled serious allegations against the accused persons.Police also recorded statement of one Tara Chand Gupta, the Nana of the deceased under section 161 Cr.P.C. He told to the police in his statement that on 2.10.2007 he had received a telephone call from Sapna Goel at about 11 p.m. wherein she wanted to meet him on the following day.He further submitted that he wanted to know the reasons from Sapna Goel but she told him that her Nanand namely Lata and her husband Sanjeev were present in the house so she will told everything on the day when they will meet and the telephone was dis-connected.The police also recorded statement of Priyansi, minor daughter of the deceased under section 161 Cr.P.C. who told the police that on the date of incident her Bua Lata and Sajeev were present in the house and her Bua had made her ready to go to the school when she asked Bua about the well being of her mother she told that she was sleeping as she was not well.Presence of petitioners Lata and Sanjeev has been confirmed by this witness Priyanshi.The police also took 42 photographs of the deceased at the time of the post mortem and these photographs also show the presence of injuries on her neck etc.P. No. 13/2010 Page No. 3 of 4After going through the statements of the witnesses and the post mortem report, I am satisfied that learned trial Court has rightly framed Charge against the petitioners under section 302/201/34 IPC.There is no merit in the revision petition8. Dismissed.P. No. 13/2010 Page No. 4 of 4
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The instant bail application has been filed with a prayer to enlarge the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 47 of 2020, under Sections 60/63 U.P. Excise Act, and 420 IPC, Police Station Haldaur, District Bijnor, during pendency of trial.(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 fails 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.(iv) The applicant shall remain present, in person, before the trial court on the dates fixed for (i) opening of the case, (ii) framing of charge and (iii) recording of statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C. If in the opinion of the trial court absence of the applicant is deliberate or without sufficient cause, then it shall be open for the trial court to treat such default as abuse of liberty of bail and proceed against him in accordance with law.(v) The party shall file computer generated copy of such order downloaded from the official website of High Court Allahabad.(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.The order reads thus:"Looking to impediments in arranging sureties because of lockdown, while invoking powers under Article 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India, we deem it appropriate to order that all the accused-applicants whose bail applications came to be allowed on or after 15th March, 2020 but have not been released due to non-availability of sureties as a consequence to lockdown may be released on executing personal bond as ordered by the Court or to the satisfaction of the jail authorities where such accused is imprisoned, provided the accused-applicants undertakes to furnish required sureties within a period of one month from the date of his/her actual release."Order Date :- 8.9.2020 Mukesh Kr.
['Section 174A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 229A in The Indian Penal Code']
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Briefly stated, case of the prosecution is that on the night intervening 11 th and 12th February 1989 PW-1 Laik Ram, who was security supervisor in Ishvaku India Pvt. Ltd., visited police post Prashant Vihar at around 3.00 AM and informed that on the fateful night at about 2.30 AM when he had gone to check his security staff at Plot No.4, Sector-9, Rohini he was informed by Villan Jamadar that one Surat Ram has been murdered in the jhuggies of Sain Baba Housing Society.On the basis of Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 2 of 21 said information, FIR No.31/1989 under Section 302 IPC was registered at Police Station Samepur Badli.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 2 of 21ASI Inder Singh also conveyed the information to the SHO and proceeded to the spot of occurrence.SHO Inspector Rati Ram also reached there, and found that the dead body of Surat Ram was lying on a cot in his Jhuggi.The cot as well as the mattress thereupon were stained with blood.Blood stained cot Ex.P-1 and mattress Ex.P-2 were converted into sealed packets and taken into possession.Investigating Officer lifted blood from the spot on a piece of cotton and sealed it in a phial and also took into possession the blood stained earth and the control earth from the spot.He found a green coloured printed saree Ex.P-3 smeared with blood at the roof of adjoining jhuggi which was also converted into a sealed packet and taken into possession.The Investigating Officer got the spot of occurrence photographed and also prepared a rough site plan.He also arranged for sending the dead body for post mortem.During investigation, statement of PW-2 Villan Jamadar was recorded wherein he named the appellants Munna Lal, Sohan Sahai and Asad Bai as the persons who had committed murder of Surat Ram.Dead body of the deceased was sent for post mortem.It is further the case of the prosecution that appellant Munna Lal was arrested on 14th February 1989 and on his disclosure and pointing out, blood stained knife/churri Ex.P-4 as also his blood stained kurta and lungi Ex.P-5 and P-6 were recovered, which were converted into sealed Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 3 of 21 packets, and taken into possession.Thereafter, on the same day appellant Sohan Sahai was arrested.He was wearing a blood stained shirt Ex.P-9 which was taken into possession.She made a disclosure statement and in furtherance thereof she got recovered her blood stained petticoat and blouse Ex.P-7 and P-8 which were seized by the police.On 17th February 1989, after the post mortem, a sealed packet containing blood stained clothes of the deceased was also handed over to the police.All those blood stained articles including the weapon of offence were sent for serological examination.Except for petticoat Ex.P-7 and blouse Ex.P-8 of Asad Bai and blood stained earth lifted from the spot of occurrence, which tested positive for blood group `B, all other exhibits tested positive for blood group `O. The knife Ex.P-4 was sent for opinion of the doctor who conducted the post mortem and he opined that the injuries found on the person of deceased Surat Ram could have been caused by the knife Ex.P-9 which appellant Sohan Sahai was found wearing at the time of arrest.He has also drawn our attention to serological reports Ex.It would be seen that PW4 Kul Bahara in his testimony, inter alia, stated thus:These three appeals are directed against the judgment as also order on sentence both dated 31st October 1994 passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge in Sessions Case No.18/1994 arising out of FIR No.31/1989 under Section 302/34 IPC, P.S. Samepur Badli.Learned trial Judge vide aforesaid judgment and order on sentence has convicted the appellants for the offence punishable under Section 302 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (in short `IPC) and sentenced them to undergo imprisonment for life and also to pay a fine of Rs.500/- each and, in default of payment of fine, to undergo further simple imprisonment for a period of three months respectively.His statement to that effect was recorded by ASI Inder Singh and sent to the police station for registration of the case.After completion of the investigation, all the three appellants were forwarded for trial under Section 302/34 IPC.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 3 of 21The learned counsel for the appellants has taken us through the judgment and pointed out that learned Additional Sessions Judge has recorded conviction of the appellants relying upon following evidence/circumstances:-(a) Eye witness account of the occurrence given by PW-3 Villan Jamadar.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 4 of 21(b) Believing the evidence of motive to the effect that appellant Asad Bai wanted to perform second marriage of her daughter Mangli Bai with appellant Sohan Sahai in consideration of Rs.1500/- whereas deceased Surat Ram was against it and wanted Mangli Bai to go back to her husband.(c) The extra judicial confession made by the appellant in presence of PW4 Kul Bahara.(d) Recovery of blood stained weapon of offence i.e. knife/churri Ex.P.4 at the instance of Munna Lal as also recovery of his blood stained kurta Ex.P-5 and lungi Ex.P-6;(e) Recovery of blood stained shirt Ex.P-9 from the person of accused Sohan Sahai;(f) Recovery of blood stained petticoat and blouse Ex.P-7 and Ex.8 at the instance of accused Asad Bai;(g) Serological reports Ex.P-13/1 to Ex.P-13/4, which establish that blood stains on the clothes of Munna Lal and Sohan Sahai as also on the knife/churri Ex.P-4 matched with the blood stains on the clothes of the deceased, the cot and the mattress and blood lifted from the place of occurrence, as all those exhibits had stains of blood group `O.Learned counsel for the appellants has assailed the impugned judgment on the ground that learned trial court has erred in relying upon the testimony of purported eye witness PW-3 Villan Jamadar whose narration, about the manner in which murder took place, is highly unnatural, bordering on fiction and whose presence at the spot is highly doubtful.She has further submitted that the Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 5 of 21 learned trial Judge, though, he has relied upon the testimony regarding extra judicial confession, has failed to take note of the fact that PW-4 Kul Bahara in his cross examination has stated that Asad Bai had confessed about her guilt at the police station.She has argued that since the alleged confession was made while in custody at the police station, it is inadmissible in evidence.Learned counsel for the appellants has further contended that the evidence of the prosecution regarding the recovery of the weapon of offence and blood stained clothes at the instance of respective appellants is highly doubtful.She has also drawn our attention to the serological report Ex.PW-13/1 to Ex.PW-13/4 and pointed out that except for the blood stains on the blouse Ex.P-7 and the petticoat Ex.P-8 of Asad Bai and the blood stained earth sample lifted from the spot, which tested positive for blood group `B, all other samples tested positive for blood group `O. She has submitted that this mis-match between the blood stains found on the exhibits, casts doubt on the prosecution case and in particular indicates that someone else who was having blood group `B was there at the spot of occurrence but, there is no explanation forthcoming as to who that person was, whose blood was found in blood stained earth lifted by the Investigating Officer from the spot.Thus, she has argued that a possibility cannot be ruled out that some other person with blood group `B was responsible for the murder of Surat Ram.She has also argued that evidence to prove motive is also not reliable and is liable to be rejected.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 5 of 21Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 6 of 21Learned counsel for the State, on the other hand, has argued in favour of the conclusions arrived at by the learned Additional Sessions Judge.He has submitted that the learned Additional Sessions Judge has rightly relied upon the testimony of PW3 Villan Jamadar, who is a natural witness being a resident of a nearby jhuggi and who had no motive whatsoever to falsely implicate the appellants for the murder of the deceased Surat Ram, which version also finds support from other circumstantial evidence.In support of this contention, he has drawn our attention to the testimony of PW3 Villan Jamadar and PW4 Kul Bahara and submitted that from their evidence, it is amply proved on record that there was a motive on the part of the appellants Asad Bai and Sohan Sahai to kill the deceased, who was not agreeable to second marriage of his daughter Mangli Bai with the appellant Sohan Sahai.P4, blood stained lungi Ex. P-5 and kurta Ex. P-6 of appellant Munna Lal, at his instance, as also the recovery of blood stained petticoat and blouse of appellant Asad Bai Exhibits P-7 and P-8 at her instance and also recovery of blood stained shirt Ex.PW13/1 to Pw13/4 and submitted that the blood stains found on knife/churri Ex.P-4, saree of Asad Bai Ex.P-3, lungi and kurta of appellant Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 7 of 21 Munna Lal Exhibits P-5 and P-6 and shirt of appellant Sohan Sahai Ex.P-9 tested positive for human blood of group "O" and those blood stains matched with the blood group of the deceased Surat Ram lifted from the spot in a phial and also the blood stains found on cot Ex.P-1 and mattress Ex.P-2 on which the dead body was found.Thus, he has argued that the learned Additional Sessions Judge has rightly relied upon the testimony of PW3 Villan Jamadar which finds corroboration from above referred circumstantial evidence of motive as also confession of the appellant Asad Bai and the recovery of the blood stained weapon of offence and clothes at the instance of respective appellants and urged us to dismiss the appeals.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 7 of 21We have carefully considered the submissions made by the learned defence counsel as also the learned counsel for the State.His testimony, however, does not appear to be trustworthy.Firstly, because, the witness in his examination-in-chief has stated that on the fateful night at around 2.00 A.M., he had gone out of his jhuggi to urinate.He heard some noise coming from the jhuggi of Surat Ram, therefore, he peeped into the jhuggi, and he saw in the light of an earthen lamp (diya) that appellant Sohan Sahai was holding Surat Ram by his legs, appellant Asad Bai was holding him by her hands and Munna Lal was cutting his neck with a Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 8 of 21 churri.On seeing this, he went running to Laik Ram, Security Guard of the company and narrated the entire incident to him.Thereafter, he went along with Laik Ram to the police post.If above version of the witness was true, then in the rukka Ex.PW1/A wherein the statement of Laik Ram was recorded, the names of the appellants and the details about the manner in which murder of Surat Ram was committed would have found mention in the statement of Laik Ram Ex. PW1/A recorded at the police post.However, it is noted, that though aforesaid statement Ex.PW1/A records that PW 3 Villan Jamadar told Laik Ram that Surat Ram has been murdered in the jhuggis of Sain Baba Housing Society, there is no mention of the names of the culprits and the details about the manner in which murder was committed.Secondly, PW3 Villan Jamadar, in his cross- examination, has stated that when Munna Lal was cutting the throat of the deceased slowly with the knife/churri, nobody had put his or her hand on the mouth of the deceased.If the aforesaid version was true then definitely the deceased must have cried with pain and even physically resisted the appellants.In such eventuality, obviously, the nearby jhuggi dwellers would have heard the cries of the deceased and reached the spot of occurrence, which is not the case.Even there is nothing in the testimony of the Investigating Officer to suggest that he found any sign of resistance given by the deceased at the spot of occurrence.Therefore, we do not find it safe to rely upon the testimony of PW3 Villan Jamadar, which is highly unnatural and bordering on fiction.Otherwise also, Villan Jamadar in his cross-examination has stated that he Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 9 of 21 accompanied PW1 Laik Ram to the police post for lodging the report.If he was an eye witness to the occurrence and had gone to the police post with one Laik Ram, for lodging the report, his entire version should have found mention in the report Ex. PW1/A lodged by PW1 Laik Ram.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 8 of 21Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 9 of 219. Learned counsel for the State has submitted that Asad Bai was wife of the deceased Surat Ram, therefore, it can be safely inferred that she, being the wife, was present in the jhuggi of Surat Ram on the fateful night.He has argued, thus it was obligatory upon her, in view of Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, to explain in her statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C., as to where she was on the fateful night or what happened in the jhuggi which resulted in murder of the deceased.He has argued that, since Asad Bai has failed to come out with any explanation in that regard, it provides a strong additional incriminating circumstance against her.The prosecution must stand or fall on its own legs and it cannot derive any strength from the weakness of the defence.To properly appreciate the contention of learned counsel for the State, it is necessary to reproduce para 17 of the said judgment, which reads thus:Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 10 of 21We have been taken through the entire evidence on record.The medical evidence on record clearly proves that the death of Kalwati and her two minor daughters was homicidal caused by strangulation.The cause of death was asphyxia."when the police had taken away Asad Bai on account of murder of her husband, the police also took me from my jhuggi at about 12.00 night and at the police station Asad Bai had confessed that she had murdered her husband, in my presence"Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 12 of 21From the aforesaid version, it is apparent that purported extra judicial confession, if at all it was made, was made by Asad Bai at the police station while she was in custody.Thus, in our view the learned trial court has erred in relying upon the testimony of PW4 Kul Bahara relating to extra judicial confession made by the appellant Asad Bai.It would be noticed that the Additional Sessions Judge has also believed the evidence of the prosecution regarding motive on the parts of the appellants to kill the deceased Surat Ram.The story of the prosecution as per the charge sheet is that Mangli Bai daughter of Asad Bai was married to PW4 Kul Bahara.She returned from her matrimonial home after 15 days.Asad Bai did not wish her daughter Mangli Bai to go back to her husband Kul Bahara and she wanted to marry her to the appellant Sohan Sahai in consideration of Rs.1500/-, whereas the deceased Surat Ram was opposed to the idea and he wanted Mangli Bai to go back to her husband and there used to be fight between Asad Bai and the deceased Surat Ram on the said issue.To prove the aforesaid motive, prosecution has examined two witnesses PW3 Villan Jamadar and PW4 Kul Bahara.PW3 Villan Jamadar in his cross-examination on behalf of the appellant Asad Bai was unable to tell about the exact nature of conversation which used to take place between Surat Ram and Asad Bai regarding their daughter Mangli Bai, and in the later part of the cross-examination, he has Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 13 of 21 admitted that he was never present during such conversations.In his examination-in-chief also he has stated that he used to hear that Asad Bai wanted to marry their daughter Mangli Bai again, whereas Surat Ram wanted to send her to her previous husband.However, he has not clarified in his cross- examination from whom he had heard that but, he is categoric that he never heard any conversation between Asad Bai and the deceased Surat Ram regarding their daughter Mangli Bai.Therefore, it is obvious, that PW3 Villan Jamadar is not an eye witness to any such discord between the appellant Asad Bai and the deceased and his testimony regarding the motive part is only hearsay, and, therefore, is inadmissible in evidence.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 13 of 21Another witness examined by the prosecution to prove motive on the part of the appellants Asad Bai and Sohan Sahai to kill the deceased Surat Ram is PW4 Kul Bahara.We may mention at the outset that PW4 Kul Bahara falls within the category of an interested witness because according to him 15 days after his marriage with Mangli Bai, his mother-in-law (appellant Asad Bai) took her back to her house and never sent Mangli Bai back to her matrimonial home.From this, it can be inferred that witness might be nursing a grudge against the appellant Asad Bai as she was not allowing her daughter to go back to her matrimonial home.Had he actually been witness to such a transaction, he would at least have known the name of the person with whom Mangli Bai was supposed to be remarried.Further, to prove above referred point of discord between appellant Asad Bai and her deceased husband Surat Ram, the best witness could be Mangli Bai herself.Mangli Bai, however, has neither been cited nor examined as a witness to prove the motive.Since prosecution has opted to withhold the best evidence by not producing her as a witness, we are inclined to infer that had she been examined as a witness, her version would have gone against the prosecution.Therefore, under the circumstances, we are of the view that the evidence led by the prosecution to establish motive on the part of the appellants Asad Bai and Sohan Sahai, is not reliable, and that the learned Additional Sessions Judge has erred in concluding that there was a motive on the part of the appellant to kill the deceased.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 14 of 21Coming to the recovery of the weapon of offence knife/churri Ex.P-4 and blood stained lungi Ex.P-5 and kurta Ex.P-6 at the instance of accused Munna Lal.To prove aforesaid recovery, prosecution has relied upon the Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 15 of 21 statements of the Investigating Officer PW13 Inspector Rati Ram, PW12 Constable Anang Pal Singh and PW 2 Pratap Chand Mandal.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 15 of 21PW 2 Pratap Chand Mandal has stated in his examination-in-chief that accused Munna Lal was arrested by the police on 14th February, 1989 and he made a disclosure statement to the police stating that he could get recovered one white shirt and lungi and knife.Thereafter, he led the police party to jhuggi opposite the jhuggi of the deceased and got recovered knife/ churri Ex.He has stated that recovered articles were taken into possession vide memo Ex.2/B, which bears his signatures at point "A".Perusal of the record would show that though the recovery memo Ex.2/A bears the signatures of PW2 Pratap Chand Mandal, neither the disclosure statement of Munna Lal Ex.12/A nor his personal search memo Ex.P-12/B bears signatures of this witness.Had this witness been present at the time of arrest of Munna Lal and when he made disclosure, under natural circumstance, the Investigating Officer would have obtained his signatures on the personal search memo as well as the disclosure statement of the appellant Munna Lal, being an independent witness.Since his signatures are not there on the arrest memo Ex.PW12/B and disclosure statement Ex.PW12/A, his presence at the time of the recovery of Exhibits P-4 to P-6 is doubtful.Otherwise also, PW13 Inspector Rati Ram in his entire testimony has nowhere stated that PW2 Pratap Chand Mandal was with him on 14th February 1989, when he received information Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 16 of 21 about the presence of the appellant Munna Lal at his jhuggi, or that he subsequently joined him in the investigation to witness the recovery of weapon of offence and blood stained clothes of the appellant Munna Lal Exbts P-4 to P- 6 at his instance.On the other hand, in his cross-examination he has stated that when he arrested Munna Lal, he did not join any independent witness from the nearby jhuggis to his arrest.Therefore, it remains unexplained as to when PW2 Pratap Chand Mandal came to be joined as witness and under what circumstances he signed the pointing out-cum-recovery memo Ex.12/A as also the sketch of the knife Ex.2/A. Even the testimony of Constable Anang Pal Singh who is supposed to be other witness of recovery of weapon of offence and clothes Exbts.P-4 to P-6 on the pointing of appellant Munna Lal, does not give any clue as to how and when PW2 Pratap Chand Mandal came to be joined as a witness to the recovery at the instance of appellant Munna Lal.In view of the aforesaid circumstances, we are of the opinion that presence of PW2 Pratap Chand Mandal at the time of recovery is highly doubtful and that being so, the testimony of PW12 Constable Anang Pal Singh and PW13 Investigating Officer Inspector Rati Ram also becomes doubtful and unreliable.Thus, we do not find it safe to rely upon the aforesaid evidence of recovery of witness and blood stains clothes at the instance of Munna Lal.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 16 of 21If the evidence pertaining to recovery of above said articles at the instance of Munna Lal fails, then the evidence of the prosecution regarding Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 17 of 21 recovery of the blood stained shirt from the person of accused Sohan Sahai as also the blood stained petticoat and blouse at the instance of Asad Bai becomes doubtful, because of the same reasons.Otherwise also, the prosecution story, as narrated by the Investigating Officer Inspector Rati Ram, to the effect, that at the time of arrest accused Sohan Sahai was wearing blood stained shirt Ex.P-9 appears to be highly improbable, because had prosecution version about murder of Surat Ram been true, under natural course of circumstances, the first impulse of the appellant accused would have been either to get rid of the shirt or to wash it in order to remove the blood stains from the shirt, instead of moving around wearing the blood stained shirt.Thus, in our view, even the evidence of recovery of blood stained shirt from the person of the accused Sohan Sahai is highly doubtful.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 17 of 21Even if the recovery of petticoat and blouse Exhibits P-7 and P-8 at the instance of appellant Asad Bai is accepted, then also it is of no help to the prosecution because as per the serological report, the blood found on the petticoat and the blouse Exbts.P-7 and P-8 was of group "B" which did not match with the blood group "O" found on the samples lifted and seized from the spot of occurrence, as such those clothes are not connected to the murder of the deceased Surat Ram.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 18 of 21Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 18 of 21Lastly, it would be seen from the serological report Ex.13/3 that though the case of the prosecution is that the blood group of the deceased Surat Ram was O, the blood stained earth lifted from the spot of occurrence tested positive for the blood group B. That being the case, a possibility of someone having blood group B been present at the spot of occurrence or having been involved in the killing of the deceased Surat Ram cannot be ruled out.From the record, including the testimony of the Investigating Officer Inspector Rati Ram, it is apparent that Investigating Officer has not cared to find out the reasons for presence of blood group B in the blood stained earth lifted from the spot of occurrence.In absence of any explanation coming forth in this regard, a possibility cannot be ruled out that some other person with blood group B might be responsible for the death of the deceased.Further, the Investigating Officer Inspector Rati Ram in his testimony has deposed that on reaching the spot of occurrence, he seized blood stained earth, blood stained articles including one printed green saree which was found at the roof of adjoining jhuggi of son of appellant Asad Bai, vide a Seizure Memo Ex. PW1/B. On seeing the blood stained saree, under the natural course of circumstances, Investigating Officer was expected to suspect some lady for the murder.According to PW1 Laik Ram, who is one of the witnesses to the Seizure Memo Ex.PW1/B, PW3 Villan Jamadar was present at the time of recovery of the saree.If Villan Jamadar actually was an eye witness to the Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 19 of 21 occurrence, at least at the time of recovery of saree, he would have told the Investigating Officer that the deceased was killed by the appellants Asad Bai, Sohan Sahai and Munna Lal.In that eventuality, the Investigating Officer was naturally expected to arrest Asad Bai instead of allowing her to go along with the dead body as Inspector Rati Ram has deposed in his testimony.The aforesaid conduct of Inspector Rati Ram rules out the presence of PW3 Villan Jamadar at the time of occurrence and raises a strong doubt that he has been introduced subsequently as an eye witness by the Investigating Officer.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 19 of 21In view of the discussion above, we are of the opinion that the learned Additional Sessions Judge has erred in appreciating the evidence inasmuch as relying upon the testimony of PW3 Villan Jamadar as also the evidence relating to motive on the part of the appellants as well as the extra judicial confession made by appellant Asad Bai.Even the testimony of witnesses regarding recovery of incriminating articles, like weapon of offence Ex.P4 and blood stained clothes of the appellant Exbts P-5 to P-9 at their instance is highly doubtful.Thus, we do not consider it safe to sustain the judgment of conviction.Accordingly, we accept the appeals filed by the appellants Sohan Sahai, Asar Bai and Munna Lal and set aside the judgment of conviction as also the order of sentence passed by the learned trial Judge.Crl.A.Nos.17/95, 21/95, 106/95 Page 20 of 21All the three appellants are, accordingly, acquitted.The appeals stand disposed of as having been allowed.
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The prosecution's case may be briefly summarised as under :-One Lakhpat Singh vide his statement made on 29th July, 1995 Ex.PW2/A informed that the appellant accused Harnam Singh had taken his child Vinod on 28th June, 1995, after he returned home from School.Complainant Lakhpat Singh stated that when he returned home at 7.00 p.m., lie was informed by his wife that Vinod had been taken by Harnam Singh, a cousin of the complainant.Lakhpat Singh searched for Vinod but could not trace him.Lakhpat Singh received letters firstly demanding ransom of Rs. 4 lacs and, thereafter, a sum of Rs. 2 lacs.Prosecution claims that on 15th September, 1995, child Vinod was recovered from the possession of appellants Harnam Singh, Pappu and Vijender and Parvati.The fourth accused Parvati is stated to have died during the proceedings.A ransom note was found to be in the hand-1 writing of Jagbir Singh who is stated to have pointed out the place where the dead body was buried in house and on the basis of his information certain recoveries were also-; made.State in the appeal before the Supreme Court urged that the High Court had erroneously discarded the "ransom note" especially when Jagbir Singh accepted the handwriting to be his handwriting.Sample of his handwriting had been voluntarily given for comparison by the handwriting experts.Opinion was also available.JUDGMENT Manmohan Sarin, J.I have had the benefit of perusing the judgment of my learned brother R. S. Sodhi, J., by which the appeals filed against the judgment and order dated 31st August, 2000 and 21st September, 2000 of the Additional Sessions Judge, New Delhi in Sessions Case No. 102/ 97, arising out of FIR No. 480/95, Police Station, Ambedkar Nagar, are sought to be dismissed.The learned Additional Sessions Judge held the appellants guilty under Sections 364-A and 368, IPC and sentenced appellants Harnam Singh, Pappu and Vijender to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 10,000/- each and in default further rigorous imprisonment for three months each.On the minor child being recovered from the possession of the accused persons, he was handed over to the complainant by the U.P. Police.The statement of the child was recorded under Section 164, Cr.P.C. by the Metropolitan Magistrate.Minor Vinod named the accused persons as the persons responsible for kidnapping and keeping him in illegal confinement.On the above allegations, appellants were charged and prosecuted for the offences under Section 364-A read with Section 34 and Section 368, IPC.Prosecution had examined PW-2 Lakhpat Singh i.e., the father of child, PW-3 Vinod the kidnapped boy, PW-4 Ravinder Dudeja, Metropolitan Magistrate, before whom the statement under Section 164, Cr.P.C. was recorded.The minor child deposed that Harnam Singh had taken him away on the pretext of getting him Jalebis and brought him to Vijender.He was thereafter shifted from one place to another.He had described frequent beatings by Vijender and frugal feeding by Vijender, Harnam Singh, Pappu and Parvati.The witness had duly identified the appellants in Court.The child had also deposed regarding Ram Prakash, a relation of the complainant, who had also been accused.He declined to identify Ram Prakash as also the suggestion that Ram Prakash also used to beat him or had shown him the pistol.The child also stated that police had recovered him from the possession of Harnam Singh, Pappu, Vijender and Parvati, since deceased.Vijender tried to run away hiding between the goats but was caught.The minor child had withstood cross-examination and the trial Court found his statement trustworthy.I) That the accused kidnapped or abducted the person;II) Kept him under detention after such kidnapping and abduction;iii) The kidnapping or abduction was for ransom.In the present case the question being considered is whether the last ingredient has been proved by the prosecution? For succeeding, the prosecution was required to prove that the letters demanding payment of ransom emanated from the accused or were sent at the behest of the accused.6. Let us consider the evidence as led by the prosecution in respect of proving the ransom note and the demand of ransom.The deposition of Lakhpat Singh in this regard is as follows :-"On three occasions, the police went to Aligarh District to look for my sen but he was not traceable anywhere at that time.Thereafter, I' received four ransom letters from Harnam Singh, demanding a ransom of Rs. 2 lacs in the first instance thereafter he demanded ransom of Rs. 4 lacs.Ex. PW2/B, Ex.PW2/C and Ex.PW2/D are the said four ransom letters received by me from Harnam Singh.The original envelopes in which the above letters were received by me are Ex.PI to Ex.P4."The Public Prosecutor sought to cross-examine him.This part of the statement is as under :-"It is correct that I had stated in my statement under Section 161, Cr.P.C. dated 29th September, 1995 that the accused demanded Rs. 1 lakh as ransom.It is also correct that on 15th September, 1995, I had handed over 5 ransom letters to the police officials of Patiali District Etah (UP), where I informed him regarding kidnapping of my son Vinod.It is correct that the police recovered my son Vinod from the above four accused persons, namely, Pappu, Vijender and Parvati.Accused Ram Prakash was also present with them."In cross-examination also no particulars of demand of ransom of Rs. 1 lac being oral, telephonic through someone or which accused demanded and from or through whom.Here also reference appears to be in context of ransom notes.Thereafter, he was cross-examined by counsel for the accused-Harnam Singh and during the cross-examination he denied the suggestion that he owed a sum of Rs. 10,000/- to Harnam Singh.He stated that Ram Prakash had been implicated in this case on the fact that his name was mentioned demanding ransom.He deposed that the ransom letters are in the hands of appellant accused-Pappu, Pappu is the son of the sister of Chachi (Paternal aunt of accused-Harnam Singh).In his cross-examination, he further stated, "the ransom let-ters were received by me through registered post and not by hand.The case set up is that demand for ransom was through ransom letters and not an oral or telephonic demand by any of the accused made either to the complainant or to the kidnapped child.8A. Ransom letters which were tendered in evidence by Lakhpat Singh are Ex. PW-2/B, PW-2/C and PW-2/D i.e. three in number, Lakhpat Singh in his examination-in-chief stated that he received the letters from Harnam Singh, but in cross-examination he stated that he received the letters through registered post.Harnam Singh is not the sender in any of the letters.The original have been carefully seen by me.The first envelope Ex.Pl is addressed to one Ram Prasad Nagar Tailor.The sender's name as given on the envelope is Rakesh Babu Badora.There is, however, no ransom letter, which is stated to have been exhibited or received through this envelope proved on record.The first exhibit out of the ransom document is Ex. PW2, which is not mentioned in the statement of Lakhpat Singh, as recorded.This is a photocopy of an Inland letter and appears to have been sent by some detenu in prison and does not disclose any bearing to the present case.The envelope Ex.P2 is addressed to Lakhpat Singh and purported to have been sent by Ram Prakash Tailor.PW2/B are four pages of hand written letters.Ex. PW2/C are two pages of hand written letter on lined pages of copy book.PW2/D is another hand written letter on lined pages of copy book.On a mere visual examination of these three exhibits, namely, PW2/B, PW2/C and PW2/D, it is obvious to the naked eye that these are not written by one person.These aspects appear to have been totally overlooked by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, who contrary to the deposition of complainant that these were in the hands, of Pappu, concluded that these were writ-, ten by Harnam Singh.Additionally, there is another page, which is again in a different hand writing, which is tagged on to these without being given any identification.The question to be considered in these circumstances is whether on the mere bald averment of the complainant that the ransom letters are in the hands of Pappu, the same ought to be accepted as proved.The witness did not even state that he was familiar with the hand writing of Pappu or that he had ever seen him writing or had received any other communication from Pappu.No sample hand writing of Pappu was taken, so as to have its comparison by handwriting expert.It was not even put to Pappu in his statement recorded under Section 313, Cr.P.C, that ransom notes were in his handwriting.It was only put to the accused under Section 313, Cr.P.C. that ransom notes were received by complainant, which was stated to be incorrect.It may also be noted that on the date when statement of Lakhpat Singh was recorded, it was only the counsel of Harnam Singh, who was present.In fact, accused Pappu, Vijender and Paravati were not represented through counsel and it was only subsequently on 15th September, 1997 that Mr. Ranjit Singh was appointed as the Am-icus Curiae on their behalf.Subsequently, on the next date, amices Curiae, so appointed, was not available.The amices Curiae continued to be not available and the matter was adjourned and on 20th March, 1998, Mr. A. U. Khan was appointed as amices Curiae.In short, on 12th August, 1997, when the above cross-examination took place, where Lakhpat Singh is stated to have said that ransom letters were in the hand writing of Pappu, the latter was not represented by any counsel.In the cited case the accused persons, who had hired a taxi and gone to a hotel and stayed for night along with the driver, left in the morning asking the waiter to take care of the driver.The driver was found dead.The waiter who was a solitary witness was not examined.The owner of the hotel deposed and stated that he had learnt of the stay of the accused from the waiter.It was held that (Para 7 of Cri LJ) :-"The accused persons are said to have made a entry in the register duly maintained by the hotel, in their own pen, and signed the same showing their stay on the fateful night in the hotel in question.Sofar as this entry is concerned, the same has been exhibited on the basis of statement of PW-6 (owner) though, he has nowhere stated that lie knew either the writings or signatures of any of the accused persons.Indisputably the accused never made the entry in the presence of PW-6, but the same is claimed to have been made in the presence of the waiter alone.Thus the entry in the register having not been legally proved is not admissible in evidence.There is no other evidence in relation to stay of the accused persons in the hotel on the night of occurrence and there being no substantive evidence in relation to this very circumstance, the same cannot be proved by the, statement of PW-6/owner, which could have been used only by way of corroborative evidence and thus the prosecution has failed to prove this circumstance which was the most important one to hold the accused persons guilty.Pappu's handwriting was not even taken for comparison.Rather there ; was total confusion as to whether the letters were even sent by Harnam Singh or by registered post as claimed, or where in the hand of Harnam Singh as held by the Court.Reference may also be usefully made to the State of Haryana v. Jagbir Sigh, reported at .: In the cited case an innocent child of about four years was a victim of unnatural death.As per the prosecution, the respondents murdered the child after kidnapping him.The intended demand for ransom for his release was stated to be the motive for the crime.Accused Jagbir Singh was found to be guilty by the Sessions Judge who convicted him under Sections 302/362/201/ 384, IPC.An appeal was filed and the High Court by its judgment found them not.Jagbir Singh had been produced before the Addl.The Addl.CJM had also deposed that the accused had admitted the signatures to be his.The Supreme Court held (Paras 19 and 20 of Cri LJ) :-"In order to enable the exercise of power under Section 73, the pendency of a proceeding before the Court is the sine qua non.Therefore, the comparison of the signature on the alleged ransom note in no way helps the prosecution.Great emphasis was laid by the learned counsel for the State on the evidence of PW-4, the Additional CJM that the accused had admitted that the signature was his.It may also be noted that while the deposition by the complainant was that the ransom letters were handed over by Harnam Singh, subsequently changed to, "received through registered post" and in the deposition, these were stated to be in the hands of Pappu, the trial Court in para 34 of the judgment concluded these were in the hands of Harnam Singh.In view of the foregoing discussion, I am of the view that the prosecution has failed to satisfy the essential ingredients of kidnapping being for payment of ransom in the absence of proving ransom notes.Prosecution has failed to prove demand of ransom by any of the accused for kidnapping, Prosecution has failed to prove the ransom notes as originating from or at behest of accused.The prosecution has, however, been successful in proving that the minor had been taken out of custody by the appellants.The prosecution has also successfully proved the confinement of the minor by the accused persons.The minor has been recovered from their possession and custody.Accordingly, the prosecution has proved the offence under Sections 365 and 368, IPC, read with Section 34, IPC.Accordingly, the order passed by the trial Court is modified to sentencing all the accused/appellants to rigorous imprisonment of 7 years instead of life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs. 10,000/- each and in default of fine, appellants shall further undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months each.The benefit under Section 428, Cr.P.C. would also be available to appellants.The appeals are partly allowed as aforesaid.
['Section 313 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 164 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 365 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 384 in The Indian Penal Code']
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J U D G M E N TCRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 728 OF 2007ARISING OUT OFSpecial Leave Petition (Criminal) No. 4570 of 2006Hon.C.K. Thakker, J.1. Leave granted.It is not necessary to set out facts in detail since we have stated all the facts in Criminal Appeal No. 867 of 2006 (Suman Sood @ Kamal Jeet Kaur v. State of Rajasthan) and a cognate matter which we have decided today.Suffice it to state that a complaint being First Information Report (FIR) No. 84 of 1995 was registered at Malviya Nagar Police Station, Jaipur on February 26, 1995 against Daya Singh, appellant herein, Suman Sood @ Kamal Jeet Kaur (accused No.2) and one Harnek Singh @ Surender Verma (absconding) for offences punishable under Sections 353, 420, 468, 471, 472, 473, 474 read with Section 120B Indian Penal Code ('IPC' for short), for offences punishable under Sections 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908, Sections 7 and 25 of Arms Act, 1959 and Section 18 of TADA etc.The case of the prosecution was that the appellant herein along with his wife Suman Sood @ Kamal Jeet Kaur fabricated Registration Certificate for purchasing several vehicles in order to carry out conspiracy of kidnapping and abducting one Rajender Mirdha, son of Shri Ram Niwas Mirdha to exert pressure on the Government of India to release one Devendra Singh Bhullar, an alleged Khalistani terrorist who was being held in custody by the police.It was also alleged that the appellant was found to be in possession of prohibited arms and ammunition allegedly recovered from House No. B-117, Model Town, Ashok Nagar during police raid where the appellant was staying.Initially, prosecution was launched in the Designated Court at Ajmer since the provisions of TADA were also invoked.The appellant herein, however, challenged his prosecution under TADA.In Daya Singh Lahoria v. Union of India & Ors., (2001) 4 SCC 516, this Court upheld the challenge since the prosecution of the accused could only be maintained in accordance with the Extradition Treaty and the Decree of Extradition under which the accused were extradited by the United States of America to India.The trial Court, after considering the evidence on record, convicted accused No.1 (appellant herein) as under:Under Section 420 IPC : to 7 years R.I. and a fine of Rs.500/-, in default of payment of fine, to further undergo 6 months S.I.Under Section 468 IPC : to 7 years R.I. and a fine of Rs.500/-, in default of payment of fine, to further undergo 6 months S.I.Under Section 471 IPC : to 2 years R.I.Likewise, the State of Rajasthan, being aggrieved by an order of acquittal passed by the trial Court against Suman Sood instituted an application for leave to appeal against acquittal.A Single Judge of the High Court refused to grant leave against accused No.2 (Suman Sood) holding that the trial Court was right in recording an order of acquittal against her and no case had been made out to grant leave.Leave was accordingly refused.He, therefore, did not press the appeal.The High Court disposed of the appeal and observed;"At the very outset, the learned counsel Mr. G.S. Fauzdar for the accused appellant Daya Singh contended that maximum sentence in the present case was seven years and all the sentences were ordered to run concurrently and appellant has already completed his sentence of imprisonment of seven years, therefore, in these circumstances, he does not press the appeal filed on behalf of Daya Singh, challenging his order of conviction and sentence passed by the trial Court as mentioned above.In view of the above statement of the learned counsel for the appellant Daya Singh @ Vinay Kumar, the SB Cr.Appeal No. 332/05 filed by Daya Singh is hereby dismissed as not pressed".Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, appearing for the appellant, challenged the order of conviction and sentence.When her attention was invited by the Court to the above paragraph, she submitted that she did not dispute that such a statement was made on behalf of the accused in the High Court, but submitted that, she be permitted to argue the appeal, particularly when in other Special Leave Petitions, leave was granted and appeals were heard on merits.On merits also, no case had been made out by the prosecution.The other accused (Suman Sood) was acquitted on the same evidence and leave to appeal against an order of acquittal was refused by the High Court.The conviction recorded by the trial Court against the appellant on the same evidence is also vitiated and deserves to be set aside.In the light of the finding recorded by us in the cognate matter, this appeal is, more or less, academic and has become infructuous in view of the following circumstances;(i) the appellant has been convicted for an offence punishable under Section 364A, IPC and has been ordered to undergo sentence of imprisonment for life and we have upheld the said order; and
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Due to the law and order problem, a Peace Committee Meeting was conducted at the Taluk Office, Kudavasal in thehttp://www.judis.nic.in 2/10 Crl.RC.No.381 of 2017 presence of the Tahsildar.The agitating public/villagers had requested that the petitioner firm should not draw water through bore well till there was continuous rain or there was water in the river.The petitioner company had offered to bring water through tankers from outside source and do the bottling in their factory and the agitating villagers did not agree for that and there was no consensus between the parties.This revision petition has been filed seeking to call for the entire records pertaining to the impugned order dated 13.02.2017 in Na.No.1930 of 2016 on the file of the respondent and revise the same.The petitioner firm is a company engaged in the business of mineral water after obtaining necessary license in the year 2008 and the license was in existence.The petitioner company had been running the business of bottling mineral water by drawing ground water through bore well in No.53 Simili Revenue Village, Thalayalangadu Village in Guttural Taluk.Since the villagers objected for drawing of under ground water in Thalayalangadu Village, Guttural Taluk, petitioner firm has sent a representation to the respondent, stating that due to failure of North-East monsoon in the year 2016, the ground water level has gone down and thereby, the villagers finding it difficult to draw water from their bore well, objected the petitioner company from drawing the underground ater through bore well.Pursuant to the same, on 02.01.2017 the villagers conducted a road blockade and the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Nannilam, Kudavasal Taluk and Inspector of Police, Kudavasal Police Station conducted a meeting with the villagers, due to which, the road block was withdrawn.Thereby, the Tahsildar had requested the Executive Magistrate to direct the petitioner's company to stop drawing of water from the bore well.A report was also given by the Deputy Superintendent of Police that in respect of the road block, a case has been registered in Crime No.2 of 2017 for offences under Section 143, 341 and 188 IPC and it was also stated that if the operation of the petitioner company was not stopped, there was possibility of the villagers conducting agitation against drawing of water.Based on the above report, the respondent passed the impugned order on 13.02.2017 directing the petitioner company under Section 133 (1) B of Cr.P.C to stop the operations of the company temporarily till the next rainy season or till the drought gets over.The revision has been filed challenging the above order.Only if any of these two ingredients are available the respondents may pass the prohibition order.The road roko was conducted on the instigation of a political goon who had attempted to extort money from the Petitioner Company.This court heard the learned counsel on either side and considered their submissions and perused the impugned order, along with the other materials.P.C absolute.In other words, the order under Section 133 Cr.P.C., can only be a preliminary order since Section 138 empowers the Magistrate to hear the objections of the concerned party for the purpose of either making the order under Section 133 Cr.P.C., absolute or for modifying it.”http://www.judis.nic.in 8/10 Crl.RC.No.381 of 2017In the opinion of this Court, the Magistrate ought to have given an opportunity to the petitioner after fixing specified period and thereafter, after following the procedure under Section 138 Cr.P.C. should have passed the order.Though this order is stated to be passed under Section 133 (1)(b) of Cr.P.C, which ought to be temporary preliminary in nature the Respondent had directed the Petitioner Company to stop operation till the next rainy season or till the drought gets over which amounts to closing operations in perputuity.The impugned order has been passed without following the procedure contemplated under Section 138 Cr.P.C. and without application of mind.Further, if the order is passed under Section 133 of Cr.PC the magistrate has to fix the time and place in the order for appearance of the petitioner either before himself or some other Executive Magistrate subordinate to him to show cause as to why the order should not be made absolute and such an observation is missing in the order.In view of the above, the impugned order is vitiated.http://www.judis.nic.in 9/10 Crl.RC.No.381 of 2017 A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA., J.In the result, this revision is allowed.The impugned order dated 13.02.2017 passed by the respondent is set aside.However, it is made clear that the respondent is directed to initiate fresh proceedings in accordance with law, if circumstances warrants so.19.11.2019 bri Index: Yes/No Speaking Order/Non Speaking Order To1.The Executive Magistrate Cum Revenue Divisional Officer, Office of Revenue Divisional Officer, Thiruvarur.2.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.Crl.RC.No.381 of 2017http://www.judis.nic.in 10/10
['Section 188 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 143 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code']
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They are assessees.JUDGMENT Pratap Singh, J.1. Accused No. 3 in E.O.C.C. Nos. 659 to 662 of 1988 on the file of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Economic Offences No. I), Egmore, Madras, has filed these petitions under section 482, Criminal Procedure Code, praying to call for the records in the aforesaid cases quash the same.The allegations in it are briefly as follows :The complainant is a public servant and he is authorised to file the complaint.It is also filed at the instance of the Commissioner of Income-tax, within the meaning of section 279 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (which I shall hereafter refer to as "the Act").The first accused is a partnership firm carrying on business in surgical goods.Accused Nos. 2 to 5 are partners of the first accused firm who were in charge of, and were responsible to, the first accused firm for the conduct of the business of the first accused during the relevant time.Along with the return, the connected statements were also delivered.Search were conducted at the premises of the first accused firm and its allied firms and the residences of the partners and connected places in June, 1980, under the provisions of section 132 of the Act. During the course of the search, a large number of accounts books and documents were seized and they were examined and detailed investigation was made which disclosed large scale suppression of income by deliberate inflation of purchases and falsification of accounts by introduction of fictitious credits.During the course of assessment proceedings subsequent to the search, unable to explain the deliberate inflation of purchases, etc., the accused came forward with a proposal for settlement.They agreed to the suppression of the income of the first accused firm and allied firms being considered in the hands of the first accused firm and the concealed income for the assessment years 1975-76 to 1979-80 being fixed at about Rs. 41 lakhs.The first accused filed a return of income in response to a notice issued under section 148, dated October 16, 1980, and the income-tax return for the assessment year 1976-77 on February 6, 1982, admitting an income of Rs. 12,13,640 as against an income of Rs. 1,02,470 admitted in the original return.The petition of the accused for waiver under section 273A was rejected.With a view to wilfully evade tax and to defraud the exchequer and to deceive the Income-tax Officer, acting in concert and furtherance of common intention, all the accused conspired to fabricate false evidence in the shape of books of accounts with a view to using them as genuine evidence in the income-tax assessment proceedings, to deliver a false return of income of the first accused for 1976-77 with false supporting statements based on fabricated books of accounts to dishonestly induce the Income-tax Officer to deliver an assessment order, on such false return and statements determining the total income of the first accused at an amount lower than the real amount and thus have committed offences punishable under section 120B of the Indian Penal Code read with section 34, 193, 196 and 420 thereof and section 276C, 277 and 278B of the Income-tax Act, 1961, in one series of acts which are connected and form the same transaction.On similar allegations for assessment years 1977-78, 1978-79 and 1979-80, the respondent has filed complaints in E.O.C.C. Nos. 660 of 1988, 661 of 1988 and 662 of 1988 before the same court under section 120B, 34, 193, 196 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code and section 276C, 277 and 278B of the Income-tax Act, 1961, for the aforesaid assessment years also.In these complaints, it is alleged that original returns were filed on August 5, 1977, August 28, 1978, and August 9, 1979 and in respect of them, assessment were completed on September 26, 1977, October 19, 1978 and September 12, 1979, respectively, and the search was conducted on June 7, 1980, and the revised returns for assessment years 1977-78, 1978-79 and 1979-80 were filed on October 16, 1980, and the total concealed income for all the four assessment years was Rs. 41 lakhs.Then again it is alleged that, in pursuance of the aforesaid conspiracy and for the aforesaid purpose and in the course of the same transactions, all the accused have done the acts which constitute the various offences.I have referred to them in the summarisation of the complaint in E.O.C.C. No. 659 of 1988 supra.Original returns for 1976-77 to 1979-80 were filed on August 4, 1976, August 5, 1977, August 28, 1978 and August 9, 1979, respectively.Assessments in respect of those original returns were completed on November 18, 1976, September 26, 1977, October 19, 1978 and September 12, 1979, respectively.
['Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 193 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code']
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2.State Rep by The Inspector of Police, District Crime Branch, Villupuram District. ... Respondents in Crl.O.P.17885/2018 1/11http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.For Petitioners : Mr.Thomas T.Jacob in Crl.O.P.15054 of 2010 Mr.A.Muniraj in Crl.O.P.17885 of 2018 For Respondents : Ms.Saradha Devi Government Advocate (Crl.Side) for R1 in Crl.O.P.15054 of 2010 & for R2 in Crl.O.P.17885 of 2018 Mr.O.P.No.17885 of 2018 are the accused 1, 2/11http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.Nos.15054 of 2010 and 17885 of 2018 2 and 5 and the private respondent in these criminal original petitions is the defacto complainant.For the sake of convenience, the parties will be hereinafter referred to as 'accused' and 'complainant'.3.The accused are alleged to have hatched out a criminal conspiracy for wrongful gain by selling the property of unwary landlords without their consent and knowledge by creating bogus power of attorneys concerned with immovable cultivable lands situated in Survey Nos.164/1, 164/2, 164/3, 164/4, 165/1, 165/2, 165/3, 165/4, 166/1, 166/2, 166/3 and 166/4 with an extent of 29.5 acres at Aurvadai Village, Villupuram Revenue District as if it were executed by landlords for the disposal of property and got the properties transferred and thereafter disposed of the same to the detriment of real owners and the defacto complainant.Hence, these petitions.4.The learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that during 3/11http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.Nos.15054 of 2010 and 17885 of 2018 the pendancy of these criminal original petitions, the petitioners and the private respondent arrived at a compromise and the petitioners have paid the entire sale consideration to the private respondent.The private respondent/ complainant accepted and received the payment and has consented for compounding the offence.O.P.Nos.15054 of 2010 and 17885 of 20183.I submit that as I have received the entire sale consideration I am willing to withdraw the case by compounding the case against these Petitioners/ Accused 3 and 4 namely Mr.V.Prabakar and Mr.Mahmood Siddique and seek this Hon'ble Courts indulgence to permit me to withdraw and compound the case against these Petitioners/ Accused 3 and 4 namely Mr.V.Prabakar and Mr.Mahmood Siddique and thus render justice.Crl.O.P.No.17885 of 2018:O.P.Nos.15054 of 2010 and 17885 of 2018 Common Prayer:Petitions filed under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., seeking to call for the records in C.C.No.329 of 2009 on the file of the District Munsiff cum Judicial Magistrate Court, Vanur, Villupuram District and quash the same.N.Kumararajan for R2 in Crl.O.P.15054 of 2010 & for R1 in Crl.O.P.17885 of 2018 COMMON ORDER These criminal original petitions have been filed seeking to call for the records in C.C.No.329 of 2009 on the file of the District Munsiff cum Judicial Magistrate Court, Vanur, Villupuram District and to quash the same.2.The petitioners in Crl.O.P.No.15054 of 2010 are the accused 3 and 4; the petitioners in Crl.5.To that extent, the private respondent has filed affidavits dated 23.08.2019 and the relevant portion of the same reads as follows :“Crl.O.P.No.15054 of 2010:http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.Therefore, the complainant's interest lies primarily in recovering the money rather than sending the accused in jail.10.In view of the ratio laid down by the Honourable Supreme Court of India and also considering the affidavits filed by the complainant, this Court is of the view that the charge sheet in C.C.No.329 of 2009 on the file of the learned District Munsif cum Judicial Magistrate Court, Vanur, Villupuram District, is liable to be set aside.11.Accordingly, the charge sheet in C.C.No.329 of 2009 on the file of the learned District Munsif cum Judicial Magistrate Court, Vanur, Villupuram District, is hereby quashed and these criminal original 9/11http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.Nos.15054 of 2010 and 17885 of 2018 petitions are disposed of.The petitioners/ accused are acquitted from all the charges levelled against them.12.With the above directions, these criminal original petitions are disposed of.1.The District Munsiff cum Judicial Magistrate Court, Vanur, Villupuram District.http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.O.P.Nos.15054 of 2010 and 17885 of 2018 M.DHANDAPANI,J.pri Crl.15054 of 2010 and 17885 of 2018 06.12.2019
['Section 467 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 465 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Brief facts, just necessary for disposal of this appeal, are that the deceased Smt. Farida Bi was the daughter of Usman (PW-01).About 3 years ago Farida Bi was married to accused Rafiq.Accused Ramjan and Rehmat Bi, are the father-in-law and mother-in-law 2 respectively of the deceased Farida Bi and the accused Hurmat Bi is the real sister of the accused Rafiq.About 2 years prior to the date of the alleged incident Usman (PW-01) left for Bhusawal to earn his livelihood.Till then he was living at Khandwa, the deceased Farida Bi was living happily.When Usman (PW-01) left for Bhusawal, the deceased was being subjected to cruelty and harassment by the accused persons, for or in connection with demand of dowry.On the date of the alleged incident, i.e., 14-02-1991 she had gone to house of her uncle Sattar (PW-06) and narrated him that her `Nanad' - Smt. Hurmat Bi was quarrelling with her.Thereafter, Sattar (PW-06) sent his wife - Smt. Maina Bi (PW-03) to the house of the accused persons.When she asked about the quarrel from the accused Smt. Hurmat Bi, she got infuriated and started abusing.She was saying that Farida Bu is a cunning woman and often used to quarrel, she would be taken back or else she would be killed.Thereafter, Smt. Maina Bi (PW-03) returned to her home.The accused Rafiq and his elder brother went to the house of Smt. Maina Bee (PW-03) and allegedly asked them that who had gone to his house, he would break their legs.At that time, Sattar (PW-06) told accused Rafiq that as per their capability they had given dowry.Why they are harassing the girl (Farida Bi).He also added, let her mother come in the evening, on her arrival they will discuss the matter.But, accused Rafiq was adamant and said that he will finish the dispute once for all.At about 03:30-04:00 P.M. father-in-law of the deceased accused- Ramjan called Sattar (PW-06).When Sattar reached there after 15 minutes, he found that Smt. Farida Bi was burnt to death.Someone informed the Police on telephone.On the basis of which `Rojnamcha Sanha' (Ex.P/3) was prepared and `Merg' (Ex.P/4) 3 was registered.Whenever, parents of the deceased used to come at her matrimonial home she told them that her sister-in-law, accused Smt. Hurmat Bi used to quarrel with her and used to taunt her for not bringing enough dowry.When Usman (PW-01) father of the deceased used to visit Khandwa she used to tell him about the harassment.Rs.500/- was given by Usman to Farida Bi, so that her in-laws should stop harassing her.Smt. Farida Bi gave this amount to the accused Rafiq.In-laws of the deceased were also threatening her and to leave the matrimonial home.After the death of Smt. Farida Bi, spot map (Ex.P/5) was prepared.The container of kerosene, match box, burnt clothes and soil with and without keresone, one `Sansi' made of iron were seized, vide Ex.P/6) from the spot.After drawing `Safina Form' (Ex.P/7) and `Panchnama' (Ex.P/8), the dead-body was sent for postmortem examination by Dr. Kaushal Kumar Lohani (PW-07) to District Hospital Khandwa.Autopsy of the dead-body of the deceased was conducted by Medical Officer Dr. Mahesh Kumar Patni (PW-04), who found the deceased 81% burnt and it was a third degree burn.( 18.01.2016) Per : Sushil Kumar Palo, J.:This appeal preferred under Section 378(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure [for brevity `CrPC'] is directed against the judgement, dated 20-08-1993, passed in S.T. No.196/1992 (State of M.P. vs. Rafiq and others) by learned II Additional Sessions Judge, East Nimad (Khandwa), District Khandwa, whereby the accused-respondents have been acquitted of the charges for the offence punishable under sections 304-B, 498-A and 306 of the Indian Penal Code [for short `the IPC'].The death of the deceased was caused due to shock because of severe burn injuries.Postmortem report (Ex.P/2) was prepared.Seized articles were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory, vide Ex.P/10 for examination.The accused persons were arrested.After due investigation charge-sheet was filed before the Court of competent jurisdiction, which in turn, committed the matter to the Court of Sessions.10. Charges in respect of offence punishable under sections 304- B and 498-A, and in the alternative, 306 of IPC were framed against the accused persons.The accused persons abjured their guilt and pleaded for trial.The learned trial Court after appreciating the evidence recorded the finding of acquittal of the accused- respondents by the impugned judgment.Shri Akshay Namdeo, learned Panel Lawyer for the appellant/State endeavoured to convince that the learned trial Court has erred in pronouncing the judgement of acquittal, on the ground that the death of the deceased has occurred within a span of 7 years from the date of solemnisation of her marriage.Father of the deceased has clearly stated about the demand of dowry.The postmortem report (Ex.P/2) reveals that the death was not natural.Thus, the learned Panel Lawyer contended that learned trial Court has committed grave error in not appreciating the evidence brought on record, especially the medical report.We have gone through the record and the contentions raised by the learned Panel Lawyer for the appellant/State.It is not disputed that the deceased - Smt. Farida Bi died due to severe burn injuries and her marriage was solemnised with accused Rafiq 3-4 years prior to the date of the incident.Necessary ingredients to prove commission of the offence are lacking in the present case.The Medical Officer (PW-4) has denied the suggestion that the deceased died before she was burnt.He also opined that the hands of the deceased were severely burnt.This indicates that when a persons is caught with fire accidentally, he/she endeavours hard to save himself/herself.In the present case the deceased might have made best possible efforts when her hands came in contact with fire and got severely burnt.These witnesses are also close to Usman (PW-01) and, therefore, the learned trial Court has inferred them as interested witnesses.Delay in recording the statements and apparent inconsistencies therein, create a reasonable doubt in the prosecution story.Therefore, the learned trial Judge did not find the statements of these prosecution witnesses creditworthy.Besides, Rabia Bi, an immediate neighbour of the accused persons, who was examined as a defence witness, in her statement has stated that the deceased narrated that no quarrel occurred at the place of her in-laws.The deceased - Smt. Farida Bi used to visit this witness repeatedly, but she never expressed about any quarrel for or in connection with demand of dowry.Rabia Bi did not say anything incriminating against the accused-respondents.Another neighbour Suleman (DW-01) has also deposed that the deceased - Smt. Farida Bi frequently used to visit his place, but she never expressed anything about demand of dowry, causing any cruelty or ill-treatment to her by her in-laws.He specifically stated that no cruelty was meted out to Farida Bi one day prior to the incident.He further stated that Smt. Farida was suffering from some unknown disease, for which she was being treated by a local 'Sailani Baba' by practicing 'Jhadphoonk' (witchcraft).She used to roam around spreading her hair without consciousness.
['Section 306 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304B in The Indian Penal Code']
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JUDGMENT R.C. Chavan, J.By this application under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the applicant challenges the order passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Bhandara in Criminal Revision No. 49/1997, directing the applicant to pay maintenance allowance at the rate of Rs. 400 per month to the non-applicant.The facts, which gave rise to the present proceeding are as under:Non-applicant Shobha Nandeshwar claims to have been married to applicant Jagdish after she had carried the applicant's child in her womb.Since, the applicant neglected and failed to maintain her, in spite of the fact that he owns four acres land and also earns Rs. 50 per day from agricultural labour, the said Shobha filed an application under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure before the learned Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Sakoli.She claimed maintenance allowance at the rate of Rs. 500 per month from applicant Jagdish.Jagdish filed reply, denying that Shobha was married to him as per the customs or the prevalent rites applicable to the Buddhists.He denied having consented to any such marriage, though he admitted that Shobha was carrying pregnancy of nine months and also that she had given report to Police Station Arjuni Morgaon against Jagdish.He also admitted that Shobha had delivered a child in a hospital at Nawegaon Bandh and that the child died.He claimed that he was a teenage student of Junior College and, therefore, neither possessed any means nor any income, to be able to pay any maintenance to Shobha.When Shobha took the matter in revision before the learned Additional Sessions Judge, the learned Additional Sessions Judge reversed the order passed by the learned Magistrate, holding that the marriage was proved and that Jagdish was liable to pay maintenance at the rate of Rs. 400 per month to Shobha.Aggrieved thereby, Jagdish has preferred this application.I have heard the learned Counsel for applicant Jagdish and also learned Counsel for non-applicant Shobha.
['Section 494 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The petitioner had questioned the maintainability of the said proceedings by pointing out that it is the admitted case of the second Crl.M.C. No.4709/2016 Page 1 of 8 respondent that they are not married to each other, the case having been founded on allegations of "live-in relationship", his submission being that such relationship was not "in the nature of marriage", he to the knowledge of the second respondent being married to another woman (named Anjali) at the relevant point of time.The Metropolitan Magistrate, by her order dated 17.11.2015, rejected the said contention to put an end to the proceedings observing that the submission raised mixed questions of law and fact.M.C. No.4709/2016 Page 1 of 8He has come up to this Court invoking the inherent power and jurisdiction under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Cr.P.C.) and Article 227 of the Constitution of India, to pray that the aforesaid orders of the courts below be set aside and the proceedings under the Domestic Violence Act taken out by the respondent be quashed.M.C. No.4709/2016 Page 2 of 8It is her admitted case that she was aware that the petitioner had a child (a daughter) from his first marriage, narrating their initial interaction since they having come to be acquainted with each other since 2006, upon being introduced by common friends in Mumbai.She would claim that the petitioner had told her in December, 2008 that his wife had sent him a notice for divorce.The second respondent has narrated that the parties were living together and moving around in manner "akin to married life", even going out to various stations and Crl.M.C. No.4709/2016 Page 3 of 8 staying together.M.C. No.4709/2016 Page 3 of 8According to her allegations, on 05.04.2011 the second respondent incidentally came across a copy of petition dated 25.03.2011 of first motion for divorce by mutual consent to be submitted by the petitioner and his wife and this discovery revealed to her that the information about he having taken divorce in March, 2010 was factually incorrect.As per the case set out in the Domestic Violence Act petition, the relationship between the parties soured, for some time, the petitioner having tendered profuse apologies to her and she eventually having calmed down and accepted the position agreeing to be patient till the divorce came through.The petition under the Domestic Violence Act was presented in February, 2013 by the second respondent.A little prior to that she had lodged a complaint with the local police in District Gurgaon, Haryana, no action having been taken thereupon.She approached the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM), Gurgaon, which court, after pre-summoning inquiry, had issued process against the petitioner for offences under Sections 376/403/417 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC).The matter arising out of the said proceedings eventually came up as sessions case no. 66/2014 before the Additional Sessions Judge, Gurgaon, the gravamen of charges laid against the petitioner therein Crl.M.C. No.4709/2016 Page 2 of 8 being that he had subjected the second respondent to sexual intercourse on the false promise of marriage and had thereby not only raped but cheated her.It is not disputed that the said sessions trial ended in judgment dated 12.07.2016 whereby the petitioner was acquitted with findings to the effect that the sexual relationship between the parties in a house in Gurgaon where they had lived together was consensual.
['Section 417 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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From the affidavit filed before us today the following facts have been revealed: -On November 15, 2010 the aforesaid Jaladhar Singh Sardar fled away from Jabla More, P.S. 2 Manbazar, District Purulia while he was on the way back to Purulia Correctional Home along with his two surities, namely, Sri Deban Singh Sardar and Smt. Mamata Singh Sardar.Though it is revealed from the above report that Radiogram under Serial no. 144/AB/2010 dated November 15, 2010 was sent to(i) ADGP and I.G of Correctional Service, West Bengal and (ii) Officer-in-Charge, Manbazar Police Station, District Purulia, no satisfactory information has been furnished before us today in the aforesaid affidavit with regard to the necessary steps which might be taken in the aforesaid matter.At this stage, we are of the opinion, that filing of affidavits furnishing information to the Court is not enough for the officers concerned to discharge their functions for which they have been paid fat salaries from the public exchequer.Usually, it is not the practice of this Court to direct the responsible officers of the State Government to be present personally before us leaving aside of their important assignments 3 in connection with their respective services.But in this case, we think fit and proper to direct the following officers to be present before us to explain their conduct which amounts to gross violation of the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure which should have been taken in this case long back: -i) The Director General and Inspector General of Correctional Service, West Bengal;1 2017 CRA No. 137 of 2007 In Re : Amrit Singh Sardar & Ors.ii) The Deputy Inspector General of Police of the concerned range relating to the District of Purulia;iii) The Superintendent, District Correctional Home, Purulia;iv) The Superintendent of Police, District Purulia;v) The Officer-in-Charge, Manbazar Police Station, District Purulia;The aforesaid officers are directed to appear before this Court on the next date of hearing of this matter, i.e. on July 28, 2017 at the first sitting of this Court with relevant records to satisfy this Court with regard to the steps taken in the above matter for the period from November 15, 2010 till date in accordance with the provision of Code of Criminal Procedure.Heard in part.Further hearing of this appeal stands adjourned.
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 3rd February, 2009 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Mumbai in Sessions Case No.943 of 2007, convicting the appellants for in furtherence of their common intention committing murder of one Anwar Ahmed Hussain, husband of appellant no.1 on 21st August, 2007, in the house of deceased and appellant no.1, at mezzanine floor of Room No.156, Maharashtra Nagar, Compound No.1 [West] and sentencing each of them to suffer imprisonment for life.According to prosecution, deceased Anwar along with his wife, appellant no.1 and two children were residing at the said mezzanine floor of room no.156 Maharashtra Nagar, Compound No.1, Bandra (W), in which offence in question was committed.He was earning livelihood by hawking and selling spectacles near Bandra Railway Station.The appellant no.2 was assisting in said business and was also visiting the house of the deceased.The said visit turned in love affair in between the appellants.The deceased warned the appellant no.2 not to come to his house.However, the appellants went on meeting each other.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::"Doctor's Chemist" run by PW5 Izaz Abdul Gaffur, purchased sleeping pills, "Restil" and administered it to the deceased.She then called appellant no.2 at her house on the pretendance of deceased being sick.2.2 At about 7 to 8 p.m. after occuring noise in the house of the deceased, blood mixed with the water drip on the husband of landlady PW 2 Smt. Anwari Begum Isla Uddin, residing beneath the house of deceased on the mezzanine floor.PW2, having not received any response to call given to appellant no.1 from the staircase, asked her neighbour Shamim to find out the happenings.2.3 On the next day i.e. on 22nd August, 2007 at about 9 to 9.30 a.m. both the appellants along with the children of deceased and the appellant no.1 came down the mezzanine floor after locking the room and left the house with appellant no.2 carrying a big bag and thereafter did not return.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::reported matter to Bandra Police Station.PW14 PSI Kudapkar on PSO duty along with Police Constable PW1 Brid and other police staff went to the said place.PW2 informed them that deceased, appellant no.1 and their children, were residing on the mezzanine floor and odour was emitting from the said room.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::PW1, after going upstairs found that room was locked.As the neighours and the landlady were not having key of the said lock, they broke open the lock and entered the room and found that decomposed corpse of deceased was lying on a bed-sheet spread on the floor with one black ribbon strangulated tightly round his neck giving an impression that deceased was murdered by strangulating with said ribbon.PW14 registered Crime No.349/2007 thereon for offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code against unknown person.He drew inquest and scene of offence panchanama Exh.20 and 21 in presence of panch PW7 Mohd. Hassain and another.He seized blood stained knife Article 21, chopper Article 22 and steel hammer Article 24 kept below suit case and so also blood stained salwar Article 20 found in the said room.PW14 also seized a quilt Article 14 and sando baniyan Article 15 stained with the blood and dropped from the loft, produced by landlord of the deceased at the Police Station, by drawing panchanama Exh.18 in presence of panch PW6 Vasim and another.On 25th August, 2007 PW14 seized clothes of the deceased Article 16 and Article 18 and a navy colour underwear brought by Police Constable Salve at the Police Station from the Cooper Hospital, by drawing panchanama Exh.40 in presence of panchas PW7 and one another.2.6 PW15 PI Sawant investigating the said crime received the clue of commission of the offence by the appellants and sent PW9 API Badgujar and the staff to Mirath (U.P.) for nabbing appellant no.2 hailing from the said place.PW15 on 6.9.2007 sent them to the medical examination.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::According to the prosecution, the appellant no.2 gave the confession to PW11 Dr. Shinde on 6.9.2007 while examining him 5 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 6 apeal 234.09.bom.doc by giving history that he had killed one Anwar Husain Sibiti Hasan (deceased) on 21.8.2007 at about 8 p.m. and at that time during the incident he sustained injury.According to the prosecution, the appellant no.1 also gave the confession to PW11 Dr. Shinde on 6.9.2007 while examining her by giving history that she killed her husband Anwar Husain with the help of appellant no.2 Mohd. Imran Najir Ansari on 21.8.2007 at about 8 p.m. and at that time during the incident she sustained injuries.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::According to the prosecution PW15 on 7.9.2007 as a sequel to the statement made by appellant no.1 leading to the discovery of the medical shop at which she had purchased sleeping pills, went to the medical shop of PW5 Izaj Gafoor to which appellant no.1 had led panchas and Police and Exh.42 is the memorandum and discovery panchanama of the said events drawn by him.PW15 after bringing the said articles to the Police Station, kept them for drying and thereafter again sealed said clothes by drawing panchanama Exh.26 in presence of same panchas i.e. PW3 Rashid Mujawar and another.PW15 vide forwarding letter Exh.43 sent muddemal articles ig seized to Chemical Analyser for examination.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::At the conclusion of the investigation, PW15 submitted charge-sheet against the appellants for in further of their common intention having murdered deceased , in the court of 9th court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bombay.The appellant pleaded not guilty to the charge (Exh.3) framed against them for such offence by the Court of Sessions, after the case was committed to the said Court.The prosecution examined in all '15' witnesses at the trial i.e. above referred witnesses and additionally PW4 Haji Mohammaed Sharif regarding appellant no.2 assisting deceased and appellant no.1 in their business, PW8 P.C. Suresh Salve regarding handing over navy blue colour underwear Article 16 and the ribbon Article 18 7 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 8 apeal 234.09.bom.doc on the corpse to PW14, PW12 Abida M. Qureshi regarding room in question was locked when Police had been at the said room and PW13 Mohammad A. Mansuri regarding the appellant no.2 visiting shop on 21.8.2007 and taking Rs.500/- from him on the pretext of his mother being sick and then he was frightened and collecting his articles and leaving with the bag.The prosecution also placed reliance upon the other documentary evidence, which was prepared during the course of investigation.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::The defence of both the appellants was that of total denial and of false implication by Police.The appellant no.1 though admitted that deceased was her husband and they were residing on mezzanine floor and appellant no.2 was visiting place of business claimed that he was not visiting her house and was her brother.The appellants did not examine any witness in support of their defence.The trial court after appreciation of the prosecution evidence came to the conclusion that by the said evidence the prosecution has established the various circumstances discussed in the judgment and the said circumstances considered in light of non- explanation on the part of the appellant leading to the conclusion of sole inference of the guilt of the appellants for in furtherance of their common intention having committed murder of husband of 8 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 9 apeal 234.09.bom.doc appellant no.1 by cutting his throat.In consonance with said conclusion arrived, the trial Court convicted and sentenced the appellants as narrated hereinabove.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Mr. Priytosh Tiwari, the learned counsel for the appellant by taking us through the evidence of each of the prosecution witnesses strenuously contended that the prosecution evidence by and large pertains to establish certain circumstances relied by the trial Court.It was urged that though the appellants are not disputing of deceased having met homicidal death, or that his body was found in the room in question, still evidence miserably fails to establish that room in question was locked as claimed by the witnesses, as the prosecution has failed to produce the broken lock before the Court corroborating their evidence and hence the said circumstance cannot be said to be firmly established .It was urged that the further circumstance of the appellants having made the confession to PW11 Dr. Shinde being inadmissible in law cannot be taken into consideration against the appellants.It was urged many of the remaining circumstances relied as pointed out by him are either not firmly established or the said circumstance within themselves failed to establish a complete chain of circumstances leading to the sole inference of the guilt of the appellants.It was thus contended the order of conviction and sentence cannot be legally sustained and is liable to be quashed and set aside and the 9 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 10 apeal 234.09.bom.doc appellants deserve to be acquitted or at least deserve to be given benefit of doubt as suspicion even of grave nature cannot be made basis for conviction.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Gambhir .vs.Shivappa .vs.Bheemal .vs.Sanjay .vs.Koki Prabhakara Reddy .vs.Ranjit Singh .vs.Kavinder .vs.Joyram Ingty .vs.Naval Singh 10 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 11 apeal 234.09.bom.doc .vs.State of Rajasthan .vs.Asraf Sk.State of Maharashtra .vs.Surender Singh .vs.State of Delhi: LAWS (DHL)-1989-12-13 regarding effect of non-attestation of dying declaration.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Thoughtful considerations were given to the submissions advanced by both the sides and record of the case was carefully examined in order to ascertain the merit from the submissions canvassed.At the first blush, it can be said that since there is no eye- witnesses for the crime in-question and the case has been rested upon the circumstantial evidence as per the settled legal position regarding such type of cases, we find it necessary to assess the prosecution evidence to ascertain whether the circumstances relied by the trial Court were duly established by the evidence adduced 12 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 13 apeal 234.09.bom.doc and thereafter to ascertain whether the said circumstances within themselves form a formidable chain leading to sole inference of the guilt of the appellant.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::The evidence of Dr. Kachare and particularly the injuries noted by him on the corpse i.e. amongst other cut throat injury on the neck and cause of death given by him "as death due to cut throat injury"itself establishes the deceased having met with homicidal death.The same is apparent as pointed out in the further part of the judgment regarding the other evidence by which the prosecution has established that corpse of the deceased was found in a room on the mezzanine floor of room no.156 in Maharashtra Nagar.The perusal of the evidence of panch PW7 of spot panchanama and that of PW14 PSI who had drawn the said spot panchanama clearly excludes any possibility of deceased having received the said injury for any other reason other than himself being assaulted, as after careful scrutiny of the evidence of above referred witnesses, we do not find any embellishment therein for coming to the conclusion 13 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 14 apeal 234.09.bom.doc that the said facts were not established by their evidence, will lead to a conclusion of the prosecution by the said evidence has established the deceased having met with homicidal death.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::With regard to the second circumstance of the blood stained water having dripped from the mezzanine floor in the house of PW2 landlady on 21st August, 2007 at 8 a.m. and the third circumstance of corpse of the deceased was found in a room which was locked and the fourth circumstance of both the appellants along with the children of appellant no.1 and deceased having left the room on the next day i.e. on 22.08.2007 at about 9 a.m. The reference to the evidence of PW2 landlady, PW1 Brid, PW12 Abida M. Qureshi, evidence of panch witness PW7 for spot and inquest panchanama and the evidence of PW13 Mohammad A. Mansuri reveals that by their evidence prosecution duly establishes the said circumstances.Without detailing every facets of the evidence of the aforesaid witnesses, it can be said that the evidence of PW2 in terms reveals that on the day in question at about 8 a.m. she heard noise from the mezzanine room rented to appellant no.1 and on her inquiry, the appellant no.1 replied that it was due to falling of water pot.It reveals that thereafter as the blood dripped on the cloth of her husband lying on the bed was noticed, she called appellant 14 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 15 apeal 234.09.bom.doc no.1 from the staircase as the room was closed.It reveals that due to non-response on part of the appellant no.1, she called Shamim and asked him to see the happenings in the room of the appellant no.1 and thereon Shamim gave call to the appellant no.1 and thereon appellant no.1 opened the door and replied that while cutting mutton, she sustained injury and the blood might have dripped down.PW2 further deposed about the appellant no.1 coming to her house and showing her finger tied with cloth.Her deposition reveals that on next day, both the appellants along with the children of the appellant no.1, left the room by telling that they were going to Millat Nagar and inform accordingly to anyone who comes for inquiry and appellant no.2 was carrying big bag.It reveals that thereafter they did not return and on third day, i.e. on 23.08.2007 aggressive odour emitted from the room and her husband told that it might be due to decomposition of rat and they were not able to sleep in the room.It reveals that thereafter PW2 find drop of liquid of decomposed body falling in the room and she informed the neighbours about it and one of the neighbours Hasan informed to Police.It reveals that the Police came on the spot and broke open the lock of the room.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::After careful scrutiny of the cross-examination of the PW2, we do not find anything brought on the record except that she 15 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 16 apeal 234.09.bom.doc was not present when the Police broke the lock of the door of the mezzanine room.Even accepting the said admission as it is, it does not shatter her evidence regarding the room being locked, as the said facet relates to herself being not present at the time of the Police breaking the lock and does not relate to the fact of herself having seen the lock on the said room.Thus her evidence considered in proper perspective establishes of the above referred circumstances.We further add that hardly there is any challenge to her evidence on the part of the appellants of the room being locked after the appellant and the children left the room or for the fact of themselves having left with the bag as deposed by her.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::The due corroboration to the relevant part of evidence of PW2 for the aforesaid circumstance is found from the evidence of Police personnel PW1 and PW14 who had been to the spot after receiving the information of emission of odour from the neighbours.The evidence of PW1 in terms reveals that door was locked from the outside and they had broken the lock of the room.The evidence of PW1 is well corroborated by complaint Exh.10 to such effect lodged by him.Even the evidence of PW14 regarding the same is not different.It also reveals the room being locked and they had opened it by breaking the lock.Evidence of both the witnesses further reveals that after entry, the decomposed body of the deceased was found in the room.They have deposed in 16 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 17 apeal 234.09.bom.doc consonance with the prosecution case narrated earlier regarding the situation in which the body was found.The perusal of their depositions do not reveal that such aspect of their evidence were shattered during the cross-examination.In addition to the aforesaid evidence, the reference to the evidence of PW12 reveals that the appellant no.2 was visiting the house of the appellant no.1 during the absence of the deceased.It reveals that she had sent Shamim and Hasan to the Bandra Police Station after the neighbours have told that odour was coming.She specifically deposed that when the Police came, the room of deceased and the appellant no.1 was locked and the lock was opened by the Police and the body of deceased was found in the said room.We find that her evidence has remained totally unshattered during the cross-examination.Though suggested that she had deposed falsely, hardly anything was brought during the cross-examination for giving any credence to the suggestion given.The evidence of PW12 as well as of the earlier referred evidence of PW2, do not reveal any reason for them for entertaining any animus against the appellant for staking such a claim.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::In the same context, the reference to the evidence of PW13 reveals that he was serving as a Tailor at Bandra and the appellant no.2 was working with him as well as residing at his work place for a period of two months and as such he was well 17 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 18 apeal 234.09.bom.doc acquainted with him.The further part of his deposition reveals that appellant no.2 absented for work on 21.8.2007 and 22.08.2007 at about 7 to 8 p.m. , the appellant came to his workshop and asked for Rs.500/- on the count that his mother was sick and he was then in frightened.He gave him Rs.500/- and thereafter appellant no.2 collected his articles from his shop and left with a bag.We find that the said evidence of PW13 has remained unshattered in spite of the cross-examination.As a matter of fact, we find that except giving suggestion to PW13 that he deposed falsely and denied by him, no other effort was made on the part of the defence to challenge his said evidence.Needless to add that the said evidence duly corroborates prosecution case of the appellants trying to flee away from the place probably due to the commission of the crime as claimed by the prosecution.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::The reference to the evidence of PW7 also reveals some what identical story.The evidence of PW7 reveals that on the relevant day he has acted as a panch along with another when he 18 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 19 apeal 234.09.bom.doc was called at the mezzanine room by the Police.His evidence reveals in detail that the body of the deceased wasfound in the said room and the condition of the said body, as well as the articles seized by the Police i.e. blood stained salwar, chopper, knife and hammer from the said room.His evidence is also found corroborating the evidence of the Police personnel PW1 and PW14 referred hereinabove, who had entered in the said room.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::The learned counsel for the appellants by harping upon the evidence of PW7 submitted that his evidence only reveals that the Police had opened the door.It was urged that his evidence fails to reveal that Police had broken lock on the room.It was contended that PW7 being independent panch, his evidence run contrary to the evidence of earlier referred witnesses as the same fails to depict that the room was locked.It was thus contended that prosecution has failed to establish the circumstance of, room in question being locked.After carefully considering the evidence of the aforesaid witnesses and the sequence in which the events had occurred, we are unable to give any significance to said submissions canvassed.The aforesaid evidence duly reveals that the Police had been to the said spot as odour was emitting out of the room in question.The evidence of PW2 reveals that her husband has felt that it might 19 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 20 apeal 234.09.bom.doc have been due to decomposition of rat.It reveals that till then nobody had suspected of any foul play.The evidence denotes that the Police opened the lock for ascertaining the reason behind the said foul smell.It reveals that thereafter the body of the deceased was found in the said room.Thus considering from the said angle, PW7 would have been called only after noticing the dead body for recording the further events and situation prevailing at the spot and for drawing inquest panchanama.Hence in all probability PW7 being called lateron after the lock was opened, it would be unreasonable to accept himself deposing about the said events occurred prior to his arrival.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Similarly looking the matter from another angle and even assuming that PW7 was accompanying the Police since the beginning or after noticing the lock on the room, then also carefully considering his evidence, we do not find that his evidence reveals that the said room was not locked.Such a conclusion is inevitable as PW7 has deposed of the door being open.The perusal of the cross-examination does not reveal any position brought on the record that it was not locked.Thus even from the said angle, the criticism or the circumstances pointed out from the evidence of PW7 cannot be given any undue significance.We are of such a view as in the event of the door being not locked, PW2 and her husband would have well entered in said room for ascertaining as 20 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 21 apeal 234.09.bom.doc to what was the reason behind smell.Such an inference is obvious as appellant no.1 and deceased were tenants and not strangers.However, instead of occurring of any such event of themselves entering the room, giving a call to the Police clearly denotes that the room then must have been locked.Furthermore the evidence of PW2 considered in proper perspective also denotes that she was told by the appellant no.1 while leaving the room that they were going away to Millat Nagar and informing accordingly to anybody who comes for inquiry.The said facet of her evidence considered in a proper perspective also denotes in all probability room being locked.Needless to add that it would be insensible to imagine in Bombay persons leaving the room by keeping it open.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::The learned counsel for the appellants further contended that the prosecution having not produced the lock at the trial, also denotes that the said room was not locked.We are unable to accept the said submission as in reality the same relates to nature of evidence required to be adduced for establishing a fact.In the event of, fact of room being locked being established by the prosecution, through the cogent evidence of PW2 , PW1, PW14 and PW13, it cannot be gainsaid that it was incumbent for prosecution to produce the said lock for establishing the relevant facet.At least the inference as suggested by learned counsel for the appellants, cannot be drawn on the said isolated circumstance ignoring 21 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 22 apeal 234.09.bom.doc otherwise convincing cogent and evidence of the above referred witnesses.In the light of the aforesaid discussion, we find that the prosecution has duly established the circumstances under consideration.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Now with regard to the fifth circumstance of the appellants being found in one room at Shajah Nagar Mirath, the evidence of PW9 API Badgujar reveals that PW15 P.I. Sawant had sent him along with the Police Party at Mirath, Uttar Pradesh for nabbing the appellants.It reveals that at the address of the appellants given to them, nobody was found and hence they had halted for 3-4 days.It reveals that after receipt of information that appellants were residing at Shajah Nagar, Mirath, on 2.9.2007 along with Nisarigate Police, he had been to the said Police Station and found both the appellants in one room.It reveals that on the basis of the photograph of the appellants given to him, he identified and arrested them by drawing panchanama Exh.28 in presence of panchas.It reveals that thereafter he had obtained transit remand and brought them to Bombay.After perusal of the cross- examination, we do not find that except giving the witness suggestion that he has deposed falsely, any significant material was brought on the record for not accepting his evidence.Though there is substance in the submission of prosecution having not examined panch witnesses, still we find it difficult to accept the submission that on the said count the evidence of PW9 is liable to be rejected.We are of such a view a it is fairly settled legal position that the presumption of truth available for the evidence of any witness recorded on oath is equally available for the evidence of the honest Police Officer and their evidence is not liable alone on the count of themselves being from the Police Department.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::ig Having regard to the same and after carefully considering the evidence of PW9, we find that the same is free from doubt, embellishment or any interestedness.Now considering the sixth circumstance relied by the prosecution of appellant no.1 having purchased sleeping pills on the day in question and administered the same, the trial Court had held that initial part of the said circumstance was duly established by the prosecution i.e. purchase of sleeping pills on the basis of the evidence of PW5, but not the latter aspect, as no evidence has surfaced regarding the same and even the medical evidence 23 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 24 apeal 234.09.bom.doc adduced having not established such a tablet was administered by PW1 to the deceased for making them easy to commit crime in question due to thereby there would have been least resistance on part of the deceased.In the said context, the prosecution has also adduced the evidence of PW15 Investigating Officer for establishing that statement made by appellant no.1 of showing the place at which she had purchased the said pills for the purpose as stated by him and having led the panchas and Police to the shop of PW5 and the panchanama Exh.42 regarding the same.Since we find there is a failure of the prosecution to establish discovery of the shop in pursuance to the statement made can be said to be an incriminating fact or even otherwise giving all latitudes to the prosecution with certainty having established, the nexus of the tablets purchased with the crime in question, we find it difficult to place much reliance upon the said evidence for any significant purpose.However, thereby we do not intend to convey that the entire evidence of PW5 would be liable to be discarded as the fact of appellants having purchased such pills from his shop has been duly established from his evidence.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::With regard to seventh circumstance of the appellant 24 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 25 apeal 234.09.bom.doc no.2 possessing the knowledge regarding the place at which the blood stained clothes and gunny bag used by appellant no.1 for cleaning the room were kept concealed and thereby nexus of appellant no.2 with the crime.The prosecution has also adduced the evidence of PW3 and PW15 regarding the statements made by appellant no.2 leading to the discovery and seizure of a bag containing the clothes which were used by appellant no.1 for cleaning the room and the same being seized from the place shown by the appellant no.2 at Bandra creek.However, reference to the evidence of PW3 reveals that he had not supported the prosecution and the learned APP had cross-examined him by obtaining permission of the Court.Hence prosecution as well as the trial Court had relied only upon the evidence of PW15 and C.A. report received regarding the said clothes indicating that human blood was found on the said clothes seized from the bag which was taken out from the sea water and sent to C.A. Thus considering limited significance of the said circumstance, we do not propose to indulge in detail dilation about it except stating that considering the place at which the said recovery was made i.e. clothes kept in a bag and thrown in a creek water , the said evidence would not be liable to be discarded as tried to canvass by the learned counsel for the appellants on the count of the recovery being from an open place accessible to all.It is indeed true that the recoveries of such a nature are found to be insignificant in view of knowledge regarding 25 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 26 apeal 234.09.bom.doc the same can be possible to any particular person for the said reason other than himself being a culprit and thus for the said reason significance of such a recovery from the open place being reduced.However, in the instant case, considering the evidence of PW15 in proper perspective and the manner in which the said clothes used for cleaning the human blood in the room, were thrown at a place in a sea which though open, still considering the peculiarity attached with it, we find it difficult to accept submission canvassed for the simple reason that the said facets denote that knowledge of such articles being at such place could not have been gathered by anybody else other than the person linked with the said recovery.Similarly we also do not find substance in the criticism canvassed that panch witness PW3 having not supported the prosecution, the entire evidence pertaining to the said recovery is liable to be discarded.We reject the said submission for the same reasons for which we have earlier not found in favour of the submission canvassed qua the evidence of PW9 API Badgujar on the count of non-examination of panch witnesses.Needless to add by establishing human blood on the said clothes, gunny bag vide C.A. report Exh.44, the prosecution has established nexus of the said clothes with the crime in question and particularly due to non- explanation about all the said aspects on part of any of the appellant.Similarly in absence of any suggestion of tampering of the seals of the said articles sent to C.A. , we are unable to give any 26 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 27 apeal 234.09.bom.doc credence to the submission canvassed that on the said count the said evidence is worthless.Resultantly we find that though for limited purpose the said evidence deserves to be taken into consideration for adding assurance to the conclusions arising out of the other established circumstances.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Now considering to the last eighth circumstance relied by the trial Court regarding the extra judicial confession made by the appellants to PW11 Dr. Shinde i.e. statements made by both the appellants while giving history about the injuries sustained by them when they were sent for medical examination by PW15 to the said Doctor on 6.9.2007 i.e. the matter contained in Exhs.35 and 36, we are unable to place any reliance upon the said apparently inadmissible evidence.We are of such a view as after considering the evidence of PW15, it is apparently clear that both the appellants were then in Police custody.The evidence of PW15 that he sent both the appellants for such an examination itself denotes that both the appellants were then in his custody.In the said context the reference to the provisions of Section 26 of the Evidence Act which runs as under:-::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::whilst he is in the custody of a police officer, unless it be made in the immediate presence of a Magistrate, shall be proved as against such person."Admittedly the appellants being in custody when they had given the said history, in the event of same being of any confessional nature as canvassed, same would be wholly inadmissible in law and the prosecution would be debarred to prove the purported confessions against the appellants, all such evidence thereto adduced by the prosecution will be required to be left out of consideration
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excepting the last eighth circumstance
the prosecution has established all the circumstances or part thereof as indicated in the discussion made hereinabove.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::The learned counsel for the appellants vehemently contended that after excluding the vital circumstances of the purported confessions allegedly made by the appellants to PW11
both the appellants and/or at least the appellant no.1 would be entitled to be acquitted or at least given benefit of doubt.It was canvassed that there being no cogent evidence of room being locked or even assuming it to be locked
there was every possibility of somebody else entering said room and committing the murder and thereafter going away by locking the room for implicating the appellants.We are unable to accept the said criticism as we find that there is a close proximity within the events of the appellants along with the children leaving the spot of offence on 22.08.2007 at about 9 a.m. after locking the same and about the fact of since then room being locked and decomposed corpse of the deceased found in the 29 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 30 apeal 234.09.bom.doc said room on the next day; as duly established by the prosecution.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Hardly any evidence is surfaced on the record that anybody else had thereafter opened the said room.At any rate the room being locked
the same excludes any such possibility as canvassed.Thus the said circumstance of corpse of deceased being found in the said room which was locked when appellants had left room
has significant serious potential of the said circumstance alone leading to the sole inference about their guilt in causing homicidal death of deceased even not disputed by the appellants and otherwise also established by the prosecution.Such a conclusion is inevitable has none of the appellants has advanced any explanation during their examination under Section 313 of the Cr.P.C. Hence even if the other circumstances i.e. circumstance nos. 2
5
6 and 7 are not taken into consideration
the other established circumstance nos. 1
3 and 4 alone are capable of leading to the inference of their guilt.Additionally the said other circumstances established by the prosecution also strengthens such a conclusion
as the said circumstances considered along with the earlier two referred circumstances forms a formidable chain leading to the sole inference of the guilt of the appellants.The same is apparent from the circumstances of blood stained water percolating in the room of PW2
though appellant no.1 tried to explain of the same being on count of injury sustained by her
her conduct of non-opening the door at the relevant time and the time at which the said event had 30 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 31 apeal 234.09.bom.doc occurred i.e. about 8 p.m. on the relevant day also fortifies the conclusions arrived earlier.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Same is the case regarding fifth circumstance of both the appellants being found in one room at Mirath.It is indeed true that as pointed out by the learned counsel for the appellants
the prosecution has not given the evidence as to who was the owner of the said room and additionally the appellants acquainted with each other
being found in one room by itself would be innocuous circumstance as canvassed.Similarly with regard to the part of circumstance no.6 of trial Court having held that there is no evidence of appellant no.1 having administered sleeping pills purchased by her to the deceased
it can be said that even for the said circumstance no explanation had been given by the appellant no.1 i.e. regarding the reason for purchasing the said pills.Thus the said circumstance 31 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 32 apeal 234.09.bom.doc considered along with the other circumstances also fortifies the inference arising out of the same.Since it is well known that the evidence of medicine consumed may not be retained in the body after passage of certain times
we find total rejection of the said part of circumstance by the trial Court was not proper.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::The learned counsel for the appellants also tried to canvass that ultimately the appellant no.1 was a lady and it is unlikely that she would have caused the throat injury to her husband and at the most
the evidence denotes that she had accompanied the appellant no.2 and as such her conviction under Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code was improper.We do not find any force in the said submission as bare glance of the said section 32 of 33 ::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 ::: 33 apeal 234.09.bom.doc 34 of the I.P.C. makes it clear that act includes the series of an act and under Section 34 of the I.P.C. if such an act is done by several persons in furtherance of common intention of all
then each of such person is liable for that act in the same manner as if it was done by him alone.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::Resultantly we find no merit in the appeal and dismiss the same.::: Downloaded on - 27/08/2013 21:07:42 :::"
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
Analyze the legal case and identify the corresponding section it comes under.
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Counsel for the parties have chosen not to appear at the call by High Court Bar Association to boycott the Court.Let record of the trial Court be called for.Perused the judgment.Considered I.A. No.23926/2015, an application for suspension of sentence and grant of bail to the appellants.In view of the fact that appellants though were prosecuted for the offence under Sections 294, 325/34, 323/34, 395 and 506B of IPC; however, the prosecution has failed to establish the charges under Sections 294, 323/34, 395 and 506B IPC and that co-accused Suresh, Deeprani and Haribai are being exonerated of all the charges and the fact that the appellants were on bail during trial and they have not misused the liberty so granted, but without expressing any opinion of the merits of the case, the Court is of the view that the jail sentence awarded to the appellants for the offence under Section 325/34 IPC deserves to be suspended.The I.A. is, accordingly, allowed and it is directed that on appellants, viz. Kannai and Mukesh Kurmi, depositing entire fine amount as also furnishing a personal bond in the sum of `20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) each, with a solvent surety Criminal Appeal No.3281/2015 in the like amount, to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Damoh for their appearance before the Registry of this Court on 10.3.2016 and on all such subsequent dates as may be fixed in this regard, sentence of imprisonment awarded to the appellants shall remain suspended till further orders and they shall be released on bail.Let this appeal be listed for final hearing in due course under appropriate category.C.C. as per rules.
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 325 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 395 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard on this first application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on behalf of the petitioner Rustam Singh Barela in Crime No.07/2018 registered by Police Station Rajpura, District Damoh under Sections 376D, 450 and 506 of the I.P.C.As per the prosecution case, the prosecutrix is a 28 years old mature, married woman with two children.At about 12:30 p.m. on 27.2.2018, the prosecutrix was sleeping at her home with her two children.She had not bolted the door from inside.Her husband had gone to visit his relatives.At that time, petitioner Rustam came and lay with her on the same cot.The prosecutrix thought that it was her husband, who was sleeping.However, when she realized that petitioner Rustam was sleeping on the cot, she raised an alarm; whereon, Rustam threatened to kill and clamped her mouth shut.Rustam informed her that petitioner Prem Singh is also standing outside the door; thereafter, Rustam raped the prosecutrix.When Rustam was leaving, prosecutrix threw a brick on him.Both Rustam and Prem Singh were threatening to kill the prosecutrix and her husband.when her husband arrived at 4:00 a.m. in the morning, report was lodged.Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the statement of the prosecutrix, her husband and her brother-in-law have been recorded by the trial Court on 29.6.2018 and they have all turned hostile and have not supported the prosecution case at all.In support of his contention, he has filed copies of the statements of the THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR Misc.Criminal Case No.11936/2018 Rustam Singh Barela Vs.State of M.P.prosecution witnesses.The petitioner has been in custody since 1.3.2018; therefore, it has been prayed that the petitioner be released on bail.Learned Government Advocate for the respondent/State on the other hand has opposed the application mainly on the ground that the statement of the prosecution witnesses cannot be evaluated or appreciated for the purpose of grant of bail to an accused person.Consequently, this first application for bail under section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on behalf of petitioner Rustam Singh Barela, is allowed.It is directed that the petitioner shall be released on bail on furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.40,000/- with one solvent surety in the same amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court for his appearance before that Court on all dates fixed in the case and for complying with the conditions enumerated under Section 437 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.Certified copy as per rules.(C. V. Sirpurkar) Judge ahd Digitally signed by MOHD AHMAD Date: 2018.07.11 23:15:59 -07'00'
['Section 450 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 437 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The prosecution story, briefly stated, was as under :-All the appellants as well as Hira Singh, deceased and his brother Ganesh Singh (PW-1) were residents of village Shivpur Diyar, P.S. Kotwali, district Ballia.About 5 days before the occurrence of this case, appellants Radha Mohan Singh and Kaushal Kishore and others had assaulted one Udai Narain and a case was registered in this regard .Ganesh Singh (PW-1) was witness of prosecution in the said case.Radha Mohan Singh and others were pressurizing Ganesh Singh (PW-1) not to give evidence against them in said case , but he was not agreeable to it.Hira Singh deceased, elder brother of Ganesh Singh (PW-1) was residing at Calcutta in connection with his business.Two days before the occurrence of this case, Hira Singh had come to his native village.On 14-3-1979 it was a day of Holt festival.People of the village of the parties were busy in singing Holi songs and meeting with each other.In the evening.Hira Singh deceased had gone to meet Udai Narain.While he was returning from the house of Udai Narain, appellants Radha Mohan Singh and Kaushal Kishore met him in the way and asked him to ask his brother (Ganesh Singh) not to give evidence against them.Hira Singh told that his brother had seen the occurrence and he would give evidence.The above appellants then threatened him that they would teach him a lesson.Ganesh Singh (PW-1) had also gone -in the village to meet some people and when he returned to his house, Hira Singh told about the threat given by the appellants Radha Mohan Singh and Kaushal Kishore.Thereafter, Hira Singh deceased and Ganesh Singh (PW-1) went to the house of Nand Kishore (PW-5).Mohan (PW-3) and Ram Pyari (PW-6) were also present there.All the four persons then proceeded towards north.After meeting people they were returning to their house.Duration fresh.Ganesh Singh (PW-1) thereafter got prepared report from Madan Yadav and lodged the same at P.S. Kotwali at 10.30 p.m. On the basis of written report (Ext. Ka-1), Head Constable Shamsher Singh (PW-9) prepared chick, F.I.R. (Ext. Ka-17) made an endorsement of the same at G.D. report and registered a case against the appellant under Sections 147, 148, 149, 324, 323, 323 and 307, IPC.The investigation of the case was taken up by Sri Shiv Kumar Singh, I.O. (PW-8).who interrogated Ganesh Singh (PW1) at the police station,Hira Singh deceased died in the hospital at 10.40 p.m. The information regarding his death was sent to P.S. Kotwali, which was received there at 12.10 a.m. the endorsement of which was made at G,D. report (Ext. Ka-20) .On the basis of above information, the case was altered under Section 302, IPC.The I.O. Sri Shiv Kumar Singh (PW-8) reached the spot, where he interrogated Mohan Yadav (PW-3) and Ram Pyari (PW-6) and sent them for medical examination.Thereafter the I.O. interrogated Ram Jee Singh (PW-4) and Nand Kishore (PW-5).The I.O. inspected place of occurrence and prepared site plan (Ext. Ka-12).The occurrence had taken place in the open place and assuming that darkness had started, there was sufficient light of twilight as well as moon light in which the known persons could be easily identified as the parties are residents of village and used to live in the midst of nature and accustomed to live without light.JUDGMENT U.S. Tripathi, J.This appeal has been nominated by the order of Hon'ble the Chief Justice dated 29-3-2004 to this Bench under Section 392 , Cr.P.C. for opinion, as there was difference of opinion between the Hon'ble Judge (Hon'ble S.K. Agarwal, J. and Hon'ble K.K. Misra, J.) of the Bench which heard and decided it.The appeal was directed against the judgment and order dated 16-6-1980 passed by the Sessions Judge, Ballia in Sessions Trial No. 50 of 1980 convicting the appellants Radha Mohan, Devendra Singh alias Mutuk Singh, Kaushal Kishore, Tej Bahadur Singh and Kapil Deo Singh under Sections 302 read with 149, IPC and sentencing each of them to imprisonment for life, further convicting appellants Tej Bahadur Singh and Kapil Deo Singh under Section 147, IPC and sentencing each of them to undergo R.I. for a period of one year, further, convicting Radha Mohan, Devendara Singh and Kaushal Kishore under Section 148, IPC and sentencing each of them to undergo R.I. for a period of two years.Appellant Kaushal Kishore was further convicted under Section 324, IPC and Kapil Deo Singh and Tej Bahadur Singh under Section 323, IPC and remaining appellants were convicted under Section 324 read with 149 IPC and 323 read with 149, IPC, but no separate sentence was awarded under these sections.At about sun set when they reached near the house of Nand Kishore (PW -5), the appellants Radha Mohan Singh armed with spear (Bhala), Devendara Singh armed with Lathi and Kaushal Kishore armed with knife met them there.Radha Mohan Singh appellant inflicted spear below on Hira Singh deceased and when Ganesh Singh (PW-1) tried to save him, appellants Tej Bahadur Singh and Kapil Deo Singh inflicted Lathi blows on him.Mohan Yadav (PW-3) and Ram Pyari (PW-6) tried to save them and Kaushal inflicted knife blow on Mohan and Kapil Deo Singh assaulted Ram Pyari (PW-6) with Lathi.On the alarm raised by the injured Ram Jee Singh (PW- 4), Nand Kishore (PW-5), Jagdish Singh and others came to the spot and witnessed the occurrence.Thereafter, the appellants ran away towards east.Hira Singh had sustained spear and Pharsa injuries.A charpai was arranged on which Hira Singh was taken to Bandh and from there to District Hospital, Ballia, where he was medically examined by Dr. M.A.R. Siddlqui (PW-2) at 9 p.m. who found following injuries on his person :-(1) Incised wound 0.5 cm x 0.2 cm x skin deep on left side chest 19 cm below nipple.(2) Incised wound 3 cm x 2 cm x bone deep on left side of chest (as far as probed easily 10 cm above left nipple), margins sharp cut, tailing downwards, fresh blood coming out of wound.The injuries were kept under observation and patient was admitted in the hospital.The injuries were caused by sharp edged weapon and were fresh in duration.Ganesh Singh (PW-1) was also medically examined by Dr. Siddiqui at 9,50 p.m. and following injuries were found on his person :-(1) Lacerated wound 3 cm x .5 cm scalp deep on right parietal region of head, 12 cm above right ear.(2) Contusion with swelling 3 cm x 3 cm on right parietal region 6 cm from right ear louble (above) red in colour.(3) Abrasion 1 cm x 0.5 cm on left side face just lateral to left eye.(4) Contusion 3 cm x 2 cm on right shoulder outer most.(5) Contused swelling , 3 cm x 3 cm on front of left knee joint.The injuries were simple caused by blunt object, except No. 3 caused by friction against hard surface.He also recovered blood from the spot and prepared recovery memo.The inquest of dead body of Hira oSingh was conducted on 15-3-1979 by Sub Inspector Ram Sabad Singh (PW-7) in the mortuary of District Hospital.He sealed the dead body and sent the same for postmortem along with other relevant papers.Ram Pyari (PW-6) was medically examined on 15-3-1979 at 11.30 a.m. by Dr. S.P. Singh (PW-11) who found following injuries on his person ;:-Painful swelling 2.5 x 1.5 cm on the back of left hand's thumb at its root.Abrasion 3x2 cm on the right side Of head 4 cm above and in front of tragus.Complain ofpain on mid front of chest.Mohan (PW-3) was medically examined by Dr. S.P. Singh (PW 11) on 15-3-1979 at 12.10 p.m. and there were following injuries on his person :-Lacerated wound 1.5 x 0.2 cm x skin deep on the palmer aspect of left middle finger at its middle phalanx.Lacerated wound 0.3 x 0.2 cm x skin dep on the palmer aspect of left ring finger just above the middle phalanx.Both injuries were simple caused by blunt object and 3/4 day old.Autopsy on the dead body of deceased was conducted on 15-3-1979 at 4 p.m. by Dr. Prem Prakash (PW-10), who found following ante mortem injuries on his person :-(1) Stitched wound 3 cm long on the left side of chest, 1 cm below the clavicle and 5 cm left to the mid-line.On the removal of stitches, it was found that there was a stab wound 3 cm x chest cavity deep on the left side front of chest, 1 cm below the clavicle and 5 cm left to the mid-line.Margins of wound were well defined.Wound was directed inwards downwards and towards right side.cm x 0.2 cm skin deep on the left side of chest in mid axillary line, 16 cm behind the axilla and 24 cm left to the mid-line.Internal examination showed that both the pleuras were punctured.Right pleural cavity contained one pint of blood, Left pleural cavity contained 1 pint of blood, In the right lung punctured wound 1.5 cm x large tissues deep at their middle lobe was present.In the left lung punctured wound 2 cm x 1 cm x through and through at the upper lobe was present.Stomach contained semi digested food .Small intestine contained semi digested food materials and large intestine contained faccal matter.The remaining investigation was completed by Sri S.N. Singh, Inspector, who submitted charge-sheet against the appellants.Cognizance of the case was taken by the Magistrate, who committed the case to the Court of Sessions.Appellants Kapil Deo Singh and Tej Bahadur Singh were charged with the offences punishable under Sections 147, 302/ 149, 324/149 and 323, IPC while appellants Radha Mohan and Devendra Singh were charged with the offences punishable under Sections 148, 302/149, 324/149 and 323/149, IPC.Kaushal Kishore was charged with the offences punishable under Sections 148, 302/149, 323/149 and 324, IPC.The appellants pleaded not guilty and contended their false implication due to enmity.The prosecution in support of its case examined Ganesh Singh (PW 1), Dr. M. A. R. Siddiqui (PW 2), Mohan Yadav (PW 3), Ram Jee Singh (PW 4), Nand Kishore (PW- 5), Ram Pyari (PW 6), Ram Sabad Singh, Sub-Inspector (PW 7), Shiv Kumar Singh, I.O. (PW8), Shamsher Singh Head Constable (PW 9), Dr. Prem Prakash (PW 10) and Dr. S. P. Singh (PW 11).Ganesh Singh (PW 1), Mohan Yadav (PW 3), Ram Jee Singh (PW- 4), Nand Kishore (PW 5) and Ram Pyari (PW- 6) were witnesses of fact, while evidence of remaining witnesses was formal in nature.The appellants led no evidence.The learned Sessions Judge on considering evidence of the prosecution held that the appellants were members of unlawful assembly, the common object of which was to commit murder of Hira Singh and to inflict injuries on the persons, who came to his rescue and therefore, the prosecution established the guilt of appellants.With these findings, he convicted and sentenced.the appellants as mentioned above.Aggrieved with their above conviction and sentence, the appellants preferred this appeal.The appeal was once dismissed by the Bench consisting of Hon'ble R.R.K. Trivedi and Hon'ble Ikram-ul-Bari, JJ.The appellants went in appeal before Hon'ble Supreme Court against the above judgment and order.Hon'ble Supreme Court, vide order dated 14-3-2002 allowed the appeal and remanded back the appeal to this Court for fresh decision on merits in accordance with law after giving an opportunity of being heard, as the appeal was decided in the absence of learned counsel for the appellants.After remand of the appeal, the learned counsel for the appellants were heard by Bench consisting of Hon'ble S. K. Agarwal and Hon'ble K. K. Misra, JJ.By the judgment, and order dated 22-3-2004 Hon'ble S. K. Agarwal, J. allowed the appeal and set aside the conviction and sentence of appellants.By separate judgment and order of the same date Hon'ble K. K. Misra, J. dismissed the appeal and confirmed the conviction and sentence of the appellants.In view of difference of opinion between the two Hon'ble Judges of the Bench, the record was placed before Hon'ble the Chief Justice under Section 392, Cr.P.C. who nominated the appeal to this Bench for opinion.This is how the appeal is before this Bench.I have heard Sri A. K. Singh, Advocate holding brief of Sri G. S. Chaturvedi, learned counsel for the appellants and the learned A.G.A. for the respondent and have perused the entire evidence on record.The learned counsel for the appellants contended that the appellants had no motive with the deceased; the occurrence had taken place in the darkness and nobody had seen the occurrence; there was delay in the lodging of F.I.R.; the report was ante-timed the evidence of the ocular witnesses is not reliable and therefore, the appellants could not.be convicted.Before adverting to the contentions raised by the learned counsel for the apepllants, I would like to refer the gist of evidence of ocular witnesses.Ganesh Singh (PW 1), the younger brother of deceased Hira Singh, stated that about 5 days before the occurrence of this case, appellants Radha Mohan, Kaushal Kishore and others had assaulted one Udai Narain of which he was witness of the prosecution.Radha Mohan and others were pressurizing him not to give evidence in the said case.On the date of occurrence it was Holi festival and people of the village were busy in singing and enjoying Holi songs.Hira Singh deceased had gone to meet village people and while he was returning to his house Radha Mohan and Kaushal Kishore appellants met him in the way and asked him to persuade his brother (witness) not to give evidence against them.On it Hira Singh replied that his brother had seen the occurrence and he would give evidence.The above appellants then threatened him that they would teach him a lesson.Thereafter, the witness along with the deceased went to the house of Nand Kishore, Mohan (PW 3) and Ram Pyari (PW 6) were also present there.All the four persons proceeded towards north.While returning to their house at about sun set when they reached at Rasta near the hosue of Nand Kishore, appellants Radha Mohan armed with spear, Devendra Singh armed with Pharsa, Tej Bahadur and Kapil Deo armed with Lathi and Kaushal Kishore armed with knife came there.Radha Mohan inflicted spear blow on the deceased.When the witnesses tried to save him, appellants Tej Bahadur and Kapil Deo Singh inflicted Lathi blows on him.When Mohan and Ram Pyari tried to save them, Kausal Kishore inflicted knife blow on Mohan (PW 3) and Kapil Deo inflicted Lathi blow on Ram Pyari, Pharsa injury was also caused to Hira Singh.On the alarm raised by them, Ram Jee Singh (PW 4) Nand Kishore (PW 5) Jagdish Singh and others came to the spot and saw the occurrence.Thereafter, the deceased, who was in injured condition was taken on Charpai up to Bandh and from there he was taken to District Hospital, Ballia in a tempo.Alter medical examination he got prepared report from Madan Yadav and lodged the same at P.S. Kotwali.Mohan Yadav (PW 3) stated that on the date of occurrence, in the evening he along with Hira Singh deceased, Ganesh (PW- 1) and Ram Pyari (PW 6) was sitting at the house of Nand Kishore.From there they went to meet the people of the village.While returning from north when they reached in the Gali near the house of Nand Kishore, appellants Radha Mohan, Devendra, Tej Bahadur, Kapil Deo and Kaushal Kishore came there from southern side.Radha Mohan was having spear, Devendra was having Pharsa, Kapil Deo and Tej Bahadur were having Lathis and Kaushal Kishore was having knife.Raising exhortation, itadha Mohan inflicted spear blow on Hira Singh, Devendra Singh inflicted Pharsa blow on him.When Ganesh (PW 1) rushed to save his brother Kapil Deo and Tej Bahadur assaulted him with Lathi.When the witnesses tried to intervene, Kaushal Kishore appellant inflicted knife blow on him, which hit on his hand.Kapil Deo and Tej Bahadur inflicted Lathi blows on Ram Pyari, who sustained injuries.Nand Kishore (PW 5) Ram Jee (PW 4) and Jagdish Singh also came to the spot and then the appellants ran towards east.Ganesh Singh (PW 1) and Hira Singh were taken to hospital.He and Ram Jee went to hospital on next day, where they were medically examined.Ram Jee Singh (PW 4) stated that on the date of occurrence at about sun set, he reached at the house of Nand Kishore to meet him.He heard alarm from the Gali towards east of the house of Nand Kishore and went there.There he saw that Radha Mohan, Mutuk Singh, (Devendra Singh) Tej Bahadur, Kapil Deo Singh and Kaushal Kishore Singh appellants were assaulting Hira Singh.Radha Mohan was having spear, Mutuk Singh was having Pharsa, Kapil Deo and Tej Bahadur Singh were having Lathis and Kaushal Kishore Singh was having knife.Radha Mohan and Mutuk Singh had assaulted Hira Singh.Ganesh Singh (PW 1) was assaulted by Kapil Deo and Tej Bahadur.Kaushal Singh had inflicted knife blow on Mohan (PW 3) and Kapil Deo Singh had inflicted Lathi blow on Ram Pyari (PW 6).Besides him Nand Kishore (PW 5) and Jagdish Singh had also reached the spot and seeing them, the appellants ran away.Nand Kishore (PW 5) stated that on the date of occurrence, Hira Singh was murdered and Ganesh Singh was assaulted.But he did not know whether Mohan and Ram Pyari were also assaulted.He came to know about the occurrence when he returned to his house and had not seen the actual assault.The witness was declared hostile by the prosecution.Ram Pyari (PW 6) stated that he had not seen the occurrence.He was also declared hostile.The motive alleged in the F.I'.R. was that the appellants had old enmity with Ganesh Singh (PW 1) and the deceased, regarding litigations and village party Bandi.The appellants were always tiying to suppress Ganesh Singh (PW 1) and the deceased.In his evidence Ganesh Singh (PW 1) stated that prior to 5 days of the occurrence Radha Mohan, Kaushal Kishore appellants and others had assaulted one Udai Narain of his village and he was witness of the prosecution of the said assault.Radha Mohan and others were pressurizing him not to become witness in the said case.But he was not acceding to their pressure.On the date of occurrence, the appellants Radha Mohan and Kaushal Kishore again asked Hira Singh deceased to persuade his brother not to give evidence against them.Hira Singh refused and on it, they threatened him to teach a lesson.Enmity beween the parties is not disputed.It is also clear from the cross-examination of Ganesh Singh (PW 1) that Sudama Singh and his wife had initiated a criminal case of Marpit against Ganesh Singh (PW 1) and his brothers, in which father of appellant Mutuk Singh was witness.There was also a civil litigation between Sudama Singh and Ram Jee Singh, in which Sachchida Singh, father of Mutuk Singh was witness.Another criminal case was initiated against Mutuk Singh and his father, in which Ganesh Singh (PW 1) was cited as a witness.It was also suggested on behalf of the appellants to Ganesh Singh (PW 1) that besides him, Ram Jee Singh and Mahabir were also witnesses in the case of assault on Udai Narain.The appellants had also admitted in their statement under Section 313, Cr.P.C. that they were falsely implicated on account of enmity.Therefore, enmity between the parties is not disputed.However, the fact that Ganesh Singh (PW 1) was witness in the case of assault on Udai Narain against appellants Radha Mohan and others is not mentioned in the F.I.R. but it is admitted to appellants that Ganesh Singh (PW 1) was witness in the case of assault on Udai Narain, but they had not assaulted.Therefore, it cannot be said that the factum of assault by appellant.Radha Mohan and others on Udai Narain and Ganesh Singh (PW 1) being witness of the prosecution in the said case was introduced for the first time.Ganesh Singh (PW 1) was interrogated in the said case by the I.O. prior to the date of occurrence.Though there was no date of evidence in the Court in near future, but there is no evidence on record to show that charge-sheet was not submitted in the case.There is also no evidence on record to show that a final report was submitted in the said case.In case the police had interrogated Ganesh Singh (PW 1) in the said case of assault on Udai Narain, it had given apprehension to the appellants that he would appear as witness against them in the Court also and in these circumstances they had to take every steps to win him over, so that they could not be punished in the said case.It was further contended that in case Ganesh Singh (PW 1) was witness against the appellants, the appellants had no occasion to pressurize his brother Hira Singh, who was residing at Calcutta and had come to his village for a short period and as such there was no motive against Hira Singh.There appears no force in the above contention.Admittedly Hira Singh was elder brother of Ganesh Singh (PW 1).If Ganesh Singh (PW 1) was not conceding to the pressure of appellants, the appellants in all probabilities had thought it proper to ask his elder brother, who had come to village, to pressurize him in this regard and when Hira Singh also did not agree to their proposal, it was but natural for the appellants to teach him a lesson.There is also evidence on record that the appellants were influential persons of the village and persistence of Ganesh Singh (PW 1) and his brother Hira Singh deceased to give evidence against them would have badly hurt their ego and they would have decided to teach a lesson to them.Even that apart, in this case ample materials are on record to show that the family of the appellants and the deceased were not in good terms and had strained relationship over civil and criminal litigations which itself is more than sufficient to constitute the motive as well.Moreover, in this case there is direct witness and therefore the motive element does not play such an important role as to cast any doubt on the credibility of the prosecution witness even if there be any doubt in this regard.Therefore, the motive alleged by the prosecution was probable and immediate.The omission regarding above motive in the F.I.R. is not very much material firstly; because the facturn of Ganesh Singh (PW 1) being a witness in the case of assault on Udai Naraln is admitted and the facts and circumstances in which the report was lodged there was every possibility that informant would have not.thought it necessary to mention this motive in detail in the F.I.R and therefore, the omission of this motive Is not very much material and it cannot be said that this motive was subsequently introduced.The occurrence in this case allegedly took place at about sun set and the F.I.R. was lodged at 10.30 p.m., while the distance of police station was only 6 miles (10 Km.).The learned counsel for the appellants contended that there was delay in lodging the report.It is clear from the evidence of Ganesh Singh (PW 1) and other ocular witnesses that occurrence took place at about sun set.Hira Singh deceased had sustained spear and pharsa injuries in the incident and after the occurrence a Charpai was arranged on which the deceased was brought up to Bandh and from there he was taken to District Hospital, Ballia in a tempo.The deceased as well as Ganesh Singh (PW 1) were medically examined in the District Hospital at 9 p.m. and 9.50 p.m. respectively and thereafter Ganesh Singh (PW 1) came to police station, where he got prepared the report and lodged the same.It was clarified by Ganesh Singh (PW 1) in his evidence that though buses for Ballia were available at the Bandh, but on the date of occurrence it was Holi festival and therefore, no bus or rickshaw was plying.It was also clarified that there were many rickshaws and tempos in his village, but on account of Holi festival,.no rickshaw or tempo was available.That he had to wait for tempo at the Bandh for about 2 hours.He further clarified that he along with his brother reached District Hospital, Ballia near about 9 p.m. Thus, the non availability of rickshaw and tempo in the village of occurrence has been fully explained.is a matter of common experience that on.Holi festival rickshaw pullers and tempo drivers are busy in celebrating festival and they do not ply their rickshaw and tempo on said day.Thus, the circumstances in which informant Ganesh Singh (PW 1) and deceased Hira Singh were brought to District Hospital and thereafter,' report was lodged, the delay, if any, has been fully explained.The learned counsel for the appellants pointed out that the explanation offered by Ganesh Singh (PW 1) does not appear correct, as according to the witness, the distance of Bandh from the place of occurrence is only about 500 yards and the informant must have reached there at about 6.30 p.m. and it is also admitted to him that distance of police station was only 7 miles and therefore, this distance could have been covered within half an hour.But no inference can be drawn simply by picking up certain sentence from the evidence of a witness.The witnesses are villagers.They stated timing on their speculation and there could be some difference in the timing given by such type of witnesses.Method of mathematical calculation cannot be applied on these witnesses and therefore, by applying mathematical formula the testimony of above witnesses on the point of explanation of delay in lodging the report cannot be disbelieved.As mentioned above, it has also been fully explained by Ganesh Singh (PW 1) as to why he had to wait for about 2 hours for conveyance at the Bandh.Therefore, there is no force in the above contention.The next contention of the learned counsel for the appellants was that the occurrence had taken place in the darkness and nobody had seen the assault.In the F.I.R. the time of occurrence is given at about sun set.Ganesh Singh (PW 1) has stated in his evidence that the occurrence took place at about sun set, while he along with his brother Hira Singh and Mohan (PW 3) and Ram Pyari (PW 6) were proceeding towards the house of Nand Kishore (PW 5).Mohan Yadav (PW 3) also stated in his examination -in-chief that the occurrence took place in the evening.In his cross-examination, he stated that Hira Singh and Ganesh Singh (PW 1) came to the house of Nand Kishore (PW 5) prior to one hour of the sun set.However, his cross-examination was deferred for next day and in his next day's cross-examination he stated that sun had set pior to one and half hour, of the occurrence.However, the witness was declared hostile by the prosecution and was cross- examined.Ram Jee Singh (PW 4) also stated in his examination in-chief that occurrence took place at about sun set, Nand Kishore (PW 5) and Ram Pyari (PW 6) have not supported prosecution case and were declared hostile.Ram Pyari (PW 6) stated that occurrence took place in the night and three Gharis night had passed when the occurrence took place.On the basis of above evidence it was contended that occurrence took place in the darkness.It is relevant to mention at this stage that Mohan (PW 3) changed his previous version about time of occurrence in his cross-examination of next day, and therefore, the possibility that by next day, he was won over and pressurized by the appellants cannot be easily ruled out.Ram Pyari (PW 6) though injured witness had not supported the prosecution case and he was declared hostile.But the Court has at least to be aware that prima facie, a witness who makes different statements at different times has no regard for truth.His evidence has to be read and considered as a whole with a view to find out whether any weight should be attached to the same.The Court should be slow to act on the testimony of such a witness and, normally, it should look for corroboration to his evidence.The High Court has accepted the testimony of the hostile witnesses as gospel truth for throwing overboard the prosecution case which had been fully established by the testimony of several eye-witnesses, which was of unimpeachable character.The approach of the High Court, in dealing with the case, to say the least, is wholly fallacious."If the evidence of Mohan (P. W. 3) is considered as a whole, it would appear that he is an injured witness and sustained injuries in the same transaction and had also supported the case of the prosecution in his earlier statement.As held above, the possibility that after first day's cross-examination, witness was pressurized and was won over can also not.be ruled out.The perusal of entire evidence of the witness shows that he had corroborated the testimony of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1).The learned counsel for the appellants further contended that Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) has admitted In his cross-examination that he started from his house for meeting people on Holi festival at 4.30-5 p.m. That he visited about 10 houses.That he spent about 1 or 2 minutes at each house and it took about 2 hours and therefore, he could not reach the place of occurrence prior to 6.30 or 7 p.m. Having considered the evidence of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) I find that above contention is not correct.The witness stated that he started from the house of Nand Kishore (P.W. 5) at about 4.30-5 p.m. He denied the suggestion of appellants that it took about 2 hours to complete the visit.Further, he stated that he returned within 1 1/2 hours.He also stated that there was no singing at the houses which he visited and thus in all probabilities he returned and reached the place of occurrence at about 6.15 p.m. In the months of March when the occurrence took place sun sets at about 6 p.m. and there is twilight for about 30 minutes after sun sets and therefore at the time of occurrence there was sufficient light.It is not disputed that the appellants and the witnesses are of the same village and the appellants were well known to the witnesses.It is also not disputed that occurrence had taken place on the day of Holi festival.Holi occurs on succeeding day of Purnima (full moon night) and on that day, the moon rises just after the sun set.The occurrence had taken place at about sun set and the report was lodged at 10.30 p.m. Informant Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) has explained that after the occurrence arrangement for a Charpai was made and deceased Hira Singh, who was in injured condition was brought up to Bandh on the said Charpai.There they waited for conveyance for about 2 hours and then got tempo and reached the hospital.After medical examination of the deceased and the informant he went to polfs.e station, got prepared the report and lodged the same.The evidence of Shamsher Singh, Head Constable (P.W. 9) shows that the informant Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) handed overwritten report (Ext. Ka 1) at the police station at 10.30 p.m. on the basis of which he prepared a chik, FIR and made an endorsement of the same at the G.D. report.The evidence of Dr. M.A.R. Siddiqui (P.W. 2) shows that Hira Singh was examined at 9 p.m. and Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) was examined at 9.50 p.m. Informant Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) went to police station after his medical examination.Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) stated that it took about 30 minutes to get the FIR prepared.Thus, in all probabilities, the report would have been lodged at 10.30 p.m. It is also established from the evidence of Shamsher Singh, Head Constable (P.W. 9) that after lodging of the report, a memo was received from the hospital at 10.35 p.m. regarding admission of Hira Singh in hospital and another memo was received at 12.10 p.m. regarding death of Hira Singh deceased, on the basis of which the case was altered under Section 302, IPC, vide G. D. report (Ext. Ka-21).He further stated in his cross-examination that special report of the case was sent at 3.10 a.m. through Constable Nagina Ram, who returned back at the police station at 7.15 a.m. The special report was probably sent after altering the case under Section 302, IPC.The case was altered under Section 302, IPC at 00.10 a.m. and some time must have been taken in preparing special report, deploying constable and sending the same.Sending special report at 3.10 a.m. suggests that FIR was lodged at the time alleged by the prosecution.The learned counsel for the appellants contended that informant Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) was medically examined at 9.50 p.m. and thereafter he came to police station Kotwali; that Police Station Kotwali is at a considerable distance from the hospital and therefore, no report could be registered at 10.30 p.m. at the instance of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1), who admitted that it took about 30 minutes in preparation of the report.There is no evidence on record to show that P.S. Kotwali, Ballia is at a considerable distance from District Hospital, Ballia.The distance between hospital and police station has not been elicited from any of the witness.Judicial notice be taken of the fact that Ballia is a small city and without any evidence regarding above distance, it cannot be inferred that police station Kotwali is at a considerable distance from the hospital.In small cities like Ballia the distance of Kotwali could be covered within 10 or 15 minutes.Therefore, there is no force
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he further stated that sending of G. D. report and chik
FIR along with inquest report is not necessary
the lodging of the report at 10.30 p.m. cannot be doubted
as the special report was sent in the same night at 3.10 a.m. No clarification was sought from Sub-Inspector Ram Sabad Singh (P.W. 7) as to how and under what circumstances interpolations were made in Sections of the crime in the inquest report.Unless clarification is sought
it cannot be said that Sub- Inspector Ram Sahad Singh (P.W. 7) himself had made interpolation.Therefore
on this basis
it cannot be said that FIR was not lodged at the time alleged by the prosecution and it was not in existence till the preparation of inquest report.Thus
from the above evidence and discussions it is clear that the FIR was lodged at the time alleged by the prosecution and there was no ante timing.To substantiate the manner of occurrence and complicity of appellants
the prosecution has relied on ocular testimony of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1)
Mohan (P.W. 3)
Ram Jee Singh (P.W. 4)
Nand Kishore (P.W. 5) and Ram Pyari (P.W. 6).Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) is the complainant and real brother of the deceased.He claimed that at the time of occurrence
he along with his elder brother Hira Singh deceased was returning to his house after meeting the people of the village on the occasion of Holi and when he and the deceased reached near the house of Nand Kishore at about sun set
the occurrence took place.In his statement the witness had given each and every detail of the occurrence
weapon possessed by each of the appellants and role played by each of them.He is also injured witness and his injuries were examined just after examination of injuries of the deceased at 9.50 p.m. in the same night.He had also taken deceased up to the hospital.He went to the police station and lodged the report.The witness has categorically stated that while appellants Radha Mohan was inflicting spear blow on the deceased
he tried to save him and then appellant Tej Bahadur Singh and Kapil Deo Singh inflicted Lathi blows on him.The injuries sustained by witness
as stated by Dr. M.A.R. Siddiqui (P.W. 2) were lacerated wounds and contusions and contused swelling.Dr. Siddiqui stated that these injuries were caused by blunt object except injury No. 3
which was caused by friction.The above medical evidence supports the evidence of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1).The duration of injuries of the witness and that of Hira Singh are the same.Thus
it is established that witness sustained injuries in the same transaction
in which the deceased sustained injuries.The injuries on the person of the witness in the same transaction confirms his presence on the spot.As held above
there was sufficient light and opportunity for the witness to recognize the assailants
who were known to him from before.It was pointed out by the learned counsel for the appellant that the witness stated in his cross-examination that when the assailants came near him
he recognized them and it shows that he could not see the role of each accused.The word ""Najdik"" occurring in the statement of the witness has not been got clarified.It may be 10 paces or 2 paces.No doubt
the witness is close relative of the deceased
but this is no ground to discard his testimony.It was also contended that the witness was inimical with the appellants and therefore the accused persons were nominated on account of suspicion due to pre-existing enmity.Enmity between the parties is admitted.In this case
as held above
enmity was motive for committing the murder of the deceased and assault on the witness.As held above
there was sufficient light and witness has full opportunity to recognize the assailants and therefore
there was no question naming the appellants on account of suspicion alone.It was further contended that the witness had made certain subsequent developments in his statement
as he had not mentioned in the FIR regarding going to village along with the deceased to meet people as well as threat given by the appellants to Hira Singh.No doubt
the above facts do not find place in the FIR but this omission is not very much material.FIR is not encyclopedia of evidence of the prosecution and only gist of the occurrence is mentioned in the FIR to move the police machinery in motion.At the time of lodging of the FIR the brother of the witness was admitted in hospital in precarious condition and he had also sustained injuries and in such circumstances it was not possible for the witness to give each and every detail of the prosecution story in the FIR.The place of occurrence has been mentioned in the FIR and it is supported by the evidence of I.O. Ram Sabad Singh (P.W. 7)
but found blood and trodden earth at the spot.The place of occurrence has also not been seriously disputed.It was further contended that Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) stated that during course of Marpit appellant Kaushal Kishore inflicted knife blow on Mohan (P.W. 3) and the latter caught hold the knife
but the medical evidence of Dr. S. P. Singh (P.W. 11) and injury report of Mohan shows that he had sustained lacerated wounds and no incised wound.The witness has stated in his cross examination that Mohan had caught hold knife
but he could not snatch it.There is nothing on record to show that knife was pulled.While Mohan had caught hold and in case the knife is not pulled in such a way
it could not cause incised wound.The lacerated wounds of Mohan (P.W-3) were on left middle finger and left ring finger.Therefore
in all probabilities
these injuries were caused when he had caught hold knife.Therefore
on this ground
the testimony of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) cannot be discarded.The learned counsel for the appellants contended that according to evidence of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) deceased was assaulted with spear and Pharsa but his injury report and evidence of Dr. M.A.R. Siddiqui (P.W. 2) shows that deceaed had sustained only two incised wounds and no punctured
penetrating or stab wound and there was no spear injury.Therefore
evidence of Ganesh Singh is contradictory to medical evidence.This contention bears no force in view of evidence of Dr. Prem Prakash (P.W. 10) and postmortem report.Dr. Siddiqui (P.W. 2) described injury No. 2 as incised wound 3x2 cm x bone deep on left side chest.Dr. Prem Prakash (P.W. 10) stated that ante-mortem injury No. 21 was stitched wound 3 cm.long on left side chest.He found that on removal of stitches there was a stab wound 3x2 cm x chest cavity deep on left side of front of chest 1 cm below clavicle and 5 cm.below to mid line.Margins of wound were well defined.It is therefore clear that from outer appearance injury No. 2 of injury report corresponding to injury No. 1 of post mortem report resembled as incised wound
but in fact it was a stab wound.Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) had stated in his cross-examination that blade of spear was about 3 Anguls (about 1xh inches) wide.It means that spear had pointed as well as sharp edge and therefore it caused incised as well as stab wound.Therefore
one injury of the deceased was caused by spear.Thus
the evidence of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) is in conformity with medical evidence.The evidence of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) also finds corroboration from medical evidence
FIR and other circumstances of the case referred to above.Therefore
his evidence is clear
cogent and trust worthy.As mentioned above
the witness had given each and every detail of the occurrence in his examination-in-chief as well as in the cross-examination of first day.However
when he was cross-examined on next day
he stated that due to darkness he could not see whether Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) had fallen down or not.He also stated that there was complete darkness at the time of occurrence and he could not recognize the assailants.But as mentioned above
the evidence of witness cannot be discarded in toto simply because he was declared hostile.A perusal of entire evidence of the witness shows that on the next day
he was made to say something in favour of appellants
as he appears to have been won over.The subsequent evidence of the witness that there was complete darkness on the spot is totally belied by the fact that the night of occurrence was moon lit night and occurrence had taken in the open place and therefore
there was no question of pitch dark.The assailants were also known persons to the witness.He had also sustained injuries and presence of the witness on the spot cannot be doubted and his subsequent statement was due to influence of appellants and therefore
entire testimony of the witness cannot be discarded on this ground.It was further contended by the learned counsel for the appellants that the injuries of the witness do not support that he was assaulted with knife.As mentioned above the witness stated that he had caught hold edged portion of the knife
but he clarified that Kaushal Kishore suddenly snatched the knife and in these circumstances
lacerated injuries were caused on his left middle and ring fingers.The learned counsel for the appellants contended that injuries of Mohan (P.W. 3) were examined on next day i.e. 15- 3-1979 and it indicates that his injuries were subsequently prepared to make him an eyewitness.The I. O. Sheo Shankar Singh (P.W. 8) clarified that he interrogated Mohan (P.W. 3) on next day and since he had sustained injuries he sent him for medical examination.The injuries of the witness were not serious and being Holi festival if the witness did not go to hospital in the night of occurrence
no adverse inference can be drawn and considering duration of his injuries it cannot be said that his injuries were prepared subsequently.Therefore
the evidence of Mohan (P.W. 3) to the extent he corroborated prosecution story is believable.The next witness is Ram Jee Singh (P.W. 4).The trial Court had not relied on the testimony of this witness on the ground that he had enmity with the appellants
his house was at some distance and therefore he was a chance witness and that there were discrepancies between his statement under Section 161
Cr.P.C. and given in the Court.It is true that the witness had some enmity with the appellants and he had also his house at some distance.But the witness has given plausible explanation for his presence on the spot.The discrepancies between his statement under Section 161
Cr.P.C. and in the Court are not very much material.Though he had not sustained any injury
but he cannot be termed a chance witness.The name of the witness finds place in the FIR.Even that apart the prosecution story is established from other eye-witnesses referred to above.The other two witnesses of the occurrence namely Nand Kishore (P.W. 5) and Ram Pyari (P.W. 6) have not supported the prosecution story and therefore their evidence is of no avail.It was further contended by the learned counsel for the apellants that on the date of occurrence some children of Hindu community had thrown colour on Sageer and Meer Hasan
members of Muslim community and on account of it
some altercation had taken place and it appears that Hira Singh deceased and other injured had sustained injuries in the above altercation.Having considered the evidence on record I find no force in the above contention.The appellants had nowhere stated in their statements under Section 313
Cr.P.C. that Hira Singh deceased and other injured witness sustained injuries in the Marpit between Hindu and Muslim communities.A half hearted suggestion was given to Mohan (P.W. 3) that children of the family of Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) had thrown coloured water on Sageer and Meer Hasan in which some altercation (Jhanjhat) had taken place.But there is no suggestion that either Hira Singh or any other injured sustained injuries in the said altercation.There is also no evidence to prove this fact.It has also not been clarified that the above altercation took place at the time of occurrence or prior to it.Therefore
above alleged altercation cannot be linked with the occurrence of this case and it cannot be said that Hira Singh and other injured sustained injuries in the said altercation.Had it been so
Ganesh Singh (P.W. 1) informant
the real brother of the deceased
would have not spared the real assailants.It is true that the fatal injuries on the deceased was caused by Radha Mohan and Devendra alias Mutuk Singh by spear and Pharsa respectively and deceased had not sustained any other injuries
but the evidence on record shows that all the appellants had simultaneously come to the spot armed with various weapons and had caused injuries from their respective weapons to the deceased and other injured.Therefore
there was active participation by all the appellants and they had shared common object to unlawful assembly
to which they were members.Therefore
the appellants were rightly convicted and sentenced under various Sections with the aid of Section 149
IPC.Thus
the guilt of all the appellants have been established and they were rightly convicted and sentenced by the Trial Court."
['Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 313 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 392 in The Indian Penal Code']
Analyze the legal case and identify the corresponding section it comes under.
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1. Admit.Heard forthwith with the consent of the learned counsel for respective parties.The applicants pray for to quash and set aside the order dated 29/07/2011 passed by the learned J. M F C Court no 2, Chandur Bazaar under section 437(5) of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, in Crime No. 35 of 2011 whereby the bail granted earlier in favour of the applicants was cancelled.The court considered the application for cancellation on the ground that there was complaint as to violation of the bail order as they were not to enter village Kharpi till the filing of the charge-sheet by the Shirasgaon Police in the case.The court found the ground pleaded by the complainant as doubtful and without merits.But on the ground that the offence appeared serious punishable with imprisonment for life, the court decided to cancel the bail.The applicants prayed, in the alternative, for the order of anticipatory bail.3. Heard submissions at the Bar.The facts appear as under :-::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 :::FIR No. 35 of 2011 was lodged on 02/07/2011 at Shirasgaon Police Station in District Amravati by first informant Sheikh Sattar Sheikh Karim under section 324,147,148,149 of the IPC against applicants on the ground that they had raised quarrel over the boundary of the agricultural field and the access road and assaulted first informant, and family members by means of axe, iron pipe,and sticks.Learned JMFC, Chandur Bazaar was pleased to grant conditional bail in favour of the applicants upon execution of bond in the sum of Rs 15000/- and furnishing a solvent surety by each of them and a conditions were added that they will not enter Kharpi village till the filing of the charge-sheet in the case and shall not tamper with evidence.Warning was given that if they enter in the Kharpi village till the charge sheet is filed, their bail shall be cancelled.After recording supplementary statement and perusal of the C.T. Scan, medical document and certificate as to the nature of the injury caused to head of the first informant, on 19/07 2011 section 307 IPC was introduced in the accusations made earlier.Police sought to arrest the accused again for investigation and prayed for to cancel the bail granted earlier.The first informant applied for cancellation of the bail on the ground that the offence is serious, punishable with life imprisonment and alleged that the accused have managed the police to register simple offence under ::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 ::: 4 section 324 of the IPC instead of under section 307 of IPC and further on the ground that the accused gave threat to kill complainant and his relatives.However the first informant failed to substantiate the grounds pleaded by him.Heavy reliance is placed for the applicants upon the ruling of the Supreme Court in Dolat Ram v. State of Haryana: (1995) 1 SCC 349 in which it is held as under:-::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 :::Rejection of bail in a non-bailable case at the initial stage and the cancellation of bail so granted, have to be considered and dealt with on different basis.Very cogent and overwhelming circumstances are necessary for an order directing the cancellation of the bail, already granted.Generally speaking, the grounds for cancellation of bail, broadly (illustrative and not exhaustive) are:interference or attempt to interfere with the due course of administration of justice or evasion or attempt to evade the due course of justice or abuse of the concession granted to the accused in any manner.The satisfaction of the court, on the basis of material placed on the record of the possibility of the accused absconding is yet another reason justifying the cancellation of bail.However, bail once granted should not be cancelled in a mechanical manner without considering whether any supervening circumstances have rendered it no longer conducive to a fair trial to allow the accused to retain his freedom by enjoying the concession of bail during the trial."::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 :::However, bail granted illegally or improperly by a wrong, arbitrary exercise of judicial discretion can be cancelled even if there is absence of supervening circumstances.If there is no material to prove that the accused abused his freedom court may not cancel the bail.::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 :::In the present case, it would be pertinent to note that there was alteration in the penal provision as section 307 was invoked later instead of Section 324 of the I.P. C. but no city scan report was produced of alleged injury.The police did not ask for P.C.R. but had asked for M.C. R. Of the applicants which was granted, weapon of offence was already seized on the date of arrest of the applicants.At the same time, it is equally well settled that inherent power of the High Court can ordinarily be exercised when there is no express provision in the Code for redressal of grievance, but if there is equally effective and alternate remedy available and there is an express provision barring a particular remedy, the High Court should not resort to exercise of inherent power.::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 :::In my opinion in the present case mere alteration/addition of the aggravated penal provision was not by itself a sufficient, overwhelming ground to cancel the bail already granted particularly when the investigating officer did not specifically pressed for the police custody remand of the applicants for further investigation even after adding aggravated penal provision under Section 307 of the IPC.The impugned order of cancellation of the bail granted earlier to the applicants is therefore unsustainable and indefensible.No one shall be deprived of his personal liberty, which is most sacrosanct, on the bald ::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 ::: 8 premise.This is a proper case to interfere by exercising inherent power to secure the ends of justice.::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 :::The impugned orders of cancellation of the bail are therefore quashed and set aside.Upon surrender to the custody of the trial court and upon application for grant of bail, let the applicants be released on bail upon furnishing the personal bond in the sum of Rs 25,000/- with two or more solvent sureties to the satisfaction of the trial Court, to be provided in the equal sum by each of them.i) They shall attend the trial on each date of hearing and shall not tamper with the evidence in any manner.ii) They shall not commit any crime while on Bail.Application disposed of accordingly.JUDGE Sahare ::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 :::::: Downloaded on - 09/06/2013 17:58:12 :::
['Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 397 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard on this first application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on behalf of the petitioner Ram Singh in crime no. 4/2017 registered by P.S.-Hinouta, District-Chhatarpur (M.P.) under Sections 307, 353, 186, 212, 216/34 of I.P.C. and 25/27 of Arms Act.As per the prosecution case, on an information received from an informer on 4/03/17, the police party of P.S. Chandla reached the field of petitioner Ram Singh Pal to arrest Ramavtar Kewat, who carried an award on his head.When the police party conducted a raid, co-accused Ramavtar fired two shots from a .315 bore country-made pistol.Both the shots sailed over the head of the police personnel.The police force also fired in defence.However, Ramavtar managed to escape from the spot but Ram Singh was caught.A .315 bore loaded country-made pistol and a live cartridge was seized from his possession.He has been falsely implicated in the case.No policemen suffered a gun-shot injury in the incident.In fact, the police had woken up the petitioner who was sleeping in his field and had beaten him.He had sustained an injury to his head in the incident.Learned Panel Lawyer for the respondents on the other hand has opposed the bail application on the ground that four policemen have suffered simple injuries in the incident.the police failed to arrest the main accused Ramavtar in the case;the petitioner Ram Singh has no criminal antecedents; andthe petitioner has been in custody since 5/03/17;-in the opinion of this Court, petitioner deserves to be released on bail.Consequently, this first application under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on behalf of the petitioner Ram Singh is allowed.It is directed that the petitioner shall be released on bail on furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs. 60,000/- with one solvent surety in the same amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court for his appearance before that Court on all dates fixed in the case and for complying with the conditions enumerated under Section 437 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.C.C. as per rules.(C. V. Sirpurkar) Judge Vy/
['Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 353 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 186 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The applicant is law abiding person.If he is released on bail, he will never misuse his liberty, terms and conditions of bail and will co-operate in the trial.(iv) The applicant shall remain present before the trial court on each date fixed, either personally or through his counsel.(v) The applicant shall remain present, in person, before the trial court on the dates fixed for (i) opening of the case, (ii) framing of charge and (iii) recording of statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C (iv) argument/judgement.If in the opinion of the trial court, absence of the applicant is deliberate or without sufficient cause, then it shall be open for the trial court to treat such default as abuse of liberty of bail and proceed against him in accordance with law.Order Date :- 11.9.2019 Saurabh
['Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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http://www.judis.nic.in W.P.No.28512 of 2019 The present Writ Petition is filed to call for the records of the proceedings of the second respondent bearing Na.No.2961/ 2017/ H1, dated 26.07.2018 and quash the same.Thereafter, the second respondent had passed a suspension order on 13.11.2017, suspending her from service based on the allegation that an F.I.R. was registered against her on 13.11.2017 in Crime No.492/2017 under Sections 294(b), 406, 420 and 506(1) of IPC and hence, she was placed under suspension.Though she was suspended in the year 2017, however, till date the suspension order was not revoked, for which, the petitioner has come out with the present Writ Petition and prayed for appropriate orders.3.The learned counsel for the respondents would submit that the petitioner conducted an unregistered chit and collected huge money from the general public, for which the general public affected and she cheated the general public by collecting huge money without obtaining any approval from the Competent Authority.For which the police registered an F.I.R. against her in F.I.R. No.492/2017 under Sections 2/4http://www.judis.nic.in W.P.No.28512 of 2019 294(b), 406, 420 and 506(1) of IPC.Hence, the suspension order issued against the petitioner is valid and prayed for dismissal of the Writ Petition.4.Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and the limited request made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, this Court permits the petitioner to make a representation for revocation of suspension order and for payment of subsistence allowance, for which, the respondents may pass appropriate orders on merits.5.In the result, the Writ Petition is dismissed.No costs.Consequently, connected Miscellaneous Petitions are closed.2.The Commissioner, 3/4http://www.judis.nic.in W.P.No.28512 of 2019 Ranipettai Municipality, Ranipettai, Vellore District.
['Section 4 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294(b) in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 2 in The Indian Penal Code']
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These two appeals are directed against impugned judgment dated 08.04.2009 and subsequent order on sentence date 20.04.2009 delivered by Additional Sessions Judge, North East District, Delhi in case No. 50/2006, FIR No. 191/2002, P.S. Vivek Vihar, whereby the appellants Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet were convicted under Section 302 IPC and were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life, they were also convicted under Section 365 IPC and were sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for five years and pay a fine of Rs. 1000/- in default of which to undergo simple imprisonment for three months.Further, appellants Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet were also convicted under Section 201 IPC and were to undergo simple imprisonment for two years and pay a fine of Rs. 500/- in default of which to undergo simple imprisonment for one and a half months.Appellant Yunus was only convicted for an offence under Section 120 B IPC.In addition, Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet have also been sentenced under Section 120 B IPC and all three of them were to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life for offence under the abovementioned provision.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 2 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 2 of 51The facts as per the prosecutions case are that on 13.07.2002 one Laxman Dass informed the police that his younger brother Vijay Kumar (hereinafter referred to as the deceased) was missing, he said that 12.07.2002 at about 1:00 pm, his brother was to meet one person from Haridwar in the Meridian Hotel, Delhi but that meeting was not held and since then his brother was missing.During the investigation police interrogated Yunus the appellant herein, who stated that appellants Sapna and Satya Jeet had departed to Lucknow.The police contacted the Lucknow Railway police and both the accused persons were arrested at the Lucknow Police Station by the local Railway police at Lucknow.Thereafter, on 22.07.2002, both the accused persons were brought to Delhi by the Delhi Police officials.They made disclosure statements.Thereafter, it was discovered that the appellant Sapna was an employee of the deceased and had got the job on the recommendation of Satyajeet.It is alleged that the deceased used to sexually exploit appellant Sapna.Therefore, to take revenge, Sapna married Satyajeet with an under taking that both of them would kill the deceased Vijay kumar, therefore, both of appellants hatched a conspiracy and were joined by their co-accused Yunus, a friend of Satyajeet in their plan.It is alleged that appellant Yunus gave the CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 3 of 51 other appellants his mobile phone to be used with other SIM card and also provided them with a country made pistol (katta) which was used by them to kill the deceased.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 3 of 51As per the prosecution story, on 12.07.2002 accused Sapna enticed the deceased to come to meet her near the C.B.S.E. building at about 6:30 pm where they kept having fun for some time.Thereafter, both the accused persons, Satyajeet and Sapna accompanied the deceased in his car to Ghaziabad border where they purchased liquor and all of them started having it.Then Sapna administered sleeping pills in the liquor of the deceased and when he became unconscious they went to Dadri through Bulandshahar highway and on reaching a small canal, they tied him, then took him out and repeatedly hit him on his head with their country made pistol and then strangulated him to death with a string.They threw his body in that same canal with the help of one unknown passerby and left for Haridwar.For the next few days the accused persons kept fleeing from one place to another and during this time they were duly assisted and supported by the accused Yunus who at last after giving a sum of Rs. 1000/- made them board the train to Lucknow.On being arrested by the police, the accused Sapna and Satyajeet made their disclosure statements, Ex.PW 20/A and Ex.Pw CRL.(c) There is no legal evidence on record to hold that the appellant Yunus is responsible for the offence punishable under Section 120B IPC.(d) The appellant Yunus had denied the suggestion for providing the country-made pistol to the other two accused, as there was no reason to do so.Admittedly, as per the CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 7 of 51 report of the ballistics expert, the said pistol was not in a working condition.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 7 of 51(e) The disclosure statements of accused Sapna Talwar, Satyajeet @ Lovely being inadmissible in law cannot be considered, unless independent corroboration is provided by the prosecution.(f) The mobile phone alleged to have been provided by the present appellant also has no concern with the crime, as the same has not been proved to have been used by the co- accused.PW -4 Vishal Rajpal : Deceased was his uncle.PW -5 Momim : He is allegedly known to the accused Satyajeet and on 16.07.02 latter requests him that his family members had ousted him and his wife Sapna.PW -6 Ashok Rana : He is the friend of Vijay Bajaj and on 12.07.02 in the afternoon he allegedly saw a girl (Sapna) who sat in the car of Vijay Bajaj at petrol pump, Dilshad Garden.PW -7 Sushil Sharma : Deceased was his class fellow.PW -8 Ms. Vineeta Bajaj : She is the wife of deceased Vijay Bajaj.PW -10 Gyan Singh : On 17.07.02 accused Satyajeet and Sapna allegedly stayed in his lodge.PW -11 Anil Kumar (Manager) : On 14.07.02 Accused Satyajeet and Sapna allegedly stayed in his hotel Pelican, D-1, Patel Nagar-II, Ghaziabad.PW -12 Manoj Kumar : In his presence Vishal and Ramesh allegedly identified the clothes of the deceased in PS Jarcha.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 9 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 9 of 51PW -14 Ramesh Kumar : He is an employee in the company of the deceased .PW -16 Sanjeev Kumar : Deceased was his maternal uncle.PW -17 R.K. Singh, Nodal Officer, Bharti Airtel.PW -18 Ct. Satpal Tyagi : He handed over zero FIR, statement of complainant and copy of DD No.29 A to the duty officer of PS Vivek Vihar.PW-19 Shiv Ram Giri : He is the owner of Shiv Chhaya Guest House, Haridwar where accused Satyajeet and Sapna allegedly stayed in the name of Surender Singh and Paramjeet Kaur on 13.07.02 and left the same on 14.07.02 at 7.00 am.PW-20 HC Yogender Singh : On 21.07.02 he alongwith IO SI Yasbeer Singh, SI Anand Swaroop, Lady HC Chammo Khan went to Lucknow Jail for investigatin of this case.PW-21 Ct.Preetam Singh : On 21.07.02 he joined the investigation and went to Hindon Mortuary, Ghaziabad alongwith IO SI Yasbeer Tyagi.PW -22 HC Satyaver Singh : In the intervening night of 13 and 14, July 2002 he was posted as duty officer in PS Vivek Vihar and received the copy of zero FIR registered in PS Mansarowar Park through SI Anwar.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 10 of 51 PW -23 Ct.Pushpa Singh : On 19.07.02 She was posted in PS GRP Char Bagh, Lucknow where she along with SI R.B. Singh and Ct.Neeru Shukla searched the accused persons at Charbagh railway station.PW -24 Ct.Neeru Shukla ...Do...A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 10 of 51PW -25 Ct.Krishan Bihari Chaubey ...do... PW -26 SI Ranjeet Prasad Diwakar ...do... PW -27 SI Brijpal Singh PS Khanpur, District Bullandshahar, UP : On 16.07.02 he was posted in PS Jharcha and complainant Raj Kumar came to his PS and gave a written information about dead body of an unknown person lying near a drain at Veerpura.He prepared a panchnama Ex.PW-27/A and seized the shirt and shoes of the deceased and also seized the dead body in a cloth pullanda and got the dead body photographed.PW -28 SI Yashbir Singh : On 14.07.02 he took up the investigation of this case and on 23.07.02 the investigation of this case was transferred from him.PW -29 Kallu (hostile): He is the father of accused Yunus.PW -30 Sri Bhagwan Singh : He is the owner of parking slot at Har ki Paudi, Haridwar where the accused allegedly parked their vehicle i.e. Maruti Zen against a slip.PW -31 SI Mahesh Kumar : Draftsman PW -32 Mohd Islam : He was the compounder in Haq Medical Centre from where accused Sapna Talwar allegedly got the tablets of Diazepam.PW -33 Tara Singh (hostile): He is the owner of medical store situated at S-2, Anupam Apartment, Shop No.4, Vrindavan Garden, Sahibabad.On 25.07.02 CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 11 of 51 accused Sapna allegedly purchased 10 tablets of Diazepam and one injection (calmpose) and one syringe.PW -34 SI Dharampal Singh : On 19.07.02 he was posted in PS GRP, Charbagh, Lucknow and searched for the accused persons there.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 11 of 51PW -35 Raj Kumar : On 16.07.02 he intimated in PS Jharcha about the dead body lying in the drain near an exhaust water pipe.PW -36 Ashok : On 16.07.02 on the direction of police he brought out the dead body from the drain and signed the panchnama Ex.PW26/A.PW-37 HC Gurnam Singh : On 24.09.02 he deposited the six sealed pullandas to MHCm.PW -38 Akhtar : On 16.07.02 he signed the panchnama of dead body Ex.PW-26/A.PW -39 SI Rishi Ram : On 19.07.02 he was posted as Head Moharrir in PS Kotwali, Haridwar.On that day SI N.P. Singh deposited one Maruti Zen car with him.On 24.07.02 IO came to him with the accused persons and seized the said car vide seizure memo Ex.PW28/C. PW-40 SI R.B. Singh : He was the (thana prabhari) PS GRP, Char Bagh, Lucknow.He arrested the accused Sapna and Satyajeet there and seized one wrist watch, one sim card and cash Rs.6200/-.PW-41 Ct.Jai Prakash : On 16.07.02 he was posted in PS Jharcha and at about 1-1.30 pm one Raj Kumar came to him and informed about one dead body lying in a culvert near village Veerpura.PW -42 HC Chammo Khan : On 21.07.02 he alongwith SI Yashbir Singh, HC Yogender, SI Anand Swaroop went to GRP railway station, Lucknow and arrested both accused persons who were already in the Lucknow Jail.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 12 of 51 PW-43 HC Hira Lal MHC(M), who deposed that on 21.07.2002 he made several entries with regard to depositing of pullandahs and the Maruti Car in the Malkhana.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 12 of 51PW-48 Ct.Om Pal Singh : On 16.07.02 he was posted in PS Jharcha and an information was received in said PS that one dead body was lying in a drain.Thereafter, he along with HC Brijpal, Ct.Jai Prakash went to that place.The dead body was taken out and got photographed.Satpal Tyagi who was posted in Police Station MS Park, registered the Zero FIR and also recorded the statement of the complainant, i.e. PW-3 the elder brother of the deceased.DD No.29A was also registered.(b) In his statement recorded before the Court, PW-3 deposed that on 12.07.2002 his younger brother Vijay Bajaj had gone to market for business.He was also supposed to accompany him, but he could not accompany him as he had to attend the Kirya of the mother of his friend.His brother had gone to collect money from 5-6 persons.The last person was Manoj Jain of Shivalik Pharmaceuticals, Haridwar who was to meet his brother at Hotel Maridian, Delhi.At about 5.15 p.m. his brother rang up and informed that Manoj had not come to the hotel.During the night, the other brothers came to know that the deceased Vijay Bajaj had not returned.He lodged the report Ex.His apprehension was that his brother had been kidnapped.PW-6Ashok Rana deposed that he is running the business under the name and style of Rana Tours and Travels at Balbir Nagar, Shahdara.He knew Sushil Sharma who is residing near to his house.He was on friendly terms with Vijay Bajaj.He knew Vijay Bajaj for the last about 7-8 years prior to his death.On 12.07.2002 in the afternoon, while he was going to UP Border and on the way at the petrol pump, Dilshad Garden, he saw Vijay Bajaj had made one girl to sit in his car and then he left.Sushil Sharma PW-7 made a statement that he knew Vijay Bajaj being his class-fellow.On 12.07.2002 at about 1.30/2.00 p.m. he and Ashok were on the motor-cycle and following the car of Vijay Bajaj who gave lift in his car to a girl at Dilshad Garden near Petrol Pump and then they left.PW-15 Vikrant Arora who is the friend of the deceased Vijay Bajaj since college days, deposed that on 12.07.2002 at about 7.00 p.m. he received a telephone call from the mobile phone of the deceased Vijay Bajaj who requested him for his car stating that his (Vijay Bajaj) car had broken up being heated up and he was present at Vivek Vihar itself.At this, he told Vijay Bajaj to go to his house and pick up his car.However, on his return, he found that the deceased did not come to his house to pick up his car.PW-14 CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 14 of 51 Ramesh Kumar Sharma who is the last seen witness before the death of the deceased as per the case of the prosecution has deposed that he has been working as an Accountant for the last about 8-9 years with Sheetal Bottle Glass Company.On 12.07.2002 at about 8.00/8.15 p.m. when the bus by which he was travelling, was stopped at the red light of Surya Nagar, he was standing on the footrest of the bus, he noticed that vehicle of the deceased Vijay Bajaj was also standing on the red light of Surya Nagar.Vijay Bajaj was having his Zen Maruti Car bearing No.In that car, Vijay was sitting on the driver seat and on the back seat, one lady was sitting and near the driver seat one boy was also sitting in that car.He asked from Vijay as to whether he was going to his house, then he replied that he was going to somewhere else.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 14 of 51(c) PW-30 Sri Bhagwan Singh who was managing Pantdeep Parking Slot situated at Har ki Paudi at Haridwar, has deposed that on 13.07.2002 at about 7.00 a.m., a Maruti Zen blue colour Car came to in that parking slot and it was parked there against a slip issued by him.However, nobody came there to claim the said vehicle back for 5-6 days.One man and a lady had parked the said car there.After about 15 days, the police came to him for investigation and both the above said persons who had parked that vehicle were also with the police.The police recorded his statement after interrogation.PW-11 Anil Kumar deposed that he was the Manager of Hotel Pelican.On 14.07.2002 one Rahul along with one lady had come to his hotel and stayed there.They disclosed their address as D-603, Ashok Nagar, Delhi.They left the hotel on 15.07.2002 at about 8.00 a.m. PW-5 Momim deposed that on 16.07.2002 at about 10 p.m. accused Satyajeet disclosed to me that his family members had ousted him and his wife after beating them and they be allowed to stay at his house.Although, initially he refused him, but, at their persistent request, both were CRL.They left in the morning.PW.10 Gyan Singh who is running a lodge situated at Railway Road, Choti Bajaria, Ghaziabad, has deposed that on 17.07.2002 at about 11.00 p.m. one boy and one girl came to his lodge.The boy had disclosed his name as Surender Singh.(d) PW-27 SI Brijpal Singh deposed that on 16.07.2002 he was posted at P.S. Jarchar, District Gautam Budh Nagar.The complainant Raj Kumar came to the police station and gave a written information about the dead body of an unknown person lying near a drain (nala) at Veerpura.He along with the other police officials reached the spot.He prepared a Panchnama Ex.PW27/A. He seized the shirt and shoes of the deceased vide seizure memo Ex.PW27/B signed by him at point A. Photographs of the dead body were taken which are Ex.PW27/C and Ex.PW27/D. The dead body was sent to dead house for postmortem through Const.Jai Parkash.(e) The postmortem was conducted on 17.07.2002 and the cremation of the deceased was done on 19.07.2002 by the police.(f) PW-28 SI Yashbir Singh deposed that after having received the details of mobile phones contacted through the mobile phone of the deceased, the details are Ex.PW17/A to Ex.PW17/D, he came to know about accused Yunus.The said accused Yunus was interrogated by him on 19.07.2002 at his house.Accused Satyajeet and Sapna were known to have left Delhi on that very night.He informed all these facts to DCP East Sh.Arvind Deep who contacted DCP GRP Railways.The latter gave information about arrest of both the accused, Sapna and Satyajeet.(g) PW-23 Const.Pushpa Singh, PW-24 Const.Neeru Shukla, PW-25 Const.PW39/A.(i) PW-44 HC Chhamo Khan posted at LG House, Delhi deposed that on 21.07.2002 he was posted in P.S. Vivek Vihar.On that day, he along with other police officials took the custody of the accused Sapna and Satyajeet from Lucknow jail after taking permission from the Court.The disclosure statement was made by the accused Satyajeet @ Lovely and Sapna before PW-20 HC Yogender Singh being Ex.PW20/A (of accused Satyajeet) and Ex.PW20/B (of accused Sapna).They were arrested through arrest memos prepared by the I.O. being Ex.PW20/C (of accused Satyajeet) and Ex.According to him, they led the police to a place near Dadri, UP and pointing out memo in this regard is Ex.PW4/A signed by him at point C. He prepared the site plan Ex.PW4/C.(k) The accused again took the investigator and his team to another place near a canal which was at a distance of about 2-2 km from that place.Pointing out memo in this respect is Ex.PW4/B. He prepared the site plan of that spot which is Ex.PW4/D. Thereafter, they went to police station Jharcha.He inspected the record of the Malkhana Moharrar.One Vishal and another Kishan met them there in the police station.They identified the deceased from his photo, shoes and wearing clothes.The clothes of the deceased were sealed and were opened before them for the CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 17 of 51 purpose of identification and later on those were sealed again.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 17 of 51(l) On 24.07.2002, both the accused Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely led them to Haridwar at Har Ki Paudi.PW-45 received the Car Maruri Zen on superdari from the concerned SHO and thereafter, accused took them to a parking lot near Har Ki Paudi and pointed out a place.Pointing out memo Ex.PW28/B was prepared.The said accused then led them to a hotel Shivchhaya at Haridwar and pointed out the same.The Owner/Manager of the said hotel identified both the accused and handed over the photocopy of relevant entry in his guest register which is Ex.PW28/C.(m) On the way to Delhi, he received the information about co-accused Yunus about his presence in his house in Delhi.He made the disclosure statement Ex.PW21/A and brought out one country-made pistol .315 Bore and five cartridges two of which were live, after bringing the same from an almirah in his house.He seized the same.Sketech of these weapons were prepared by him which are Ex.PW4/J (of the country-made pistol) and Ex.PW4/K (cartridges).He filled up the CFSL form and the case property was deposited in the Malkhana.All the three accused were lodged in lockup.(n) Thereafter, the accused Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely took them to Anupam Apartment, Vranda Garden and point out a chemists shop.S4, BS Complex, GT Road, Ghaziabad.Accused Satyajeet pointed out that shop.PW4/M. His statement was also recorded in this regard.(q) Thereafter, both the accused led the police party to shop No.1 in the name of R.K.Batteries where one Shahid met them.He identified both the accused and his statement was recorded.(r) On 28.07.2002 accused Sapna had handed over her wearing top (shirt) which was seized vide seizure memo Ex.PW4/O signed by PW-45 at point C.(s) On the same day, he picked up blood from the back door of the car from its inside by scrapping the same with blade.The seizure memo in this regard is Ex.It showed the extent of robust association between all these three accused persons.(x) Subsequently also the accused persons Sapna and Satyajeet were arrested as per the information provided by the third accused Yunus.At that point of time Vijay Bajaj was in his Zen Maruti Car bearing No.He was sitting on the driver seat.One lady was sitting near the driver seat.One boy was also sitting in that car.He asked Vijay as to whether he was going to his house, and then he replied that he was going somewhere else.Thereafter, he caught the bus and left the place.He correctly identified the boy and girl, who were seen by him in the car with Vijay, in Court as Sapna and CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 27 of 51Prior to this, PW-6 Ashok Rana had also seen deceased Vijay with the accused Sapna on 12.07.2002 at the Petrol Pump, Dilshad Garden as he was on his motorcycle.Another witness PW-7 Sushil Sharma, friend of deceased, in his testimony deposed that at about 1:30/2:00 p.m. when he and one Ashok Rana were on the motorcycle, they saw the deceased along with one girl at Dilshad Garden near Petrol Pump.Similarly, PW-15 deposed that on 12.07.2002 at about 7:00 p.m., he received a telephone call from the mobile phone of the deceased who asked him to give his car as his car had broken.PW-8 Vineeta Bajaj, the wife of the deceased, also deposed that on 12.07.2002, she was in touch with her husband whole day on his mobile phone and at about 8:30 p.m. she contacted her husband on his mobile phone No. 9810015012 and he told her that he is coming back in 15 minutes.PW-17 R.K. Singh, Nodal Officer, Bharti Airtell, produced the prints out/call details of mobile phone of the deceased and others.The said details show that the last call received by the deceased was at 20:59:23 on 12.07.2002 and CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 28 of 51 there was no response on that number of the deceased on 13.07.2002 onward.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 28 of 51In view of above, it is clear that PW-14 Ramesh Kumar Sharma had seen the deceased alive at about 8:15 p.m. and the prosecution was able to prove the same in evidence.PW-32 Mohd. Islam deposed in court that accused Sapna took a delivery of five Diazepam tablets from his shop and the said medicine was procured by her without a valid prescription of Doctor.PW-34 SI Dharampal Singh, posted in Police Station GRP Shajahanpur, U.P., deposed that Sapna and Satyajeet were taken into custody on the basis of interrogation and on being searched one SIM card was recovered.PW-30 Sri Bhagwan Singh who was managing Pantdeep Parking Slot situated at Har ki Paudi at Haridwar, has deposed that on 13.07.2002 at about 7.00 a.m., a Maruti Zen blue colour Car came into that parking slot and it was parked there against a slip issued by him.However, nobody came there to claim the said vehicle for 5-6 days.One man and a lady had parked the said car there.After about 15 days, the police came to him for investigation and both the above said persons who had parked that vehicle were also with the police.The police recorded his statement after interrogation.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 29 of 5113.07.2002 - PW-19 Shivram Giri PW-19 Shivram Giri deposed that he along with his son was running a guest house in the name of Shive Chhaya Guest House situated at Upper Road, Haridwar, Uttranchal and on 13.07.2002 one Surender Singh, s/o Amarjeet Singh, along with his wife Paramjeet Kaur came to their guest house.An entry in this regard was made in the register at serial No.4045 and they stayed in their guest house upto 14.07.2002 and they left the same at 7:00 a.m. He also deposed that some officials of U.P. police came to him on 24.07.2002 and he identified and pointed out towards Sapna and Satyajeet, who were present in court, as having accompanied the said police officials.14.07.2002 - PW-11 Anil Kumar PW-11 Anil Kumar deposed that on 14.07.2002 one Rahul along with one lady came to their hotel and stayed there.During that period, he was working as Manager in Hotel Pelican, D-1, Patel Nagar-II, Ghaziabad.They made an entry in guest register at about CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 30 of 51 11:50 p.m. and room No.106 was allotted to them.They disclosed their address as D-603, Ashok Nagar, Delhi, and left the hotel on 15.07.2002 at about 8:00 a.m. He further deposed that when the police had brought boy and girl in the hotel on 28.07.2002, he came to know about their names as Satyajeet and Sapna.In cross- examination, he admitted that there was no initial/signatures on the cutting/overwriting.15.07.2002 - PW-9 Shahid PW-9 Shahid was declared as hostile who gave the testimony that he does not know anything about this case.He also denied the suggestion of the prosecution and denied the fact that before the police on 15.07.2002 he offered to keep Satyajeet and Sapna in a room behind his shop.As per the prosecution case, Yunus, who was running a shop near his shop, came to his shop with one boy and lady and asked him to provide the accommodation.His statement was also recorded by the police as Mark PW-9/A wherein he confirmed that on 15.07.2002 at about 9:00 p.m. Yunus, who was running a shop near his shop, brought one boy and girl with a request to allow them to stay with him for night only.On their persistent CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 31 of 51 requests, he allowed them to stay for the night and they left on 16.07.2002 at 7:00 a.m. 16.07.2002 - PW-5 Momin PW-5 Momin deposed that he has a shop of Raju Electronics.He knew Satyajeet @ Lovely for the last 4-5 years.On 16.07.2002 at about 10:00 p.m., accused Satyajeet along with Sapna came to his house at 387, Ashok Vatika, Loni Road Pasonda, U.P. Satyajeet disclosed to him that his family members and ousted him and they be allowed to stay in his house.At the first instance, he was reluctant.However, on their persistent requests, he allowed them to stay in the house of Iddu, his maternal uncles son at Morta village.They stayed there only for one night and left in the morning.He also correctly identified Satyajeet and Sapna who were present in the court.17.07.2002 - PW-10 Gyan Singh PW-10 Gyan Singh deposed that he is running a lodge situated at Railway Road, Choti Bajaria, Ghaziabad.On 17.07.2002 at about 11:00 p.m., one boy and one girl came to his lodge.The boy had disclosed his name in the register as Surender Singh, resident of CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 32 of 51 B-44, Ajanta Apartment, Lucknow.He identified both of them in court.18.07.2002 - PW-9 Shahid As per the case of the prosecution, till 14.07.2002 the family members/relatives of the deceased had not expressed their doubt upon anyone as culprit.As per the family members, there was one telephone bearing No.9810695421 which was known to be belonging to accused Sapna from which calls were made on that phone of Airtel.On verification from Airtel about the ownership of phone of Sapna, PW-28 came to know about the address of Sapna.It was of Nand Nagri.The mother of the accused, namely, Geeta Talwar, met PW-28 on that day.Sister of the accused, namely, Jyoti and brother, namely, Ahsok @ Sonu, were also present in the house at that time.He had visited the house on 14.07.2002 at about 5:00/5:30 p.m. He also made an entry about his departure in the Police Station.Through these call details, he came to know about accused Yunus.He was interrogated by him 19.07.2002 at his house.On interrogation, he came to know that accused Satyajeet and Sapna already left Delhi on that very night.He informed all these facts to DCP East Sh.Arvind Deep who contacted DCP GRP Railways, CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 33 of 51 Lucknow and latter gave information about the arrest of the said accused Sapna and Satyajeet.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 33 of 51PW-26 SI Ranjeet Prasad Diwakar deposed that on 19.07.2002, he was posted in GRP Charbagh.At about 8:00-8:30 a.m. SI R.B. Singh met him in the Police Station and told about an information from Delhi about two accused, one boy and one girl, who had absconded from Delhi.He had also disclosed their names as Satyajeet @ Lovely and Sapna Talwar.He along with other team members went to Railway Station Charbagh in search of said accused.At Platform No.1 near parcel godown, they say one boy and one girl sitting behind bags of parcels.When they inquired from them about their whereabouts, accused Satyajeet told his name as Vinod and Sapna told her name as Shalu.They asked them to show their railway tickets.As the boy was bringing out his railway ticket from his pocket, some documents fell down on the ground.One of these was a driving licence in the name of Satyajeet.This raised doubt about his identity.On further interrogation, both admitted their names as Satyajeet and Sapna Talwar.On being searched, accused Sapna was found having one grey coloured bag containing Rs.6200/-, one SIM card Airtel, one wrist watch Titan, one vial of some injection and one train ticket.The boy was found having one CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 34 of 51 wrist watch Titan and driving licence in the name of Satyajeet.All these documents were seized vide document Ex.PW23/A. On the vial a chit was affixed which bore the inscription "Calmpose" on it and the train ticket was dated 18.07.2002 from Ghaziabad Junction to Lucknow.The identity card contained photo of Satyajeet.PW- 23/A arrest memo-cum-disclosure statement was prepared at the time of arrest.The police also recorded the statements of PW-23 Constable Pushpa Singh as Ex.PW23/DA, PW-24 Constable Neeru Shukla as Ex.PW24/DA, PW-25 Constable Krishan Bihari Choubey as Ex.PW25/DA and PW-26 Ranjeet Prasad Diwakar as Ex.PW- 26/DA.Pointing out memo in this respect is Ex.PW4/B and site plan was also prepared at the spot which is Ex.PW-4/D.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 37 of 51Thereafter, they went to Police Station Jarcha and inspected the record of Malkhana Moharrir.One Vishal and another Kishan met them there in the Police Station and they identified the deceased from his photo, shoes and wearing clothes.The clothes of the deceased were sealed and were opened before them for the purpose of identification and they were again sealed.On 24.07.2002, both the accused led them to Haridwar at Har Ki Podi and from local Police Station a car Maruti Zen was received from the SHO and both pointed out the place of which pointing out memo is Ex.PW-28/B was prepared.The accused thereafter led the team to Hotel Shiv Chhaya and pointed out the same.The hotel manager handed over photocopy of relevant entry in the guest register which is Ex.PW-19/A. His statement was also recorded.The seizure memo of the car Ex.PW-21/A, Yunus allegedly brought out a country-made pistol .315 bore and five cartridges, two of which were live, from an almirah and the said material was seized.The sketches of these weapons were prepared as Ex.PW-4/J (country-made pistol) and Ex.PW-4/K (cartridges).Seizure memo in this regard is Ex.PW-4/G. All these articles were kept in pullandah and sealed by seal of RNV.We concur with the view taken by the learned trial judge that PW-14 is the last seen witness who had last seen Vijay Bajaj CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 40 of 51 alive in the company of the accused Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely.CASE AGAINST YUNUS IN CRL.The case of prosecution against Yunus was that in order to kill the deceased Vijay Kumar, the accused Sapna and Satyajeet hatched a conspiracy.They joined Satyajeets friend Yunus in their plan and received his mobile phone which could be used with other SIM card of Sapna.They also received a country-made pistol/katta and some cartridges also from Yunus.PW-18 SI Yashbir Singh CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 41 of 51 from the call details came to know about accused Yunus and he was interrogated on 19.07.2002 at his house.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 41 of 51As per the case of prosecution, on 24.07.2002, both accused Satyajeet and Sapna led the police to Haridwar for the purpose of recovery of the articles.When PW-45 and his team along with accused Satyajeet and Sapna were returning from Haridwar to Delhi and they crossed Ghaziabad, PW-45 ACP Ramniwas Vashisht received secret information about co-accused Yunus that he was present in his house.Both accused Satyajeet and Sapna took the team to the house of Yunus who was present in his house and after interrogation, he made a disclosure statement Ex.PW-21/A.The accused Yunus allegedly brought out one country- made pistol .315 bore and five cartridges, two of which were live, from an almirah in his house.Thereafter, he was arrested on 24.07.2002 and he was charged with Sections 25, 54 and 59 of Arms Act and Section 120 B IPC.(i) A mobile phone was recovered from the possession of accused Yunus.Its IMEI number was 449652426331480 and it was seized vide Ex. No.PW-17 R.K. Singh appeared in the court and produced documents Ex.PW- 17/A to Ex.PW-17/B. In these documents Ex.PW-17/A and Ex.PW-17B are the specific documents to this effect.(ii) Accused Satyajeet and Sapna disclosed that Yunus was in contact with them.And that Yunus provided them money which was seized at Lucknow vide document Ex.PW23/A and he also provided them the railway ticket for Lucknow.PW-21/A before the police that he had arranged a ticket for the accused Satyajeet and Sapna and had helped them in boarding a train to Lucknow.When the police worked up
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the accused Sapna and Styajeet were arrested by the railway police at Lucknow.The statement of PW-29
father of the Yunus
when he was sleeping in his house
12-13 persons entered his house from the side of roof.All of them took away Yunus
his son
who was sleeping at the roof of their house.He followed them.On his asking
they did not disclose their identities but stated that they were taking away Yunus to Delhi.He stated that the Police did not record his statement in the case and on 20.07.2002
when he went to the Police Station Vivek Vihar
the police took his signatures on six blank papers and he identified his signatures on documents Ex.c. In so far as evidence of PW-2 Gurpreet Singh
owner of mobile shop
is concerned
he is a hostile witness and he did not recognize him and has not supported the prosecution case against Yunus.d. PW-4 Vishal Rajpal
a relative of deceased
has not deposed anything against Yunus.He was also declared hostile witness.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 46 of 51f. PW-28 SI Yashbir Singh
who came to the house of Yunus for interrogation on 19.07.2002
had not stated anything against Yunus with regard to arrest
search
seizure or recovery of any article in his chief.At the time of interrogation on 19.07.2002
despite availability of members of public
no public witness was involved.g. As per call details between 03.07.2002 to 17.07.2002
Ex.PW-17/A to Ex.PW-17/D
there is no evidence of any call from alleged mobile phone of Yunus bearing No. 9810810882 to the mobile phone No. 9810015012 of the deceased or the alleged mobile phone No. 9810695421 of Sapna Talwar.h. Admittedly
PW-28 SI Yashbir Singh deposed to have interrogated Yunus in the night of 19.07.2002 at his house
but
there is nothing available on record in this regard about the statement of Yunus or any other witness.PW-28 SI Yashbir Singh deposed that he CRL.PW-17 R.K. Singh of Airtel deposed that the police had collected the call details Ex.PW-17/A to Ex.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 47 of 51i. PW-45 ACP Ramniwas Vashisht deposed in cross-A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 4 of 51 20/B respectively
pursuant to that on 23.07.2002 the police took them to the spot and they pointed out the place vide memo Ex. PW 4/B. A site plan Ex. PW 4/C was also prepared of the place where they had thrown the body of the deceased.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 4 of 51As per the postmortem report of PW-1 Dr. P.C. Aggarwal
death was due to coma as a result of ante mortem injuries 3-4 days prior to the date of postmortem examination.Thereafter
a chargesheet under sections 365/364/302/201/ 120-B/34 IPC read with section 25 of the Arms Act against all the three accused persons was filed.The details of the offences are mentioned in para No.1 of this judgment.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 5 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 5 of 51Being aggrieved by the said judgment of conviction and order on sentence
the appellants filed the present appeal
inter-alia
on the grounds which can be summarized as follows:In Criminal Appeal No.357/2009 filed by the appellants
namely
Sapna Talwar
Satyajeet @ Lovely
the following are the main grounds for appeal which have been raised:-(ii) The trial Court has considered the alleged disclosure statements of the appellants as their legal confessions
which is against the basic concept of criminal jurisprudence.(iii) Admittedly
there was nothing to recover in pursuance of the disclosure statements of the appellants
therefore
the so-called disclosure statements of the appellants became inadmissible in law.(iv) Since the dead body of the deceased Vijay Kumar was not seen by any of his relatives and was cremated in their absence and the identity of the dead body was established by clothes found on the dead body
therefore
the possibility of Vijay Kumars clothes being planted cannot be ruled out.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 6 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 6 of 51(v) The medical evidence like post-mortem etc. pertaining to the deceased has not been fully proved.(vi) There is no clear evidence on record to prove the motive on the part of any of the appellants for committing the said crime and there is also no evidence to show as to how the appellant Yunus is connected with the other two appellants and as to why he helped them in running away from justice.In Criminal Appeal No.421 of 2009 filed by the appellant Yunus
the following are the main grounds:-(a) No public witness was joined at any point of time
like at the time of recovery or at the time of the arrest of the appellants or subsequent thereof
though the members of the public were
admittedly
present at that time.(b) The impugned order is totally based on inadmissible evidence.The statements of all the three accused persons were recorded under Section 313 Cr.P.C. All of them stated that they were innocent.Two defence witnesses were examined
namely
DW-1 Mohd. Mehmood son of Salim Mohd.
and DW-2 Rashid son of Abdul Wahid
on behalf of the accused Yunus in support of his defence.The prosecution in order to prove the charges against the appellant examined following 48 witnesses :A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 8 of 51 PW -2 Gurpreet (hostile): Mobile shop owner to whom the accused allegedly sold the mobile phone of the deceased.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 8 of 51PW -3 Laxman Dass Bajaj : He is the complainant
brother of the deceased.PW-44 SI Anwar Khan : In the intervening night of 12th and 13th July
2002 one Mr. V.K. Bajaj gave information that his brother Vijay was missing.DD 29A was recorded in this regard and handed over to him for investigation.PW -45 ACP Ram Niwas : On 23.07.2002 investigation of this case was handed over to him.PW -46 Retired HC Chattar Singh : On 16.07.2002 he was posted in PS Jharcha and one Ram Kumar gave him information about a dead body lying in a drain near Village Veerpura.He was also witness to the identification of wearing clothes of the deceased by the relatives.PW-47 SI Raja Ram Singh Yadav : He was the Moharrir in PS GRP
Charbagh
Lucknow.Since there is no eye-witness to the murder
the case revolves around the circumstantial evidence of last seen and the recovery of the material as per the story of the prosecution.The sequence of events date-wise as per the case of the prosecution are as under:-A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 13 of 51Krishan Bihari Chaubey
PW-26 SI Ranjeet Prasad Diwakar
PW-34 SI Dharampal Singh and PW-40 SI R.B.Singh deposed that both the accused Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely were lodged in the police lock-up after CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 16 of 51 apprehending them from the Chahar Bagh Railway Station
Lucknow.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 16 of 51(h) PW-31 SI Mahesh Kumar prepared a scaled site plan Ex.PW31/A. PW-39 SI Rishi Ram deposed that on 19.07.2002 the Car was deposited and entry in register No.19 at Serial No.88 was made being copy thereof as Ex.PW20/D (of accused Sapna).Both of them were brought in Delhi on 22.07.2002 and produced in the Court of ACMM
Karkardooma Courts and were remanded by the Court in eight days police custody.45 ACP Ram Niwas Vashisht and he interrogated both the accused
namely Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely.(o) On 26.07.2002 both the accused were again interrogated by him.They led the police party to shop No.One Gurpreet met there who had purchased the mobile phone of the deceased and he identified both the accused.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 18 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 18 of 51PW4/P. After completion of the investigation
he prepared the challan of this case.The result from the FSL was received which is Ex.PW45/B.Let us now consider the medical evidence.The dead body of the deceased
when sent for postmortem examination by the Jarcha police was examined by PW-1 Dr. P.C. Aggarwal.During the course of postmortem examination
this witness found:-(i) A lacerated wound of 4 cm x 2 cm bone deep on the back side of the head
10 cm behind left ear.(ii) Occipital bone was found fractured.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 19 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 19 of 51(iii) A defused tranatic swelling 10 cm x 6 cm in area on the right side head just above ear was also found and the bone was also fractured from this point.On internal examination this doctor found:-(iv) The brain was liquefied and a blood clot was present.(v) Death was due to coma as a result of ante mortem injuries 3-4 days prior to the date of autopsy.So
as per medical evidence
the death of Vijay Bajaj was due to coma as a result of antemortem injury.The FSL report Ex.PW45/B dated 21.02.2003 on the Parcel 5 and Parcel 6 reads as under:Parcel No.6: One 8 mm/.315"" cartridge marked exhibit A1 and four improvised cartridges marked exhibits A2 to A5.""Similarly
another FSL report dated 29.01.2003 was received.As far as exhibit 3 gauze cloth piece
the species of original is Human
but no reaction/remark is shown for ABO Group.The same reads as under: CRL.Exhibit 1a : One dirty shirt Exhibit 1b : One pair of shoes Parcel 2 : One sealed cloth parcel sealed with the seal of ""D.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 20 of 51Singh U.P.P. containing exhibits 2a and 2b.Exhibit 2a : One dirty foul smelling pants with belt.Exhibit 2b : One dirty foul smelling underwear Parcel 3 : One sealed cloth parcel sealed with the seal of ""RNV"" containing exhibit 3
kept in a plastic container.Exhibit 3 : Gauze cloth piece having brown stains described as ""blood lifted car""""RNV"" said to contain Desi Katta sent in original to Ballistics Division Parcel 6 : One sealed cloth parcel sealed with the seal of ""RNV"" containing exhibit 6 Exhibit 6 : Five bullets RESULT OF ANALYSISBlood was detected on exhibit 3 CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 21 of 51In the morning both the accused persons parked the vehicle of the deceased with blood stains of the deceased on it in a parking lot at Haridwar and stayed in a hotel under fictitious identity.(ii) Their disclosures led to the discovery of dead body of deceased Vijay and it was found to have the same injuries as were disclosed by the accused persons to have been inflicted on his head.(iii) The dead body was found at the same place where the accused disclosed to have thrown it in the jurisdiction of PS Jarcha.(iv) With the help of the wearing apparels and other articles the dead body was a uniquely and unambiguously identified as that of the deceased Vijay Bajaj
particularly consequent to the identification by PW-4 Vishal Rajpal.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 22 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 22 of 51(v) In the ensuing morning the accused Sapna and Satyajeet were found present in the town of Haridwar with the car of the deceased Vijay Bajaj in which they were seen accompanying the deceased just prior to the incident.(vi) This car was found to be having blood on its rear right door.The possession of the car of the deceased Vijay and that too with the presence of blood stains
found from the constructive possession of the accused Satyajeet and Sapna
transmit a burden on the accused persons to show the circumstances in which that car and those blood stains on the door of the car appeared.(vii) Accused persons Sapna and Satyajeet have been shown by the prosecution to be running from one place to the other after causing death of the deceased Vijay Bajaj.U/s 10 Evidence Act this is a relevant fact and the accused persons could never discharge the burden so cast upon them to show the necessity of assuming fictitious identifies and being in a state of restless running from here to there after the death of accused Vijay Bajaj was caused.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 23 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 23 of 51(viii) Prior to this
the prosecution was able to prove that Sapna was making efforts of collecting Diazepam sleeping pills.It was shown that such pills were procured also.Some of such pills were found from the possession of Sapna and Satyajeet at Lucknow which were seized by that police vide document Ex.PW 23/A. Here the accused Sapna was found in possession of Calmpose pills which are used to induce sleep.Calmpose is the brand name of the same generic chemical known as Diazepam.Prosecution had shown that they were used to impair the deceased Vijay Bajaj.(ix) Both the accused persons were duly sheltered and assisted by the third accused Yunus during their hightailing from one point to the other.Right from the time when Yunus provided Katta to the accused Sapna and Satyajeet for causing death of Vijay Bajaj
Yunus remained in their contact until they both left for Lucknow.This proved the scope
extent and liability CRL.(xi) The accused persons took the phone of the deceased Vijay Bajaj and sold it for Rs.3300/- at the shop of PW 2 Gurpreet Singh.(xii) The disclosure statements of the accused persons Satyajeet and Sapna were recorded at two places.Initially at Lucknow in a document Ex.PW-23/A on 19.07.02 and thereafter in Delhi in documents Ex.The case of the prosecution against the appellants was based on circumstantial evidence.It is pertinent to mention here that despite opportunity being being granted to the appellants
there was no cross-examination on their behalf.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 31 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 32 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 34 of 51After the arrest of Sapna and Satyajeet on 19.07.2002 at lunch
they were lodged in jail.PW-28 SI Yashbir Singh applied for permission in the court of MM
Karkardooma Court
Delhi
to bring the said accused persons to Delhi.The copy of application is Ex.PW- 28/A. Both the accused were brought to Delhi by him and were produced before the court in Delhi and both were remanded to police custody for eight days.In the disclosure statements recorded on 21.07.2002
they informed that they could get the dead body of deceased Vijay recovered from a small canal.On the basis of the disclosure CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 35 of 51 statements Ex.PW-20/A (Satyajeet) and Ex.PW-20/B (Sapna)
they were arrested on the same day.The arrest memos are Ex.PW-20/C (Satyajeet) and Ex.PW-20/D (Sapna).A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 35 of 51The prosecution proved that prior to their arrest on 16.07.2002
the dead body was recovered within the jurisdiction of Police Station Jarcha.The clothes of the dead body were also identified by the family members
particularly PW-4 Vishal Rajpal.Before the arrival of Delhi Police at Police Station Jarcha
a dead body had already been recovered by Jarcha police on the above mentioned place and a Panchnama Ex.PW-26/A was prepared and the dead body was sent for postmortem examination.PW-27 SI Brij Pal Singh seized the shirt and shoes of the deceased vide Ex.PW-27/B
photographs Ex.PW-27/C and Ex.PW-27/D were also taken.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 36 of 51We must mention here that no doubt while delivering the impugned judgment
the learned trial judge at various places has referred to disclosure statements as confessional statements
which is not permissible.After disclosure statements made by the accused Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely before Delhi Police on 21.07.2002
the accused persons thereafter led PW-45 ACP Ramniwas Vashisht and his team to a place near Dadri
U.P. on 23.07.2002 and pointed out a place where site plan was prepared and also took them to CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 37 of 51 another place near a Canal which was at a distance of about 2-2 kilometers from that place.PW-28/C was also prepared and while returning to Delhi
both accused took them to the house of Yunus at 1743
Gali No.1
Islam Nagar
Ghaziabad
who was present in his house.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 38 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 38 of 51On the basis of the disclosure statement Ex.On 25.07.2002
both the accused then took the team to Subzi Mandi
Chander Nagar.Accused Satyajeet pointed out one shop of Chander Bhan.Thereafter
they led the team to Haq Clinic number 7A
Dilshad Garden
Delhi
where the statement of Islam was recorded.On 26.07.2002
both the accused led the team to shop No.S4
BS Complex
GT Road
Ghaziabad.Accused Satyajeet pointed out that shop.One Gurpreet met them there who identified both the accused and statement of Gurpreet was also recorded.On 28.07.2002
they led the team to Hotel Pelican
Ghaziabad and pointed out the same.The Manager-cum- Receptionist Anil Kumar met them there.He identified both the accused as the same who stayed there in the name of Rahul and his wife.The photocopy of the guest register produced by the manager CRL.PW-4/L. The seizure memo in this regard is Ex.PW-4/M. Thereafter
both the accused led the team to Krishna lodge
Railway Road
Ghazibad
where Mr Gyan Prasad Yadav
Manager of the said lodge
met them.He identified both the accused as the same persons who stayed there in the name of Surender Singh and his wife.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 39 of 51During the course of investigation
when the vehicle parked at Haridwar was examined
it was found to have blood stains on the rear right door which was lifted vide seizure memo Ex.PW-4/P and subsequently
this was confirmed to be human blood by the FSL report.It is pertinent to mention here that for the period from 13.07.2002 to 18.07.2002
there was no explanation on behalf of the appellants Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely that why they were moving from one place to another.From the aforesaid incriminating material and circumstances
it is clearly established by the prosecution that the murder of Vijay Bajaj was committed by Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 40 of 51The prosecution has also been able to establish that accused Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely committed the offence under Section 201 IPC because they had caused the death of the deceased and after having the knowledge of the said fact
they caused disappearance of evidence after offence of murder by throwing the dead body in the water.In view of the testimonies of the witnesses
it is clear that the prosecution has been able to establish on record beyond reasonable doubt that both the accused Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely have committed the offences under Section 302 r/w 120B and 201 IPC.(iii) Yunus made a disclosure statement Ex.These purported circumstances seen together
in the view of the trial court
clearly established that the accused Yunus was in contact with Sapna and Satyajeet and that he was assisting them; he was providing all the material and instrumental help to them; he provided a telephone and on its disruption a second one also.He also provided them a Katta.PW4/G and PW4/H at point C. He was cross examined by the Special Public Prosecutor for the State and he denied all the suggestions made by him before the court.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 44 of 51A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 44 of 51The defence witnesses DW-1 Mohd. Mehmood and DW-2 Rashid were examined by the appellant Yunus.They deposed that they are neighbours of the family of Mohd. Yunus and in the intervening night of 18.07.2002 and 19.07.2002 at about 2:30-3:00 a.m.
they saw police officials on the gate and they overpowered Yunus and took him down to the street.The neighbours also gathered there.The police officials informed that they were taking Yunus to Delhi for some inquiry.The learned trial judge in his impugned judgment acquitted him of charges under the Arms Act against him as the same stood not proved.However
he was held guilty of offence punishable under Section 120 B read with Section 34 IPC and was awarded imprisonment for life for the said offence.In nutshell
the case of prosecution against the Yunus is that he provided the katta and five cartridges to the main accused
particularly
Satyajeet
who is his friend and also alleged to have provided a mobile phone to Sapna.As per the story of prosecution
Sapna used the said mobile after putting in her own SIM card and he provided money to the accused as per Ex.PW-23/A.After having gone through the testimonies of all the witnesses and the documents on record
we do not agree with the CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 45 of 51 finding of the learned trial judge that any case against the Yunus under Section 120 B IPC is made out as the prosecution has not established its case under this provision against Yunus.Our findings are as under:A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 45 of 51a. Yunus denied the suggestion for providing country-made pistol to the other two accused persons.As per the FSL report
the said pistol was not in working condition.examination that he did not remember the date when SI Yashbir collected call details.He did not remember the number of telephone of which call details were taken.j. PW-28 SI Yashbir Singh in his testimony stated that one Mujib had given mobile phone to accused Yunus but said Mujib was not produced as a witness nor his statement was recorded.k. No experts opinion or doctors opinion
who conducted the postmortem
was obtained regarding the use of alleged katta to commit the said offence.l. PW-45 ACP Ramniwas Vashisht stated that they had parked their vehicle at a distance of 100 yards before the house of accused Yunus while PW-21 stated that they CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 48 of 51 had parked their vehicle at a distance of 500-600 yards in north side from the house of the accused Yunus.m. PW-4 Vishal Rajpal in his cross-examination deposed that they reached there
the doors of the house of Yunus were open while PW-45 ACP Ramniwas Vashisht stated that the main gate was closed when they went there.The doors were opened by Yunus from inside.n. PW-45 ACP Ramniwas Vashisht stated that three or four persons had entered inside the house and rest of them remained outside.PW-21 Constable Pritam Singh stated that they all entered into the house of the accused.o. PW-21 Constable Pritam Singh deposed in his cross-examination that there was one almirah of wood having size 2`x5` in that room whereas PW-45 ACP Ramniwas Vashisht stated in his cross-examination that the almirah was affixed in the rear wall of the room which was made of steel being of average size.p. PW-21 Constable Pritam Singh stated in his cross-examination that seizure memos were in the handwriting of SI Yashbir Tyagi while PW-4 Vishal Rajpal stated that seizure memo
sketch of country-made pistol and CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 49 of 51 cartridges
personal search memo of accused Yunus
site plan and arrest memo were made by PW-45 ACP Ramniwas Vashisht.The prosecution version in this case is doubtful as the prosecution did not join any independent witness as attesting witness to the alleged disclosure statement as well as recovery.The disclosure statement without any discovery of fact is also meaningless.Non-joining of public witness as attesting witness smacks of malafide and makes prosecution version more doubtful.The prosecution is not able to CRL.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 50 of 51 establish chain of circumstances so complete to connect the accused Yunus with the alleged offence.A. 357/2009 & 421/2009 Page 50 of 51For all these reasons
we are of the clear view that the prosecution has not been able to bring home its case against Yunus as there are many missing links and chain is far from complete.The prosecution was failed to prove any case against him under Section 120 B IPC.Therefore
we cannot hold him to be guilty merely on the basis of suspicions raised by the prosecution.The impugned judgment and order of sentence against Yunus are set aside and he is acquitted of all charges in this case.His appeal is allowed and he be set at liberty forthwith.The appeal filed by appellants Sapna Talwar and Satyajeet @ Lovely is dismissed except to the extent that they stand acquitted of the charge under Section 365 IPC.MANMOHAN SINGH
J BADAR DURREZ AHMED
J OCTOBER 12
2011 kk/jk/sa CRL."
['Section 120 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 365 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 364 in The Indian Penal Code']
Analyze the legal case and identify the corresponding section it comes under.
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According to the 1st respondent, for the purpose of the investigation of the said offence, it became necessary to carry out searches and seize documents and other Arti- cles from the office and factory premises of the said concerns at Connaught Place, New Delhi, and at Kalkaji New Delhi respectively.He, therefore, made a record in writing at 7.30 A. M. on 1-1-1968 under Section 165(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code, which was filed as annexure 'A' by the petitioners and as Annexure R-2 by the respondents.It runs as under :--"Special Police Establishment Central Investigating Agency (1).Whereas I, B.A. Lakshminarayana Swamy, Dy.of Police, Special Police Establishment, Cia (1), Cbi, New Delhi, am investigating the case in R. C. 12/67-CIA(1) u/s 120B Ipc R/ W Section 420, Ipc and Section 5(2) of Act Ii of 1947, and Whereas, it has become necessary for purposes of my investigation in the said case to take possession of the following documents and things said to be in possession of M/s Lloyd Electric and Engineering Co. M-13 Connaught Place, New Delhi, at their office premises in Connaught Place and in their factory premises at Kalkaji, New Delhi, viz.Rate Contract file of M/s Lloyd Electric Engineering Co. in No. SE6/RC/6770/ l/Lloyd/3472 dated 15-4-65 for the period 1965 to date.All supply orders placed on the said firm in the above Rate Contract including Invoices, Bills, Vouchers, Delivery receipts, Inspection notes etc.Purchase files of the above firm for Air Compressors made from M/s Kirloskar Pneumatics, M/s. Sri Ram Refrigeration Industries, M/s. Usha Refregeration Co., and other firms for the period 1965 to date.All correspondence files of M/s Lloyd Electric and Engineering Co. Ltd., D. G. S. and D. and other Government Deptt.regarding supply of Air Conditioners for the period 1965 to date.All correspondence files of M/s Lloyd Electric and Engineering Co., M/s Punj Sons (P) Ltd., M/s. Fedders Lloyd Corporation (P) Ltd., and M/s. Fedders Lloyd Sales Corporation for the period 1965 to date in respect of manufacture and sale of Air-Conditioners, purchase of accessories in the above manufacture with other firms and between themselves also.Correspondence files of the above firms with foreign suppliers in respect of Air Compressors during 1965 to date.Correspondence files of the above four firms with Ministry of Finance for Foreign Exchange allocation for the period 1965 to date.Unit Serial No. Register of Air Conditioners manufactured by the said firms for the period 1965 to date.All documents and Registers of the said firms relating to the payment of Excise Duties on Air-Conditioners for the period 1965 to-date.Cash books and Ledgers, Bahi Katha books of the said firms for the period 1965 to date.Stock, Issue Registers of Air Conditioners manufactured in the Factory and Air Compressors purchased from other firms or imported.Premises to be searched:Office premises of M/s. Punj Sons (P.) Ltd., M/s. Kedders Lloyd Corporation (P.) Ltd., (3) M/s. Lloyd Electric Engineering Corporation at M-13, 'Punj House, Con-naught Place New Delhi.2. Factory premises of M/s. Punj Sons (P.) Ltd. and M/s. Fedders Lloyd Sales Corporation at Kalkaji, New Delhi.Dated 1st Jan. 1968 7.30 A. M.According to the 1st respondent, simultaneous searches had to be carried out in the office premises at Connaught Place and in the Factory premises at Kalkaji, and as it was physically nto possible for him to search both the premises simultaneously, he made an order (Annexure R-1) at 7-45 A. M. on 1-1-1968 under Section 165(3) of the Criminal Procedure Code deputing respondent No. 2 to search the office premises at Connuaght Place, while he himself searched the factory premises at Kalkaji on the same date.The said order runs as under :--"To Shri Jethanand Dy.of Police, S. P. E., C. I. A. (I), New Delhi.Sub: RC.12/67-CIA-Investigation of.For purposes of my investigation in the above case, it has become necessary to conduct simultaneous searches at the office premises of M/s. Lloyd Electric and Engineering Co., M-13, Punj House, Connaught Place and at the Factory premises of M/s. Punj Sons (P.) Ltd., Kalkaji, this morning.Copy of the grounds of search submitted to the Magistrate, 1st Class, Delhi, is enclosed for your information.As I will be engaged in the search of the said factory premises at Kalkaji, I am requesting you to conduct the search of the office premises of M/s. Lloyd Electric and Engineering Co., and other allied concerns located at No. M-13, Punj House, Con-naught Place, New Delhi, as detailed in the said grounds of search and to seize the documents and things referred to therein.This requisition is being made to you in accordance with Section 165(3) Cr.B. A. Lakshminarayana Swamy Deputy Supdt.Civil Writ No. 16 of 1968 was filed by M/s. Fedders Lloyd Corporation (Private) Limited, represented by Director, S. N. P. Punj, Civil Writ No. 17 of 1968 was filed by M/s Lloyd Electric and Engineering Company represented 'by Partner, V. P. Punj, Civil Writ No. 18 of 1968 was filed by Airserco represented by sole proprietor, T. V. P. Punj, Civil Writ No. 19 of 1968 was filed by M/s. Fedders Lloyd Sales Corporation represented by Partner, S. N. P. Punj, and Civil Writ No. 20 of 1968 was filed by M/s Lloyd Sales Corporation represented by Partner Mrs. I. R. Punj.The respondents in all the writ petitions are the same namely, (1) B. A. Lakshminarayana Swami, Dy.S. P. S.P.E.C.I.A. (I), C.B.I., New Delhi, and (2) Jethanand, Dy.S. P., C. I. A. (I), New Delhi.The first respondent further averred in his aforesaid affidavit that he had reliable information that the aforesaid company and its sister concerns, in conspiracy with the above mentioned S. S. Chouhan and H. C. Mehrotra, cheated the Government of India and some State Governments in supplying sub-standard air-conditioners under a Rate Contract entered into by the aforesaid company and its sister concerns with the D. G. S. and D., that the air-conditioners supplied under the said Rate Contract were fitted with indigenous compressors whereas the requirement of the Rate Contract was for fitting the said air-conditioners with imported compressors made in U. S. A., and that this was done by dishonestly removing the manufacturer's name plate, disfiguring the markings of the Indian compressors, and passing off the units as being fitted with foreign compressors.Requisition u/s. 165 (3) Cr.of Police, S. P. E., C. I. A. (I), New Delhi.7.45 A. M.They thereupon filed the present five writ petitions in this Court on 8-1-1968 praying for the issue of "a direction in the nature of a mandamus commanding the respondents to forthwith return the documents and things seized on 1st January, 1968, under Annexures 'B' and 'C'", and for certain other interim reliefs.(2) that the action of the 2nd respondent in having searched the office premises of the petitioners at Punj House, Connaught Place, New Delhi, and in having seized the documents and things mentioned in Annexure 'C' to the writ petition, was illegal and contrary to the mandatory provisions of Sub-section (3) of Section 165 Criminal Procedure Code, in that the respondent No. 1 did nto make any order in writing recording his reasons for his being unable to conduct the search himself in person, and in that the 1st respondent did nto deliver an order in writing to respondent No. 2 specifying therein the place to be searched and the things for which the search is to be made, and the second respondent did nto have any such order as is contemplated by Section 165(3), Criminal Procedure Code, nor did he show any such order to the petitioners; and (3) that the searches and seizures made by the two respondents were contrary to law and illegal for the further reason that the copies or the record, if any, made under Sub-section (1) and Sub-section (3) of Section 165, Criminal Procedure Code, were nto sent forthwith to the nearest Magistrate empowered to take cognizance of the offence, as provided for in Sub-section (5) of Section 165 of the Criminal Procedure Code.In reply to the writ petitions, an affidavit of the 1st respondent, dated 21-1-1968, which has already been referred to above, was filed.As already stated, the 1st respondent averred in the said reply that the five petitioner-concerns are the concerns of the Punj family which is carrying on business under the name and style of and is controlling the five petitioner-concerns.It was further averred that V. P. Punj was shown the requisite orders along with the grounds for search, that the search and seizure were made strictly in accordance with law, that he did make an order under Section 165(3) Criminal Procedure Code, a copy of which was filed as Annexure R-1 to the reply affidavit, that as it was nto physically possible for him to make the searches both at Con-naught Place and at Kalkaji, he searched the factory premises at Kalkaji and deputed respondent No. 2 to search the office premises at Connaught Place, that the report prepared under Section 165(3), Criminal Procedure Code, was shown to V. P. Punj who was a partner or executive and represented all the firms, along with a copy of the grounds for search, that in token of having seen them he endorsed the grounds for search with the remark "seen" and signed it, that that fact was also mentioned in the seizure list, a copy of which was given to V. P. Punj and was acknowledged by him, that a copy of the record prepared under Section 165(3), Criminal Procedure Code, and a copy of the seizure list were also sent to the Magistrate, 1st Class, Delhi, though there was some delay as the same was sent on 10-1-1968 when the deponent returned from tour which he had to undertake on Government duty immediately after the search and seizure on 1-1-1968, that the record prepared under Sec, 165 (1), Criminal Procedure Code, was sent to the Magistrate on the day of the search itself, and that, therefore the searches and the seizures were quite legal and in accordance with law.As a rejoinder to the said reply V. P. Pun] filed an affidavit, dated 23-1-1968, in which he stated that it was incorrect to say that he was shown "the requisite orders along with the grounds for search", that the only document that was shown to him was Annexure 'A' to the writ petition (i. e. the record made under Section 165(1), Criminal Procedure Code), wherein he made the endorsement "seen V. P. Punj", that excepting that document, no other document was shown to him by either of the respondents, and that no separate record under Section 165(3) or Annexure R-1 or separate record containing the grounds under Section 163(1) was shown to him at any time.Shri S. N. P. Punj also filed an affidavit, dated 23-1-1968, as a rejoinder to the reply of the respondents.In this affidavit, it was reiterated that the respondents did nto comply with the mandatory provisions of Section 165, Criminal Procedure Code, and it was stated that the First Information Report was dated 28-124967, that it contains an endorsement which shows that it was forwarded on the same day to Shri M. S. Joshi, Special fudge, Delhi, that another endorsement thereon shows that it was received by the learned Special Judge at 1-10 P. M. on 3-1-1968, that on 8-1-1968, an application for copies of the record made under Section 165 Criminal Procedure Code, was made by the petitioners in the Court 08 the Special Judge for S. P. E. cases, Delhi, as provided in the proviso to Section 165(S) of the Criminal Procedure Code, that the Special Judge directed the Senior Public Prosecutor, Cia (I) to report immediately, that the Senior Public Prosecutor, in his turn, called upon the Investigating Officer to report by 2 P. M, on 8-1-1968, that on 9-1-1968, the record under Section 165 (1), dated 1-1-1968, signed by B. A. Lakshminarayana Swamy, 1st respondent, and the requisition or order under Section 165(3), also signed by B. A. Lakshminarayana Swamy, were submitted in the Court of the Special Judge, Delhi, and copies of the said two documents were supplied to the petitioners by an order of the Special Judge, Delhi, dated 9-1-1968, that photostat copies of the application, dated 8-1-1968, for emergent copies of the record made under Section 165(1) with endorsement thereon, the order of the Special Judge, dated 9-1-1968, directing copies of the documents to be furnished, the copies of the First Information Report, the record under Section 165(1), and the requisition or order under Section 165(3) were filed as Annexures 1 to 5 to this affidavit, and that the above facts show clearly that the provisions of Sub-sections (1), (3) and (5) of Section 165 of the Criminal Procedure Code were nto complied with at all, and consequently the searches and the seizures were illegal and invalid.The first respondent, B. A. Lakshminarayana Swamy filed a further affidavit dated 27-1-1968, in reply to the aforesaid rejoinder affidavit of V. P. Punj and S. N. P. Punj.The said conclusion of the High Court that the search was defective was nto challenged in the Supreme Court.
['Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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JUDGMENT Somasundaram, J.Abdul Khader, the appellant herein, stands convicted and sentenced by the Sessions Judge, Dharmapuri Division, at Krishnagiri, to suffer rigorous imprisonment for two years for an offence under Section 493 of the Penal Code.Section 498 of the Penal Code punishes persons who cohabit with a woman after deceitfully making a belief in her that she was legally married to him.The prosecution case was that on 16th January 1967, the appellant by deceit, made P.W. 1 believe, that she was married to him and after creating such a belief in her mind, he made her cohabit with him.The defence of the appellant was one of denial.The learned Sessions Judge found that the appellant went through a form of marriage knowing that it was not the proper form and thereby deceived P. W. 1, and made her have sexual intercourse with him.The appellant is not a stranger to P. W. 1 because he is her cousin.He had given a new saree and ear ornaments to her.There was also an exchange of garlands in the presence of P. Ws. 3, 4 and one Lal Batcha.They lived together as husband and wife for a few days.The appellant had taken P. W. 1 to his house, and after two days, his sister, brother-in-law and father had pushed P. W. 1, out.The appellant had asked her to remain with her grand-mother stating that he would fix up a house and then take her.These circumstances establish that he never practised any deception on her.The section is not intended to punish one for contracting a marriage which turns out to be illegal.But it only punishes a man for obtaining, the body of the worn in by deceitfully assuring her that he had acquired that right by jus mariti.P. W. 1 in this case was lawfully married to the petitioner.Further, there has been no deceitful assurance or act on his part so as to attract Section 493, Penal Code.The conviction is hot correct.Both the conviction and sentence are set aside.The appeal is allowed.
['Section 498 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Learned counsel for the rival parties are heard.The applicant has filed this first application under Section 439 of the Cr.P.C. for grant of bail.In the present case, the applicant is under incarceration for more than three and half years and he has completed half of the punishment prescribed for the said offence.It is further submitted by the learned counsel for the applicant that statements of material witnesses have already been recorded in crime No.83/2014 on the basis of which this Court has already enlarged the applicant on bail vide order dated 29/04/2019 passed in MCRC No.15314/2019, therefore, allegation does not survive.The applicant is in custody since 03/10/2015 and early conclusion of the trial is a bleak possibility and prolonged pretrial detention is an anathema to the concept of liberty.Under these grounds, applicant prays for grant of bail.A copy of this order be sent to the Court concerned for compliance.Certified copy as per rules.(S.A. Dharmadhikari) Judge rahul RAHUL SINGH PARIHAR 2019.06.18 17:09:40 +05'30'
['Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 384 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code']
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By way of the impugned judgement dated 07.09.2011 and order on sentence dated 13.09.2011, Mohd. Imran (hereinafter referred to as 'Appellant No.1'); Mukesh alias Karka (hereinafter referred to as 'Appellant No.2'); and Akram (hereinafter referred to as 'Appellant No.3'), were convicted and sentenced as follows:I) Appellant No.1CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 2 of 30ii) Imprisonment for Life and fine of Rs.2,000/- for the offence punishable under the provisions of Sections 302/34 IPC.In default of payment of fine, the Appellant No.1 has been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a further period of 2 months.The sentences have been directed to run concurrently.ii) Imprisonment for Life and fine of Rs.2,000/- for the offence punishable under the provisions of Sections 302/34 IPC.CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 3 of 30 In default of payment of fine, the Appellant No.2 has been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a further period of 2 months.CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 3 of 30The sentences have been directed to run concurrently.III) Appellant No.3The sentences have been directed to run concurrently.Furthermore, the benefit of Section 428 CrPC has been granted to the Appellant No.3 as well.CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 4 of 30CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 4 of 30The fulcrum of the case of the prosecution is that on 18.04.2010, the Appellant nos.1, 2 and 3 (hereinafter collectively referred to as 'Appellants'), sharing common intention, caused stab injuries on the body of Dhiraj s/o Mr. Ram Nandan (hereinafter referred to as 'the deceased') leading to his death.The injuries were caused with a knife [Ex.P9], whilst committing robbery, at Sanjay Jheel, Mayur Vihar Phase-II, Delhi (hereinafter referred to as 'Sanjay Jheel/crime spot').After committing the murder, the appellants took the mobile phone, Rs.60/-70/-, and the school ATM card of the deceased and absconded from the crime spot.The entire incident was witnessed by Ms. Sapna (PW-6), who was present with the deceased at the time of the incident.A PCR call [Ex.PW13/A] was made at the instance of PW-6 by Mr. Satish (PW-3); who was playing cricket at some distance from the crime spot, and Daily Diary No.13A was lodged at Police Station Pandav Nagar, Delhi (hereinafter referred to as 'the Police Station').Sub-Inspector Krishan Pal, PCR, North East zone (PW-15) alongwith Constable Murad Khan reached at the crime spot where they found the dead body of the deceased smeared in blood.Inspector B.R. Meena (PW-23/Investigating officer/IO) also reached at the crime spot, where PW-6 was also present.CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 5 of 30CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 5 of 30Crime team was called at the crime spot.PW-23 recorded the statement of PW-6 [Ex.PW6/A]; prepared the rukka [Ex.PW23/A] and gave it to Constable Bahadur Singh (PW-18) for registration of F.I.R. [F.I.R. being Ex.PW19/A]; and thereafter prepared the site plan [Ex.PW23/B].The dead body of the deceased was sent to LBS Mortuary through PW-15 and Constable Murad Khan.PW-23 took two samples each of blood soaked earth and earth controls from the crime spot [vide separate memos Ex.PW-6/B to E].A P-Cap lying near the body of the deceased was also taken into possession [vide memo Ex.PW-6/F].Thereafter, PW-23 alongwith woman Constable Krishna took PW-6 to her house and took into possession the blood stained clothes worn by her at the time of the incident [vide memo Ex.PW6/G].On 19.04.2010, PW-23 conducted inquest proceedings and the dead body of the deceased was identified by Mr. Neeraj Kumar and Mr. Ram Nandan Prasad [vide Ex.PW2/A and Ex.PW1/A, respectively].Further, PW- 23 requested the doctor for postmortem vide application Ex.PW23/D. Postmortem was conducted and the dead body of the deceased was handed over to his relatives [vide Ex.PW1/B].The clothes as well as the blood CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 6 of 30 sample of the deceased were taken into possession [vide seizure memo Ex.PW23/E].CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 6 of 30It is further the case of the prosecution that the mobile device of the deceased; being amongst the articles robbed by the Appellants, was placed under surveillance and it was discovered that another mobile number being 9958103551, activated in the name of one Gulshan Bano R/o Jhuggi Jawahar Mohalla, Shashi Garden, Delhi (mother of the appellant no.1) was being used on the said mobile device.On enquiry from the mother of Appellant No.1, the former pointed towards the latter stating that he was using the said mobile number.Consequent thereto, the Appellant No.1 was apprehended and made a disclosure statement [Ex.PW17/A] admitting his involvement in the incident.Appellant No.1 was arrested [vide arrest memo Ex.PW17/D] and his personal search was conducted [vide memo Ex.PW17/E].Appellant No.1 got recovered from the fridge in his jhuggi, the mobile device of the deceased in which he was using the said mobile number.The mobile device and the SIM of the said mobile number being used therein, were taken into possession CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 7 of 30 [vide seizure memo Ex.PW17/B].Furthermore, the Apellant No.1 also got recovered from his jhuggi a bloodstained T-shirt, which he was wearing at the time of the commission of the offence [vide seizure memo Ex.PW17/C].CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 7 of 30Appellant No.2 was apprehended and during interrogation he also made a disclosure statement admitting his involvement in the incident [Ex.PW21/C].Appellant No.2 was arrested [vide arrest memo Ex.PW21/A] and his personal search was conducted [vide memo Ex.PW21/B].Appellant No.2 got recovered from his jhuggi the knife [Ex.P9] used in the commission of the offence [vide memo Ex.PW21/E].Furthermore, the Appellant No.2 also got recovered a white coloured blood stained T-shirt, which he was wearing at the time of the commisison of the offence [Ex.PW21/F].Subsequent thereto, at the instance of Appellant Nos.1 and 2, Appellant No.3 was arrested.Pursuant to his arrest, Appellant No.3 also made a disclosure statement admitting his involvement in the incident [Ex.PW18/PX2].Appellant No.3 was arrested [vide arrest memo Ex.PW18/A] and his personal search was conducted [vide memo Ex.PW18/PX1].Appellant No.3 got recovered a shirt having bloodstains CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 8 of 30 from his jhuggi, which he was wearing at the time of the commission of the offence [vide memo Ex.PW18/PX4].CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 8 of 30However, the Appellants refused to participate in the TIP proceedings [Ex.PW9/E to G].Broadly, PW-6 (the eyewitness) has deposed to the incident as follows:That on 18.04.2010, at about 10 A.M., while she was on her way to her friend's house she met the deceased.The deceased was her cousin brother.They both got engaged into a conversation and whilst simulataneously conversing and walking reached Sanjay Jheel.They both sat down there on a bench when the Appellants approached the deceased and asked him for the time.Thereafter, the Appellants asked the deceased to stand up and both of them stood up.On their standing up, the Appellants asked the deceased to hand over everything in his possession, however, PW- 6 and the deceased told the Appellants that they do not have anything and CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 22 of 30 asked for them to be left alone.Appellant No.2 took out a knife and asked for the deceased to hand over everything in his possession or otherwise he will be killed.On the other hand, Appellant No.3 threatened PW-6 to leave from there or otherwise she too will be killed.PW-6 started walking away from the crime spot and after walking a few steps again requested to the Appellants to leave them alone.The deceased also requested the Appellants to leave them.CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 22 of 30The Appellant Nos.1 and 3 caught hold of the deceased and the Appellant No.2 stabbed the deceased on his chest.On being stabbed, the deceased started crying and after taking a few steps fell down on the ground.Thereafter, the Appellants took away the money and mobile phone of the deceased and absconded from the crime spot.PW-6 went up to the deceased while he was bleeding from his chest and asked him to get up.However, the deceased couldn't speak and was breathing heavily.PW-6 approached some boys, which included PW-3, and asked them for their help.At her request, PW-3 made the call to the police to report the incident, pursuant to which the police arrived and took the dead body of the deceased to the hospital.One of the contention which was raised by the Appellants before the Trial Court in order to discredit the testimony of the sole eye-witness, PW-6 CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 23 of 30 was that she has only deposed of one stab wound viz. Injury No.1, whereas the postmortem records two stab wounds on the body of the deceased.The Trial Court whilst rejecting this contention and holding the testimony of PW- 6 to be consistent, credible and truthful, observed as follows:CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 23 of 30i) Rigorous Imprisonment for 7 years and fine of Rs.1,000/- for the offence punishable under the provisions of Sections CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 2 of 30 392/34 Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as 'IPC').In default of payment of fine, the Appellant No.1 has been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a further period of 1 month.Rs.1,000/- for the offence punishable under the provision of Section 397 IPC.In default of payment of fine, the Appellant No.2 has been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a further period of 1 month.i) Rigorous Imprisonment for 7 years and fine of Rs.1,000/- for the offence punishable under the provisions of Sections 392/34 IPC.In default of payment of fine, the Appellant No.3 has been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a further period of 1 month.ii) Imprisonment for Life and fine of Rs.2,000/- for the offence punishable under the provisions of Sections 302/34 IPC.In default of payment of fine, the Appellant No.3 has been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a further period of 2 months.On 04.05.2010, PW-23 recorded supplementary statement of PW-6 qua the identity of the Appellants, and on 05.05.2010 statement of PW-6 was recorded under the provisions of Section 164 of CrPC [Ex.PW6/H].The Exhibits were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (hereinafter referred to as 'the FSL').In the FSL examination [Ex.PX2] it was discovered that human blood was present on the clothes recovered at the instance of the Appellants as well as on the knife, however, the blood group could not be detected.Insofar as the post-mortem report is concerned [Ex.PW5/A], it has been stated therein that the following injuries were present on the body of the deceased:i) Incised stab wound 3.3 x 1.9 cms obliquely present over left side at chest 112 cms above heel and 8 cms from midline, chest cavity deep, margins sharp and regular, lower end acute, CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 9 of 30 directed downwards, inwards and medially (hereinafter referred to as 'Injury No.1');CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 9 of 30ii) Incised wound .5 x .1 cms oblique, present over dorsum of left hand, skin deep, margin sharp and regular (hereinafter referred to as 'Injury No.2');iii) Abrasion 0.5 x .03 cms present 1 cm above medial end of right eyebrow on forehead (hereinafter referred to as 'Injury No.3').It has been opined by Dr. Vinay Kumar Singh (PW-5) that the cause of death was haemorragic shock consequent upon stab injury to the chest; all injuries were antemortem in nature.Injury No.1 was sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature and Injury Nos.1 and 2 were caused by a single edge and sharp weapon/knife.Furthermore, on internal examination the following injuries were discovered:"In continuation of Injury No.1, skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, in between 6th and 7th ribs, upper body at 7th rib, pleurae left side, pericardium and left ventricular of heart above apex, 2.8 x 1.5 cms were incised, about 2.5 litres of blood in cavity, all layers of muscle at left vertical were incised, cavity deep, chambers empty."As per the sketch drawn by PW-5 of the knife, the length and width of the blade thereof is 20.3 cms and 3.7 cms (at most), respectively.It has also been deposed by PW-5 that Injury Nos.1 and 2 have been caused from the same weapon of offence.CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 10 of 30Furthermore, PW-5 has also tendered subsequent opinion with respect to Injury No.3 [Ex.PW5/B].It has been stated therein that the Injury No.3 could have been caused due to surface friction against a rough surface.At the trial, the prosecution has examined 23 witnesses in support of its case.The Appellant No.1 in his defence has chosen not to lead any evidence.However, it has been stated by him in his statement under the provision of Section 313 CrPC that he found the mobile phone from the bushes of the park at Sanjay Jheel; where he was playing football.The Appellant No.2 in his defence has produced Mr. Nasir Ahmed (DW-1), his employer, CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 11 of 30 who asserted that at the time of the incident Appellant No.2 was present with him in Rewari, Haryana.CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 11 of 30The Appellant No.3 in his statement, under the provision of Section 313 CrPC, whilst disputing the recovery made at his instance, has also stated that he has been falsely implicated in the present case.The Appellant No.3 in his defence has produced Md. Yasin (DW-2), his employer.It has been deposed by DW-2 that Appellant No.3 was working with him at the time of the incident.i) The testimony of PW-6, the sole eyewitness, being consistent, credible and truthful;ii) PW-6 has identified the Appellants in Court.Furthermore, PW-iii) The recovery of the mobile phone of the deceased from the Appellant No.1;CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 12 of 30"25. ...It is stated that as per PW6, only one stab wound was caused but as per P/M report Ex.PW5/A, deceased sufferred two stab wounds.PW6 has talked about only one stab injury inflicted by accused Mukesh on the chest of deceased.As per P/M report Ex.PW5/A, there is another stab injury present over dorsum of left hand and doctor opined that both injury No.1 and 2 are caused by single edged sharp weapon/knife.PW6 has stated that he pleaded with accused persons to leave them as they are not having any thing.On this, accused Akram threatened her to go away from there otherwise she will be killed.She started leaving from the spot, after taking few steps she again requested accused persons to leave them.As per PW6, she saw accused Imran and Mukesh caught hold deceased Dhiraj and accusecd Mukesh stabbed Dhiraj on his chest.Injury on the dorsum of left hand of the deceased shows that while being assaulted with knife as natural reaction to defend, deceased must have brought his hand in-between, as result of which he sustained this injury.Since PW6 was leaving from the spot and from some distance she saw accused stabbing deceased, it looks probable that she did not see accused inflicting injury No.2 i.e. on left hand of the deceased.She was cross-examined by both the Ld.The Trial Court rightly concluded that the possible reason for PW-6 not having testified to the injury on the dorsem of the left hand (Injury No.2) could be that it was caused when she started walking away from the crime spot.As rightly observed by the Trial Court, Injury No.2 could have been caused as a consequence of the deceased exercising his right of defending himself by a natural reflex action against assault by Appellant No.2 with a knife.Even otherwise, it seems only logical to conclude that Appellant No.2 was not aiming for the dorsum of his left hand.CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 25 of 30CRL.A.1315/2014, 829/2012 & 452/2013 Page 25 of 30However, insofar as the fatal injury is concerned i.e. Injury No.1, the same was caused by the Appellant No.2 using the knife [Ex.P9] recovered at his instance, whilst Appellant Nos.1 and 3 had caught hold of the deceased.The Injury No.1 was on a vital part of the body viz. left side of the chest, with a force so great that it resulted into an incise wound as large as 3.3 x 1.9 cms, and as a consequence thereof, several grave and internal injuries also resulted.The Injury No.1 so caused cannot be said to be accidental, unlike Injury No.2, as with two persons holding the deceased and a stab wound already present on the dorsum of his left hand (Injury No.2), there was not much scope of movement for a young boy of an average physique.
['Section 300 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 299 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 482 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 397 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 392 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Supplementary affidavit filed on behalf of the applicants in Court today is taken on record.This application u/s 482 Cr.P.C. has been filed to quash the charge sheet dated 07.02.2019 as well as the entire proceedings of Case No. 1352 of 2019 arising out of Case Crime No. 197 of 2018 (State vs. Sunil Pandey and another), under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 I.P.C., Police Station-Purani Basti, District-Basti pending in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Basti.Heard Mr. Ram Mani Upadhyay, learned counsel for the applicants, Mr. Kripa Shanker Pandey, learned counsel for opposite party no.2 and learned A.G.A. for the State.After death of mother of opposite party no.2, namely, Pavitra Devi, the name of opposite party no.2 and his elder brother has been entered in the revenue records as legal heir of their mother.The application of mind has to be indicated by disclosure of mind on the satisfaction.I have heard the learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the records of the present application.
['Section 471 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 468 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 467 in The Indian Penal Code']
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It is alleged that Pandian divorced her and contracted second marriage with one Revathy.This appears to be the motive for the accused to bear ill-will towards Pandian, while so, Pandian had reconciled with Podhumponnu.Heard the learned counsel on either side.2.Criminal Revision Petition.Criminal Revision Petition.No.31 of 2010 has been filed by the first accused questioning the judgment imposed by the trial Court and the first appellate Court finding him guilty.Since both the Criminal Revision Petitions are interlinked, this Court heard them together.But ignoring the same on 05.04.2005, at about 03.00 a.m., there was a murderous assault on the revision petitioner / victim.The revision petitioner had sustained serious injuries including head injury and three fractures.Crime No.56 of 2005, was registered on the file of the Inspector of Police, Mayanoor Police Station, karur District.The matter was investigated and final report was filed.The charges under Sections 341 and 307 were framed against accused Nos.1 and 2 while charge under Section 341 and 307 r/w 34 were framed against the third accused.http://www.judis.nic.in 44.In support of the charges, on the side of the prosecution P.W.1 to P.W.11 were marked and Ex.P.1 to Ex.P.12 were marked.M.O.1 and M.O.2 were also marked.On the side of the accused, three witnesses were examined and Ex.D1-Attendance Register was also marked.5.The learned trial Judge by judgment dated 25.01.2008 acquitted Accused Nos.2 and 3 of all the charges and found the first accused alone guilty of the charge under Section 324 I.P.C. The first accused was sentenced to undergo six months simple imprisonment and to pay a fine amount of Rs.500/- for the offence under Section 341 of I.P.C., and for the offence under Section 324 of I.P.C. he was sentenced to undergo two year rigorous imprisonment and a sum of Rs.1000/- was also imposed as fine.The default sentence was also imposed on him.6.The learned Sessions Judge by judgment dated 05.09.2008 while sustaining the conviction imposed on the first accused, has held that the period of sentence already undergone by him would be sufficient.However, the fine amount imposed by the learned trial Magistrate was confirmed.7.The learned counsel on either side reiterated the respectivehttp://www.judis.nic.in 5 contentions.As regards the second accused, he had pleaded alibi.In support of his stand, Ex.D.1-Attendance Register was also marked.He also examined the defence witnesses D.W.2 and D.W,.3, who are the Principal and Warden of the Institution, in support of his stand that he was elsewhere.The learned trial Judge after elaborate consideration of the evidence on record chose to accept the plea of alibi pleaded by the second accused.9.I am of the view that there is no necessity to interfere with the said findings.The occurrence had taken place at about 03.00 am.On 05.04.2005, on the same day, at about 02.30 p.m., Ex.P1 complaint was lodged and Ex.P.7-Firsthttp://www.judis.nic.in 6 Information Report was registered.In the complaint itself, the first accused has been implicated.If the revision petitioner was attacked by somebody, there was no need for the petitioner to implicate Muthusamy / first respondent herein.10.The learned counsel appearing for the first respondent would contend that except the testimony of P.W.1, there is no other corroborating evidence.P.W.1 is on injured witness.The injuries would speak for themselves.In any event, I am only exercising the revisional jurisdiction.Both the Courts below have clearly found that Muthusamy was guilty of the offence, with which he was charged.I cannot re- appreciate the evidence.Therefore, I confirm the conviction imposed on him.Now comes the question of punishment.The sentence certainly warrants interference.At this stage, the learned counsel appearing for the revision petitioner submits that the occurrence had taken place wayback in the year 2005 and since more than 15 years have elapsed, this Court would not be justified in sending Muthusamy to prison.Obviously, Muthsamy must be a senior citizen by now.Therefore, interest of justice will behttp://www.judis.nic.in 7 served by directing Muthusamy to pay a sum of Rs.40,000/- (Rupees Forty Thousand only) to the revision petitioner / Pandian directly within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.If the Muthusamy / Accused No.1 fails to pay this compensation amount, he will have to undergo rigorous imprisonment of one year.If the victim is not willing to accept the compensation amount directly from the accused, the accused shall deposit the same to the credit of S.C.No.17 of 2007, on the file of the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Kulithalai, Karut District, which can be withdrawn by the victim.The judgments passed by the Courts below are accordingly modified.11.Criminal Revision Petition No.31 of 2010 stands dismissed accordingly.Criminal Revision Petition No.731 of 2008 stands disposed of accordingly.06.06.2019 Index : Yes/No Internet : Yes/No Tsghttp://www.judis.nic.in 8 G.R.SWAMINATHAN, J.1.The Inspector of Police, Mayanoor Police Station, Karur District.The Sessions Court, Karur3.The Assistant Sessions Court, Kulithalai, Karur District.4.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai.Crl.R.C.[MD]Nos.731 of 2008 & 31 of 2010 06.06.2019http://www.judis.nic.in
['Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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ORDER G.B. Pattanaik, J.This appeal is by the informant against an order of acquittal recorded by the High Court of the charges under Sections 304B and 201, I.P.C. Six accused persons stood charge and were tried for having committed an offence under Sections 304B and 201, I.P.C. on the allegation that the deceased, Rajbala, died on account of electrocution within 7 years of her marriage and she had been subjected to cruelty and harassment by her husband as well as in -laws for demand of dowry, and that the dead body was disposed of without waiting for the parents of the deceased to arrive at the place of occurrence.PWs.1 and 2, the brother of the deceased and cousin of the deceased were two witnesses examined by the prosecution in support of the case of harassment and cruelty meted out to the deceased by her husband as well as in-laws.The learned Sessions Judge on conclusion of the trial came to the conclusion that there exists no material as against accused Nos. 5 and 6, and therefore, without examining them under Section 313 acquitted them of the charges leveled against them.So far as accused No. 3 is concerned, the learned Sessions Judge acquitted him of the charge and that order of acquittal became final not being assailed by the State by preferring an appeal in the High Court.The convicted accused persons, namely, accused Nos. 1,2 and 4 who are the mother-in-law, husband and father-in-law respectively, of the deceased preferred appeal against their conviction and sentence.The High Court by the impugned judgment came to a positive finding that the evidence on record is sufficient to establish that Rajbala during her lifetime used to be harassed by her husband and in-laws on account of insufficient dowry, and further demands used to be made.Notwithstanding the aforesaid finding being arrived at, since the prosecution evidence did not establish any unnatural circumstance for the death of the deceased, the High Court acquitted accused Nos. 1,2 and 4 of the charge under Sections 304B and 201, I.P.C. The High Court, however, convicted the accused persons under Section 498A in view of the conclusion referred to earlier and sentenced them for the period already undergone.It is this order of acquittal of accused Nos. 1,2 and 4 for the offence under Sections 304B and 201, I.P.C. which is the subject matter of appeal.2. Learned Counsel for the appellant contends that the death of the deceased undoubtedly having taken place within 7 years of marriage and that the death being on account of electrocution which is a burnt injury, and the finding of the High Court being that the husband and in-laws had harassed deceased, Rajbala, on account of insufficient dowry, and further demands used to be made, the ultimate conclusion of the High Court that the ingredients of offence under Section 304B has not been established, is unsustainable in law, therefore, the order of acquittal is wholly unjustified.In the circumstances, we set aside the order of acquittal passed by the High Court of the offence under Section 304B, I.P.C. and hold that the accused Nos. 1, 2 and 4 committed offence under Section 304B, and therefore, they are convicted thereunder and sentenced to 7 years rigorous imprisonment.They must now surrender to undergo balance period of sentence.This appeal is allowed.
['Section 304B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 313 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code']
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P.W.1, Jharia Das deposed the victim was married to the appellant two years prior to the incident.The appellant had an illicit relation with another girl.On the date of occurrence one Rabin Saha, a neighbour from the matrimonial home of the victim informed him that the victim suffered burn injury.Rabin Saha admitted the victim at Jalpaiguir District Hospital.On getting information, P.W. 1 rushed to his daughter.His daughter was in her senses and was talking.She stated that her husband poured kerosene oil on her body and set her on fire.She died at hospital after 4/5 days.He lodged complaint at Haldibari P.S. He put his LTI on the complaint.In cross-examination, he stated that six months prior to the occurrence his daughter had given birth to a child.Unfortunately, the baby died after her birth.His daughter used to lament the loss of her baby.P.W.5, Rabindra Nath Saha & P.W.6, Gautam Dutta have been declared hostile.P.W.5 deposed that on the date of occurrence at 11 A.M./12 noon he heard a hue and cry.He came out from the house and found the victim was lying in front of a public well and her wearing apparels were being changed by local people.She had severe burn injuries on her person.She was taken to Haldibari hospital and thereafter shifted to Jalpaiguri hospital.She told him to inform her parents.Accordingly, he informed her father (P.W.1).P.W 6 claimed that the victim had suffered burn injuries at her matrimonial home.P.W. 7, Goutam Saha was a witness to seizure of burnt cloths from the house of the appellant.convicted and sentenced the appellant, as aforesaid.By the selfsame judgment and order, the co-accused persons, namely, Dinawari Biswas (mother-in-law), Smt. Sarani Biswas (sister-in-law) and Shantia Biswas (husband of the sister-in-law) were acquitted of the charges levelled against them.Prosecution case as narrated in the first information report was given a complete go by in the purported dying declaration of the victim.There is no allegation of torture for or in connection with dowry in the dying declaration.Evidence on record does not satisfy the ingredients of the offence punishable under section 498A of the IPC.Original dying declaration was not produced in court.Doctor who gave the certificate of fitness of the victim has not been examined.Hence, the dying declaration ought not to have been relied upon.Accordingly, the appellant is liable to be acquitted.Mr. Ahmed, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State argued that the dying declaration of the victim was recorded by the Sub-divisional Officer, Jalpaiguri, Sadar.Photocopy of the dying declaration duly attested by the witness has been exhibited as secondary evidence since the original was untraceable.P.W.12 enquired with regard to the fitness of the victim from the treating doctor who endorsed his satisfaction in the dying declaration in her presence.Hence all the pre-requisites for recording dying declaration were duly satisfied.From the dying declaration it appears that the appellant had an illicit relation with one Laxmi and over such issue there was an altercation between him and the victim.He poured kerosene oil on the body of the victim and tried to set her on fire.Due to such instigation the victim set herself on fire.Other evidence on record corroborate the dying declaration in all material particulars.Hence, the appeal is liable to be dismissed.Victim was physically assaulted by the appellant when she raised protest over such issue.Appellant also demanded money from the victim.As he was unable to meet such demands, victim was assaulted by the appellant and other in-laws.P.W.8, Ramesh Roy, relation of the victim who has corroborated the evidence of the aforesaid witnesses.Both of them deposed that victim was set on fire at her matrimonial home by her husband and other accused persons.He signed on the seizure list.He deposed that the victim had suffered burn injuries at her matrimonial home.P.W 12 was the sub-divisional officer of Jalpaiguri Sadar at the time of the incident.Upon receipt of requisition she came to the hospital and recorded dying declaration of the victim (Ext. 6).Prior to recording the dying declaration, she asked the attending doctor whether the victim was physically and mentally fit and conscious to make statement.Doctor replied in the affirmative and appended a note in the dying declaration.Thereafter, she proceeded to record the dying declaration.She took the LTI of the patient on the declaration.She proved the carbon copy of the original document duly attested by her as the original was untraceable.The said document was admitted as secondary evidence in terms of section 65 of the Evidence Act.P.W 13 was the autopsy doctor.He proved the post mortem report and deposed that the victim had died due to shock and hemorrhage as a result of burn injury, ante mortem in nature.He proved the inquest report (Ext9).P.Ws 9, 10 and 11 are the investigating officers in the instant case.While P.Ws 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8 claimed that the victim had told them in the hospital that she had been set on fire by the appellant and other in- laws, in the written dying declaration (Ext. 6) recorded by P.W 12 she stated that there was an altercation between herself and the appellant over the issue of illicit relation between the appellant and one lady, namely Lakhsmi.In the course of altercation the appellant had doused her in kerosene oil and tried to set her on fire.At that time, she herself set her on fire.Such analysis of evidence on the part of the trial judge, in my considered opinion, is just and reasonable and does not call for interference.However, learned counsel for the appellant has seriously criticised the written dying declaration on a number of scores.It is argued that the original document was not produced in court and a carbon copy was illegally admitted into evidence.It is also submitted that the doctor who treated the patient and endorsed the certificate has not been examined.I have given anxious consideration to the aforesaid objections raised on behalf of the appellant.Objection with regard to admissibility of the attested photocopy of the dying declaration is of little substance.It has come on record that the original dying declaration kept in the office of the sub-divisional officer, Jalpaiguri was not traceable in the said office.I have gone through the evidence of P.W 1 in extenso.No challenge has been thrown to the presence of P.W 12 at the hospital on 22.3.1998 when she recorded the dying declaration.P.W. 12 handed over the attested photocopy of the dying declaration to.I.O. and the original was kept on record.At the time of trial (which was held in 2010, after about 12 years) the original document was untraceable and hence, the duly attested photocopy was accepted as secondary evidence.The procedure adopted by P.W 12 is neither unnatural nor opposed to normal human conduct.Finally, it has been argued that the attending doctor who gave certificate of fitness has not been examined.Failure to examine the attending doctor in the facts of the instant case does not affect its credibility.P.W 12 in her deposition categorically stated she had enquired of the attending doctor with regard to the consciousness and the mental fitness of the victim prior to recording her statement.The attending doctor gave his affirmation and duly made an endorsement in the presence of the said witness.Hence, the endorsement of the treating doctor which was made in the presence of P.W 12 has been duly proved by her.In these circumstances, I am of the opinion prosecution has been able to prove that the written dying declaration was duly recorded by the sub-divisional officer, P.W 12 after the certificate of fitness with regard to the consciousness and the capacity of the victim to make such statement was duly endorsed by the treating doctor in her presence.All the formalities and requisites for recording a valid dying declaration are satisfied.Perusal of the dying declaration also gives an impression that the victim had narrated the incident in an honest and bona fide manner.She did not make all her in laws responsible for her misfortune.She admitted that she had herself set her on fire and not her husband.The manner in which the dying declaration (Ext 6) was recorded in the instant case and its tenor inspires confidence that it is an honest and truthful rendition of the incident resulting in death of the victim.There was a quarrel between the couple over an illicit relation between the appellant and another lady.In the course of quarrel the appellant tried to set her on fire by dousing her in kerosene oil.Due to such conduct on the part of the appellant, the victim instigated to self immolate herself.Evidence has also come on record that over such issue the appellant had subjecting the victim to mental and physical torture.The aforesaid factual backdrop clearly shows the intention of the appellant to incite the victim to kill herself.I am unwilling to accept the suggestion made on the part of the appellant that the victim may have committed suicide as she was depressed due to the untimely death of her child in the light of the clear and unequivocal motive disclosed by the her in the dying declaration.I find no substance in such submission advanced by the appellant.In these circumstances, I am of the considered opinion that the appellant had subjected the victim to mental and physical torture over an illicit relationship between himself and another lady.He tried to kill her and under such extreme circumstances the victim was induced to commit suicide.Hence, I am inclined to uphold the conviction recorded against the appellant on the aforesaid counts.Urgent Photostat Certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied expeditiously after complying with all necessary legal formalities.
['Section 498 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 306 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 109 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Through: Sh.Sanjay Lao, APP.HON'BLE MR.The prosecution alleges that on 13-04-2003, in the evening, at 09:00 PM, when Harsh Dua, and his brothers, Praveen and Sonu Dua, had gone to attend the engagement ceremony of their friend at Sanjay Park, Govind Pura, and were talking amongst themselves, the Appellant reached there, and Crl.A. 134/2009 Page 1 picked up a quarrel with Praveen.He reportedly told Harsh Dua, that Praveen had slapped him, and that he would not leave him.Harsh and the others tried to calm down the appellant; he went away.Harsh and his brothers went inside the park.A few minutes later, Inderjeet Chawla @ Deepak, a friend of Parveen also reached there.When all these friends were conversing, the Appellant came there.He complained to Inderjeet that Parveen had slapped him, without a cause, and that it did not bode well for him.Again, Praveen's brothers tried to diffuse the situation, and calm down the appellant; they also apologized on behalf of Parveen.At this stage, Parveen slapped the Appellant.Inderjeet tried to intervene; Jagtar then pulled out a knife, and inflicted injuries on him.He cried out for help.Parveen tried to save him; the appellant then turned on him, and gave several serious knife blows on his vital parts.Parveen fell down.The appellant fled the spot.JUSTICE S.P.GARG MR.The Appellant impugns a judgment and order of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, dated 14-08-2003, in SC 60/2007, whereby he was convicted for the offence punishable under Section 302, IPC, and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment.Parveen's brothers rushed him to the hospital.Inderjeet gave his statement; an FIR, No. 136/03 PS Preet Vihar was registered, alleging offences under Sections 307/324 IPC.Later, in the early hours of the next morning, Parveen died.The appellant was arrested for committing the crime; Section 302 IPC was also added to the charge sheet.He pleaded innocence, and claimed trial.The prosecution examined twenty witnesses in support of its case.The appellant examined his mother, in his defence.In addition, the court examined two witnesses, since a plea was taken that the Appellant was suffering from mental disorder, and was undergoing treatment in jail.After 2005, he underwent treatment Crl.A. 134/2009 Page 2 for bi-polar depression.After considering all the materials on record, the Trial Court, by the impugned judgment, convicted the Appellant for the offence mentioned in the preceding portion of the judgment, and sentenced him to undergo imprisonment in the manner described earlier.Mr. M.L. Yadav, learned counsel for the Appellant urged at the outset, that the Trial Court findings as far as they pertained to the facts go, cannot be assailed, because PW-1 Inderjeet Chawla, the injured witness, and PW-5 as well as PW-7, brothers of the deceased, supported the prosecution about the attack which took place.Counsel urged that though there were some variations in the testimonies of these witnesses, they did not undermine the basic story about how Parveen had been attacked.It was however urged that the Trial Court fell into error in not noticing that the Court witnesses' depositions had clearly shown that the Appellant was not in his senses.Court witness No.2 was the doctor who had treated the Appellant even before the incident; he deposed about his mental illness.Even after his conviction, when he was undergoing sentence, the Appellant was a psychiatric patient, who underwent regular treatment.The Court should have given these serious consideration; instead the impugned judgment does not reflect any application of mind.It was argued next that even if the prosecution is said to have proved all the facts alleged in this case, at best the Appellant could have been justifiably convicted under Section 304-II IPC, and certainly not under Section 302 IPC.Here, counsel argued that the episode took place due to a sudden quarrel; the deceased had concededly slapped the Appellant, who Crl.A. 134/2009 Page 3 retaliated later by stabbing him.There was no premeditation, and deliberation or planning.Counsel relied on the decision reported as Kandaswamy v State of Tamil Nadu 2008 (11) SCC 97, where the facts were recounted as follows:"XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX PWs 1 and 2 were examined as eye witnesses to the occurrence.Gurvammal is the elder sister of PW 1 and deceased Alagarsamy is her husband.The accused was known to him.Guruvammla died leaving behind two children - a girl and a boy.This made his father (PW 2) to bring Alagarsamy to his house.At about 8.30 p.m. on the occurrence day, he was standing opposite to the house of Ramaiah with his son, after returning from the house of Visalam.PW 2 was also coming in the street from the shop and he asked as to whether he had gone to Visalam's house and come back.Alagarsamy alighted from the bus and PW 2 also asked him as to whether he had gone to Visalam's house.Palpandi (son of accused) also alighted from the bus and the accused asked him as to why he has not brought his mother with him for which he had been sent.Palpandi replied to his father (the accused) that unless the accused goes mother will not come.Finding fault that he is repeating the same answer, the accused beat his son.Alagarsamy asked him as to why he was beating the young boy for which the accused responded stating that he had no business to intervene in his family problem and saying so, removed the Aruval from his person and cut Alagarsamy which injury landed on his left hand.Threatening them with dire consequences, the accused made good his escape.Alagarsamy was lying dead.This betrayed pre- meditation.The sequence of events was that after that, the Appellant left the spot, went somewhere and Crl.Chandra Shekhar, who delivered the judgment, about this evidence.In the present case, there are three head injuries, two on the scalp and one on the left parietal region.The first two injuries are, undoubtedly, fatal injuries.As a result of those injuries, multiple fractures of the right parietal bone occurred, the membranes got severed and there was injury to the brain matter.As regards the third injury, which is an incised wound of 2? 1? on the left parietal region, it cannot be said for certain that in the ordinary course it would have caused death.The medical evidence is silent on this aspect.The doctor did not even say what impact this third injury had internally.All the three appellants inflicted injuries on the head of the deceased with the weapons in their hands according to the prosecution witnesses.There is an allegation that after the deceased fell down all the three went on giving blows on the leg and waist.Certain injuries were found on the knee joint, elbow joint and left forearm of the deceased....XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX ...intention that can be safely imputed to Appellants 1 to 3 o 3 was to cause bodily injuries to Pyara Singh which were likely to cause death.It is this common intention which, in our view, had developed on the spot.Therefore, the offence committed by Appellants 1 to 3 would be culpable homicide not amounting to murder and they are liable to be convicted and punished under Section 304 (Part I).They are also liable to be convicted under Crl.A. 134/2009 Page 11 Section 148 IPC for the offence of rioting.On the basis of the evidence on record and the findings recorded by the High Court, there is no escape from the conclusion that the appellants were members of an unlawful assembly of five or more persons having the common object falling within the scope of clause (iii) of Section 141, though the common object was not to kill or hurt the deceased person.
['Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 299 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 325 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 300 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The present appeal instituted under the provision of section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as 'Cr.P.C') assails the judgment dated 27.04.2018 and the order on sentence dated 14.05.2018, rendered by the learned Additional Session Judge-01, Dwarka Courts, New Delhi, in Session Case No.440846/2016, title as 'State vs. CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 1 of 29 Mahabir Mehto', emanating from F.I.R No. 216/2013 (hereinafter referred to as the 'subject FIR') under sections 376/506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter referred to as 'IPC') and under sections 6/10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act, 2012 (hereinafter referred to as 'POCSO'), registered at Police Station-Baba Haridas Nagar.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 1 of 29By the way of the impugned judgment dated 27.04.2018, Mahabir Mehto (hereinafter referred to as 'the appellant') has been convicted for the commission of offences punishable under the provisions of section 506 (Part I) IPC and sections 6/5 POCSO.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 2 of 29The facts, as elaborated by the trial court are extracted in extenso, as follows: -In her complaint, the complainant stated that on 02.09.2013, the accused had come to stay with her along with his family consisting of his wife, elder daughter (i.e. the prosecutrix) aged 16 years, younger daughter aged 4 years and son aged 8 years.She alleged that on 03.09.2013, when the prosecutrix was doing household chores, she noticed an unusual bulge in her belly.Upon being inquired, the prosecutrix revealed to her that the accused had been establishing physical relations with her for the last one year by threatening her and that as a result thereof, she had become pregnant.When the complainant confronted the accused about the same, he fled away from the house with his younger daughter.On the basis of the above complaint, FIR under Sections 376/506 IPC was registered against the accused.The prosecutrix was medically examined on the same day.She was found to be having pregnancy of 28 weeks.In her statement, she supported the contents of FIR and disclosed that she had told about the acts of the accused to her mother but she did not do anything as she was of unsound mind.During the course of investigation, Sections 6 and 10 POCSO Act were added.The appellant in his statement under Section 313 of Cr.P.C., whilst denying the case of the prosecution, stated that he had been falsely implicated in the case and further stated that he reprimanded the prosecutrix for having an affair with a boy, living in the neighbourhood, the police at the instigation of the complainant, PW-2, who had grudge against him for refusing to give her a share in his ancestral property, foisted the false case against him.The first issue that warranted adjudication at the trial, was the determination of the age of the prosecutrix, at the time of the commission of the offence.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 4 of 29PW14/A) given by the Medical Board, DDU Hospital on the examination of the prosecutrix.As per the said report, the bone age of the prosecutrix was opined about 20-30 years.In his testimony, he deposed as under:In her statement under Section 164 Cr.P.C. dated 07.09.2013, the prosecutrix stated as follows: -"Statement of Km.One day, when I was sleeping, my father came upon me.I pushed him and thereafter, I went to my mother, however, the accused also came there and again he came upon me.Thereafter, my Bua (Aunty) made inquiry from my father, who denied the same and thereafter, my father along with my younger sister went away to Bihar.The police officer called me in the Police Station Baba Haridas Nagar.I along with my Bua went to PS Baba Haridas Nagar and my Bua made a complaint to the police officer.Thereafter, the police officer took me to RTRM Hospital.After medical examination, the police official brought me back to the Police Station and from there, I was taken to Nirmal Chhaya.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 21 of 29It is correct that my bua used to visit my house several times.I never told her during those visits the above facts, which I deposed today before this Hon'ble Court.My grandfather used to reside with my uncle, Raju.My grandfather is having properties in village and the same is not yet divided CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 22 of 29 between his children.I am not aware if my Bua is also having share in the said property.My brother accused Mahabir Mehto was also residing in the same vicinity along with his family.My brother accused Mahabir Mehto used to work as labour.In the month of July, 2013, on day my brother accused Mahabir Mehto come to my house and he requested me to arrange a room in the same house but initially, I did not allow my brother to stay there as a tenant as my brother accused Mahabir Mehto used to take liquor daily and my husband also used to take liquor daily.When my brother insisted me to arrange a room in our house, thereafter, I CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 23 of 29 allowed him to stay there along with his family.Thereafter, in the month of October, 2013, accused Mahabir Mehto shifted in my house with his family.One day, I noticed the condition of my niece, child victim and on that day, I did not ask anything from her.I also used to work as labourer and I used to leave my house in the morning and return back in the evening.On that day after returning my house, in the evening, I enquired my niece, child victim about her condition, however, on that day, my niece started weeping and disclosed that her father committed rape upon her on several occasions.Thereafter, I along with my niece child victim went to PS Baba Haridas Nagar and made complaint against the accused, which is Ex.PW2/A bearing my thumb impression at pt A. From there, police official took my niece child victim to RTRM Hospital and I also accompanied her to the hospital, where she was memdically examined and the doctor declared that my niece child victim is pregnant.SIDDHARTH MRIDUL, J.By way of the impugned order on sentence dated 14.05.2018, the appellant has been sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life, along with fine Rs.15,000/-, for the offence punishable under section 6 read with section 5(n) of POSCO.In default of the payment of fine, the appellant has been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for three months.Further, for the offence punishable under the provision of section 506(Part I), IPC, the appellant has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of two years, along with fine of Rs.5,000/-.In default of payment of fine, to further undergo simple imprisonment for one month.All the sentences have been directed to run concurrently.The gravamen of the charge, for which the appellant has been convicted, is for having committed penetrative sexual assault on his CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 2 of 29 daughter, the prosecutrix, a girl aged about 15 years, at the time of commission of the offence.After completion of the investigation, the charge sheet was filed.It is a matter of record that the prosecutrix gave birth to a male child and that the said child had been given in adoption by the orphanage Sewabharti Matrichhaya.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 3 of 29On 08.01.2014, the charge for the commission of offence punishable under Section 6 read with Section 5(n) POCSO Act and Section 506 IPC was framed by the Ld.Predecessor against the accused to which he pleaded not guilty and claimed trial."By way of the order dated 08.01.2014, the charge for the commission of the offence punishable under Section 6 read with Section 5(n) POSCO and Section 506 (Part I) IPC was framed against the appellant, who pleaded not guilty and claimed trial.The prosecution examined 14 witnesses in all to establish their case against the appellant.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 4 of 29The trial court having considered the evidence on record, found as follows: -"10.1 In the absence of any document issued by any authority regarding the age of the prosecutrix, the prosecution has relied upon the bone age report dated 09.03.2018 (Ex.The detailed report is Ex.PW14/A, which bears my signature at point A...."In his cross-examination, PW14 expressed his inability to state the exact age of the prosecutrix at the time of her examination and stated that he could neither admit nor deny the suggestion that the prosecutrix was 26 years of age at the time of her examination.The highest rated option available determines the age of a minor conclusively.If the matriculation or equivalent certificates of the child is available, no other evidence can be relied upon.Only in the absence of such certificates, as entry of date of birth in the record of the school first attended by the child is to be relied upon.When no such entry is available, then the reliance can be placed on a birth certificate issued by a corporation or municipal authority or panchayat.It is only in the absence of any of the aforesaid, that Rule 12(3) postulates the determination of the age of the child on the basis of medical opinion.10.4 While considering the scope and nature of the inquiry contemplated under Rule 12 of the JJ Rules, 2007, the Hon'ble Supreme Court has observed in Ashwani Kumar Saxena v. State of M.P., (2012) 9 SCC 750, that the expressions 'prima facie', 'on the basis of physical appearance' or 'documents, if available' used in Rule 12 re- emphasize the fact that what is contemplated is only an inquiry following the procedure laid down under the said rule and not an investigation or trial under the Cr.P.C. It was held that while conducting an inquiry, a hyper-technical approach should not be adopted and if the assessment of age could not CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 7 of 29 be done, the benefit would go to the child considering his/her age on lower side within the margin of one year.Only in the absence of any matriculation or equivalent certificates, the court need obtain the date of birth certificate from the school first attended other than a play school.Only in the absence of matriculation or equivalent certificate or the date of birth certificate from the school first attended, the court need obtain the birth certificate given by a corporation or a municipal authority or a panchayat (not an affidavit but certificates or documents).The question of obtaining medical opinion from a duly constituted Medical Board arises only if the above-mentioned documents are unavailable.In case exact assessment of the age cannot be done, then the court, for reasons to be recorded, may, if considered necessary, give the benefit to the child or juvenile by considering his or her age on lower side within the margin of one year."Since the offence is alleged to have been committed for one year prior to the lodging of complaint dated 04.09.2013, the age of the prosecutrix at the relevant time comes to about 15 years.The complainant in her complaint dated 04.09.2013 had specified the age of the prosecutrix as 16 years.In the MLC CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 8 of 29 of the prosecutrix, which was prepared on the same day, her age was also mentioned as 16 years.The statement of the prosecutrix under Section 164 Cr.P.C. was recorded on 07.09.2013, wherein she stated her age as 15 years.The prosecutrix and the complainant have been examined by the prosecution as PW1 and PW2 respectively.In the cross- examination of none of them, the accused had disputed the age of minority of the prosecutrix.PW14/A) of the Medical Board pertaining to the bone age of the prosecutrix was filed.It was only during the cross-examination of PW14 Dr. L.R. Richhele, who was examined by the prosecution to prove the report Ex.PW14/A, that the accused for the first time disputed that the prosecutrix was a child at the relevant time by putting a suggestion to the effect that she was 26 years old at the time of her examination by the Medical Board.Being the father of the prosecutrix, her age was within the special knowledge of the accused.The very fact that the accused neither disputed the age of the prosecutrix during the course of entire trial nor produced any material to dislodge the case of the prosecution that the prosecutrix was a minor at the relevant time goes to show that the challenge to the age of the prosecutrix at the belated stage was nothing but an afterthought with a view to avoid the rigour of the POCSO Act and take advantage of the wide range of the bone age (i.e. 20-30 years) of the prosecutrix opined by the Medical Board.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 8 of 2910.7 Considering the above, the contention of the defence counsel that the provisions of the POCSO Act would not apply to the present case is found to be devoid of any substance."The above findings arrived at by the trial court, have not been assailed before us on behalf of the appellant.Therefore, we have no hesitation in CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 9 of 29 finding ourselves in agreement with the trial court, when it returned finding to the effect that the prosecutrix was a minor at the time of the commission of the offence.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 9 of 29The trial court, thereafter, proceeded to appreciate and evaluate the testimony of the prosecutrix, which constituted the foundation of the prosecution's case.The trial court, upon careful consideration of the evidence on record and in particular the testimony of the prosecutrix, returned a finding that the prosecution has succeeded in proving the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt for the commission of the offence punishable under Section 6 read with Section 5 of the POCSO, predicated on the reasoning elaborated as under:-Admittedly, the accused is the father of the prosecutrix.It is also not in dispute that at the relevant time, the prosecutrix along with her mother and younger siblings was residing with the accused.As per the MLC dated 04.09.2013 of the prosecutrix, which has been proved by PW-5 Dr. Sidhi Sainik as Ex.PW5/A, she was having the pregnancy of 28 weeks at the time of her medical examination.Now the question which requires to be adjudicated is whether the accused was responsible for the penetrative sexual assault on the prosecutrix.12.1 The prosecutrix is the sole witness of the commission of the act of penetrative sexual assault on her.In her testimony recorded on 19.02.2014, the prosecutrix (PW1) deposed that she along with her parents and two siblings used to reside in a rented accommodation; that CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 10 of 29 the accused used to work as a mason and that her mother is not mentally sound and is deaf and dumb; that about one year ago, when she was sleeping, the accused tried to force himself upon her; and that she pushed him and went to her mother but the accused came there and after extending threat to kill her, he committed rape on her.She further deposed that after the said incident, the accused used to commit rape on her on every day and that when the landlord came to know about the same, he got the house vacated.The prosecutrix also deposed that they shifted to the house of her paternal aunt (bua) i.e. the complainant and that when her aunt saw her condition, she suspected that some wrong act had been committed with her and took her to RTRM Hospital, where the doctor told that she was having pregnancy of seven months.She further deposed that when her aunt confronted the accused with the same, he denied that he was responsible for it and went away to Bihar alongwith his younger daughter and that thereafter, her aunt made complaint to the police.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 10 of 2912.2 The prosecutrix was cross-examined by the accused.In her cross-examination, she admitted that she did not know the dates or months when the accused committed rape on her and that the complainant had visited her house on several occasions but she did not disclose about the acts of the accused to her during the said visits.However, she denied the suggestions that she was having friendly relations with a boy, who got her pregnant and that when the accused came to know about the same, he had scolded her and for the said reason, she had named him as the accused.In such a scenario, especially when she did not get any support from her mother, the possibility that she could not muster courage to disclose about the acts of the accused to the complainant, who is the sister of the accused, can not be ruled out.In fact, it can be seen from the deposition of the prosecutrix (PW1) that on 03.09.2013 also, she had revealed about the acts of the accused to the complainant only when the complainant had become suspicious and asked her about her physical condition.Since the prosecutrix was having a pregnancy of about seven months at that time and her pregnancy must have started showing, she had no option but to confide in the complainant.Considering the facts and circumstances, the conduct of the prosecutrix appears to be quite natural.12.5 The counsel for the accused further contended that the uncorroborated testimony of the prosecutrix can not form the basis for holding the accused guilty.He argued that during the relevant time, the mother of the prosecutrix was also residing in the same house and therefore, she would have been the best witness to throw light on the allegations against the accused.Pooja D/o Mahavir Mehto R/o House No.28, Surekpur Road, Gopal Nagar, Najafgarh, Delhi, aged 16 years:Muzaffarnagar, Bihar 6-7 _ ` CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 20 of 29 , , ^ f @ \ ` f - @ rape @ 6-7 2/9/13 @ 4 "CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 20 of 29In her testimony recorded on 19.02.2014, the prosecutrix deposed as under: -" 19.02.2014 (In Camera Proceedings) PW-1, Child Victim, aged 16 years (cited at serial no.1 in the list of the witnesses) On SA ....... XXX...About one year back one day an altercation had taken place between my father and my grandfather.Thereafter, we vacate the said house and shifted to another house in Najafgarh, which had three rooms.However, we ever staying in a simple room.When I objected to it, the accused extended threat saying that he would kill me and he committed rape upon me forcibly.After that, my father used to commit rape upon me every day.When our landlord came to know this fact, he instructed us to vacate the house and thereafter, we vacated the said house.Thereafter, we shifted to the house of our Bua (Aunty), who was also residing near Om Dairy at Najafgarh.On seeing my condition, my Bua (Aunty) suspected that some wrong act was committed with me and thereafter, my Bua(Aunty) took me to RTRM Hospital, Jaffarpur for my medical examination.After my medical examination, the doctor told us that CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 21 of 29 I was having pregnancy of seven months.On 07.09.2013, the police officials took me to Dwarka Courts from Nirmal Chhaya and my statement was recorded there by the Ld.MM At this stage, one envelop with the seal of MG is taken out from judicial file.Child victim correctly identified her thumb mark on her statement at point A, B, C & D and proceeding U/s 164 Cr.PW1/A.At this stage the child victim has been asked to identify the accused, who did wrong act with her (The accused is standing behind a curtain and is unable to see the child victim and he has been further asked to close his eyes.However, child victim has been asked to identify the accused from the parting between the curtain) After seeing the accused through the parting between the curtain, child victim was correctly identified the accused present behind the curtain as her father, who had committed rape upon her and had been made her pregnant.I am also not aware whether Bua was also asking for her share in the said property.I am also not aware whether my father was against the demand of my Bua of getting share from ancestral property.It is wrong to suggest that due to above reason, my bua instigated me to implicate my father in false case of that I have deposed falsely.It is wrong to suggest that accused never pregnant me and the child does not belong to the accused."CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 22 of 29Although the sole testimony of the prosecutrix, as aforestated, is sufficient by itself to sustain the conviction of the appellant, subject to it being reliable and having ring of truth in it, in view of the asseverations on behalf of the appellant that, contradictions arise from a conjoint reading and the appellant's statement that he was falsely implicated for denying PW-2, a share in their ancestral property; it is considered appropriate and necessary to peruse and appreciate the testimony of PW-2, the Bua of the prosecutrix, The testimony of PW-2 is as follows: -"19.02.2014 (In Camera Proceeding) PW2, Bua (Aunty) of the child victim (mentioned at serial no.2 in the list of witnesses).On SA I along with my family is staying at Gopal Nagar, Najafgarh for the last 8 years as tenant.From the hospital, we along with police official returned back to Baba Haridas Nagar Police Station and my niece child victim was shifted to Nirmal Chhaya.On the same day, when police official visited our house, in search of accused Mahabir Mehto, he had already left our house.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 23 of 29I am aware of the fact that my niece child victim delivered male baby in DDU Hospital.Today, accused Mahabir Mehto is present in the court(the witness has correctly identified the accused) XXXXX By Sh.L.S. Gautam, Ld. Counsel for accused.My father is having some property in his native place.Till date the said property is not divided among his children.I am not interested in my share in the property of my father.It is wrong to suggest that I demanded my share from my father and the accused strongly opposed the same.I had grudge against him.I never visited the house of the accused and since then, year back, quarrel/fight took place between me and accused and since then, I was not having visiting terms with the accused.It is wrong to suggest that child victim did not disclose anything against the accused or that the accused was not responsible for her condition or that she was having relation with one boy and accused opposed the same and scolded the child victim and this fact came in my knowledge or that I instigated the child victim to name the accused as culprit or that I implicated the accused in false case or that I am deposing falsely.I went to the locality of the accused, where he was residing to enquire about the truth and to know the real person, who was responsible for the condition of child victim.It is wrong to suggest that I have deposed falsely.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 24 of 29We have heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the parties and given our anxious consideration to the entire evidence on record.Our finding, in this regard, in addition to the evidence on record, including the ossification test conducted on the prosecutrix, is strengthened by the circumstance that, the appellant did not, at any stage of trial or before us in the present appeal, dispute that the prosecutrix was not a child at the relevant time.b) The prosecutrix was 28 weeks pregnant at the time of her MLC Ex.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 25 of 29c) The version of the prosecutrix that, the appellant had committed penetrative sexual assault on her, has remained constant throughout.d) The defence of the accused to the effect that the prosecutrix;was having an affair with a boy living in the neighbourhood, who impregnated her, and is being falsely implicated in the present case, upon reprimanding the prosecutrix for the same; is completely untenable and vacuous, inasmuch as, neither the CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 26 of 29 identity of the boy has been disclosed at any stage nor has any material been produced on the record to substantiate the defence.CRL.A. 1013/2018 Page 26 of 29e) The submission of the appellant that, he was falsely implicated by his sister PW-2 , since he refused to give her a share in the ancestral property, fails to impeach the latter's testimony, for the reason that, neither did the appellant examine his father, to substantiate his defence, nor did he produce any other cogent material in this behalf.A. 496/2015, decided on 23.04.2019]However, there shall be no order as to costs.The Trial Court Record be sent back forthwith.A copy of this judgment be communicated to the appellant through the Superintendent, Tihar Jail and also be sent for updation of the records. .
['Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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1. Vide the instant petition the petitioners have assailed the impugned order dated 21.01.2011 passed by ld.MM, South Delhi whereby ld.MM has passed the order as under :M.C. No.2992/2011 Page 1 of 8documents filed on record.Prima facie there is sufficient material on record to proceed with the case against all the accused persons namely Navdeep Soni, Rani Soni, Sandeep Soni and Dolly Soni.Accordingly, the cognizance is taken against all the accused persons u/s 498A/406/34 IPC.Summons be issued to he accused persons and notice to surety through IO for 31.03.2011."Ld. counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners were put in column 2 in the report filed under Section 173 Cr.P.C. before the ld.Further submits that Navdeep Soni being the husband, the charge-sheet was filed against him.MM has not recorded any statement before summoning the three accused.In support of argument, ld. counsel for the petitioners has relied upon a judgment passed by this Court in Crl.M.C.924/2005 titled as Atma Ram Singhal & Ors.M.C. No.2992/2011 Page 2 of 8 State & Anr.M.C. No.2992/2011 Page 2 of 8The respondent No.2 is the complainant, who lodged complaint under Section 498-A/406 of the Indian Penal Code (for short, 'IPC') against her husband Anil Singhal as well as other relations.This complaint was made to the ACP, Crime Against Women (CAW) Cell, Pitampura.Thereafter, an FIR was registered.Police, after investigation, filed challan under Section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short, 'Cr.P.C.').Names of the petitioners herein were put in Column No.2 in the said charge sheet.Complainant's husband, father-in- law and mother-in-law were shown as main accused.The relation of these petitioners, who were put in Column No.2, with the complainant's husband is as under :-Petitioner No.1 "Uncle (chacha) of the complainant's husband Petitioner No.2 "Son of the petitioner No.1 Petitioner No.3 "Another uncle of the complainant's husband Petitioner No.4 "Wife of the petitioner No.3 Petitioner No.5 "Daughter of the petitioner No.3 Petitioner No.6 "Son of the petitioner No.3 Petitioner No.7 "Another uncle of the complainant's husband Crl.M.C. No.2992/2011 Page 3 of 8M.C. No.2992/2011 Page 3 of 8After the filing of the charge sheet, the learned MM chose to summon all these petitioners, who were shown as accused in Column No.2, by passing the following order :-"Present: APP for the State.Accused present on bail.IO SI Bhagwan Dass present.SI Bhagwan Dass has given his explanation.M.C. No.2992/2011 Page 6 of 8 the offence and issue process.However, the question to be determined is as to when the MM decides to issue the process, notwithstanding the observations of the Investigating Officer; is he to indicate some reasons and reflect his thought process in the order as to why he is taking such a course.to consider the same afresh and pass appropriate order.Accordingly, Crl.M.C. No.2992/2011 Page 7 of 8 Crl.M.A.10554/2011 (stay) & Crl.M.A.11298/2011 (early hearing) In view of the order passed in Crl.M.C.2992/2011, these applications are dismissed as infructuous.M.C. No.2992/2011 Page 7 of 8SURESH KAIT, J SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 Vld/RS Crl.
['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code']
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2.The short facts necessary for the disposal of these appeals can be stated as follows:(a) P.W.1 is the husband of the deceased Selvi.On 14.6.2002, P.W.1 accompanied by his wife, was returning to Titan Quarters in Hosur to Mathigiri Road in a TVS 50 after purchasing the household articles.When they were so coming, both A-1 and A-2 came in their Yamaha two wheeler and were chasing.The accused came towards them, and suddenly, A-1 snatched the chain which was worn by the deceased, and immediately A-1 drove the vehicle fast.Then, both of them escaped from the place.(b) P.W.1 and the deceased were searching for the accused, and they were going.At that time, on the way, they found both the accused.The deceased shouted pointing to A-2 that it was he who snatched the chain.Immediately, P.W.1 stopped the vehicle and intercepted the other vehicle in which the accused were travelling, and both A-1 and A-2 fell down.Immediately, A-1 stabbed Selvi on her left side chest and neck with a pitchuva knife. A-2 also stabbed her on her shoulder with a pitchuva knife.At that time, P.Ws.2, 3 and 4 went to the rescue.So causing injuries to them, they left the place immediately.(c) It was P.W.1 who took his severely injured wife to the Government Hospital, Hosur, where the Doctors examined and declared her dead.Then, further intimation was given to Hosur Police Station which was in turn forwarded to Mathigiri Police Station.P.W.12, the Doctor, has examined P.W.4 at about 8.40 P.M. On 14.6.2002, and has given a wound certificate, Ex.She also examined P.W.3 and issued a wound certificate, Ex.Equally, P.W.2 was examined by her, and Ex.P12 is the wound certificate in that regard.On the strength of Ex.P1, the report, a case came to be registered in Crime No.99 of 2002 under Sections 379, 324, 307 and 302 of IPC.The printed FIR, Ex.P27, was despatched to the Court.(e) P.W.16 took up investigation, proceeded to the spot, made an inspection of the first place where the incident of robbery has taken place and prepared an observation mahazar, Ex.P5, and a rough sketch, Ex.Then, he went to the second occurrence place where the murder has taken place, and prepared an observation mahazar, Ex.P6, and also a rough sketch, Ex.P33 is the admissible part.Pursuant to the confession, he produced M.O.2, gold ingot, and he has further produced M.O.1, motorbike, a cell phone, a country made gun and a Titan Watch.For Appellants : Mr.V.Vibhishanan for Mr.P.Subba Reddy in CA 324/2008 Mr.V.Gopinath Senior Counsel for Mr.L.Mahendran in CA 757/2008 For Respondent : Mr.They challenged the judgment of the I Additional Sessions Division, Krishnagiri, made in S.C.No.207 of 2005 whereby the appellants stood charged, tried, found guilty and awarded punishment as follows:Thereafter, he conducted inquest on the dead body of Selvi in the presence of witnesses and panchayatdars and prepared an inquest report, Ex.He examined the witnesses and recorded their statements.Then, a requisition, Ex.P15, was given to the hospital authorities for the purpose of postmortem.(f) P.W.13, the Civil Assistant Surgeon, attached to the Government Hospital, Hosur, on receipt of the said requisition, conducted autopsy on the dead body of Selvi and has noticed four external injuries.She has issued a postmortem certificate, Ex.P16, with her opinion that the deceased would appear to have died of shock and haemorrhage due to injuries to vital organs heart and lungs about 14 to 16 hours before autopsy.(g) The further investigation was taken up by P.W.17, the Inspector of Police, who caused the arrest of A-1 on 19.7.2002, and he gave a confessional statement which was recorded in the presence of witnesses.They were all recovered under a cover of mahazar.(h) A requisition was given for conduct of the test identification parade.The same was conducted by P.W.14, the Judicial Magistrate.As far as A-1 was concerned, it was conducted at Central Prison, Salem, and P.Ws.1 to 4 were taken for identifying him.The identification parade proceedings are marked as Ex.Equally, as regards A-2, the identification parade took place at Central Prison, Bangalore, where P.Ws.2, 3 and 4 have participated in the parade.The identification parade proceedings are marked as Ex.On completion of investigation, the Investigating Officer filed the final report.3.The case was committed to Court of Sessions, and necessary charges were framed.In order to substantiate the charges, the prosecution examined 17 witnesses and also relied on 34 exhibits and 14 material objects.On completion of evidence on the side of the prosecution, the accused were questioned under Sec.313 of Cr.P.C. as to the incriminating circumstances found in the evidence of the prosecution witnesses which they flatly denied as false.No defence witness was examined.The trial Court heard the arguments advanced and took the view that the prosecution has proved the case beyond reasonable doubt and hence, found them guilty and awarded the punishment as referred to above.Hence these appeals at the instance of the appellants.4.Advancing arguments on behalf of the appellant in C.A.No.324/2008, the learned Counsel Mr.V.Vibhishanan would submit that in the instant case, the prosecution came out with two parts; that firstly, there was a robbery in which A-1 and A-2 were involved, and secondly, A-1 and A-2 attacked the deceased and also in that transaction, A-1 attacked P.Ws.2 and 3, and A-2 attacked P.W.4; that the earliest document was Ex.P1, the report, given by P.W.1, the husband of the deceased; that a perusal of Ex.P1 would clearly indicate that nowhere he has pointed out any role of A-1 in Ex.P1 or Ex.P15, the requisition, given by P.W.16, the Investigating Officer, for the conduct of postmortem or the evidence before the Court; that nowhere it is found that A-1 had any role in the commission of robbery, and it was also attributed to A-2; and that under the circumstances, the lower Court was not correct in finding A-1 guilty as far as that particular charge was concerned.5.Added further the learned Counsel that the prosecution relied on the confession alleged to have been given by A-1 and also the consequent recovery of the material objects; that it is pertinent to point out that all these material objects were not connected to Crime No.99 of 2002; but, they were all connected to some other crime number, and thus, the prosecution cannot rely on the recovery of those material objects; that as far as the recovery of the gold ingot marked as M.O.2, was concerned, there was no evidence to show that the gold chain alleged to have been stolen, was actually melted into gold and made as ingot; that in the absence of the same, it cannot be taken or presumed that it was the gold chain which was the subject matter of robbery; and that under the circumstances, the prosecution has miserably failed to prove that part of the case.6.As far as the second incident was concerned, the learned Counsel would submit that the case of the prosecution was that at the time of occurrence, A-1 not only stabbed the deceased, but also attacked P.Ws.2 and 3; but, the lower Court was not prepared to accept the case of the prosecution insofar as the overt acts attributed that he attacked P.Ws.2 and 3 with knife and has acquitted him; that the same would mean that the lower Court was not ready to believe the evidence of P.Ws.2 and 3; and that the same reasons are all equally applicable to the entire episode.7.The learned Counsel would further add that in the instant case, A-1 was arrested on 19.7.2002; that as far as the identification parade in respect of A-1 was concerned, it was in no way helpful to the prosecution; that there is evidence to show that A-1 was actually in the police station and was shown to the witnesses; and that under the circumstances, it was of no consequence at all.8.Added further the learned Counsel that even from Ex.P1, the report, and also the evidence of P.W.1 it would be quite clear that the entire act of attacking the deceased was done only by A-2, and nowhere, A-1 is indicated; but, the trial Court has taken an erroneous view and found A-1 guilty of both the offences without any evidence whatsoever, and hence he is entitled for acquittal in the hands of this Court.9.Advancing arguments on behalf of A-2 in C.A.No.757/2008, the learned Senior Counsel Mr.11.The Court heard the learned Additional Public Prosecutor on all the above contentions and paid its anxious consideration on the submissions made.12.It is not in controversy that an incident has taken place on 14.6.2002 at about 8.15 P.M. at which the chain of the deceased Selvi was snatched by two persons, and they have actually escaped from the place.Following that incident, both the persons were intercepted by P.W.1, the husband of the deceased, and also the deceased, and in that process, Selvi was stabbed to death.This homicidal death was never disputed by the appellants, and hence it has got to be recorded so.As could be seen from the available materials, the incidents were two in number.The first part is as to robbery, and the second part is as to murder in which P.Ws.2 to 4 were also injured.According to P.W.1, he accompanied his wife, and he took his wife in the two wheeler, and she was sitting as a pillion rider, and when they were going, the incident has taken place, and it was the pillion rider namely wife, who has identified A-2 as person who snatched the chain.It is the further evidence of P.W.1 that it was A-1 who drove the bike, and both of them have escaped from the place.Thus, it was only P.W.1, who was actually the witness in respect of the incident of robbery.From the evidence of P.W.1, it could be seen that he has identified that it was A-1 who drove the bike, and A-2 was a pillion rider who snatched the chain.It is true that the occurrence has taken place in night hours and that too, within a minute or two.Now, the occurrence projected by the prosecution did not stop there.According to P.W.1, he and the deceased were in further search of the assailants in their vehicle, and at that time, when they found both the accused near the bus stop, P.Ws.2 to 4 were also there, and on seeing A-2, the deceased Selvi shouted pointing to A-2 that it was he who snatched the chain.The evidence would further go to show that immediately they were intercepted by P.W.1 by parking the vehicle across, and then both of them fell down; and that at that time, the incident has taken place.From the evidence of P.W.1, it could be well seen that it was the deceased who caught hold of the shirt of A-2 who snatched the chain; that at that time, it was A-1 who intervened by stabbing her; that on seeing this, P.W.1 caught hold of him; that immediately, A-2 attacked the deceased also; and that when P.Ws.2 to 4 went to the rescue, they were also attacked by the appellants.P.W.1 has not only seen them at the place of first occurrence of robbery, but also at the time when the second occurrence has taken place.It has also taken place in a public place.It is pertinent to point out that in a given case like this, when two incidents have taken place and that too, the first part is a robbery, and the second part is a murder and when they were intercepted, they attacked not only the deceased, but also some others, naturally such incidents would cause a dent in the memory of a human being.But, originally, there was snatching of chain, and thereafter, the second incident has taken place in which not only the deceased was attacked, but also P.Ws.2 to 4 were attacked by both.It is true that the lower Court has acquitted A-1 in respect of charge under Sec.324 (two counts) of IPC for attacking P.Ws.2 and 3 since there was some inconsistency in evidence.Hence the benefit was available to him.In this case, A-1 was arrested on 19.7.2002 within a month of the occurrence.Immediately after his arrest, he has given a confessional statement leading to the recovery of some of the material objects.It is true that except M.O.2, all other material objects produced by him, were not connected to this case, and hence that part of the evidence could not be relied.As far as A-2 was concerned, the prosecution came forward to state that it was the gold ingot which came into existence by melting the chain which was worn by the deceased at the time of occurrence.The accused cannot expect the prosecution to explain how the chain was melted into ingot.16.Apart from the above, much comment was made by the appellants' side on the identification parade conducted.As far as A-1 was concerned, within a short span of time, P.W.1 and the other witnesses have identified him properly.As regards A-2, the evidence would go to show that when the deceased and P.W.1 were in search of the assailants, the deceased shouted pointing to A-2 that it was he who robbed the chain, and when she caught hold of the shirt of A-2, it was A-1 who attacked her, and when P.W.1 caught hold of the shirt of A-1, A-2 attacked her.The lower Court was perfectly correct in marshaling the evidence, considering the same and finding them guilty for robbery and also for murder.1.The I Additional District Judge Krishnagiri2.The Inspector of Police Mathigiri Police Station (Crime No.99 of 2002)3.The Public Prosecutor High Court, Madras
['Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(Atul Sreedharan) Judge a ASHISH DATTA 2017.09.14 15:49:23 +05'30'
['Section 452 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 354 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The prosecution case is that the deceased Manjula Devi was the wife of Adhavan/accused No.2/second respondent herein.Both were employed as police constables at Pudukottai.Accused No.2 Adhavan lodged Ex.P.15 complaint before Ganesh Nagar police station, Pudukottai on the same date at about 15 hours.P.16 First Information Report in Crime No.512 of 2006 was registered under Section 174 of Cr.P.C. Investigation was taken up.According to the investigation officer, respondents 1 and 2 herein/accused Nos.1 and 2 had murdered the deceased.Therefore, Ex.P.20 alteration report was filed and the offences under Sections 302 r/w 34 of I.P.C.,http://www.judis.nic.in 3 were incorporated.Charges were framed against two accused.They denied the charges in toto and claimed to be tried.6. P.W.1 is the father of the deceased.He deposed that the relationship between his daughter and accused No.2 washttp://www.judis.nic.in 5 not cordial.Accused No.2 was having illicit relationships.He also spoke about the financial transaction between accused No.1 and the deceased.She deposed that a few days prior to the occurrence, both happened to meet each other and during the conversation Manjula Devi had told about her travails and the plan of accused No.2 to marry Hema.P.W.6 Selvaraj witnessed the arrest, confession and recovery of the material objects.Though he turned hostile, he admitted his signatures in Ex.P.1 to Ex.P.W.7 is a magazar witness.He also turned hostile but admitted his signature in Ex.It was marked as Ex.P.W.10 Dr.Selvaraj conducted postmortem.This Revision petition is directed against the Judgment dated 02.12.2008 in S.C.No.68 of 2007 on the file of the learned Additional District and Sessions Judge/Fast Track Court, Pudukkottai, acquitting respondents 1 and 2 herein.The prosecution examined as many as 22 witnesses and marked Ex.P.1 to Ex.P.24. M.O.1 to M.O.9 were also marked.On the side of the accused, no evidence was adduced.The learned trial Judge after a detailed consideration of the evidence on record came to the conclusion that the prosecution failed to prove the charges against the accused beyond reasonable doubt and acquitted them of all the charges.Aggrieved by the same, P.W.1 has preferred this Criminal Revision petition.4. Heard the learned counsel on either side.The deceased as well as accused No.2 worked as police constables.Accused No.1 had received a sum of Rs.1,50,000/- from the deceased.On the occurrence date, the deceased had stopped accused No.1 and demanded the money back.In response, accused No.1 was said to have threatened her with dire consequences.Later accused Nos.1 and 2 joined together and murdered Manjula Devi by strangulating her neck by using a nylon rope and to screen the crime, they made it appear as if Manjula Devi committed suicide by hanging herself.He had opined that the deceasedhttp://www.judis.nic.in 6 appeared to have died by ligature strangulation at about 12 to 18 hours prior to autopsy.P.W.11 was the police constable who worked with the deceased.He deposed that Manjula Devi left her work place at about 12.05 hours on the occurrence date.P.W.12 and P.W.13 told the police that they saw the deceased coming in her two wheeler at about 12.30 p.m., opposite to Rose Land and that they noticed a quarrel between accused No.1 and the deceased and that accused No.1 held out threats to the deceased.However, the said witnesses turned hostile during trial.P.W.15 Devaraj is a police constable who also resided in the police quarters.He deposed that he heard some suspicious sound and that he went to the house of the deceased and saw the accused No.2 sitting in front of the house while the accused No.1 was inside the house.He saw that the deceased was laid on the floor.When he queried, accused No.2 informed him that Manjula Devi had hanged herself and that he brought her down.Thereupon P.W.15 informed the police from the telephone in his house.On hishttp://www.judis.nic.in 7 return, he saw that accused Nos.1 and 2 were taking the body of Manjula Devi in an auto and that the accused No.1 followed the same.After a while, they brought the body back.They were advised by another constable by name Nagarajan, to take Manjula Devi to hospital.P.W.16 Muthukumar was working as Sub Inspector of Police in Wireless section and he was informed by accused No.2 about the suicide of Manjula Devi.P.W.16 thereupon went to the place of occurrence and saw the accused Nos.1 and 2 taking the deceased in an auto and returning after half an hour.P.W.22 is the investigation officer who recorded the statements of the witnesses and he effected the arrest and recovery and filed the final report.He also obtained opinion from Dr.Karthikeyan which was in consonance with the opinion of P.W.7 doctor.He would further contend that evenhttp://www.judis.nic.in 8 though P.W.12 and P.W.13 had turned hostile, their evidence cannot be rejected in toto. P.Ws.15 to 19 have spoken about the taking of the body in an auto by the accused and bringing it back after a while.This clearly creates suspicion over their conduct.The accused have not at all explained these incriminating circumstances in their examination under Section 313 of Cr.P.C. P.W.7 doctor has clearly opined that the deceased died due to ligature strangulation.This was confirmed by Dr.The petitioner's counsel would contend that these incriminating circumstances were not taken note of by the learned Sessions Judge.The reasons given for acquitting the accused are flimsy.The learned counsel also relied on a number of decisions.The Revision petitioner also filed written arguments.I am unable to agree with the submissions of the learned counsel appearing for the Revision petitioner.While it is true that P.W.1 to P.W.5 have spoken about the intense strain in the relationship between the accused No.2 and the deceased, their testimony by themselves is wholly insufficienthttp://www.judis.nic.in 9 to sustain the prosecution case.At best they may indicate that the accused had a motive.It must be noted that the prosecution case rests only on circumstantial evidence.But they did not support the prosecution case.Likewise P.W.14, who is another witness to sustain the last seen theory also turned hostile.In order to prove the confession and recovery, the prosecution examined P.W.6 Selvaraj.He also turned hostile.P.W.10 Dr.Selvaraj conducted autopsy.To a specific question posed in the cross examination, he answered that he could not give any definite opinion regarding the cause of death.In Ex.P.14, it was opined that the deceased would have appeared to died due to ligature strangulation at about 12 to 18 hours prior to the autopsy.It is beyond dispute that no definite opinion was offered by the postmortem doctor.Thus the prosecution miserably failed to prove that the deceased died due to homicidal violence.Of course, the learned counsel appearing for the Revision petitioner would cite the opinion given by Dr.Karthikeyan from whom the second opinion was obtained.But the said Dr.Karthikeyan was not examined.As rightly contended by the learned counsel appearing for the respondents 1 and 2, the prosecution will have to prove two things.Firstly, Manjula Devi died as a result of homicidal violence.Secondly, the accused are the authors of the said homicidal violence.In this case, the prosecution have not even established that Manjula Devi was strangulated to death.Both in the case of suicide and the death due tohttp://www.judis.nic.in 11 strangulation, there will be ligature strangulation.In this case, the prosecution was not able to rule out the possibility of suicide.In fact P.W.10 Dr.The State did not prefer any appeal against the Judgment of acquittal.It is only the father of the deceased who has filed this Criminal Revision case.The learned trial Judge had discussed the evidence adduced by the prosecution in extenso and after considering the rival contentions came to the conclusion that the accused are entitled to acquittal.The presumption ofhttp://www.judis.nic.in 12 innocence which is available to the accused during trial stands further strengthened and reinforced by the Judgment of acquittal.The learned counsel appearing for the Revision petitioner has not made out any case for dislodging the presumption in favour of the accused.The Judgment of the Court below has not been shown to be perverse or suffering from illegality or irregularity.I find no ground to interfere with this Criminal Revision case.The Criminal Revision stands dismissed.No costs.16.08.2019 Index : yes/No Internet:Yes/No pmuhttp://www.judis.nic.in 13 G.R.SWAMINATHAN,J.The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court, Pudukottai.The Deputy Superintendent of Police, Pudukottai.The Record Keeper, V.R. Section, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai.CRL.R.C.(MD).No.32 of 2009 16.08.2019http://www.judis.nic.in
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1 9.2018 b.CRM No. 7347 of 2018 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on 6th September, 2018 in connection with Dinhata Police Station Case No. 155 of 2018 dated 12.4.2018 under Sections 147/148/149/427/326/302 of the Indian Penal Code.And In Re:- Ajidul Haque & Ors.... Petitioners Mr. Sudip Guha .. for the petitioners Mr. Saibal Bapuli Mr. Arani Bhattacharyya ..for the State The petitioners seek anticipatory bail in connection with Dinhata Police Station Case No. 155 of 2018 dated 12.4.2018 under Sections 147/ 148/149/ 427/326/302/of the Indian Penal Code.The petitioners claim that they have been falsely implicated in the case though some of the petitioners may have been accidental by-standers.The State refers to the statements of several eye- witnesses under Section 161 of the Code where the names of several of these petitioners figure.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 compliance with all requisite formalities.(Abhijit Gangopadhyay, J.) (Sanjib Banerjee, J. ) 2
['Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 427 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 164 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 438 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Shri Shivraj Kushwaha, learned counsel for the applicant.Shri Ramesh Kushwaha, learned Panel Lawyer for the State.This is first bail application on behalf of the applicant under Section 439 of Cr.P.C. The applicant is in custody since 26.04.2017 in connection with Crime No.136/2017, registered at Police Station Hanumana, District Rewa, for the offence punishable under Sections 363, 366, 368/34 of IPC.Initially the offence against the present applicant was registered under Section 363 of IPC and later on after investigation offence under Section 366, 368 r/w 34 of IPC were added.It is also found from the material available on record that the present applicant had taken the girls from the house and handed over to one Sunita, further she had not accompanied them.Considering the aforesaid, and the fact that the applicant is in jail since 26.04.2017, the application is allowed.It is directed that applicant Seema Basor be released on bail on her furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.30,000/ (Rupees Thirty Thousand Only) with one solvent surety in the like amount to the satisfaction of the trial court, securing applicant's presence before the trial court on all the dates of hearing fixed in this regard during trial.The application is allowed.Certified copy as per rules.(VIJAY KUMAR SHUKLA) V. JUDGE ss
['Section 363 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 366 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Digitally signed by ASHISH KUMAR JAIN Date: 31/10/2018 14:20:58 ::2::In brief, the prosecution case is that at the relevant point of time, applicant No.1 was posted as Gram Rozgar Sahayak and applicant Nos.2 & 3 were posted as Sub-Engineer in Gram Panchayat, Junapani in District-Harda.A complaint in writing was made to Special Police Establishment/Lokayukt by one Mahesh Kumar Gurjar alleging that the applicants along with elected office bearers of Gram Panchayat had prepared false bills, vouchers and muster rolls to misappropriate the funds allotted for the construction of toilets under the government scheme.Sections 420, 409, 467 & 34 of Indian Penal Code and Sections 13(1)(c), 13 (1)Hence, this petition to quash the F.I.R.We have heard rival submissions at length and perused the material available on record.
['Section 467 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 409 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 482 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 13 in The Indian Penal Code']
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C.R.M. 106 of 2014And In the matter of: Subrata Mondal and Ors. ...Petitioners.Mr. Ashok Das ...for the petitioners.Therefore, the petitioner no.1, namely, Subrata Mondal, the petitioner no.2, namely, Subhas Bar, the petitioner no.3, namely, Prabhat Bar, the petitioner no.4, namely, Arup Makhal, the petitioner no.5, namely, Basudeb Makhal, the petitioner no.6, namely, Srikanta Mondal, the petitioner no.7, namely, Indrajit Gayen, the petitioner no.8, namely, Biren Gayen, the petitioner no.9, namely, Ratan Makhal alias Balaram, the petitioner no.10, namely, Biswanath Makhal alias Biswajit, the petitioner no.11, namely, Srikanta Bar and the petitioner no.12, namely, Sunil Gayen, be released on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs.5,000/- (Rupees five thousand) only each with two sureties of like amount, one of 2 whom must be local, to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate at Uluberia, District: Howrah.The application for bail is, thus, disposed of.(Subhro Kamal Mukherjee, J.) (Asim Kumar Mondal, J.)
['Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 143 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 325 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 354 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 427 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The case of the prosecution is as follows:(i) On 11.12.1996 at about 11.30 a.m., while P.W.2, the victim Manickam, a postman, was walking on the main road at Thondapadi Village, A.1 and A.2 along with other other co-accused formed themselves into an unlawful assembly carrying deadly weapons.They attacked P.W.2 with Aruvals and severed both hands.A.4 and A.6 facilitated A.1 and A.2 doing so.(ii) P.W.1, who is the sister of P.W.2, the victim, and an eye witness, had rushed to the Village Administrative Officer and narrated the occurrence.On the basis of Ex.P.1, complaint, Ex.P.15, the First Information Report was registered by P.W.7, the Sub Inspector of Police.P.W.1 is the complainant; P.W.2 is the injured and P.W.3 is the brother of P.W.2. P.W.4 is the doctor, who had treated P.W.2 after the occurrence and issued Ex.P.3, Wound Certificate.P.W.9, the Inspector of Police had conducted investigation and prepared Observation Mahazar Ex.P.5 and Ex.P.W.9 has arrested A.1 and A.2 and recorded their confession statements Exs.On the basis of the confession statements, he recovered M.O.1 and M.O.2 weapons used by A.1 and A.2 respectively in the occurrence.He has also recovered M.O.4 and M.O.5 blood stained sand and blood stained wooden logs of Munna Tree under Ex.The admissible portion of the confession statement of A.1 is Ex.P.17 and that of A.2 is Ex.A.3 and A.5 were absconding.The investigating officer had filed charge sheet.The case duly was committed for trial.When questioned, the accused pleaded innocence.On the side of the prosecution, P.W.1 to P.W.9 were examined.P.1 to P.18 were exhibited and M.Os.1 to 5 were marked.P.Ws.1 and 3, according to the prosecution, are ocular witnesses.P.W.2 is the injured witness.ajr/sjCrl.R.C.No.1073 of 201017.12.2014A case was registered against the petitioner and five others for the offences under sections 148, 302 and 342 IPC in Crime No.311 of 1996 on the file of the respondent.Pursuant to investigation, a charge sheet was filed informing the commission of offences.On questioning under section 313 Cr.P.C, A.1 took the plea of private defence and A.2 the defence of alibi.Other accused have denied their complicity.On the side of the accused, D.Ws.1 to 5 were examined.Learned trial Judge acquitted A3 and A5 and convicted other accused and passed sentence as follows:Accused No.Conviction under SectionSentenceA1148 IPCOne year SI342 IPCOne year SI307 IPCFive years RI and fine of Rs.1,000/- I/D six months R.I.A2148 IPCOne year SI342 IPCOne year SI307 IPCFive years RI and fine of Rs.1,000/- I/D six months R.I.A4147 IPCSix Months SI342 IPCOne Year SI307 r/w 114 IPCThree Years RI and fine of Rs.500/- I/D three months R.I.A6147 IPCSix Months SI342 IPCOne Year SI307 r/w 114 IPCThree Years RI and fine of Rs.500/- I/D three months R.I.Aggrieved by the findings of the learned trial Judge, all the accused preferred an appeal in C.A.No.11 of 2002 before the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Perambalur.The appellate Court while allowing the appeal of the other accused, convicted the petitioner for offence under Section 337 I.P.C., sentenced him to Five Years rigorous imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/- in default to undergo six months rigorous imprisonment.8. P.W.2, injured moved Criminal Revision Nos.306 and 307 of 2013 challenging the judgment of acquittal as regards the other accused and seeking enhancement of the sentence as regards this petitioner, first accused.This Court under order dated 23.10.2007 was pleased to dismiss Criminal Revision No.306 of 2013, challenging the order of acquittal of other accused.However, in Criminal Revision No.307 of 2013, this Court took the view that the offence under Section 326 IPC stood attracted and hence remitted the matter to the appellate court for fresh consideration.Thereupon the matter was reheard by the appellate court, which convicted the petitioner under section 326 IPC and sentenced him to undergo five years rigorous imprisonment and fine of Rs.1000/- in default to undergo 6 months rigorous imprisonment.The petitioner having paid the fine has filed this Revision.On general considerations, this Court would suspect the veracity of the prosecution case.The occurrence, wherein both arms of P.W.2 were cut off, in an attack by six persons, is said to have taken place at 11.30 a.m. P.Ws.1 and 3, sister and brother of P.W.2, who allegedly were witnesses to the occurrence have chosen to inform the Village Administrative Officer only at 5 p.m on such date and thereafter FIR came to be registered.The explanation offered for the delay is that the Village Administrative Officer was at a different Village and hence they could reach him only at 5 p.m. It is most unlikely that a person who had suffered the loss of two arms at 11.30 a.m. would have been lying unattended till 5 p.m, without having lost his life.Therefore, there is prima facie reason to think that in the least, the time of the occurrence has been shifted.While the other accused in the case stand acquitted, such avenue to this petitioner has been closed, owing to the fact that he has chosen to examine himself as defence witness and admitted the commission of the offence.He had stated that P.W.2, facing prosecution for the offences under sections 448 and 354 IPC, he having misbehaved with the first daughter of the petitioner, had sought to misbehave with the second daughter and towards preventing such wrong, he had exercised the right of private defence.That two arms of P.W.2 had been totally chopped off is an indication that the prosecution's original case of involvement of several persons was more likely.In the face of evidence, tendered by petitioner as D.W.1, we are constrained to confirm the finding of the lower appellate court.However, it is seen that 18 years have passed since the date of occurrence.Learned counsel for petitioner submits that the petitioner is aged 70 years and suffers from many health related problems.This Court was of the view that the victim/P.W.2 may be questioned as to whether he was willing to accept the payment of compensation.The same subsequently was closed on 24.11.2014, since he could not be traced.It is seen that the petitioner has been in custody for a period of six months.In the circumstances, substantive sentence of imprisonment shall be restricted to the period already undergone by the petitioner.The petitioner shall be now required to pay a fine of Rs.1,50,000/- (Rupees One Lakh and Fifty Thousand only), within a period of two months of receipt of this order, in default undergo two years rigorous imprisonment.The Criminal Revision Case is disposed of as above.17.12.2014Index:yes/noInternet:yes/noajr/sjToThe Inspector of PoliceKaikalathur Police StationPerambalur District C.T.SELVAM, J.
['Section 448 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 354 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 342 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 337 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 364 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Perused the case diary.This is first bail application filed by the applicant under Section 438 of Cr.P.C. for grant of anticipatory bail.The applicant is apprehending his arrest in connection with Crime No.180/14 registered at P.S. Kelaras, District Morena, for the offences punishable under sections 307, 324, 323, 147, 148, 149, 294, 504-B of IPC and Sections 3(1)(x) and 3(2)(v) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities)As per prosecution story, on account of driving the motorcycle, the quarrel took place between the complainant and Gambhir Singh.On account of it at about 7:00 PM Gambhir, Aashu, Ravindra Singh, Arvind Singh, Dhande, Bunty, Anku, Lalu, Ramendra Singh, Ranveer.Sonu and five other unknown persons armed with lathi, danda, farsa and katta came to Jatav Mohalla and gave abuses in the name of caste of the complainant, when complainant and his father and relatives came out then they started beating by means of lathi, danda causing injuries to the complainant, Ratnu, Ramavtar, Gabbar, Ramprakash, Dayaram, Rakesh Vikas Pradeep and Ramkali.(Rajendra Singh Sikarwar Vs.He has not committed any offence.Gambir Singh has been granted anticipatory bail vide order dated 17.06.2014 passed in M.Cr.C.No.4750/2014 and Arvind granted bail vide order dated 08.07.2014 passed in M.Cr.There is no likelihood of his absconsion.Hence, prayed for anticipatory bail.Prayer is opposed by learned counsel for the State.It appears that Ratnu, Ramavtar, Gabbar, Ramprakash, Dayaram, Smt. Ramkali, Rajesh, Vikas, Pradeep and Ramkatori have received injuries.Ramavtar has sustained one incised wound, one lacerated wound and bruise, Rajesh has received two abrasion and other have received injuries which are simple in nature.From perusal of the case diary of Crime No.182/2014, it appears that on the report of the applicant the case has been registered against the complainant party in which applicant has sustained two incised wounds, one lacerated wound and three bruises, Aashu has sustained five bruises, Lalu has sustained two bruises.As per x-ray report Gambhir Singh has sustained hairline fracture over fronto- parietal region.This injury has been reported to be caused by the sharp-edged weapon.C.No.6724/14 this application is allowed and it is directed that in the event of arrest, the applicant shall be enlarged on bail on his furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- (Rs. Fifty Thousand Only) with a surety bond in the like amount to the satisfaction of Arresting officer/competent Court.The applicant shall make himself available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required and he will co-operate in the investigation.He shall further abide by the other conditions enumerated in sub- section (2) of Section 438 of Cr.P.C.This order shall remain operative for a period of sixty days and during this period the applicant is free to move the regular bail application before the concerned Court.C.C. as per rules.
['Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code']
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C.C. as per rules.Head the learned counsel for the parties.Looking to the physical condition, applicant prays for bail of anticipatory nature.Learned Public Prosecutor opposes the application.This order shall remain in force for a period of 60 days and in the meanwhile, if the applicant so desires, may move an application for regular bail before the competent Court.
['Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 147 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code']
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This is first bail application filed on behalf of the applicant under Section 439 of the Cr.P.C. The applicant is in custody since 19.07.2019 in connection with Crime No.38/2019 registered at Police StationKishangarh, District Chhatarpur (MP), for the offence punishable under Sections 379, 34 of IPC.Prosecution story in short is that the complainant lodged a report and stated that on 18.07.2019 at about 10 O' clock he had gone for grazing 18 buffaloes in jungle however, he returned back to house at about 1 O'clock for having meal thereafter, at about 6 O'clock again he went to jungle to found buffaloes but he did not find in jungle thereafter, it is alleged that the applicant along with other persons tried to steal buffaloes from the jungle.It is alleged by the prosecution that applicant along with other persons committed theft of buffaloes.Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant is innocent person and has been falsely implicated in this case.He has no criminal past against the applicant and trial will take long time to conclude.There is no probability of absconding of applicant and tampering the evidence.On these grounds he prays for grant of bail.Learned PL for the respondent/State opposes the application.Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case in entirety, particularly the fact as pointed out by the learned counsel for the applicant, in the opinion of this Court, he deserves to be enlarged on bail.Consequently, the first application for bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on behalf of applicant is allowed.It is directed that the applicant-Rajendra @ Kallu be released on Digitally signed by ARVIND KUMAR MISHRA Date: 13/08/2019 11:38:26 2 MCRC-32958-2019 bail on furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs. 50,000/- (Rs. Fifty Thousand Only) with two local surety in the same amount to the satisfaction of the trial Court for his appearance before that Court on all dates fixed in the case and for complying with the conditions enumerated under Section 437 (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.C.C. as per rules.(RAJENDRA KUMAR SRIVASTAVA) JUDGE MISHRA Digitally signed by ARVIND KUMAR MISHRA Date: 13/08/2019 11:38:26
['Section 437 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code']
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This appeal is directed against a judgment and order dated August 24, 1977 and August 31, 1977 passed by a Special Judge, Tis Hazari, Delhi, whereby he found the appellant guilty under Section 161 of the IPC and Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1 )(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 ('the Act' for short).The appellant was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year with a fine of Rs. 200/- under Section 161, IPC.In case of default in payment of fine he was further directed to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three months.Similarly he was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year with a fine of Rs. 200/- under Section 5(2) read with Section 5(1)(d) of the Act. In case of his failure to clear the fine he was further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three months.Both the sentences were to run concurrently.However, the sentences imposed in default of payment of fine were to run consecutively.Brief facts which gave rise to the present appeal are as under: that one Shri Raghbir Singh resident of village Bindapur, Delhi, (hereinafter referred to as the complainant for the sake of convenience) approached the convict/appellant (hereinafter referred to as the appellant in order to facilitate the reference) for supply of a copy of the revenue record pertaining to his land situated, at village Bindapur, The appellant demanded a sum of Rs. 100/- from the complainant for the said purpose and told him that he should approach him over again on Monday i.e. 14th July, 1975 along with Rs. 100/-.The complainant lodged a written complaint with the Superintendent of Police, CBI, New Delhi, with the above said allegations.Consequently a regular case No. RC 34/75-SPE/CBI/Delhi Branch was registered.The said case after registration was entrusted to P.W. 3, Dy.S.P. Chander Bhan, for the purposes of investigation.He secured the presence of two independent witnesses i.e. Shri Prabhati Lal (P.W. 2) and Shri Baldev Raj (PW. 4) from the office Of Directorate of Sugar and Venaspati, Jarnnagar House, New Delhi.A raiding party was formed by including the said persons in the said raiding party.The complainant (PW 1) was introduced to the said witnesses who narrated the facts of the present case to them.He also produced ten currency notes of the denomination of Rs. 10)/- each to be given to the appellant by way of bribe on his demand.The currency notes were treated with phenolphthalein powder and a demonstration was given to the witnesses with regard to the working of the phenolphthalein powder.The above tainted currency notes of Rs. 10/- each were handed back to the complainant with instructions to be passed on to the appellant when demanded by him by way of bribe.Shri Prabhati Lal (P.W. 2), an independent witness was deputed to act as a shadow witness in order to see and overhear whatever transpired in between the complainant and the appellant.After the completion of necessary formalities the raiding party reached village Palam at about 2-30 p.m. Shri Raghbir Singh PW. 1 and Shri Prabhati Lal PW. 2 left to contact the appellant at his office (Patwarkhana).The appellant was found present at his office.The complainant asked the appellant as to whether he had prepared a copy of the extract from the revenue record pertaining to his land.The appellant asked for his fees.The complainant enquired of the appellant with regard to the amount to be paid whereupon the appellant told him that he would have to pay Rs. 100/- for the copy of the relevant revenue record pertaining to his land.The complainant on hearing the same took out the ten currency notes from his pocket and gave them to the appellant who accepted the same and put them into the left side front pocket of his shirt which he was wearing.The right as well as the left hand fingers of the appellant were got dipped into sodium carbonate solution which turned pink.The left side front pocket of the shirt on being washed with sodium carbonate solution also turned pink.JUDGMENT Mohd. Shamim, J.Thereafter the appellant started preparing the copy of the revenue record after looking into the same.Shri Prabhati Lal PW.2 thereupon came outside the office of the appellant and informed the raiding party that the appellant had accepted the bribe of Rupees 100/- from the complainant on demand.3 ChanderBhan, Dy.S.P. along with other members of the raiding party rushed to the office of the appellant and challenged him after disclosing his identity.The appellant was preparing copy of the revenue record pertaining to the land of the complainant at that time.After challenging, P.W. 3 Dy.S.P. Chander Bhan caught hold of the.appellant by both of his arms.The appellant got perplexed.On personal search of the appellant ten currency notes of Rs. 10/- each were recovered from the left side front pocket of his shirt.The numbers of the said currency notes tallied with the currency notes mentioned in the handing over memo prepared earlier.A copy of an extract from the Khasra Girdawri in respect of the land of the complainant prepared by the appellant was also seized.The appellant was arrested and later on released on bail.The appellant was summoned.The said admissions on the part of PW. 1 Raghbir Singh are to be read along with the statement of the appellant under Section 313, Cr.P.C. wherein he was very categorically stated that he had complained against the complainant to the SDM, Punjabi Bagh for his unauthorised colonisation.As per his report the SDM ordered that the complainant be dispossessed from the land in his possession and the same be handed over to gaon sabha.The appellant in this connection has placed on record his report with regard to the unauthorised colonisation.One of the persons complained against, as is manifest from the said report, is PW. 1 Raghbir Singh complainant (vide Ex. D/A).The orders passed by the SDM are Ex. DB and Ex. DC.To the same effect is the statement of PW. 7 Kanwar Sain, Office Kanungo, Mehrauli.He has very categorically stated that the appellant complained against PW. 1 Raghbir Singh with regard to the unauthorised colonisation in 1974 and the SDM thereupon passed orders for taking possession over the said land belonging to the complainant Raghbir Singh and to deliver the possession over the same to gaon Sabha.He has further stated that he along with the appellant went to take possession.However the same could not be taken on account of the apprehension of breach of peace.It thus can be safely concluded from above that it was the appellant who complained against the complainant, PW. 1 Raghbir Singh (vide report dated August 15, 1974).The complaint was lodged with the police on July 11, 1975 i.e. only 17 days after the possession was to be handed over to gaon sabha.Thus the complainant has got an animus against the appellant.He has got a motive to lodge a report against the appellant.Consequently the complainant by no stretch of imagination be called an independent witness.His statement is to be looked upon with suspicion and caution and it would not be safe to place reliance thereon.Furthermore, a perusal of the charge sheet reveals that as per the prosecution version the appellant was preparing a copy of the extract from the revanue record (Khasra Girdawri) in respect of the land of the complainant Raghbir Singh at the time the raid was laid against him.To the same effect is the statement of PW.3 Dy.Surprisingly enough the copy of the said extract from the revenue record was never seized from the spot.Instead an extract from the revenue record pertaining to the land of Shri Balbir Singh is placed on the file of this Court as is manifest from Ex. P5/A. This again casts suspicion on the case of the prosecution.It is in the statement of PW. 1 Raghbir Singh as well as PW. 3 Chander Bhan.Dy, S.P. that the appellant after having accepted the tainted currency notes kept the same in the left side front pocket of his shirt.The said shirt after the recovery of the tainted currency notes was removed from his person and was dipped in the solution of sodium carbonate whereupon the said solution turned pink.It implies thereby that the pocket of the shirt of the appellant which he was wearing must have pink colour.Astonishingly the shirt (Ex.P. 1) which was produced before the Court did not have any such colour on the left side front pocket.This fact has been admitted by PW., 3 Chander Bhan.This again casts suspicion with regard to the authenticity of the prosecution version particularly when the said shirt before pink marks at other places i.e. on the front side of the shirt.The learned lower Court has ignored this fact by stating that it is just possible that the faint pink colour on the pocket of the shirt of the accused might have disappeared with the passage of time.The learned lower Court, I feel, was not correct while coming to the said conclusion.Had that been true the pink marks on the other parts of the shirt would have also disappeared.The appellant in his written statement in Urdu (vide para 6) has stated that on July 14, 1975 the complainant Raghbir Singh approached him with the request to accept the impugned amount for handing over the same to Sube Singh.Sube Singh was to come to take the said money from him later on and he was required to give the said amount to Sube Singh.It was in the above circumstances that he took the said amount by one hand and kept the same on the cot with the help of another hand and told the complainant straightway that he should deliver the said amount himself to Sube Singh.It is sufficient if he comes out with a probable and plausible version.I feel that the appellant has put forward a probable and plausible version in the present case.
['Section 161 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 5 in The Indian Penal Code']
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This petition under Section 482 of Cr.P.C. has been filed to set aside the order dated 09.09.2014 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Karera district Shivpuri in Sessions Trial No. 90/2012 by which the learned Trial Court has refused to call - (1) Dr. R.K. Agrwal, District Hospital, Bhind; (2) Mr. Yogendra Bhadoriya, Principal, Maharani Laxmibai College of Excellence, Gwalior, and; (3) the Investigation Officer, who investigated Crime No. 86/2011 of Police Station Sehore, as defence witnesses.Brief facts just necessary for disposal of this petition are that the petitioner is one of the accused, who stand trial before the Additional Sessions Judge, Karera.The petitioner filed an application for adducing evidence of Dr. R.K. Agrawal, who on the requisition of police medically examined the petitioner and was under treatment from 01.07.2011 to 03.07.2011 at District Hospital, Bhind.He also claimed that on the date of incident, i.e., 2nd July, 2014 from 02.00 to 04.00 PM, he was present in DCA Computer class at Maharani Laxmi Bai College of Excellence, Gwalior.Therefore, in this regard he wanted to examine the Principal Mr. Yogendra Singh Bhadoriya.The petitioner also requested to call the Investigation Officer of (Rahul Vs.State of M.P.) 2 M.Cr.C No. 8896/2014 Crime No. 86/2011 registered at Police Station Sehore under Sections 177, 148, 149, 307, 323, 324, 325 and 294 of IPC, which is a cross case.The petitioner also requested to examine Mr. K.C. Chauhan, Station House Officer, who investigated the matter.The petitioner's application was partly allowed by the learned Trial Court.Regarding the other prayers, the learned Trial Court refused to call the witnesses.Learned counsel for the petitioner further relied on Manoj Kumar Swami Vs."Criminal P.C. (2 of 1974), S.233 -Summoning of documentary evidence - offence under Ss.498-A, 304-B of Penal Code - Case was listed for defence evidence - At stage of defence accused would have right to summon any evidence which may be relevant for proper appreciation of (Rahul Vs.State of M.P.) 3 M.Cr.C No. 8896/2014 prosecution evidence - allegations made by accused that deceased was an uneducated lady but she had given statement that she had passed HSC examination - Held, it is in the interest of justice that application of accused to summon relevant record to ascertain this fact should be granted by Court."Therefore, the petitioner is directed to produce the certified copies of the necessary documents which the petitioner relies before the Trial Court.After filing the same the petitioner can move an application for calling the witnesses, which may be relevant for the decision of the case.The petitioner, if files the relevant documents within two weeks and satisfy the learned Trial Court that the documents are relevant, the learned Trial Court may consider the same and if felt necessary may allow the accused to call the witnesses named above as defence witnesses.With the above direction, the M.Cr.
['Section 325 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 148 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 149 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Marriage of Reeta (since deceased) was solemnized Cr.A. No.2605/05 2 with appellant no.1 Manoj on 21/4/2000 and the remaining appellants are his family members.Prosecution case, in brief, is that appellants were involved in subjecting Reeta to cruelty and harassment due to non satisfaction of demand for dowry, and, ultimately, on 31/5/2001, under suspicious circumstances, she breathed her last and cause of death was ascertained as asphyxia in the post mortem report (Ex.P/10), wherein as many as 4 injuries were also noticed on her palms and one on chin.As per report (Ex.P/17) dated 29/11/01 of Forensic Science Lab, Organo Phosphorous pesticide was found in the viscera of the deceased.(8.10.13) Being aggrieved by the judgment dated 9.12.2005 passed by the I Additional Sessions Judge, Hoshangabad in S.T. No.322/2001, the appellants have preferred this appeal under Section 374(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code ('Code' for short) whereby they have been convicted under Sections 304-B and 498-A of the Indian Penal Code (for short, 'the IPC') and sentenced to undergo R.I. for seven years with fine stipulation and R.I. for 2 years with fine stipulation respectively.One written report dated 31/5/2001 addressed to Station House Officer, Itarsi was filed by father of the deceased Narbada Prasad.During the course of investigation, statements of witnesses were recorded and thereafter Crime No.365/01 (Ex.P/13) for the offences under Sections 304B and 498A of the IPC, was registered at Police Station, Itarsi and after completion of investigation, charge-sheet was filed against, as many as, seven accused persons.Out of them, except appellants others were acquitted of the charges.Learned Senior Counsel submitted that the trial Court had erred in appreciating the evidence on record and the impugned judgment deserves to be set aside.According to him, appellant no.3 Vijaya alias Vijaylata, sister-in-law of the deceased, is married and has been staying separately since long and there is no incriminating evidence against her and, therefore, she is entitled to be acquitted.Alternatively, he argued that, at the most, appellant no.2 Shanti Bai, mother-in-law of the deceased, can only be convicted under Section 498A of the IPC and appellant no.1 Manoj has already suffered the impugned custodial sentence, while Shantbai has suffered imprisonment for 4 years.In response, learned Government Advocate as well as learned counsel for the Objector, while making reference to the incriminating pieces of evidence on record, submitted that the impugned judgment was well merited.Cr.A. No.2605/05 3Having regard to the arguments advanced by the parties, we have gone through the impugned judgment and record of the trial Court.Santosh (PW1), brother of the deceased, deposed in para 2 of his evidence that Reeta had never told him in regard to maltreatment at the hands of her in-laws and she used to tell her mother only.Pinki alias Sunita (PW3), friend of the deceased, deposed in para 1 that Reeta had told her that her husband and mother-in-law used to harass and beat her on trifle matters.In para 3 she deposed that appellant no.3 used to instigate appellant no.2, but she did not depose the manner in which and when appellant no.3 instigated them.Rakesh Sahu (PW9) deposed in para 1 that on 29.5.01 when he met the deceased, she had started weeping and upon asking had informed her that appellant no.3 and her husband Ramesh had threatened to bring Rs.50,000/-, Fridge and VCR else they would harass her.Though some omnibus allegations were leveled against appellant no.3 in the evidence of some witnesses, yet, on that basis alone, her conviction cannot be sustained as on the same set of evidence, some other accused have already been acquitted by the trial Court and against them no appeal has been filed by the State.It is an admitted fact and also brother of the deceased Santosh (PW1) admitted in para 12 of his evidence that appellant no.3 Vijaya resided at Hoshangabad along with her husband Ramesh.From the evidence of all the witnesses, it is crystal clear that appellant nos. 1 and 2 used to subject Reeta to cruelty and harassment due to non satisfaction of demand for dowry and her death was caused within seven years of the marriage.The fact that Cr.A. No.2605/05 4 deceased was subjected to physical cruelty soon before her death, is also established from the evidence of the witnesses, as well as, from medical evidence.Therefore, in view of Section 113B of the Evidence Act, it was rightly presumed by the trial Court that appellant nos. 1 and 2 had caused the dowry death of Reeta.In the aforesaid premises, the appeal is allowed in part.Appellant no.3 Vijiya alias Vijaylata is acquitted of the offences.However, the appeal, so far as it relates to appellants nos. 1 and 2, the same stand dismissed.Their convictions and sentences are affirmed.As per record, appellant no.1 Manoj was in jail.His supersession warrant be sent to jail authorities.Appellant no.2 Shantibai is on bail.
['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 304B in The Indian Penal Code']
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Respondent no.2 Smt. Deepika Shukla is also present along with her counsel.Heard learned counsel for the parties finally.This petition under Section 482 of Code of Criminal Procedure, hereinafter referred to as 'the Code' has been filed by the applicants for quashing of order dated 06.05.2015 as well as the proceeding of Criminal Case No.332/2014, pending in the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Maihar, District Satna The applicant no.1 is the husband and applicant no.2 is brother- in-law of the respondent no.2-complainant.
['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 482 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 320 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The surviving accused are represented by Advocate Satyajit Bora.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::AT the relevant time, in the Maruti temple at Tivthan Tanda in Gangakhed taluka, religious programme of 'Parayan of Pandav Pratap Pothi' was going on.Mike and loud speakers were therefore set up at the said temple.One Waman Balu Rathod was one of the organizers of the said religious function.The villagers of the adjoining villages used to attend the said function and arrangements were made for the meals of the said devotees by way of prasad.6) As per the case of the prosecution, on 30 th August, 1995, accused No. 5 - Lahu first had been to Waman Rathod and requested him to give the loud-speaker to be used in the Ganpati festival in the village of the accused persons.Waman Rathod refused the request of Lahu.It is alleged that all the accused then approached Waman after sometime and jointly requested Waman to give them the loud-speaker and the mike for Ganpati festival.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::few others.7) Uttam Rathod, brother of the deceased Waman, lodged a complaint of the alleged incident, whereupon investigation was set in motion.DATE OF RESERVING JUDGMENT : 25th January, 2018 DATE OF PRONOUNCING JUDGMENT :9th February, 2018 JUDGMENT:-(P.R.Bora,J.)2) The respondents in Criminal appeal No.445 of 2001 and the appellants in Criminal Appeal No. 304 of 2001 were prosecuted in the aforesaid Sessions Case for the offences punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149 and 302 read with 34 of Indian Penal Code.Vide the impugned judgment, the learned Additional Sessions Judge acquitted the respondents in Criminal Appeal No.445/2001 whereas convicted the appellant in Criminal Appeal No.304/2001 for the offence punishable under Sections 304 Part-II of IPC and sentenced him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for seven years and fine of Rs.15,000/-,::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 3 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::in default to suffer further R.I. for one year.Aggrieved by the said judgment, the State has filed the Criminal Appeal No. 445/2001, taking exception to the order of acquittal recorded by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Parbhani in regard to the original accused Nos. 2 to 5; whereas the original accused No. 1 has preferred the Criminal Appeal No. 304/2001, challenging the order of conviction passed against him for the offence punishable under Section 304 Part-II of IPC.3) In view of the fact that both the appeals are arising out of one judgment, the arguments in both the appeals were simultaneously heard by us and we deem it appropriate to decide both these appeals by a common reasoning.During pendency of the appeal accused No. 4 viz. Nivrutti Dagduba Bhusnar has expired and the appeal thus stood abated against him.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::However, Waman, did not accede to the request made by the accused.According to the further case of the prosecution, the accused then though left the said place, assembled there again after some time, equipped with the weapons and made assault on Waman Balu Rathod as well as::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 5 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.The accused were arrested.The statements of the witnesses were recorded.Panchanama of the spot was prepared; inquest panchanama on the dead body of the deceased Waman was carried and post mortem examination of the dead body was also got done by the police.During the course of the investigation, some recoveries were also made and after completing the investigation, charge sheet was filed against all the five accused in the court of JMFC at Gangakhed.Since the offences charged against the accused were exclusively triable by the Court of Sessions, the case was committed to the Sessions Court at Parbhani.The accused did not plead guilty and claimed to be tried.In order to substantiate the charges levelled against the accused, the prosecution examined as many as 13 witnesses.The prosecution evidence had commenced with the testimony::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 6 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::of Dr. Manohar Ghule, the Medical Officer from Rural hospital, at Gangakhed and was concluded with the evidence of Shivaji Kamble (PW 13) - PSI, who had made the investigation in the alleged crime.The defense of the accused was total denial.The learned Sessions Judge, after having assessed the oral and documentary evidence on record, acquitted accused Nos. 2 to 5 and convicted accused no.1 , i.e. appellant in Criminal Appeal No. 304/2001, for the offence punishable under Sections 304 Part-II of IPC and imposed the sentence as noted herein above.8) Shri S.J.Salgare, learned A.P.P. Appearing for the State, assailed the impugned judgment on various grounds.The learned APP submitted that despite there being sufficient evidence against all the accused, proving their complicity in the commission of crime, the learned Sessions Judge has wrongly acquitted accused Nos. 2 to 5 and has erred in not holding accused No.1 guilty for the offence under Section 302 of IPC.9) The learned APP, taking us through the evidence of the prosecution witnesses and more particularly the evidence of::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 7 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::The learned APP further submitted that the prosecution had examined the eye- witnesses to the alleged occurrence and the said eye-witnesses and more particularly, PW 3 Uttam and PW 7 - Kallubai had perfectly given the ocular account of the alleged incident proving the incriminating acts of the accused persons.The learned APP further submitted that the medical evidence brought on record by the prosecution through the evidence of Dr. Manohar Ghule (PW 1); Dr. Siddharh Bhalerao (PW 4) and Dr. A.G.Solanke (PW 6) has not been properly appreciated by the learned Sessions Judge.The learned APP submitted that PW 4 - Dr Bhalerao had examined deceased Waman and PW 6- Kallubai at Gangakhed Rural hospital immediately after the incident and in his evidence, has deposed about the injuries, as were noticed on person of deceased Waman as well as PW 6 Kallubai.The learned APP submitted that sufficient evidence was placed on record by the prosecution to prove weapon used in commission of the offences and it was also sufficiently brought on record by the prosecution that the injuries as were noticed on person of deceased Waman as well as injured::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 8 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::Kallubai, were possible to have been caused with the said weapons.The learned APP further submitted that the prosecution had also brought on record the incriminating acts of other accused in making assaults on the victims and the evidence so brought on record was not shattered even during the course of cross-examination.The learned APP submitted that the learned Sessions Judge has drawn some unwarranted inferences and for no good reasons, rejected the prosecution evidence.The learned APP further submitted that the evidence, which was brought on record by the prosecution was sufficient to prove beyond reasonable doubt the complicity of the accused in knowingly and intentionally causing death of deceased Waman.In the circumstance, according to learned APP, the learned Sessions Judge has manifestly erred in not holding accused No.1 guilty for the offence under Section 302 of IPC and instead holding him guilty for a lesser offence punishable under Section 304 Part-II of IPC and acquitting accused Nos. 2 to 5 from all the offences..::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::The learned APP submitted that in view of the fact that the Sessions Court has held the fact to have been proved, that the assault was made by accused no.1 on the head of the deceased with a sharp and cutting weapon, the burden was shifted on the accused to bring on record sufficient evidence to rebut presumption raised against him that his intention was not to cause the death of deceased Waman.The learned APP further submitted that though accused No.1 has failed in rebutting the said presumption, the learned Sessions Judge has erroneously not held him guilty for the offence under section 302 of IPC and instead has held him guilty for the lesser offence under Section 304 Part-II of IPC.12) The learned APP, for all above reasons, prayed for setting aside the impugned judgment and order and to hold all the accused guilty for offence under Section 302 read 34 of IPC and to adequately punish them.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::the accused, supported the impugned judgment and order in so far as accused Nos. 2 to 5 (now accused Nos. 2, 3 and 5).The learned Counsel, inviting our attention to the elaborate discussion made by the learned Sessions Judge, submitted that the learned Sessions Judge has minutely scrutinized and has correctly analyzed the evidence of each and every prosecution witness and has recorded a well-reasoned finding, exonerating accused Nos. 2 to 5 from the charges levelled against them.The learned Counsel further submitted that having regard to inconsistencies in the evidence of the prosecution witnesses and failure on part of the prosecution to bring on record any unimpeachable evidence against accused Nos. 2 to 5, showing their complicity in commission of the alleged crime, the learned Additional Sessions Judge has rightly acquitted the said accused.The learned Counsel submitted that no interference is, therefore, warranted in the judgment and order passed by the learned Sessions Judge so far as acquittal of accused Nos. 2 to 5 is concerned.14) After having considered the submissions made on behalf of the learned APP and the leaned counsel for the accused and on perusal of the impugned judgment and the::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 11 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::evidence on record, apparently, it does not appear to us that any interference may be required in so far as the acquittal recorded by the learned Trial Judge in respect of accused Nos.2 to 5 is concerned.Accused Nos.1 to 3 are real brothers of each other.Deceased accused No.4 was father of accused Nos. 1 to3. Accused No. 5 does not seem to be in relation to other accused.However, all the accused are residents of village Underwadi.15) As revealed from the submissions made by the learned APP, the thrust of the prosecution, in order to prove the guilt of the accused, was mainly on the evidence of PW 7 - Kallubai, who is posed to be the victim of the alleged incident as well as the eye witness to the assaults made on deceased Waman.Reliance was also placed by the prosecution on the evidence of PW 5 - Telu Paithane and he was also stated to be an eye-witness to the alleged incident.PW 3 - Uttam Balaji Rathod had lodged the report of the alleged incident whereupon the investigation was set in motion.Obviously, the prosecution also relied upon the testimony of said PW 3 - Uttam.The other witnesses were the::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 12 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::panch witnesses on the spot and the alleged recovery of weapon.In addition to the aforesaid witnesses, the prosecution has also examined the police persons, who were part of the investigation and two medical officers, one who had issued the injury certificates and the another who had conducted the post mortem examination.16) It was vehemently argued by the learned APP that by examining the aforesaid witnesses, the prosecution has, beyond reasonable doubt, proved the complicity of all the five accused in knowingly and intentionally causing death of deceased Waman and causing severe injuries to PW 7 - Kallubai.It is not in dispute that PW 7 - Kallubai is sister of deceased Waman.According to learned APP, the learned Sessions Judge has, for some wrong reasons, declined to rely upon the evidence of the prosecution witnesses.The learned APP also submitted that some of the observations made by the learned Sessions Judge are contrary to the evidence on record.The learned APP, taking us through the evidence of PW 3 - Uttam; PW 5 - Telu; PW 7 - Kallubai and PW 10 - Dhuma, submitted that the inconsistencies and the contradictions, as are considered by the learned Sessions Judge in the testimonies of these witnesses, were, in fact, minor and immaterial and::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 13 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::must have been ignored by the learned Sessions Judge.In light of the submissions so made by the learned APP, when we perused the evidence on record and thereafter analysis of the said evidence made by the Sessions Judge, we did not find that any apparent error has been committed by the learned Sessions Judge in not holding accused Nos. 2 to 5 guilty for the offences with which they were charged.In so far as the finding recorded by the learned Sessions Judge while holding accused No.1 guilty for the offence punishable under Section 304 Part-II of IPC is::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 14 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::Though the said finding was sought to be objected by Shri Satyajit Bora, learned Counsel appearing for accused No.1, on certain points, we did not find any merit in the submissions so made.The defense of the accused that the vital injury, which ultimately resulted in causing death of Waman, was likely to be caused by beating of head of the deceased against the stony platform by an accident, has been rightly rejected by the learned Sessions Judge.Relying upon the evidence of PW 4 - Dr. Siddharth Bhalerao; PW 6 - Dr. Anand G.Solanke; the learned Sessions Judge has reached to the conclusion that the vital injury, which ultimately resulted in causing death of deceased Waman, was not likely to be caused accidentally and there was sufficient evidence on record showing that the same was caused in the assaults made on deceased Waman in the alleged incident.The finding recorded by the learned Sessions Judge that deceased Waman suffered the homicidal death, therefore, has to be sustained.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::injury to deceased Waman which ultimately resulted in causing his death.It was the contention of the learned A.P.P. that though the assaults were actually made by accused no.1 and accused no.3, what was more material was the intention of all the accused to cause death of deceased Waman and, as such, the trial Court must have held all the accused guilty for the offense under Section 302 read with Section 34 of IPC.20) After having considered the entire evidence on record, we find it difficult to agree with the argument so advanced by the learned A.P.P. The evidence on record shows that accused no.1 alone has admitted his presence on the spot::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 16 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::of occurrence.The others have denied their presence on the spot of occurrence and their alleged participation in commission of the alleged crime.Though PW 3 Uttam and PW 7 Kallubai, are cited as eye witnesses and their evidence has been heavily relied upon by the learned A.P.P., on perusal of the evidence of the aforesaid witnesses it is apparently revealed that both are not corroborating the facts stated by each other.PW 3 Uttam was stated to be on the spot of occurrence since beginning.His house is also situated just near to the spot of occurrence.In the circumstances, as has been observed by the learned trial Judge, serious doubts are raised about the entire occurrence when Uttam had not stated anything about first two visits of the accused persons.21) It is the matter of record that on the basis of the complaint lodged by Uttam (PW 3), the investigation was set in motion.In the circumstances, as has been observed by the learned trial Judge, inconsistency in the evidence of Uttam (PW3) and Kallubai (PW 7), on the alleged two previous visits of the::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 17 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::accused persons, and the alleged demand by them from deceased Waman to hand over the loud-speaker, cannot be ignored.As noted hereinabove, accused no.1 did not dispute his presence on the spot of occurrence.The question was whether the prosecution has proved presence of accused nos. 2 to 5 along with accused no.1 so as to gather whether accused nos. 2 to 5 were having common intention of causing death of deceased Waman.On this material aspect the evidence of PW 3 and PW 7 is inconsistent.Though PW 5 Paithane was also cited as the eye witness, he did not support the prosecution version.Thus, the prosecution has failed in bringing on record any unimpeachable evidence so as to prove the complicity of accused nos. 2 to 5 in commission of the alleged crime.In paragraph no.55 to 62 of the impugned judgment, the learned trial Judge has elaborately discussed the inconsistencies in the evidence of Uttam (PW 3) and Kallubai (PW 7).We need not to repeat the observations made by the learned trial Judge; suffice it to say that after having perused the evidence on record, we fully agree with the observations made by the learned Judge.22) It is further apparently revealed that the complaint at Exh.35 filed by PW 3 Uttam is not consistent on the material::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 18 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::In Exh.57, there are names of Dhondiram, Bandu and Laxman as witnesses but, in the complaint at Exh.35, these names are not mentioned.In Exh.35, name of accused no.5 Lahu is mentioned but, in the report at Exh.57, his name is missing.However, the explanation is unacceptable and the same has been rightly not accepted by::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 19 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::the learned trial Judge.The conclusion recorded by the learned trial Judge that probability of manipulation in the original complaint filed by PW 3 Uttam was difficult to be ruled out.23) After having considered the evidence as above, it does not appear to us that the learned trial Judge has committed any error in recording the finding that the prosecution has failed in bringing on record any cogent and sufficient evidence against accused nos. 2 to 5 proving their involvement in commission of the alleged crime.According to us, the trial Court has, therefore, rightly acquitted accused nos. 2 to 5 from the charges levelled against them.No case is made out by the State for causing interference in the finding so recorded by the trial Court.24) It was the further contention of the appellant State that the learned trial Judge has erred in not holding accused no.1 guilty for the offence punishable under Section 302 of IPC.After having considered the entire evidence on record and the discussion made by the learned trial Judge on the issue, we do not find much substance in the objection raised by the appellant State.We fully agree with the conclusion recorded::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 20 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::by the trial Court that no such evidence has been brought on record by the prosecution so as to hold that accused no.1 was having an intention to cause the death of deceased Waman.The evidence on record reveals that it was a sudden quarrel between accused no.1 and deceased Waman on account of handing over of the loud-speaker set for the purpose of Ganpati festival.As has been rightly observed by the learned trial Judge, accused no.1 had gone to the spot of occurrence only for the purpose of making demand of loud-speaker and nothing has been brought on record to draw an inference that at the relevant time there was any intention of accused no.1 to finish Waman.The quarrel between deceased Waman and accused no.1 started all of a sudden without premeditation.The prosecution has also not brought on record any such clinching evidence showing that the sickle was purposely and intentionally brought by accused no.1 with him.However, when the said sickle was used by the accused in making assault on the head of deceased Waman, as rightly held by the learned trial Judge, the knowledge has to be attributed on the part of accused no.1 that making an assault by him with a sickle on the head of deceased Waman was likely to cause his death.In the circumstances, according to us, the learned trial::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 21 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::Judge has rightly held accused no.1 guilty for the offense punishable under Section 304 Part II of IPC.The prosecution has failed in making out any case to hold accused no.1 guilty for the offense punishable under Section 302 of IPC.The aforesaid contention of the prosecution also, therefore, cannot be accepted and the appeal filed by the State, therefore, deserves to be dismissed in toto.25) In an appeal filed by accused No.1 (Criminal Appeal No.304/2001), the appellant has challenged his conviction for the offense punishable under Section 304 Part II of IPC.However, in view of the finding recorded by us while deciding Criminal Appeal No.445/2001, Shri Satyajit Bora, learned Counsel for the appellant, on instructions, restricted the argument only to the extent of quantum of sentence imposed upon accused no.1 by the trial Court; in other words, to reduce the period of sentence, and to release accused no.1 on the sentence already undergone by him.Learned Counsel further submitted that after pronouncement of the judgment, accused no.1 was taken in custody and was released on bail vide order::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 22 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::Learned Counsel submitted that though the orders were passed by the respective Courts for releasing the applicant on bail, some time was consumed in arranging for bail, etc. and if the said time is considered, accused no.1 has practically undergone the imprisonment for a period of about seven months.Learned Counsel further submitted that the alleged incident occurred prior to about 23 years.The accused, who was at the relevant time 38 years old, has now crossed his age of 61 years.Learned Counsel further submitted that there was no previous enmity between accused no.1 and the deceased and whatever happened was in a sudden fight between the both.State of Maharashtra ( 2015 All.M.R. (Cri) 1790), learned Counsel submitted that accused no.1 be released on the sentence of imprisonment already undergone by him.Learned A.P.P. submitted that the learned trial Judge has already considered the circumstances as::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 23 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::27) We have carefully considered the submissions made on behalf of the appellant i.e. original accused no.1 and by the State.Having regard to the facts involved in the present case, it appears to us that the request made by the appellant accused no.1 deserves to be positively considered.Admittedly, it was a sudden fight and was not a premeditated act.There is no dispute that there are no criminal antecedents to accused no.1 and present is the only criminal case against the accused.As has been submitted by the learned Counsel for the appellant, accused no.1 has now crossed the age of 61 years.It is a matter of record that he has already undergone imprisonment for a period of seven months.Aforesaid are the circumstances which make us to consider the request of the appellant to reduce the sentence imposed upon him by the trial Court and to substitute the same with the sentence of imprisonment already undergone by him.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::circumstances of each case and the Court has to keep in mind the gravity of the crime, motive for the crime, nature of the offense and all other attendant circumstances.In the instant matter, admittedly, accused no.1 had been to the spot of occurrence for demanding the loud-speaker set from deceased Waman to be used for Ganpati festival which was to commence from the next day and not with the intention of causing injury to deceased Waman which had ultimately resulted in causing his death.From the evidence on record it is also discernible that in a fit of anger, a single assault was made by accused no.1 on the head of deceased Waman.It can be gathered that accused no.1 was deeply annoyed since his request for handing over the loud-speaker set was turned down by deceased Waman.Learned trial Judge has, therefore, rightly held him guilty for the offense punishable under Section 304 Part II of IPC.The only question now remains to be considered is whether to accept the request made by the accused to modify the sentence imposed upon him by the trial Court and to sentence him with imprisonment already undergone or to confirm the sentence imposed upon him by the trial Court::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 25 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::29) In the case of Narayan Aba Pawar and others Vs.State of Maharashtra (cited supra), the trial Court had convicted the accused therein for an offense punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 of IPC and had sentenced them to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay fine of Rs.5,000/- each.In an appeal, the Division Bench set aside the conviction for the offense punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 of IPC and held the accused guilty for the offense punishable under Section 304 Part II of IPC.While considering the adequacy of sentence to be imposed upon the appellants / accused, the Division Bench has made the following observations in para nos. 20 and 21 of the said judgment which read thus:It appears that the original accused no.1 Narayan Aba Pawar is aged 70 years now, while original accused no.2- Laxmibai Narayan Pawar is aged 65 years as of today.The date of incident is September 1997 and thus nearly 17 years have elapsed since the date of the incident.Accused Nos.1 and 2 have thus undergone three months imprisonment till date.Accused No.3 Ganesh has been in jail throughout and according to learned Counsel for the appellants, he has undergone an::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 26 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::imprisonment of more than 5 years.Looking to the age of the accused nos.1 and 2 and also in the light of the fact that the incident had occurred more than 17 years back, according to us the imprisonment of three months undergone by the accused nos.1 and 2 would subserve the interest of justice.We are quite conscious of the fact that the imprisonment of 3 months for an offence punishable under Section 304 (II) would be a fleabite sentence.The amount of fine imposed by the Trial Court needs to be enhanced and according to us, it would be appropriate if each of the accused should be asked to payment of fine of Rs.15,000/-, in default of which to undergo RI for 1 and ½ years."30) It appears to us that the course as was adopted by the Division Bench in the cited case can be conveniently adopted in the case in hand also.In the present matter also, the incident in question had occurred in the year 1995, and thus, 23 years have elapsed since the date of incident.He has no criminal antecedents.In the circumstances, we are inclined to accept the request of the accused to modify the sentence imposed upon him by the trial Court and to release him on the sentence of imprisonment already undergone.We reiterate that accused no.1 is not::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 ::: 27 Cri.Appeal 445/2001 & Anr.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::habitual offender.The crime committed by the accused cannot be termed as heinous crime and since he was not involved in any anti social activities, prolonged confinement may not be required in the instant case.We are, however, of the opinion that the balance can be struck by adequately increasing the amount of fine which can be in turn directed to be paid to the widow of deceased Waman.The learned Trial Judge has imposed fine amount of Rs.15,000/- on the present accused.In the facts and circumstances of the case, we deem it appropriate to enhance the said amount to Rs.1,00,000/- (Rupee one lakh).The accused has already paid the fine amount of Rs.15,000/-.Thus, now he would be required to pay the balance amount of Rs.85,000/- (Rupees eighty five thousand)31) In the foregoing circumstances and for the reasons stated above, following order is passed:Criminal Appeal No.445/2001 filed by the State is dismissed.Criminal Appeal No.340/2001 is partly allowed as under:-::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::Fine amount, if paid by the appellant, the same be paid to the widow of deceased Waman, and if she is not surviving, to the surviving legal heirs of deceased Waman.The trial Court shall, after deposit of the fine amount, issue notice to the widow of deceased Waman or, the legal heir(s) of deceased Waman, as the case may be, and to ensure that the amount of fine is expeditiously remitted to them.::: Uploaded on - 07/05/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 21/05/2018 04:31:13 :::
['Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 299 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State and perused the material on record.By means of this application, the applicant who is involved in case crime no.64 of 2019, under Sections 363, 366, 342, and 376 IPC, P.S. Lalapur, District Prayagraj is seeking enlargement on bail during the trial.Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the applicant has enticed away the victim.Submission made by learned counsel that both the parties has jotted down the marriage agreement dated 10.04.2019 signed by both of them.She remained in the company of applicant about fortnight.Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the victim has roamed around for 10-12 days with the applicant, which clearly shows that the applicant is a consenting party.He lastly submitted that the applicant is in jail since 27.04.2019 is entitled to be enlarged on bail during the pendency of trial.Per contra learned AGA opposed the prayer for bail but could not dispute the aforementioned facts.Considering the submissions made by learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned AGA and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, I find it to be a fit case for bail.In view of the above, let the applicant- Pradeep Kumar Bharatiya be released on bail on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned in case crime no.64 of 2019, under Sections 363, 366, 342, and 376 IPC, P.S. Lalapur, District Prayagraj with the following conditions:-(i) THE APPLICANT/APPLICANTS SHALL FILE AN UNDERTAKING TO THE EFFECT THAT THEY SHALL NOT SEEK ANY ADJOURNMENT ON THE DATE FIXED FOR EVIDENCE WHEN THE WITNESSES ARE PRESENT IN COURT.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/APPLICANTS SHALL REMAIN PRESENT BEFORE THE TRIAL COURT ON EACH DATE FIXED, EITHER PERSONALLY OR THROUGH THEIR COUNSEL.IN CASE OF THEIR ABSENCE , WITHOUT SUFFICIENT CAUSE, THE TRIAL COURT MAY PROCEED AGAINST THEM UNDER SECTION 229-A IPC.(iii) IN CASE, THE APPLICANT/APPLICANTS MISUSE THE LIBERTY OF BAIL DURING TRIAL AND IN ORDER TO SECURE THEIR PRESENCE PROCLAMATION UNDER SECTION 82 CR.P.C., MAY BE ISSUED AND IF APPLICANTS FAIL TO APPEAR BEFORE THE COURT ON THE DATE FIXED IN SUCH PROCLAMATION, THEN, THE TRIAL COURT SHALL INITIATE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THEM, IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW, UNDER SECTION 174-A IPC.(iv) THE APPLICANT/APPLICANTS SHALL REMAIN PRESENT, IN PERSON, BEFORE THE TRIAL COURT ON DATES FIXED FOR (1) OPENING OF THE CASE, (2) FRAMING OF CHARGE AND (3) RECORDING OF STATEMENT UNDER SECTION 313 CR.P.C. IF IN THE OPINION OF THE TRIAL COURT ABSENCE OF THE APPLICANTS ARE DELIBERATE OR WITHOUT SUFFICIENT CAUSE, THEN IT SHALL BE OPEN FOR THE TRIAL COURT TO TREAT SUCH DEFAULT AS ABUSE OF LIBERTY OF BAIL AND PROCEED AGAINST THEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW.
['Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 342 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 363 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 366 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard the learned counsel for the parties.The applicants are apprehending their arrest in connection with Crime No.62/2019 registered at Police Station Gohad, District Bhind for the offences punishable under Sections 147, 148, 294, 323, 326 read with 149 of the IPC.Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the main allegation is on Rishi Singh, who caused injury to the injured Surendra with a farsa and as per Citi Scan report, Surendra sustained fracture in left parital bone and left temporal bone.Present applicants have been falsely implicated.Under these circumstances they pray for anticipatory bail.Learned Public Prosecutor for the State opposes the application.Keeping in view the submissions made by learned counsel for the parties and the facts and circumstances of the case, I am of the view that this is a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail to the applicants.Consequently this application of applicant under Section 438, Cr.P.C. is hereby allowed.It is directed that in the event of arrest, the present applicants shall be released on anticipatory bail on each of them furnishing a personal bond in the sum of Rs.50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand only) with two solvent sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the Arresting Authority.The applicants shall appear before the Investigating Officer on or before 18th June, 2019 and on such other dates fixed by him and shall also cooperate in the investigation.The applicants shall make themselves available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required.He shall further 2 MCRC-22455-2019 abide by the other conditions enumerated in sub-Section (2) of Section 438 of Cr.P.C.Certified copy as per rules.(VIVEK AGARWAL) V. JUDGE ALOK KUMAR 2019.06.04 11:28:49 AKS +05'30'
['Section 438 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Criminal appeal No. 2199/03 has been filed by the appellant / accused Sunil Kumar Dubey, challenging his conviction for the offence punishable under Sections 302, 304-B and 498-A of IPC, by the impugned judgment, by which, learned Trial Court has sentenced him to undergo RI for life for offence punishable under Section 302 IPC; RI for 10 years for offence punishable under Section 304-B IPC and RI for 3 years for offence-2- Cri.A.2199/03 & 690/04 punishable under Section 498-A IPC.While, criminal appeal no. 690/2004 has been filed by the State, challenging acquittal of the respondents / accused namely Ram Kishan Dubey, Sushil Kumar Dubey, Smt. Rajkumari Dubey and Smt. Sunita Gautam, from the aforesaid charges.Being aggrieved by the impugned judgment, appellant Sunil Kumar Dubey has filed criminal appeal no. 2199/03, challenging his conviction on the ground that the learned Trial Court is not justified in convicting him, overlooking unreliable evidence of prosecution.There was no evidence available on record relating to demand of any dowry.Criminal appeal no. 690/04 has been filed by the State against impugned judgment challenging finding of acquittal against the remaining accused persons on the ground that there were ample evidence available for demand of dowry on record, therefore, learned trial court is not justified in acquitting them.Main point for consideration in both these appeals is as to whether the learned Trial Court is justified in passing the impugned judgment, by which, appellant Sunil Kumar Dubey has been convicted and other accused have been acquitted.-3- Cri.A.2199/03 & 690/04There is no dispute as to the fact that deceased Shobha @ Premila was married to accused / appellant Sunil Kumar on 26.4.1995 and she died on 5.10.1997, due to burn injuries, which is an unnatural death, and therefore, we have to see that whether death of Shobha @ Premila was homicidal or it was "dowry death" and that, whether the deceased was ill- treated for fulfilling the demand of dowry by her husband or in-laws.Learned Trial Court has appreciated the evidence regarding death of dowry from Paragraphs 15 to 26 in the impugned judgment and considered each evidence regarding demand of dowry alleged, out of which, demand of colour T.V. had been told by the deceased to her mother, father and sisters when she came to her maternal house third time after her marriage, but appreciating the evidence, the learned Trial Court has rightly held that there is no evidence that she had talked to her in-laws and husband regarding demand of colour T.V. after giving dowry, at the time of her Court statement, between them.In no letter, the deceased has told that she had been harassed for fulfillment of demand of colour T.V., even husband Sunil never made demand of colour T.V. from her father-in-law.Sisters of the deceased have not mentioned the fact of ill-treatment for demand of colour T.V. in their statements Ex.D/3 & D/4 and Ku.Sushma (PW-6), who is sister of the deceased, has admitted that her sister never told her when she was beaten or abused for fulfillment of demand of colour T.V. Therefore, the learned Trial Court is justified in rejecting the allegation regarding demand of colour T. V. in dowry and harassing the deceased for fulfillment of said demand.Other alleged demands are that of demand of money of Rs.20,000/- for construction of house and demand of Rs.10,000/- after Sunil, husband of the deceased, became jobless.Out of which, Rs.10,000/- was paid for construction of house and Rs.5000/- was paid to the husband after he lost his job.Although, there are contradictions regarding demand of even-4- Cri.A.2199/03 & 690/04 amount and learned counsel for the appellant / accused has submitted that the demand of money for extending help in construction of the house and monetary help for livelihood cannot be termed as demand of dowry.In support of his contention, he has cited a judgment of Hon'ble Apex court passed in the matter of Appasaheb and another vs. State of Maharashtra (2007) 9 SCC 721, in which, it has been held that the demand made by the appellant / accused from the parents of the deceased (wife) to meet domestic expenses and for purchasing manure, cannot be said to be a demand of dowry.Since, essential ingredients of Section 304-B IPC viz. demand of dowry is not established, the conviction of the appellants under Section 304-B r/w.S. 34 IPC cannot be sustained.It has been further held that demand for money on account of some financial stringency or for meeting some urgent domestic expenses or for purchasing manure, cannot be termed as a demand of dowry.Therefore, even if, demand of Rs.10,000/- or Rs.5000/- was made by the parents of the appellant / accused from the deceased or her parents, for construction of the house or as monetary help to a jobless husband of their daughter, the said payment cannot be termed as a demand of dowry and further, after making such payment, there is no evidence that demand had been existing till the death of the deceased, has not been established.Therefore, in the absence of necessary ingredients of "demand of dowry", conviction of the appellant / husband Sunil for the offence under Sections 304-B and 498-A, IPC, is not sustainable and acquittal of other respondents / accused no. 1 to 4 in criminal appeal no. 690/04, is proper.So far as the death of deceased Shobha @ Premila is concerned, it is an admitted fact that Shobha @ Premila was living with her husband in the quarter which was allotted to her father-in-law and other members of the family were residing in separate house nearly 200 meters away from the quarter, in which, the deceased was living.Therefore, the learned TrialIn para 5 of his statement, he has confirmed that he was unable to mention the reason of death, therefore, he had preserved viscera and sent it for chemical examination.In cross-examination, he has further admitted that he had not examined density of blood of the deceased.He has stated that burn injuries found on the body of the deceased were post mortem but he has admitted in cross-examination that he had not preserved mucus from trachea, larynx and lungs and he had not conducted blood level test of the deceased.He has further admitted that he had not conducted any test for presence of carbon in blood, although he has stated that such test might be conducted by chemical examination but no blood was preserved for chemical examination which would reveal the presence of carbon particle in the blood.In fact, no examination has been made after conducting post mortem regarding injury sustained by the deceased whether they were post mortem or ante mortem, even chemical examination conducted by FSL, only mentions absence of poisonous substance in viscera.Therefore, other circumstances are to be seen.Learned counsel for the appellant / accused has drawn attention towards the statement of Dr. Subhash Pathak (PW-16), who has seen the-6- Cri.A.2199/03 & 690/04 spot as a Senior Scientist of FSL Team and on seeing spot, he has been stated that the quarter was having 3 rooms, out of which, doors of front were closed from inside at the time of incidence as told to him.He has found blackening in all 3 rooms of the quarter.He has also found pieces of burn cloths in kitchen and other two rooms and this is only possible when the victim moved in all 3 rooms while she caught fire.Police has not prepared any Panchnama regarding condition of the house when the police reached on spot whether the doors of the house were closed from inside or they were open.However, it is an admitted position that appellant Sunil Kumar Dubey was not present at the time of incident in the house.Further, statement of Dr. Subhash Pathak (PW-16) reveals that doors of front and backside were closed from inside and this fact might have gone against the Prosecution agency for implicating the accused persons for offence punishable under Section 302 IPC and further considering the fact that the father of the deceased is a Police Constable, Shivcharan (PW-1), a detailed spot map has either not been prepared or if prepared, it has not been produced, as the factum of closure of doors from inside, might have gone against the theory created by the prosecution agency.Learned Trial Judge has also created different story in para 47 of its judgment, in which, it has been held that the deceased might have been killed by putting pillow on her face or by pressing throat as tongue was found protruded which may be the result of strangulation.Although, the Judge can use experience of the life by considering the evidence of judgment but such experience does not include hypothetical inference.Where the Doctor has stated that the burn injuries were post mortem and failed to collect blood or fluid for confirming the same, Modi's Medical-7- Cri.A.2199/03 & 690/04 Jurisprudence and Toxicology (Ed.23,Page-595), mentions that in homicidal smothering, affected by the forcible application of the hand over the mouth and the nostrils, bruises and abrasions are often found on the lips and on the angles of the mouth, and alongside the nostrils.The inner mucosal surface of the lips may be found lacerated from pressure on the teeth.It further mentions that in case of suffocation, the lips are livid, and the tongue sometimes protruded.Bloody froth comes out of the mouth and the nostrils.Therefore, merely on the basis of protruded and in the absence of any mark of hypothecation it cannot be said that death of the deceased was result of hypothecation particularly when she was alone in the house and doors of the house were closed from inside and was removed in all 3 rooms of the house in burning condition.Learned Trial Court is not justified in holding that the death of the deceased was homicidal in the absence of any proper evidence either medical or circumstantial.The witnesses had seen the deceased cleaning the house in the morning and after sometime, fume was seen coming out from the house while she was inside.Therefore, the death of the deceased may be either accidental or suicidal but in the absence of any evidence regarding demand of dowry and further, in the absence of any evidence in quarrel between the deceased and her husband and further considering the fact that immediately before the incident, the deceased was seen cleaning her house in normal way, it cannot be said that death of the deceased was due to any abetment by her husband.The possibility of abetment for suicide is also not available from the evidence on record.Therefore, there is no evidence against the respondents no. 1 to 4 / accused in criminal appeal no. 690/04 regarding demand of dowry or harassment for dowry and also their presence at the time of incident where deceased was living in the house.Therefore, the acquittal of the respondents no. 1 to 4 in criminal appeal no. 690/04 is proper.A.2199/03 & 690/04 force in the appeal filed by the State against acquittal and learned Trial Court is justified in acquitting them.Therefore, criminal appeal no. 690/2004 filed by the State against the acquittal of the respondents no. 1 to 4 is hereby dismissed.According to Modi's Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology, (Ed.23, Page-633) persons removed from houses destroyed by fire are often found dead from suffocation due to the inhalation of smoke, carbon monoxide and other irrespirable gases, which are the products of combustion.In such a case, burns found on the body are usually post- mortem.Therefore, it is also possible that after death of the victim, due to suffocation, burn injuries, which are result of continuous burning, may appear post-mortem in nature and the fact that tongue of the deceased was found protruded it is possible that victim might have died due to suffocation, entire damage caused by complete burning.Therefore, merely on the basis of the statement of Doctor that burn injuries were post- mortem, it cannot be held that her death was homicidal.Further, no chemical examination of viscera has been done for confirmation of presence of carbon particle or trachea, larynx or blood and above all, doors were found closed from inside, in which, deceased was found in burnt condition, therefore, it cannot be held that her death was homicidal.Thus, learned Trial Court is not justified in convicting the appellant Sunil Kumar Dubey for offence punishable under Section 302 IPC.Consequently, criminal appeal no. 2199/2003 filed by the appellant Sunil Kumar Dubey is allowed and impugned judgment of conviction and sentenced awarded by the Trial Court is set-aside and he is acquitted of the charges of offence punishable under Sections 302, 304-B and 498-A of IPC as no demand of dowry has been established from the evidence produced by the prosecution.The appellant is in jail; therefore, he is directed to be released from jail forthwith.-9- Cri.A.2199/03 & 690/04Criminal Appeal No.690/04 preferred by the State against the acquittal of the respondents, Ram Kishan, Sushil Kumar, Smt. Rajkumari and Smt. Sunita, is hereby dismissed.
['Section 304B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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ALLOWED md.CRM No. 5246 of 2018 In Re:- An application for anticipatory bail under section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure filed on 24.07.2018 in connection with Arambagh Police Station Case No.911 of 2017 dated 15.09.2017 under Sections 498A/307/406 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 /4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. ;And In Re:-Tarun Kabi ... Petitioner Mr. Tanmay Chowdhury, Advocate Mr. Tapas Kumar Ghosh, Advocate .. for the petitioner Mr. Aditishankar Chakraborty, Advocate Mr. Nirupam Dhali, Advocate .. for the State The petitioner seeks anticipatory bail in connection with Arambagh Police Station Case No.911 of 2017 dated 15.09.2017 under Sections 498A/307/406 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3 /4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.The petitioner is the husband of the victim and has come up before this Court since the petitioner's prayer has been rejected by the Sessions Court while the other relatives have been granted anticipatory bail.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 compliance with all requisite formalities.(Abhijit Gangopadhyay, J.) (Sanjib Banerjee, J. ) 2
['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 307 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Counter affidavit filed today on behalf of State is taken on record.Heard learned counsel for the revisionist and learned AGA for the State.The instant revision is filed under Section 102 of the Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection) Act challenging the order dated 24.01.2020 passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Court No. 15, Agra in Criminal (Juvenile) Appeal No. 2 of 2020 by which the appeal filed on behalf of the revisionist was dismissed and order dated 21.12.2019 passed by Principal Magistrate, Juvenile Justice Board, Agra in case crime no. 206 of 2019 under Sections 364, 302, 201, 120B IPC, P.S. Bah, District Agra, rejecting the bail application of the applicant.It is contended by learned counsel for the revisionist that the incident is of 27.03.2019 and the first information report was lodged on 6.7.2019 i.e. after more than three months, under Section 364 IPC against two named persons namely, Vijay and Smt. Sarvesh.It is further contended that accused was not named in the first information report and his name was surfaced in the statement of co-accused Vijay, in which he implicated the revisionist along with other co-accused namely Sainky, Chhatrapal and Smt. Sarvesh.It is further contended by learned counsel for the revisionist that the revisionist has falsely been implicated in the present case, he has no concern with the murder of the deceased.It is further contended that the age of the applicant is juvenile, aged about 16 years 10 months and 23 days on the date of the incident.The report of the DPRO, which is annexed as supplementary affidavit shows that the revisionist is quite normal child having no criminal antecedent nor his family having any chequered past.I have gone through the order impugned and there is no material on record to fall this case under Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection) Act, 2000 which is quoted hereinbelow :-Bail of juvenile.(1) When any person accused of a bailable or non-bailable offence, and apparently a juvenile, is arrested or detained or appears or is brought before a Board, such person shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) or in any other law for the time being in force, be released on bail with or without surety 1[or placed under the supervision of a Probation Officer or under the care of any fit institution of fit person] but he shall not be so released if there appear reasonable grounds for believing that the release is likely to bring him into association with any known criminal or expose him to moral, physical or psychological danger or that his release would defeat the ends of justice.(3) When such person is not released on bail under sub-section (1) by the Board it shall, instead of committing him to prison, make an order sending him to an observation home or a place of safety for such period during the pendency of the inquiry regarding him as may be specified in the order."I have carefully seen the order impugned.As per Section 12(1) of Juvenile Justice Act, bail to the minor could be refused, they are:-(i) If there appear reasonable grounds for believing that the release is likely to bring him into association with any known criminal(ii) Or expose him to moral, physical or psychological danger.(iii) Or that his release would defeat the ends of justice.On a careful perusal of the order, their is not even a whisper as to the case of applicant fall within either of the categories mentioned above.It appears that the learned Judge has over obsessed by the sections of IPC in which the applicant is entitled.Consequently the revision stands allowed.
['Section 364 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 201 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 302 in The Indian Penal Code']
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The appellant Bajirao and his.JUDGMENT Hemeon, J.at Linga, Chhindwara tahsil; and during the trial charges under Sections 468 and 474 'ibid' were added against the appellant.In appeal, I held that the addition of the charges during the trial might have been prejudicial to the appellant and quashed the convictions and sentences.The State Government, Madhya Pradesh, thereafter moved the Additional Sessions Judge, Chhindwara, to file a complaint against the appellant under sections 468 and 474 of the Indian Penal Code.The objections raised by the appellant were overruled and the Additional Sessions Judge, Chhindwara, directed a complaint to be filed against him.under those sections in a competent Court.The appellant has now come up in appeal against that order.The case against him was, briefly stated, to the effect that the appellant being covetous of Kishan's valuable field, forged with the help of others a sale deed (articles K-1 to K-4), dated.the 25th December 1950, purporting to have been executed by Kishan, had it registered and retained it.Kishan heard a rumour of this and made inquiries from the appellant who assured him that there was no truth in the rumour.The appellant then being apprehensive that the matter would eventually come to light killed Kishan and threw his body into a river.
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The prosecution case, in short, is that the prosecutrix (PW-1) was a student, who was working in the house of one Rekwar Sahab resident of Housing Board Colony, Damoh in the evening hours.On 31.10.2008 when the prosecutrix was coming back from the house of Rekwar and she reached near the culvert by the Housing Board Irrigation Colony, the appellant and his companions 2 Cr.A. No.2959/2011 detained her.The appellant held here hands and dragged her in a gutter near the culvert.The appellant administered some liquor to the prosecutrix and thereafter he did rape with the prosecutrix.At the time of incident the companions of the appellant were teasing the prosecutrix by moving their hands on her body.Thereafter the prosecutrix was left to the spot and she became unconscious.When she gained consciousness, she went to her house and informed about the incident to her mother Tulsa Bai (PW-3), one Bhagwati (PW-4) and others.She was taken to the Kotwali Police Station, Damoh where she had lodged an FIR Ex.P-1 on the same day at about 12:05 AM in the night.She was sent for her medico legal examination in the night itself.Dr. Shraddha Gangele (PW-8) examined her and gave a report Ex.She found that blood was oozing from the vagina of the prosecutrix and after cleaning one small abrasion was found on the exterior part of the vagina.Dr. Shraddha Gangele took yellow salwar of the prosecutrix and also prepared two slides of vaginal swab and such articles were handed over to the concerned lady constable.After due investigation, a charge sheet was filed before the CJM Damoh, who committed the case to the Special Court under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (hereinafter referred to as "Special Act").2 Cr.A. No.2959/20113 Cr.A. No.2959/2011The appellant abjured his guilt.He did not take any specific plea.He has stated that he was falsely implicated in the matter.However, no defence evidence was adduced.appellant from the charge of Section 3(2)(v) of the Special Act, but convicted the appellant for the offence under Sections 376(2)(g) and 506 (Part-II) of IPC and sentenced him as mentioned above.The co-accused Neeraj Singh was also acquitted by the trial Court, because his identification could not be established by the prosecution.I have heard the learned counsel for the parties.The learned counsel for the appellant has submitted that the testimony of the prosecutrix was not trustworthy and therefore no offence was made out against the appellant.4 Cr.A. No.2959/2011In the present case, the prosecutrix (PW-1), Kanchan (PW-2) sister of the prosecutrix and Tulsa Bai (PW-3) mother of the prosecutrix were examined about the age of the prosecutrix and they had shown that the prosecutrix was 13-14 years old at the time of incident.5 Cr.A. No.2959/2011The prosecutrix has deposed that her age was 13 years at the time of incident and she was not cross examined for the assessment of her age.Similarly, no cross examination was done to the witnesses Kanchan, sister of the prosecutrix and Tulsa Bai, mother of the prosecutrix about the age of the prosecutrix.Under such circumstances, it was established that the prosecutrix was below 16 years of age at the time of incident.6 Cr.A. No.2959/20116 Cr.A. No.2959/2011The prosecutrix (PW-1), Kanchan (PW-2) and Tulsa Bai (PW-3) have stated that the prosecutrix went to work in the house of Rekwar Sahab and she was expected to come back upto 6:30 PM in the evening.When she did not come back, Kanchan and Tulsa Bai etc. started searching the prosecutrix and when they came back to the house, they found that the prosecutrix had already reached the house and she told the entire story as to how the appellant committed rape upon her.Bhagwati (PW-4) was also examined to say that the prosecutrix informed her about the incident, however she turned partly hostile and did not corroborate the story of the prosecutrix.The learned counsel for the appellant has pointed out the various contradictions in the statements of witnesses Kanchan, Tulsa Bai and the prosecutrix and also their evidence with the FIR.However, such are the minor contradictions and by such minor contradictions, the testimony of the prosecutrix cannot be thrown away.For example, time of leaving the house of Rekwar and time when the victim reached her house.If the prosecutrix left the house of Rekwar at about 6:30 PM and she was administered some liquor or intoxicant, then certainly the family members of the prosecutrix could not search her.She was unconscious near the culvert.It is true that Dr. Shraddha Gangele (PW-8) did not find any smell of liquor 7 Cr.A. No.2959/2011 from the mouth of the prosecutrix, but it would be apparent that the liquor was given to the prosecutrix at about 7:00 PM in the evening and she was examined by Dr. Shraddha Gangele at 2:30 AM in the night.Smell of liquor could be in the mouth of the prosecutrix according to the quantity of liquor and the time before which the liquor was administered.Hence, it cannot be said that the testimony of the prosecutrix was incorrect.7 Cr.A. No.2959/2011However, if it is supposed that the prosecutrix was not administered with any liquor, then it was for the appellant to prove that she was a consenting party and looking to her age if she was a consenting party, then still crime under Section 376 of IPC would constitute against the appellant because she had not given any consent for such an intercourse.Similarly, the prosecutrix has accepted that she sustained some injuries due to thorns lying on the earth, but she did not say about other injuries.When Dr. Shraddha Gangele (PW-8) examined the prosecutrix, she could not find any injury caused by thorn unless the prosecutrix would have invited her attention to those injuries.The prosecutrix appears not to be a literate girl and it was not expected from her to invite attention to the doctor to such minor injuries, and simply because Dr. Shraddha Gangele did not find any injury of thorn, the testimony of the prosecutrix cannot be thrown away.8 Cr.A. No.2959/20118 Cr.A. No.2959/2011The most important fact is that the appellant was known to the prosecutrix and the prosecutrix has stated that the appellant and his companions were chasing her from time to time.No enmity was shown by the appellant with the prosecutrix so that she would have lodged a false FIR against the appellant.So far as gang rape is concerned, in this connection the testimony of the prosecutrix cannot be believed because she named three persons to be companions of the appellant Shankar.Out of them she 9 Cr.A. No.2959/2011 mentioned the name of c-accused Neeraj Singh in the FIR but thereafter she sent a letter to the SP concerned that Neeraj Singh was not companion of the appellant Shankar, and therefore the trial Court acquitted the Neeraj Singh co- accused of the appellant.The police could not search the remaining two companions of the appellant.The allegations made by the prosecutrix against the companions of the appellant appear to be unnatural.If the appellant was with other three companions at the time of incident and the other companions were moving their hands on the body of the prosecutrix when the appellant was committing rape, then looking to the mental and physical position of the prosecutrix, the remaining alleged accused could not be prevented to commit rape upon the prosecutrix.If they were interested to move their hands on the body of the prosecutrix, then it was not possible for them to leave the prosecutrix when the appellant Shankar left the prosecutrix.10 Cr.A. No.2959/201111 Cr.A. No.2959/201113 Cr.A. No.2959/2011 The sentence of the appellant may be reduced to the jail sentence of seven years' RI and for reducing the sentence from the minimum limit there should be a strong reason.The appellant is in jail continuously since he was arrested.13 Cr.A. No.2959/2011On the basis of the aforesaid discussion, the present appeal filed by the appellant can be partly accepted.(N.K.Gupta) Judge 25/3/2014 Ansari
['Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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ORDER Palok Basu, J.In this transfer application under Section 407, Cr.P.C. a short question arises to decide which the necessary factual background needs to be mentioned.There is a shop known as Janta Kendriya Upbhokta Sahkari Bhandar Ltd. situated in Rudrapur, district Deoria, Ram Nazar Tiwari, applicant was allegedly the salesman in the said Bhandar and one Gaya Prasad Dwivedi was said to be the Secretary.On 16-2-1988 an F.I.R. was lodged by the applicant against Gaya Prasad Dwivedi which gave rise to the case Crime No. 444 of 1990 of Police Station-Rudrapur.After investigation the police has admittedly filed a charge sheet under Section 380, I.P.C. against Gaya Prasad Dwivedi which is now pending in the court of I Judicial Magistrate, Deoria.Another F.I.R. has been lodged by Gaya Prasad Dwivedi through the Co-operative Cell at Gorakhpur under Section 409, I.P.C. against Ram Nazar Tiwari, applicant.The controversy is as to whether the two cases which admittedly relate to the goods belonging to the said Bhandar should be tried together by the same court or not.Sri R.B. Tripathi, learned counsel for the applicant stressed that since all the witnesses even in the case instituted at Gorakhpur belonged to Deoria, the place of incident also happens to be Rudrapur situated in the district of Deoria and that the allegations pertain to the district Deoria, interest of justice requires that two trials should be held in Deoria.Sri Surendra Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State, however, stated that since the Gorakhpur F.I.R. was properly investigated by the Co-operative Cell has jurisdiction to institute the charge-sheet in Gorakhpur, the said trial should remain in Gorakhpur.The C.J.M. Deoria is directed to try the two cases referred to above himself or direct both of them to be tried by a competent court.
['Section 409 in The Indian Penal Code']
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This case discloses a lamentable state of affairs.A tale of woe has unfolded itself revealing how the principal characters who are high ranking police officials in charge of the District of Coimbatore in the matter of enforcement of law discharge their sacred duty in a cavalier fashion with a deep sense of irresponsibility and an obdurate disinclination to see the obvious ever ready to take shelter under the slogan 'it is a Civil dispute'.Here are the facts which bear out the remarks made above.The gist of the complaint is as follows :-"Grave injustice has been done to the petitioner and her family by Coimbatore Police Officers Thiru Muthuswamy, D.S.P., Thiru Nazimuddin and Thiru Madhavan B-3 Police Station Inspectors.On the basis of a false complaint made by Balasubramanian of Baba Theatre, the petitioner's husband" was arrested on 19-2-1989 in spite of anticipatory bail having been obtained by him in the High Court and was kept in the Police Station for a day and a half and ill-treated and thereafter confined in the Central Jail, Coimbatore.On 21-2-1989 when the petitioner was in her sister-in-law's place in Chittalancherry, Palghat Taluk, the petitioner and her sister-in-law were arrested by Coimbatore Inspector Thiru Madhavan and other Police people who came along with Baba Complex Bala-subramanian, Coimbatore D.M.K. leader Thiru Prabhakaran and they were taken to a dingy house in the outskirts of Coimbatore in garden, where they were illtreated and their signatures obtained on blank papers.Thereafter, on 24-2-1989 at 3 a.m. they were taken to B-3 Police Station, Coimbatore and the office of the D.S.P., Coimbatore and illtreated 23-2-1989 evening the petitioner's husband was brought to B-3 Police Station and all of them were taken to the office of the D.S.P. and under threat they were "compelled to sign an agreement for sale in favour of Rangasamy, an employee of Baba Theatre and Murugesa Gounder, a creditor of the petitioner's husband, for a sum of Rs. 9,00,000/- as if they had received a sum of Rs. 7,50,000/- in cash.The petitioner had filed C.S. No. 175 of 1989 in this Court that the agreement was not valid.As there was danger to the property and life of the petitioner, she could not go to Coimbatore and she was staying in Madras.On 4-3-1989 in the night, a Police party along with an army of goondas went to the petitioner's house and found the relatives and servants of the petitioner and removed them along with all the articles in the house without any exception in a van and 4 or 5 lorries.Thereafter, Balasubramanian and goondas occupied the house.The petitioner has got documentary evidence to prove the same and desired to meet the addressee in person and place the evidence before him.There is danger to the life of the petitioner, her husband and her son and there is a threat that the entire family will be wiped off.As big police officials are threatening the petitioner and her family, they have taken refuge under the addressee.The petitioner does not believe anybody else and prays for protection for herself and her family.The petitioner or her husband is not in a position to go to Coimbatore and file any proceeding in Court as there is no protection for them in Coimbatore.The second respondent is Director General of Police, Tamil Nadu.The third respondent is the D.I.G. of Police, Coimbatore.Respondents 4 to 6 are the parties at whose instance, according to the petitioner, the police committed the atrocities mentioned in her complaint.Respondents 7 to 9 are the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore and Sub-Inspector of Police, B-3 Police Station, Coimbatore, respectively.Another telegram was sent to the second respondent.He in turn forwarded it to the Deputy Superintendent of Police who sent it to the Inspector, B-2, Police Station for enquiry and report.On the back of the telegram, there is an endorsement that a report was submitted after compliance.Obviously, no action was taken thereon, as the earlier telegram addressed to the third respondent had been forwarded to the Superintendent of Police.The second respondent sent a communication to the third respondent on 10-5-1989 with the complaint given by the petitioner to the Chief Ministry of the State, requiring him to enquire immediately and send a report within five days.There was a warning that even if there was a delay by one day, action would be taken against the persons concerned.That was received by the third respondent on 15-5-1989, and forwarded to the Superintendent of Police on 18-5-1989 calling for a report before 21-5-1989 without fail.There were reminders by the third respondent to the Superintendent of Police on 24-5-1989 and 30-5-1989 requiring him to send his report immediately in order that a report may be sent to the CM Cell.The petitioner had given a complaint on 15-3-1989 to the Inspector General of Police, Madras, containing the same allegations as found in the complaint dated 27-3-1989 made to the third respondent.In fact, the petitioner's husband has referred to the same in paragraph 6 of his affidavit filed in support of the writ petition.As per the report, the statement of the petitioner could not be recorded as she was not available at Coimbatore and confidential enquiry revealed the following facts :-P. K. Unni was residing at Door No. 55, S.R.P. Nagar, Coimbatore.He was a film producer having his office at No. 17, 3rd Street, Habibullah Road, Madras.He had taken loan from Balasubramaniam, Managing Director, Baba Films, Coimbatore" and K. Murugesan, Managing Partner, M/s. Murugesan Enterprises, Financiers and Exhibitors, Coimbatore and also from Thiru.Velavendan, Ex.-Minister, Madras and producing films.Subsequently neither he produced the films nor return the loans to the above parties.On 31-1-89 at 18.15 hrs.a case in B-3 Kattoor P.S. Cr. No. 219/89 under section 420, I.P.C. was registered on the complaint preferred by Balasubramaniam, Managing Director, Sri Baba Films, No. 1 Gopalapuram 2nd Street, CBE, by sub-Inspector Thiru.Subramaniam B-3 Crimes.On 20-2-89 at 05.30 hrs.at 55 S. R. P. Nagar, Coimbatore the said Unni was arrested by Tr.Ramamoorthy, Sub-Inspector of Police B-3 Crime and he was remanded to judicial custody on the same day.It is true that the said P. K. Unni obtained an anticipatory bail in the High Court, Madras on 2-1-89 for the case in Cr. No. not known of 1989 on the file of Inspector B-2 Police Station, Coimbatore."On 20-2-89 at 22.00 hrs.on the complaint of Balasubramaniam M. D. Sri.Baba Films, Coimbatore against P. K. Unni, his son Dileesh and Seethalakshmi and 2 others, a case in B-3 Kattoor P.S. Cr. No. 327/89 under section 342, 347, 364, 365, I.P.C. was registered for abducting the Accountant Remanathan on 19-2-89 in the Car when Balasubramaniam and Ramanathan, the Accountant approached Unni and his family members to settle the issue on the request made by Unni over phone.On 21-2-89, S.I. Tr. A. K. Madhavan of B-3 Kattoor Law and Order Police Station with PC 991 Muthu and W.P.C. 1804 Rejeswari and 1714 Jayadevi visited Citalanjeri, Palghat district and brought Seethalakshmi, her sister-in-law Kalyani to B-3 Kattoor P.S. at 16.00 hrs."During the enquiry it reveals that it is a civil dispute about the money transaction.Hence D.S.P. advised the parties to settle the issues either among themselves or in the Court of law.They effected a compromise among themselves in the presence of lawyers representing all the parties and a deed was executed.As such no further action need to be taken on the petition.The Range Office original references are retransmitted herewith."Enquiry reveals that the petitioner is having her own house at Dr. No. 55, S.R.P. Nagar, Coimbatore which is in "R. S. Puram P.S. limits.It is not the case of respondents 4 to 6 in C.S. No. 175 of 1989 in which they are defendants 1 to 3 that there was any panchayat or compromise as a result of which an agreement for sale was entered into by the petitioner herein, who is the plaintiff in that suit.According to them, possession was with respondents 4 and 5 from 24-2-1989 when a portion of the house was delivered by the petitioner and from 26-2-1989 when the rest of the house was delivered to them.That fact itself should have put them on the trail and they should have continued the investigation.Stranger is the statement found in the last report dated 21-6-1989 that the petitioner was not available at Madras and her whereabouts were not known.She filed an application in the High Court to appoint an advocate Commissioner to take an inventory of the articles in her house at Coimbatore, lock the house and deposit the key in the Court.On 3-3-1989 Thiru Haja Naziruddin was appointed as Commissioner by the Madras High Court to take an inventory of the articles in the house and to find out who was in possession of the same.On 4-3-1989, the Commissioner inspected the house in the morning and took an inventory of all the articles and also noted that the petitioner's son and other relatives were in the house.He filed a report in the High Court to that "effect.The petitioner prays for return of all "the articles taken away by Balasubramanian, the police party and the army of goondas from their house on 4-3-1989".That was followed by a personal meeting of the petitioner's counsel with the third respondent and a copy of the same complaint was also handed over to him.There being no information or indication of the action taken on the complaint, the petitioner's counsel sent a letter on 7-6-1989 to the third respondent that he had no information of the action taken by the latter and requested him to cause the furnishing of the file number of the case etc. There was also a hint in the letter that the writ Court will be moved, if needed.But, the petitioner continued to be kept in dark without any information of the action taken on her complaint.Hence, the petitioner was obliged to move this Court under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India with a prayer for issue of a Mandamus to the second respondent to initiate at once appropriate enquiry and investigation into the complaint of the petitioner against respondents 4 to 9 as contained in the written complaint dated 27-3-1989 submitted to the third respondent annexed as Annexure A to the writ petition.The first respondent in the writ petition is the State of Tamil Nadu represented by the Chief Secretary to the Government.Notice of motion was ordered on 21-6-1989 returnable in two weeks.The other respondents entered appearance shortly thereafter.He felt that the matter should be heard by me as I had dealt with the civil dispute between the petitioner on the one hand and respondents 4 to 6 on the other, on the original side and as a contempt application was pending before me relating to the same matter.At his instance, the papers were placed before the Officiating Chief Justice who directed the writ petition to be posted before me with the contempt matter.However, I had to adjourn the matter to another date to enable the writ petitioner to file a supplemental affidavit explaining an omission in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition.In spite of the fact that appearance had been entered in the writ petition as early as on 28-6-1989 by respondents 2 and 3, neither of them gave any serious thought to this proceeding under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India relating to an indictment made against some senior Police officials of Coimbatore.It is stated therein that on 15-3-1989 a complaint in writing was submitted to an Inspector General of Police, one Mr. Dorairaj who was later met by the deponent's counsel and who asked the counsel to go to Coimbatore and meet the third respondent personally.The complaint handed over to the Inspector General of Police, Madras, was forwarded to the third respondent, who sent it to the Superintendent of Police on 10-4-1989 calling for a report from the latter.Thus, the Superintendent of Police had with him the telegraphic complaint as well as the written complaint given to the Inspector General of Police, Madras, and the complaint addressed to the Chief Minister of the State.On 21-2-89, Dileesh Kumar, s/o.Unni also came to B-3 Kattoor P.S. by that time.Then the Sub-Inspector questioned them and sent them out subsequently.On 23-2-89 Tr. K. K. Muthusamy, D.S.P., L&O enquired into the matter on the petition given by Balasubramaniam and Murugesan with Unni and others.The commissioner Tr.Khaja Nizirudeen appointed by the High Court, Madras visited the place on 4-3-89 and he would have submitted a report to the High Court.The agreement was prepared and accepted by both the parties will-fully and there is no foul play.Further a civil suit is also pending in the High Court over the issue.The third respondent was not satisfied with the report.He returned it to the Superintendent of Police immediately with the following endorsement dated 1-6-1989 :-"Retd.(i) The S.P. will send for the petitioner, examine her and record her statement as told by her.(ii) He will also examine other connected persons.(iii) He must also go through the records/ documents if any in this episode (relating to dispute between the petitioner and one Baba complex.(iv) Pl."Inspector of Police, Bs (L&O) P.S. conducted an enquiry on the allegations made in this telegram.Cases have been registered against the petitioner and her husband both in B-3 L&O and crime Police Stations.It is learnt that the petitioner's husband owed some lakhs of rupees to the counter petitioners, Balu and Murugesa Gounder, for which a Panchayat was held.Then the petitioner herself vacated the premises and gave it for the counter-petitioner's possession.Subsequently, on consulting her advocates, she sent up this telegram, alleging that her mother and servants were forcibly evicted from her residence.Now this dispute is pending in the High Court, Madras.Under these circumstances this telegram needs no further action."Thus, on 10-6-1989, the Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore, had with him not only the records previously sent to him but also the letter of petitioner's counsel dated 7-6-1989 and the documents enclosed therewith.It is necessary to point out here that the following documents were enclosed with the petitioner's counsel's letter dated 7-6-1989 :-Copy of report and list filed by advocate Commissioner.Copy of High Court judgment in application for redelivery of house.Detailed list of articles and statement of value.The receipt of these documents cannot be disputed as they are found among the records produced by the third respondent before this Court.It should also be mentioned at this stage that on 29-4-1989 the advocate Commissioner appointed by me to redeliver possession of the house to the petitioner with the aid of the police had approached the Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore with a request to depute personnel to help him in taking possession of the house and delivering it to the petitioner.The Superintendent of Police had instructed the Deputy Superintendent of Police to do the needful and directed the advocate-Commissioner to meet the Deputy Superintendent of Police, who is the 7th respondent herein.The 7th respondent deputed one Inspector by name Mr. Chinnasamy from the Control Room and seven constables.What happened thereafter is not relevant for the purpose of this case.On 12-6-1989, the third respondent called upon the Superintendent of Police to expedite his report immediately as an urgent report to CM's Cell was being held up.In reply thereto, the Superintendent of Police informed the third respondent by communication dated 15-6-1989 which was received by the third respondent on 19-6-1989 that a Sub-Inspector of Police from District Special Branch, Coimbatore Urban had been directed to Madras to obtain a written statement from the petitioner herein and on receipt of the same, the report will be sent to the third respondent shortly.On 21-6-1989, the following report is sent by the Superintendent of Police to the third respondent and received by him on 22-6-1989 :-"The petitioner Smt. Seethalakshmi is not available at Madras in the address, furnished by her in the petition.Since this is a civil dispute petitioner has to seek remedy through the Court only.In these circumstances it is opined that no further action needs to be taken on this petition."On the basis of the said report, the third respondent sent a report to the second respondent, the relevant portion of which reads as follows :-"This petition was enquired into by the Inspector District Special Branch, CBE Urban.The petitioner's husband Tr.Unni has been arrested on 20-2-89 and sent for judicial custody on the same day on a complaint preferred by the CP.Balasubramaniam "dealt in B-3 Kattur PS Cr.No. 219/89 under section 420 I.P.C. On 21-2-89, on another complaint of abduction preferred by the CP dealt in B-3 Kattur PS Cr. No. 327/89, under section 342, 347, 364, 365, I.P.C., the petitioner her son and sister-in-law have been arrested and let off subsequently.On 23-2-89, as per the advise of the DSP-City L&O both the parties effected a compromise among themselves in the presence of lawyers representing all the parties and a deed was executed.Records produced before me do not disclose the names of the persons who were enquired and whether any statement was recorded from any person by the Inspector who is supposed to have held the enquiry.The enquiry is described as confidential in one place and discreet in another place.The enquiry was not held with a view to find out the truths.But, it was done with a view to submit a report on the lines drawn already.While the report dated 4-6-1989 states that the petitioner herself vacated the premises and gave it to the counter petitioners' possession pursuant to a panchayat, the report dated 27-5-1989 contained the version that a compromise was effected in the presence of lawyers representing all the parties and a deed was executed, but strangely Balasubramanian took possession of the house on 4-3-1989 night after the advocate-Commissioner visited the place and took an inventory of the articles found in the house.As pointed out already, the third respondent as well as the Superintendent of Police had with them the letter of the petitioner's counsel dated 7-6-1989, which displayed his phone number.The easiest thing for them was to have contacted the petitioner's counsel by phone and ascertained the whereabouts of the petitioner.It should be noted that this writ petition was filed on 21-6-1989, the date borne by the last report of the Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore.The report dated 27-5-1989 admits the factum of anticipatory bail obtained by the petitioner's husband.Secondly, the third respondent asserts categorically that the petitioner's husband was never arrested by the Sub-Inspector of Police, B-3 Police Station, Law and Order, i.e., the 9th respondent.The fact that the petitioner's husband was arrested by the Sub-Inspector of Police B-3 Police Station is admitted by respondents 8 and 9 in their counter-affidavits, though according to them the person who actually arrested him was not the 9th respondent but a Sub-Inspector who was temporarily in charge as respondents 8 and 9 had gone on leave on the relevant date.The third respondent may try to take shelter under a technicality that his statement pertained only to an arrest by the 9th respondent.It is not fair on the part of a high official like the third respondent to make an assertion that the petitioner's husband was never arrested by the Sub-Inspector of Police, B-3 Police Station when the records produced by him and the counter-affidavits filed by respondents 8 and 9 prove to the contrary.Learned Government Pleader appearing for respondents 1 to 3 contended that the complaint dated 27-3-1989 did not give full particulars of the persons who are said to have committed the offence.According to him, the names of the persons who formed the the police party or the army of goondas said to have accompanied the 6th respondent on the night of 4-3-1989 are not furnished in the complaint.The rule does not give a license to any party to a civil dispute to indulge in crimes.
['Section 173 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 365 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 342 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 364 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 190 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learnedcounsel for the intervenor and learned APP for the State.In these applications, the applicants are seeking pre-arrest bail in crime No.261/2018 (FIR No.264/2018) for offencepunishable under sections 376, 406, 420, 504 and 506 read with34 of the Indian Penal Code registered with Wakad police station,Pune.Taking undue advantage of social status of Nikita, it isclaimed that applicant under false promise of marriage andproviding financial support for further education, establishedphysical relations with her.The allegation is also that applicant ::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 ::: 3 29) aba1787-18.docAmit has received an amount of Rs.40 lakhs from father ofcomplainant with an promise to pay it to her being her share inancestral property.::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::So far as other two applicants, namely Avinash andYogesh are concerned, the allegations against them are restrictedonly to the extent of threatening the complainant Nikita, and toact in aid of the main accused Amit.Mundargi would then urge thatthe allegation of receipt of Rs.40 lakhs are not supported by anydocumentary evidence.He would then urge that the applicant isvery much available for investigation and as such, custodialinterrogation is not warranted.::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::4 29)So far as the other applicants, namely Yogesh VishnuGaikwad in Anticipatory Bail Application No.1802 of 2018 andAvinash Shripati Kamble in Anticipatory Bail Application No.1787of 2018 are concerned, according to them, the only allegations areof abetment.9. Learned APP has invited my attention to theinvestigation carried out till date and would submit that theconduct of the applicants as is narrated in the F.I.R., which can beinferred from the evidence collected during the course ofinvestigation, speaks of very character of the applicants.It isfurther pointed out that father-in-law of applicant Amit has soldthe ancestral property and handed him part of the consideration tobe paid to complainant which claim to have been misappropriatedby the applicant Amit.Same needs to be recovered from theapplicant Amit.As such, it is claimed that custodial interrogationof all the three applicants is warranted and pray for rejection oftheir applications.Having considered the submissions, what is noticed is,so far as applicants Yogesh Vishnu Gaikwad and Avinash ShripatiKamble are concerned, there are no justifiable reasons on record, ::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 ::: 5 29) aba1787-18.docmuch less in the investigation papers, which warrant theircustodial interrogation particularly in absence of involvement incommission of offence punishable under section 376 of the IndianPenal Code.In view thereof, the applications of these applicants,namely Anticipatory Bail Application No.1802 of 2018 andAnticipatory Bail Application No.1787 of 2018 stand allowed onthe following conditions :-::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::i) In the event of arrest in Crime No.261/2018 (FIR No.264/2018) for offence punishable under sections 376, 406, 420, 504 and 506 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code registered with Wakad police station, Pune, the applicants Yogesh Vishnu Gaikwad in Anticipatory Bail Application No.1802 of 2018 and Avinash Shripati Kamble in Anticipatory Bail Application No.1787 of 2018, be released on bail on their executing P.R. bonds of Rs.25,000/- each with one or two sureties each in the like amount;ii) The applicants shall attend the Investigating officer as and when directed;iii) The applicants shall not influence the prosecution witnesses or tamper with the evidence;::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::The oral statement of the wife of the applicant and thestatement of father-in-law and that of complainant in voluminousterms justify the claim put forth by the complainant Nikita.The Anticipatory Bail Application No.1125 of 2018 ofthe applicant Amit Baban Kale is rejected.Mundargi, at this stage submits that this Court hadgranted ad-interim protection to the applicant on June 20, 2018which is operating till date.According to him, the same becontinued for a period of four weeks from today.This request is objected to by the learned APP andlearned counsel for the complainant.In the facts andcircumstances of the case, the protection is extended for a period ::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 ::: 7 29) aba1787-18.docof two weeks from today.::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::All the applications are disposed of in above terms.(NITIN W. SAMBRE, J.) ::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::::: Uploaded on - 31/01/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 31/01/2019 22:33:17 :::
['Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 504 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 406 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 420 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Prayer for bail has been made on behalf of the appellants, who have been convicted by Additional Sessions Judge, Maharajganj in S.T. No.83 of 2010 under Section 498-A I.P.C, 304-B I.P.C, 201 I.P.C and 3/4 Dowry Prohibition Act.Heard learned counsel for the appellants and the learned A.G. A. for the State.Perused the judgment and order of learned Sessions Judge and lower court's record Ghanshyam Harijan, appellant no.1 is the husband of deceased and no new ground for bail is made out.Accordingly, prayer for bail of Ghanshyam Harijan, appellant no.1 is rejected.Learned A.G.A opposed the prayer for bail.Considering the age and relationship of Bairagi and Smt Dela @ Dhela in my opinion the appellants are entitled to be released on bail.Pending appeal appellants Bairagi and Smt Dela @ Dhela are convicted in S.T. No.83 of 2010 shall be released on bail on their executing a personal bonds and on furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned.Till further orders realization of fine, if any, shall also remain stayed.Order Date :- 14.11.2011/Shahnaz
['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code']
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The prosecution case in short compass is that, the first informant Hema w/o Santosh Kompally, on 15-07-2018 approached to the Police of Bhagyanagar Police Station, Nanded District Nanded and filed the report that her marriage was solemnized on 15-02-2017 with applicant No. 1-husband at Hyderabad.Applicants No.2 and 3 are in-laws whereas applicant No.4 is the brother-in-law and applicant No.5 is sister-in-law of complainant - wife.The applicants No. 7 and 8 are the distant relatives of::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 ::: 3 936-CriA-3374-18 the husband of complainant.According to complainant, after marriage she joined the company of husband in the joint family comprising in- laws and brother-in-law at Nacharam Hyderabad (Telangana).She received the proper treatment for some days of marriage from husband and in laws.But after some days the complaint was subjected to mental torture on trifle reasons.The applicants started demanding money from her parents.According to the complainant, the inmates of matrimonial home placed demand of Rs.50,000/- and on some occasion Rs. 1,00,000/- from her parents.But, the demand was not satisfied and on that count they used to assault and abused in filthy language.The applicants No. 7 and 8 also used to instigate the inmates of matrimonial home for maltreatment and harassment to fulfill the demand of money from father of complainant.The applicant-husband was demanding amount of Rs. Five lakhs for contract business.But when the complainant failed to satisfy demand the husband tortured the wife by saying that she has an black complexion and he wanted to perform another marriage by accepting huge dowry.The complainant wife was beaten up and abused by the husband.They kept her unfed.The other applicants i.e. in-laws , sister-in-law and brother-in-law used to instigate the applicant husband for such ill-treatment.According to complainant, in the marriage of brother in-law -Satish, the applicants did not allow the parents of complainant to attend the marriage ceremony.Moreover, she was also neglected by them in marriage.They insisted the complainant wife to withdraw the police complaint.In view of behaviour of applicants the complainant has an apprehension of her life.ORAL JUDGMENT :- (Per: K.K.SONAWANE, J.)1. Rule.Rule made returnable forthwith.Heard finally, with the consent of learned counsel for parties.It has been alleged that on 24-06-2018, the applicants asked the complainant to bring Rs. Five Lakhs from her father as he is going to retire from service and he would get handsome amount towards::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 ::: 4 936-CriA-3374-18 pensionary benefits.It has been alleged that applicant left the complainant wife at the house of parents and threatened her to bring money otherwise she would not be allowed for cohabitation.Thereafter the complainant on 26-06-2018 filed complaint to Police.Taking umbrage of the Police complaint, the applicants on 17-07-2018 came to house of parents of complainant, and assaulted and abused the complainant and her parents.Eventually, she approached to the Police and filed the present report for penal action against the applicants.::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::Pursuant to FIR, Police of Bhagyanagar Police Station, Nanded District Nanded registered the crime and set the penal law in motion.Investigating Officer recorded statements of witnesses acquainted with the facts of the case.Pending the investigation, the applicants moved the present application to quash and set aside the F.I.R. But, meanwhile, the Investigating Officer after completion of investigation filed the charge-sheet.Learned counsel for applicants vehemently submits that applicants are innocent of the charges pitted against them.They have not committed any crime, but they are falsely implicated in this case.According to learned counsel, the complainant was not interested in cohabiting with applicant-husband.There were no unlawful demand of::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 ::: 5 936-CriA-3374-18 money.There was no any specific allegations against applicants for cruelty as contemplated under Section 498-A of the IPC.The learned counsel submits that applicants No. 4 is brother of applicant and since March, 2017 he is residing at USA for his job.He has no concerned whatsoever with the allegations made in the FIR.The applicant No. 5 is married sister of applicant-husband and since marriage she is residing with her husband i.e. applicant No. 6, who is working as technician in Ordinance Factory at Yeddumailaram Village Medak District Telangana State.Applicants No. 7 and 8 are the distant relatives and mediator for settlement of marriage of the complainant with applicant-husband.Learned counsel submits that applicants No. 4 to 8 are residing separately.Applicants No. 4 to 8 have no any concerned with the marital life of applicant No. 1 and complainant.They have no any reason to cause interference into the domestic affairs of the spouses.All the allegations are general and vague in nature.The present complaint is nothing but an abuse of process of law.It would unjust and improper to compel the applicants to face the agony of trial.Hence, learned counsel urged to quash and set aside the penal proceeding initiated against the applicants.::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::The learned APP as well as learned counsel for respondent No. 2-first informant opposed the contentions put-forth on behalf of applicants and submit that the allegations of ill-treatment nurtured on behalf of complainant in the FIR discloses commission of crime under Sections 498-A, 294, 323, 504 and 506 etc. of the IPC.The complainant categorically described the episode of her maltreatment and torture at the hands of applicants.There was unlawful demand of::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 ::: 6 936-CriA-3374-18 money from applicants for contractor business and also physical assault as well as abuses in filthy language to the complainant on the part of applicants.::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::We have given anxious consideration to the arguments advanced on behalf of both sides.We have also delved into the relevant documents produced on record as well as factual aspects of the matter.We find that there is no scope for exercise of inherent powers under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C. in favour of applicants No. 1 to 3 as it appears from the FIR that prima facie case is made out against them.There are specific allegations cast against husband and in-laws about cruelty as envisaged under Section 498-A of I.P.C. Therefore, we expressed that this Court is not inclined to nod in favour of applicants No. 1 to 3 for grant of relief in their favour.Eventually, learned counsel for applicants No. 1 to 3 seeks leave to withdraw the proceeding to their extent.Accordingly, leave was granted and application to the extent of applicants No. 1 to 3 came to be disposed off as withdrawn.In regard to allegations made against applicants No. 4 to 8, we find that during crucial period of co-habitation of complainant with husband, the applicant No. 4 was not available at matrimonial home of complainant as he was in USA for his job purpose.Applicant No. 5 sister in-law was residing with husband- applicant No. 6 at her matrimonial home.The applicants No. 7 and 8 are the distant relatives.The entire allegations about cruelty are against husband and in-laws.There was reference that applicants No. 4 to 8 instigated the husband and in-laws for mental and physical harassment to the complainant-::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::7 936-CriA-3374-18 wife, but all the aspersion against them are vague, and general in nature.There were no specific instances or details of participation of applicants No. 4 to 8 in the alleged act of cruelty available on record for adverse inference about their involvement into the crime.The allegations against applicants No. 7 and 8 are also stray and omnibus in nature.Therefore, it would unjust and improper to compel the applicants No. 4 to 8 to face agony of trial before criminal court following marital discord between spouses.In the cases, where accusations are made, the overt-acts attributed to persons other than husband, are required to be proved beyond reasonable doubt.Their Lordships of Apex Court further observed that, "in their over- enthusiasm and anxiety to seek conviction for maximum people, the parents of the deceased have been found to be making efforts for involving other relations which ultimately weaken the case of the prosecution even against the real accused."::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::8 936-CriA-3374-18::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::Hence, penal proceeding initiated against these applicants No. 4 to 8 deserves to be quashed and set aside.Therefore, we proceed to pass following order :::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::Application in respect of applicants No. 1 to 3 stands dismissed as withdrawn.No order as to costs.::: Uploaded on - 25/07/2019 ::: Downloaded on - 15/04/2020 00:01:06 :::
['Section 498A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 323 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 506 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 504 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code']
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C. No.8582/13 was dismissed as withdrawn by order dated 31/10/13, M.Cr.C. No.279/15 was disposed of with a direction to the trial court to conclude the trial expeditiously preferably within a period of six months vide order dated 4/2/15, M.Cr.C. No. 3357/15 was dismissed as not pressed vide order dated 29/4/15 & M.Cr.C. No. 8728/15 was dismissed as withdrawn by order dated 27/10/15 with liberty to file the fresh application after reexamination of the injured before the trial court.Notice of this application was served on the State counsel.Learned counsel for the applicant submits that said six month's period has already expired and trial has not been concluded till now.He further submits that at the instance of co-accused Vidya Gupta the complainant was recalled and statement of complainant has been recorded wherein he has stated that acid was thrown by his wife and he has also proved Ex.D-2 wherein the said fact is stated.He further submits that the applicant is in custody since 21/7/13 and he has completed more than two and half years in custody and Vidya Gupta has already been enlarged on bail.Learned counsel for the State has opposed the application for grant of bail.(PRAKASH SHRIVASTAVA) JUDGE
['Section 342 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', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 190 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Heard on I.A.No.5057/2018, third application under Section 389 (1) of Cr.P.C. for suspension of sentence and grant of bail filed on behalf of the appellant / Mukesh Bhilala.Appellant assails the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 04/09/2015 passed in S.T. No. 112/2014 by Special Judge (POCSO), Dist.Guna, whereby, the appellant has been convicted under Section 363 of IPC and sentenced to RI for three years with fine of Rs. 500/-, under Section 366 of IPC and sentenced to RI for five years with fine of Rs. 1000/- and under Section 376 (2) (i) of IPC and sentenced to RI for ten years with fine of Rs. 1000/- with default stipulation.There are fair chances of success of this appeal and the appeal may take long time for its conclusion and the appellant cannot be kept in custody for an unlimited period.Under these circumstances, the execution of sentence be suspended and he be released on bail.On the other hand, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State opposes the bail application.List the case for final hearing in due course Certified copy as per rules.(S.A. Dharmadhikari) Judge Durgekar* Digitally signed by SANJAY N. DURGEKAR Date: 2018.08.10 14:37:27 +05'30'
['Section 366 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 363 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code']
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(3) Riaz Ahmed no doubt joined that criminal conspiracy at Lahore and subsequently came to India to join Saleemuddin to assist him in his espionage activities.On August 10, 1968 he was introduced by M. A. Bajwa to Malik Salim, another Pakistan Intelligence Officer telling him that Riaz Ahmed was being sent to India under the assumed name of Asif.to contact Saleemuddin at Bareilly.The two Pakistan Intelligence Officers gave him the documents Exs.According to the confession, Riaz Ahmed was arrested by the police in front of the Railway Station, Delhi Main on August 13, 1968 at about 10.13 P.M. The confession showed that Riaz Ahmed was a party to the conspiracy hatched at Lahore by the Pakistan Intelligence for collecting information regarding the air-fields in India.The documents recovered from him at the time of his arrest also confirm his participation in the conspiracy.Ex. PL/3 is a typed brief captioned "mission" containing instructions as to the job which Riaz Ahmed was expected to perform.This further confirmed his participation in the conspiracy.Ex. PL/4 is a slip of paper containing two addresses of Lahore to which Riaz Ahmed was required to send his communications from India.He located the same around noon time.He then went back to the police station Killa, Bareilly and contacted the local Police there.Accompanied by the local police and the two witnesses Bhagwati Pershad (Public Witness 5 ) and Basheshwar Nath (Public Witness 7) he went to the house of Saleemuddin at about 4.15 P.M. He remained busy at that house until 8.00 P.M. From 9.00 P.M. to 10.30 P.M. he interrogated Saleemuddin at the police station and it was on some disclosures made by Saleemuddin that Bajaj organized another raid for the arrest of Mohd. Yunis and recovery of incriminating articles.Nirankar Sarup (Public Witness 9) and Har Pershad (Public Witness 10) were summoned by the Killa Police Bareilly.They arrived at the police station at about Ii P.M. Taking these persons with himself Bajaj and the raiding party went to the house of Mohd. Yunis at 33 Phoolwalan Bareilly.He saw that man sitting in that shop on 5 or 6 different occasions.One day that man whom he identified as Saleemuddin, requested him to take him to the Aerodrome as he had not seen an air-craft.He said he was sorry he could not do so because civilians were not allowed to enter the Aerodrome.During his subsequent visits Mohd. Atique introduced him to Mohd. Yunis.He told them of what he knew.They then asked him if he knew the name of any officer working at the air-port and whether there was any officer Gupta by name.The witness pleaded his ignorance.B. Lal (Public Witness 14) deposed that the writer of Ex. Pcc was the same person who had written the specimen writing Ex. Pq (S2).Ex. Pq contains an exact re-production of the contents of Ex. PCC.It was written in Ex. Pcc that on July 29 from 7.45 P.M. to 8.30 P.M. there was a black out in Bareilly.The name of the Wing Commander at Bareilly was also mentioned and it was stated that the writer had made friends with Ravi Kumar who was employed in the repairing station at the Izzat Nagar Air Port.It was further mentioned in this report that the area of the aerodrome was being extended and that a sketch of the air field was under preparation.There was also a reference to an under-ground air-field in the cantonment area and that the writer was trying to locate it.(52) EX.JUDGMENT Hardayal Hardy, J.(1) This judgment will dispose of two criminal appeals and one criminal revision.(2) The appellant Saleemuddin was being tried along with one Riaz Ahmed, a Pakistan national.Two other persons, Mohd. Atique and Mohd. Yunis were also being tried along with them.By a judgment dated October 31, 1969 delivered by the Additional Sessions Judge, Riaz Ahmed, Mohd. Atique and Mohd. Yunis were acquitted of the charge framed against them while Saleemuddin was convicted and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for five years for an offence punishable under Section 120B Indian Penal Code read with Section 3 of the Indian Official Secrets Act. 1923 and also to rigorous imprisonment for five years under Section 3 In a judgment which but for the errors to which we shall presently refer, is extremely well written, the learned trial Judge has held that Riaz Ahmed being a foreign national could not be tried in this country for the offence of conspiracy which according to him was committed outside India.He was, however, arrested before he could contact Saleemuddin at Bareilly.Saleemuddin did commit acts of espionage at Bareilly by making a rough sketch and preparing an intelligence report relating to Izzat Nagar Air-port at Bareilly.He also sent some reports to the Pakistan Intelligence earlier and was therefore guilty of conspiracy and espionage.[After discussing the facts, the judgment proceeded.] (4) The case was tried by Shri K. S. Sidhu, Addl.Sessions Judge Delhi.who on a consideration of.The said confession was no doubt made after the accused had remained in police custody for nearly 13 days, but in the opinion of the learned trial Judge, this circumstance alone did not detract from the voluntary nature of the confession.The, letter was delivered to Riaz Ahmed for being delivered to Saleemuddin at Bareilly.In this letter Malik Salim was apparently telling Saleemuddin that instead of Riaz he was sending Asif because Riaz had to under-go 'some surgery.The word "Riaz" obviously has reference to another person bearing that name.But since the name of the accused was also Riaz he was being sent under the assumed name of Asif.Ex. PL/1 is a photograph of Saleemuddin bearing his signatures on its back.The offence was complete as soon as Riaz Ahmed who was a national of Pakistan, agreed to be a party to the conspiracy at Lahore.He was arrested in India before he could do any illegal act in this country in pursuance of the conspiracy and that is why no charge for an offence under Section 3 of the Indian Official Secrets Act, 1923 was framed against him.We were told that the State was satisfied about his death.The appeal against him, therefore, abates.(26) According to the learned Judge, the evidence produced by the prosecution relating to the alleged participation of Mohd. Yunis in the conspiracy, consisted of his confessional statement (Ex.PM/7), recovery of an incriminating document (Ex. FEE) from his possession, the oral testimony of Chander Pal (Public Witness 16) and Ravi Kumar (PW4) and the evidence of the handwriting expert.The said document.Mohd. Yunis was found present in the house.He made a disclosure statement (Ex. PUU) in consequence of which a sketch (Ex. PEE) indicating important places and buildings at the lzzat Nagar Air-field, Bareilly was recovered from his house.(30) Learned trial Judge has held that the house of Mohd. Yunis is not far away from the house of Saleemuddin.Although the exact distance was not mentioned, both the houses are within the jurisdiction of the same police station and Mohalla Phoolwalan is not far away from the house of Saleemuddin in Mohalla Phoota Darwaza.According to the learned Judge, if Mohd. Yunis who was living in a house close by and the proceedings for the search of the house of Saleemuddin continued from 4.30 P.M. to 8.00 P.M. he must have in all probability come to know that the house of Saleemuddin had been raided and would have taken steps, to remove the offending article.The evidence does not furnish any material in support of this particular observation of the learned Judge.Bajaj and other members of the raiding party were in plain clothes.There is no evidence on record to show that when the house of Saleemuddin was being searched from 4.30 to 8.00 P.M. any other persons besides the members of the raiding party and the occupants of the house were present.The search took place inside the house.Even while the police was waiting outside for 15 to 20 minutes before Saleemuddin arrived there, there is nothing to suggest that their presence was being marked by any members of the public.The two houses of Saleemuddin and Mohd. Yunis are no doubt within the jurisdiction of police station Killa but they are not in the same street.We were told that the house of Mohd. Yunis is at a distance of about 220 yards from the house of Saleemuddin and that they are in different streets.It is therefore not possible to agree with the trial Judge that Mohd. Yunis "must have in all probability come to know that the house of Saleem- ud-din had been raided" nor does it follow there from that Mohd. Yunis would have destroyed the incriminating document before the police raided his house.Nirankar Sarup does not belong to the locality of Mohalla Phoolwalan.His shop is very close to the police station.He also admitted that Bhagwati Pershad (PW. 5) who had earlier lent his services to the police at the time of its raid on the house of Saleemuddin, is one of his co-sharers in the rickshaw business.The learned Judge has also held that he had been specially called by the police through a constable from a paan shop at about 11.00 P.M. when the police was getting ready to go for the search of the house of the accused.We have looked into the evidence of this witness and since the observations of the learned Judge are not based on the impressions formed by him when the witness was under examination, it is open to us to look into his evidence.(32) Nirankar Sarup admitted in cross-examination that Bhagwati Pershad used to keep his rickshaws, 5 or 6 in number, in his stand and passed on the profits from those rickshaws to him.But assuming there was some kind of partnership between them in the rickshaw business, Bhagwati Pershad was not a witness in the case of raid on the house of Mohd. Yunis.If from the same locality the police summoned two persons who were co-sharers in their business and the services of one of them were utilised as an independent witness of search in one case, it does not follow that the other person whose services were utilised several hours thereafter for search in a different house, would cease to become reliable.It is only after Saleemuddin was taken to the police station and interrogated that the name of Mohd. Yunis was .revealed and thereafter Bajaj proceeded to the house of Mohd. Yunis.It has not been shown that Nirankar Sarup was known to Bajaj.He was called to the police station through a constable who according to the witness, was not even known to him.A suggestion was put to him in cross-examination that some one had lodged , report against him that he had kidnapped some one's daughter and that he had succeeded in getting the case dropped by using his influence with the police.He denied the suggestion and nothing has been placed on record to show that there is any truth in the allegation.If the evidence of Bhagwati Pershad has been believed by the learned trial Judge, there is no reason why the evidence of this witness who is apparently more respectable than Bhagwati Pershad.According to his statement, his house is at a distance of about 100 to 125 yards from Thana Killa whereas the distance from his house to the house of Mohd. Yunis would be between 3 to 4^ furlongs.Can it be said under these circumstances that he was not a witness from the locality ? The search was carried out sometime after 11.00 P.M. It was the month of August.There might have been quite a number of persons living near the house of Mohd. Yunis but if the police took with themselves some one whose house was half a mile away from that house, it cannot be said that the witness did not belong to the locality, particularly when no connection has been shown between Bajaj or any other police officer belonging to Police Station Killa at Bareilly.(33) The next witness of search is Har Pershad (Public Witness 10).' He actually belongs to Mohalla Phoolwalan, and is therefore a witness from the locality.He said that in his presence Mohd. Yunis had told the police that a map was.lying in almirah in his house and that he could produce it.The map Ex. Pee was produced from between two books lying in the almirah.The recovery memo Ex. Public Witness bears the signature of this witness.In cross-examination it was brought out that he had instituted a complaint against Fiaz-ud-din father of Saleemuddin and that showed his enmity against the accused.It however transpired that he had done so after this case, because the accused had harassed him a lot through thier friends and relations by trying to bring influence on him not to give evidence against them.Another ground urged by Mr. Anthony was that the witness had stated that he signed the sketch Ex. Fee and also the recovery memo Ex. Puu, and in fact he had signed only one of those documents.The other witness Nirankar Sarup had mentioned that he had signed only one of the two documents.If the witness made a slight mistake, it cannot be said that his evidence as such is not relevant or admisible.Both the witnesses of sketch have supported the prosecution case about the recovery of Ex. FEE.(36) Mr. Anthony lastly argued that Nirankar Sarup could not give the direction in which the main entrance of the house of Mohd, Yunis was situated.The witness gave a complete description of the inner apartments and merely because he could not say whether the main entrance was to the East or to the West or to the North or to the South, would hardly discredit his testimony.(37) We, therefore, hold that the prosecution evidence fully establishes the recovery of Ex. Fee from the house of Mohd. Yunis.There is also the evidence of the handwriting expert, Shri B. Lal (FW 14).According to that witness, the document Ex. Pee is entirely in the hand of Mohd. Yunis and all the writings in that document are in his hand.But there is one piece of writing (Ex. Q 11/1) which is encircled red and is in the handwriting of Saleem-ud- din.If there was no connection between Saleemuddin and Mohd. Yunis a document showing the building etc., in Izzat Nagar Air-port prepared by Mohd. Yunis could not contain the writing of Saleem-ud- din.The presence of this document, therefore, clearly establishes the association between Saleemuddin and Mohd. Yunis and the possession of Ex. Pee shows the common concert between them.The association between Saleemuddin and Mohd. Yunis is also amply proved by the oral testimony of Chander Pal (Public Witness 16) and Ravi Kumar (Public Witness 4).Ravi Kumar who was a leading Air-craftsman at the lzzat Nagar Air-port at Bareilly was living in a private accommodation.He and his wife used to go to Bara Bazar for shopping.They used to buy cosmetics etc. from a shop known as Citizens Centre.(38) MOHD.Atique was one of the salesman at that shop.In 1968 Mohd. Atique introduced him to another person whom he described as a compounder working with a doctor.He was told that Mohd. Yunis was a student of M.Sc.and was working in a rubber factory in Bareilly.He denied the suggestion that he had made the statement in court under the fear of dismissal on the allegations of mixing up with civilians.The police came to know about this witness from one of the documents found from the possession of Saleemuddin and, therefore, examined him as a witness.(39) The witness is a Maharashtrian.He has no animus against the accused.Nothing has been brought on record to show that he was making the statement in court under pressure from the police.No question was put to him about his acquaintance with Bajaj.The only outcome of his evidence is that the shop of Mohd. Atique was the rendezvous of Saleemuddin and Mohd. Yunis and that Saleemuddin was eager to visit Izzat Nagar Air-port.(40) Chander Pal was a cleaner in a truck which was employed to carry bricks from the kiln of Asa Nand to the Air-port for Bharat Builders who were doing construction work there.During that period two youngmen, Saleemuddin and Mohd. Yunis met him at the kiln and asked him about lzzat Nagar Air-port.(41) In cross-examination he stated that the two accused spent about 3 to 4 hours at the kiln and that he did not ask them why they were asking those questions.This evidence by itself is not of any importance but when read in conjunction with the sketch (Ex. PEE) which shows the various buildings and their location in the air-port and which bears the writings of Mohd. Yunis and Saleemuddin, it is apparent that these two persons must have been going round and meeting persons who had occasion to be inside the air-port.(51) The documents recovered from the possession of the accused and from the search of his house clearly implicate this accused.Apart from Ex. Pqq, Ex. Pcc is the intelligence report which had been prepared by the accused and had been kept ready by him for delivery to Riaz Ahmed who was expected to contact him at Bareilly.Ex. Pqq (S2) is a specimen writing of the accused made in the presence of a magistrate.Pz recovered from the possession of the accused is an incomplete rough sketch of the lzzat Nagar Air-port.B. Lal, the document expert, compared the writing in Ex. Pz with the specimen writing Ex.PQ/3 of Saleemuddin and deposed that the disputed words in Ex. Pz were written by Saleemuddin.The reference in the sketch to Ex. Pcc also goes to show that this sketch was prepared by the accused.The recovery of the typed brief Ex.PY and the handwritten brief in Urdu (Ex. PAA) from the possession of the accused further establishes that he was engaged in espionage activities at Bareilly in pursuance of a criminal conspiracy, in terms of these briefs.The pocket diary Ex. Pbb contains some nothings in his hand which further establish that he was engaged in espionage activities at Bareilly.This document shows that he had seen some movie on June 21, at Bareilly.In Ex. Pbb he made an entry thereof (Ex. Q8/5) giving the tail numbers of some aeroplanes which seem to have been shown in flight in the news reel.There is another entry dated June 20, showing that he had already dispatched one intelligence report (Ex. RPT) to the other conspirators in Pakistan.Ex. Pss is a post-card letter purported to have been written by one Anwar Nasim from Pakistan to Saleemuddin accused at Bareilly.In that letter Anwar Nasim was remonstrating with the accused and had inquired if Riaz Ahmed had met him.The confession (Ex. PK/1 ) made by Riaz Ahmed also lends assurance to the conclusion that Saleemuddin accused was a party to the criminal conspiracy.The documents recovered from Riaz Ahmed also fortify the conclusion that Saleemuddin was a party to the conspiracy for collecting information regarding defense installations in India.Ex. Pl, handed over to Riaz Ahmed by Malik Salim for onward delivery to Saleemuddin at Bareilly is another document incriminating the accused.In that letter the word "Sari" has been written.But according to the cipher code adopted by the conspirators the word "Sari" stood for "Intelligence Report." The documents recovered from Riaz Ahmed viz. PL/I, PL/2, and PL/3 are also incriminatory of Saleemuddin.These documents clearly establish the guilt of Saleemuddin in the charge of criminal conspiracy.(54) There is also evidence implicating the accused in an offence under Section 3 of the Indian Official Secrets Act. One of the counts relates to the rough sketch Ex. Pz and to the intelligence report Ex. PCC.(55) In their examination under Section 342 Criminal Procedure Code all the three accused denied their complicity in the offence alleged against them.Riaz Ahmed stated that he was a Pakistani national and had entered India on August 13, 1948 without any travel documents.He admitted that he had visited India on two occasions on the authority of travel documents.But this time it was on the advice of his maternal uncle who was residing at Amritsar that he came to India without any travel documents.He said that he had done so because he was advised by his maternal uncle that if he wanted to settle in India he should come without a pass-port.He denied having made a confession and added that he was arrested at Amritsar and that he had written on the Railway Time Table (Ex. PX) at Amritsar Railway Station the words Sohan Lal, because he wanted to settle down in India with Sohan Lal as his name.He said that he did not disclose to the police the name of his maternal uncle and that he did not know any of the other accused.(56) Saleemuddin and Mohd. Yunis also denied all connections with the conspiracy.As regards the photograph (Ex. PL/1), Saleem-ud- din admitted that it was his photograph and that he had also signed it at the back.He said he had sent it from Bareilly to his beloved Noor Bihar of Sialkot and that in the accompanying letter he had mentioned about his meeting with Capt. Shukla and that is why the letter was censored and retained.He denied having made the confession.Mohd. Yunis denied his connection with the conspirary.He also denied having made any confession.He admitted that he was identified by Chander Pal and Ravi Kumar at the identification parade, but being the tallest among all the participants in the parade and having been asked to put on the same clothes which he was wearing at the time of his admission to jail and with his glasses removed, he was made to join the parade.He stated that he was suffering from tuberculosis and heart trouble.(57) The statement of the accused is thus one of denial.There is clear evidence to support the case of conspiracy against all the three accused.There is also evidence of an offence under Section 3 of the Indian Official Secrets Act, 1923 against Saleemuddin and Mohd. Yunis.(58) The question that arises for consideration is what sentence should be inflicted on them.The maximum sentence provided for the offence under Section 3 of the Indian Official Secrets Act, 1923 is 14 years.The offences have been committed by the accused after great deliberation and planning both in Pakistan and in India.The information that the accused were collecting in India relates to military secrets of vital nature.The learned Addl.Sessions Judge has himself held that the offences being serious the accused deserved deterrent punishment.Supplying information about defense installations in this country to a country which has already been at war with this country.It imperils not only the security of the country but exposes its military equipment and people to destruction.We therefore convict Riaz Ahmed and Saleemuddin of the offence of conspiracy and give them the sentence of ten years' rigorous imprisonment each.The sentence of five years rigorous imprisonment awarded by the trial Court to Saleemuddin appears to us to be highly in-adequate.Both the sentences against him will.however, run concurrently.(59) The case against Mohd. Yunis stands on a different footing.He is a young college student reading for the M.Sc.The sentence awarded to him is.however, not to be treated as a precedent in such cases.It is the state of his health and want of evidence about his connections with foreign spies which impel us to treat his case with leniency.We are told that he is due to appear for his M.Sc. examination soon.The jail authorities may make arrangements for his taking the examination.(60) The result is that the appeal of Saleemuddin is dismissed while the appeal and Criminal revision filed by the State are allowed.The appeal against Mohd. Atique abates.
['Section 120B in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 2 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 411 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 4 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 3 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 380 in The Indian Penal Code']
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[Order of the Court was made by A.SELVAM, J.] This Habeas Corpus Petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to call for records relating to the detention order passed in BCDFGISSSV No.1163/2016 dated 17.11.2016 by the Detaining Authority against the detenu by name, Kishore Kumar, aged 24 years, S/o.Rajan, residing at No.3/176, L.V.Nagar, Balakrishnapuram, New Gummidipoondi, Thiruvallur District- 601 201 and quash the same.The Inspector of Police, M-4, Redhills Police Station, as Sponsoring Authority, has submitted an affidavit to the Detaining Authority, wherein, it is averred to the effect that the detenu has involved in the following adverse cases :i.T-4, Maduravaiyal Police Station, Crime No.1297 of 2014, registered under Section 379 of Indian Penal Code;ii.E-5, Sholavaram Police Station, Crime No.512 of 2015 registered under Section 379 of Indian Penal Code; andiii.Vellore North Police Station Crime No.376/2016 registered under Section 379 of Indian Penal Code.Further it is averred in the petition that on 20.09.2016, one Muthukumar, S/o.Per contra, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor has contended that the representation given by the petitioner has been disposed of without delay and therefore, the contention putforth on the side of the petitioner is liable to be rejected.On the side of the respondents, a proforma has been submitted, wherein, it has been clearly stated that in between column Nos.7 and 9, sixteen clear working days are available and in between column Nos.12 and 13, three clear working days are available and no explanation has been given on the side of the respondents with regard to such delay and the same would affect the rights of the detenu guaranteed under Article 22[5] of the Constitution of India and therefore, the Detention Order in question is liable to be quashed.The Detention Order dated 17.11.2016 passed in No.BCDFGISSSV No.1163 of 2016 by the first respondent against the detenu by name, Kishore Kumar, aged 24 years, S/o.
['Section 379 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 294 in The Indian Penal Code']
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Learned counsel for the rival parties are heard.The petitioner is in custody since 22.08.2014 and the new ground raised herein is recording of statement of prosecutrix on 12.02.2015 in which age as claimed by the prosecutrix to be 17 years, but as per case diary the age of the prosecutrix on the basis of school register is shown as 25.07.1996, according to which, the prosecutrix was 18 2 M.Cr.C.No.2405/2015 years and about one month on 15.08.2014 when the alleged crime was committed.
['Section 366A in The Indian Penal Code', 'Section 363 in The Indian Penal Code']
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