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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD, SOURENDRA PANDEY
Dulari Devi W/o Mokil Yadav – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD, J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the appellant, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State and learned counsel for the Respondent Nos. 2 to 8.
2. The present appeal has been preferred for setting aside the judgment of acquittal passed on 01.02.2024 (hereinafter referred to as the impugned judgment) by the learned Additional District & Sessions Judge-V, Bhagalpur in Sessions Trial No. 119 of 2019 + Session Trial No. 339 of 2019 + Session Trial No. 223 of 2021 (Trial No. 263 of 2022) arising out of Jagdishpur (Goradih) P.S. Case No. 382 of 2018 dated 22.07.2018 whereby and whereunder the learned trial court has been pleased to acquit Respondent Nos. 2 to 8 of the charges under Sections 304(B)/34, 302/34, 201/34 & 120B of the INDIAN PENAL CODE (in short ‘IPC’).
Prosecution Case
3. The prosecution case is based on the written application of the mother of the deceased (PW-2) addressed to the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Bhagalpur in which she has stated that she had got her daughter married to Shravan Yadav, resident of Bhagalpur in the year 2012 and out of the wedlock, her daughter has got two children. After marriage, her daughter’s husband Sh
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