Bappa Paswan @ Bijoy vs State Of West Bengal

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2022 Supreme(Cal) 848

BIBEK CHAUDHURI
Bappa Paswan @ Bijoy – Appellant
Versus
State Of West Bengal – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Ms. Meenal Sinha, for the Appellant; Mr. Ranabir Roy Chowdhury, Ms. Faria Hossain, Ms. Baishali Basu, for the Respondent

JUDGMENT

Bibek Chaudhuri, J. - The judgment and order of conviction and sentence passed in Session Trial No.9(11) of 2017 arising out of POCSO Case No.25 of 2017 passed by the leaned Additional Sessions Judge, 2nd Court and the designated court under the POCSO Act, Raiganj, Uttar Dinajpur is assailed in the instant appeal.

2. The accused was convicted under Section 341/342/120B/354/363/34/506/509 of the IPC, Section 3(1)(r)/ 3(1)(s) of the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Section 3/10/21 of the POCSO Act. The learned trial judge passed the following sentence which is recorded hereinbelow in tabular form:-

Section	Imprisonment	Fine	In default simple imprisonment
u/s 341 IPC	1 month	500	1 month
u/s 342 IPC	6 months	500	2 months
u/s 342/120 B IPC	6 months	500	2 months
u/s 354 IPC	2 years	1000	2 months
u/s 363 IPC	3 years	2000	2 months
u/s 506 IPC	6 months	500	2 months
u/s 509 IPC	6 months	500	2 months
u/s 3(1)(r)/3(1) (s) SCST	2 years (R.I)	3000	R.I 6 months
u/s 8 POCSO	3 years (R.I)	3000	R.I 6 months
u/s 10 POCSO	5 years (R.I)	3000	R.I 6 months
u/s 21 POCSO	6 months	500	1 month

3. At the time of hearing of the appeal the learned Advocate on record for the appellant did not take any step. Therefore,

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2022 Supreme(Cal) 848

BIBEK CHAUDHURIBappa Paswan @ Bijoy – AppellantVersusState Of West Bengal – Respondent

Cases Referred (4)

BIBEK CHAUDHURI
Bappa Paswan @ Bijoy – Appellant
Versus
State Of West Bengal – Respondent