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IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
GITA GOPI, HEMANT M.PRACHCHHAK
State of Gujarat – Appellant
Versus
Devabhai ambabhai – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
GITA GOPI, J.
1. The State aggrieved by the judgment and order of acquittal dated 31.01.1998 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Junagadh in Sessions Case No.116 of 1996, filed the present appeal under Section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’).
2. The trial against three accused was under section 302 and 114 of Indian Penal Code (for short I.P.C.) and under section 135 of the Bombay Police Act (for short B.P. Act). The complaint was filed by Labhuben wife of Dhirajlal Mauajibhai stating that she along with her husband and children were residing separately from the in-laws at Khorasa (Gir) in the house which had come in their share and were deriving their livelihood through agriculture work. She stated that her father- in-law and mother-in-law were staying separately in their own house. Her husband and father-in-law both were looking after the agriculture work. Her father-in-law Mauajibhai since long time was suffering from T.B. and for his treatment her husband had taken him at Jithri village after ‘Bhim Agyaras’ and her husband had stayed in the dispensary for the treatment of father-in-law.
2.1 The complainant, earlier on 22.06.1995 had
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