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IN THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM & ARUNACHAL PRADESH)
N.UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR
Khairul Hoque Talukdar S/o Late Jamal Uddin Talukdar – Appellant
Versus
Abdul Hannan S/o Saman Ali – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
N. UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR, J.
1. Heard Mr. I. A. Hazarika, learned counsel for the petitioners. Also heard Mr. A. M. S. Mazumdar, learned counsel, appearing for the respondent no.1.
2. The petitioners, by way of instituting the present criminal petition, has presented a challenge to an order dated 29-11-2022, by which the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Cachar, Silchar, in Complaint case being C.R.No.70/2022, had taken cognizance of the offence punishable under Section 302/34 IPC against the petitioners and directed issuance of summons to them. The petitioners have also challenged an order dated 28-03-2022, passed by the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, rejecting the final report submitted by the Investigating Officer in G.R. Case no.2300/2014.
3. The facts in brief requisite for adjudication of the issues arising in the present petition is noticed as under:
An FIR came to be lodged by the respondent no.1, herein, as informant on 30-05- 2014 before the Officer-in-Charge, Katigorah P.S, inter alia, alleging that on the same day at about 6.30 pm, the petitioner nos. 1, 2 and 3 had come to the house of his younger brother, Abdul Rouf and had taken him to the shop
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