Ashok Kumar vs State - 2022 Supreme(Raj) 526

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2022 Supreme(Raj) 526

PUSHPENDRA SINGH BHATI
Ashok Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Nishant Bora.
For the Respondent: Mr. S.S. Rajpurohit, P.P.

JUDGMENT :

1. In the wake of instant surge in COVID – 19 cases and spread of its highly infectious Omicron variant, abundant caution is being maintained, while hearing the matters in the Court, for the safety of all concerned.

2. This Criminal Appeal under Section 374 Cr.P.C. has been preferred with the following prayer:-

“It is, therefore, most humbly and respectfully prayed that this appeal filed by the accused appellant may kindly be allowed and the judgment dated 28.4.94 passed by the learned Additional District & Sessions Judge No. 1, Sri Ganganagar, may be set aside and the accused appellant may kindly be acquitted of the charge of section 306 I.P.C.”

3. Brief facts of the case as noticed by this Court are that the accused-appellant, Ashok Kumar, lodged a verbal report on 08.09.1991 at about 12:40 p.m. before the Police Station Padampur under Section 174 Cr.P.C. as an inquest, wherein he stated that he had been married to Rukmani, D/o Mangal Ram, about 2 years ago and that, he had left the house at about 7 a.m. for work, and when he returned, he found a crowd of people outside his house, from which one Ram Krishan Arora and one Mr.Baazigar informed him that his wife caught fire.