ORDER

1. The petitioner is accused and facing trial in FIR No. 236/2018 registered with Mahila Thana, Police Station, Tonk corresponding to Criminal Case No. 311/2018.

2. By the impugned judgment dated 02/05/2022, the learned Trial Judge acquitted the petitioner of the charge under Section 498A IPC & Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

3. It is worth to mention that the parties have entered into a compromise and the court below had already accepted compounding under Section 406 IPC, however, did not accept compromise under Section 498A and Section 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act as these offences are not compoundable.

4. No prosecution witness supported the prosecution case and all were declared hostile.

5. In the circumstance, according to learned counsel for petitioner, the petitioner should have been acquitted with honour and should not have been acquitted on ’benefit of doubt’ as recorded by the learned Trial Judge.

6. I find force in the submission of learned counsel for the petitioner since there was no evidence and therefore, there was no question of only doubting the prosecution case. It was a case of clean acquittal in absence of evidence.

6. The judgment of acquittal on benefit o