Ramneesh Kumar @ Lavallu vs State of H.P.

Judicial Analysis Court Copy Headnote Facts Arguments Court observation

2025 Supreme(HP) 1420

IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA
RAKESH KAINTHLA
Ramneesh Kumar @ Lavallu – Appellant
Versus
State of H.P. – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. N.S. Chandel, Senior Advocate with Mr Vinod Gupta, Advocate.
For the Respondent:Mr Prashant Sen, Deputy Advocate General.
For the Victim :Mr Pawan Gautam, Advocate.

JUDGMENT :

Rakesh Kainthla, J.

The present appeal is directed against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 14.01.2010 passed by learned Special Judge (Sessions Judge), Una, District Una, H.P. (learned Trial Court) vide which the appellant (accused before learned Trial Court) was convicted of the commission of offences punishable under Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes(Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (SC&ST Act) and Sections 353 and 506 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and was sentenced as under:-

All the sentences of imprisonment were ordered to run concurrently.
(Parties shall hereinafter be referred to in the same manner as they were arrayed before the learned Trial Court for convenience.)

2. Briefly stated, the facts giving rise to the present appeal are that the informant, Dr Parkash Chand (PW-1), was posted as a Medical Officer/In-charge in Civil Hospital Chintpurni. He was examining the patients on 03.06.2005 in his room. Accused Ramneesh Kumar @ Lavllu came to the informant’s duty room at about 11:30 p.m. and started abusing him. The accused caught hold of the informant’s neck and abused him in the name of his caste. He threatened to kill