IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI
Anubha Rawat Choudhary, J.
Arjun Pandey, son of Late Sahdeo Pandey - Petitioner
Versus
The State of Jharkhand and ors. - Opposite Parties
Cr. Rev. No. 649 of 2013
Decided On : 12-01-2021
Indian Penal Code, 1860 - Sections 143, 379 and 411 - Criminal revision petition filed by informant whereby learned appellate court reversed judgment of conviction of opposite party under Sections 143 and 379 of Indian Penal Code and affirmed order of their acquittal under Section 411 of Indian Penal Code – Petitioner submitted that learned trial court had wrongly acquitted accused for offence under Section 411 of Indian Penal Code against which State had filed appeal, but appeal of State was wrongly dismissed by appellate court - Opposite party- State has submitted that although State had filed appeal against order of acquittal under Section 411 of Indian Penal code, but no revision has been filed by State against order confirming acquittal of accused under Section 411 of Indian Penal Code and admittedly informant did not file any appeal against order of acquittal of accused under Section 411 of Indian Penal Code by learned trial court – Held, So far as offence under Sections 143 and 379 of Indian Penal Code is concerned, Court finds that learned trial court had convicted accused although specific case of accused was that there are material contradictions in evidences of prosecution witnesses and they had also submitted that there was bonafide land dispute between parties - This Court also finds that one of witnesses from side of prosecution i.e. P.W. 4 had stated that disputed pond in question was looked after by informant and villagers - This Court finds that though a summon issued in connection with one title suit between parties was exhibited from side of defence, but learned trial court found that same did not disclose that litigation was in connection with pond or not - This court finds that view taken by leaned lower appellate court while acquitting opposite parties of offence under Sections 143 and 379 of Indian Penal Code is certainly one of possible views based on evidences on record and judgment passed by learned lower appellate court on this point does not suffer from any perversity or illegality - Revision petition dismissed.
ORDER :
Anubha Rawat Choudhary, J.
Heard Mr. Rajeeva Sharma, learned Senior counsel along with Mr. Sarfaraz Akhtar and Ms. Neetu Singh, learned counsels appearing on behalf of the petitioner who is the informant of the case.
2. Heard Mr. Ravi Prakash, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the opposite party-State.
3. Heard Mr. Rajesh Kumar, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the opposite party nos. 2 to 7.
4. The present criminal revision petition has been filed by the informant of the case against the judgment dated 06.06.2013 passed by learned Principal Sessions Judge, Dumka in two criminal appeals bearing Criminal Appeal No. 5 of 2011 and Criminal Appeal No. 37 of 2011 whereby the learned appellate court reversed the judgment of conviction of the opposite party nos. 2 to 7 herein under Sections 143 and 379 of Indian Penal Code and affirmed the order of their acquittal under Section 411 of Indian Penal Code.
5. The trial court judgment dated 12.01.2011 was passed by learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Dumka in G.R. Case No. 92 of 2007 corresponding to T.R. No. 102 of 2011. The opposite party nos. 2 to 7 were charged under Sections 143, 379 and 411 of Indian Penal Code and the learned trial court had acquitted them under Section 411 of Indian Penal Code and convicted them only under Sections 143 and 379 of Indian Penal Code. Against the order of acquittal of the opposite party nos. 2 to 7 under Section 411 of Indian Penal Code, the State had filed an independent criminal appeal which was numbered as Criminal Appeal No. 37 of 2011 and against the order of conviction under Sections 143 and 379 of Indian Penal Code, the opposite party nos. 2 to 7 had filed appeal which was numbered as Criminal Appeal No. 5 of 2011. Both the criminal appeals i.e. Criminal Appeal No. 5 of 2011 and Criminal Appeal No. 37 of 2011 were tagged together and were decided by the impugned judgment dated 06.06.2013. As per the impugned judgment dated 06.06.2013, Criminal Appeal No. 5 of 2011 was allowed and Criminal Appeal No. 37 of 2011 was dismissed which ultimately resulted in acquittal of opposite party nos. 2 to 7 under Sections 143, 379 and 411 of Indian Penal Code.
The petitioner in the present case is the informant of the case who is aggrieved by the ultimate acquittal of all the accused persons i.e. opposite party nos. 2 to 7.
Submission of the Petitioner
6. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the learned lower appellate court had rightly convicted the accused under Sections 143 and 379 of Indian Penal Code by holding that the defence could not prove that there was a bonafide land dispute between the parties in connection with the pond involved in the present case as the Exhibit A did not disclose the details of the property in relation with which the title suit was going on between the parties, but the learned appellate court had relied upon the suggestion given to the prosecution witness to hold that there was a bonafide land dispute between the parties and acquitted the accused under Sections 143 and 379 of Indian Penal Code. He also submits that the learned lower appellate court has wrongly recorded that there were inconsistencies in the evidence of the prosecution witnesses and has acquitted the accused. The learned counsel has submitted that it has been recorded by the learned lower appellate court that the P.W-1 had stated that only accused Jago Rai and Garga Rai were fishing from the pond using the net but upon perusal of his deposition it will transpire that he had taken the name of all the accused persons.
7. He has also submitted that the learned trial court had wrongly acquitted the accused for offence under Section 411 of Indian Penal Code against which the State had filed appeal, but the appeal of the State was wrongly dismissed by the appellate court. Learned counsel submits that impugned judgment passed by the learned lower appellate court is perverse and fit to be set-aside and the opposite parties be convicte
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