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PRADEEP KUMAR SRIVASTAVA
Falguni Mandal, Son of Late Lal Govind Mandal – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned APP for the State.
2. The instant criminal revision is directed against the judgment dated 30.01.2016 passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, 1st, Deoghar in Cr. Appeal No. 46 of 2012, whereby the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 18.04.2012 passed by learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Madhupur, Deoghar passed in G.R. No. 87 of 1999 arising out of Madhupur P.S. Case No. 41 of 1999, by which petitioner was held guilty and convicted for the offence punishable under Sections 325 and 342 of the I.P.C. and sentenced to undergo R.I. for three years along with fine of Rs. 1000/-, for the offence under Section 325 I.P.C. and sentenced to undergo S.I. for six months for the offence under Section 342 I.P.C., with default stipulation, has been maintained and confirmed by the appellate court extending benefit of doubt to other co-accused persons / appellants.
3. The factual matrix giving rise to this revision is that on 02.03.1999 at about 12: 00 noon, the informant Shyam Lal Mandal was returning to his house from the pond after bathing the buffalos and when he reached near mill of Falguni Mandal (pe
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