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PRADEEP KUMAR SRIVASTAVA
Jitendra Sao, Son of Rati Sao – Appellant
Versus
State of Jharkhand – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned APP for the State.
2. The present criminal revision is directed against the judgment dated 24.02.2016 passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge-XI, Dhanbad in Criminal Appeal No. 112 of 2015, whereby and whereunder the appeal preferred by the petitioner has been dismissed and other co-convicts have been acquitted. The petitioner was convicted by the learned trial court vide judgment dated 10.06.2015 passed by learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Dhanbad passed in C.P. Case No. 1369 of 2010 and was held guilty for the offence under Section 498A of the I.P.C. and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for two years.
3. The factual matrix of the case giving rise to this revision is that complainant Gyatri Devi was married with present petitioner Jitendra Sao on 16.08.2008. After marriage complainant came to her matrimonial home, where additional demand of dowry was raised in the shape of Rs. 50,000/- for purchasing motorcycle, due to non-fulfillment of which by the parents of the complainant, she was subjected to physical and mental cruelty by not supplying her proper food, cloths, medicines and torturing and torm
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