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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK
V.NARASINGH
Dillip Kumar Mallik – Appellant
Versus
State of Odisha – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
V. Narasingh, J.
1. This Criminal Revision has been filed assailing the Judgment dated 19.12.2025 passed by the learned Addl. District & Sessions Judge, Patnagarh in Criminal Appeal No.05/2025, affirming the order of conviction dated 11.08.2025 of the Petitioner passed by the learned J.M.F.C., Patnagarh, Balangir in G.R. Case No.290 of 2004 under Section 417 IPC and sentencing the Petitioner to undergo R.I. for one year with a fine of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand only), while acquitting him of the charges under Sections 493 and 506 .
2. The prosecution case, in brief, is that on 24.09.2004 the informant, a poor and fatherless girl, lodged a written report before the Officer-in-Charge of Belpada P.S., Balangir, alleging that the accused, who was her neighbour, developed a love relationship with her on the promise of marriage and maintained physical relations with her, as a result of which she became pregnant and was about eight months pregnant at the time of lodging of the FIR. When the matter came to the knowledge of her mother and brother, they requested the accused and his father to accept her as their daughter-in-law, but the father of the accused refused. On the
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