Ranjit Kaur @ Rimpy vs Bhupinder Singh

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2023 Supreme(P&H) 2179

SURESHWAR THAKUR, KULDEEP TIWARI
Ranjit Kaur @ Rimpy – Appellant
Versus
Bhupinder Singh – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Mr. Ravi Sodhi, Advocate and Mr. Umesh Pandey, Advocate; For the Appellant
For the Respondent: Mr. P.P. Chahar, Sr. DAG, Haryana.
Ms. Shaveta Sanghi, Advocate and Mr. Aditya Sanghi, Advocate for the respondents No.1 and 2.

JUDGMENT

Mr. Sureshwar Thakur, J.

The learned Additional Sessions Judge, Sirsa, through a verdict drawn on 01.10.2019, upon CNR No.HRS101001081-2018, made a verdict of acquittal upon the accused. The verdict of acquittal (supra) has been assailed, before this Court, at the instance of the aggrieved therefrom complainant, appellant herein.

Factual background

2. The genesis of the prosecution case becomes embodied in the appeal FIR, to which Mark DX2 has been assigned. The narrations carried in Mark DX2 are, that the complainant Ranjit Kaur @ Rimpy was married to Gurpreet Singh son of Sukhdev Singh, in the year 2004 and from the said wedlock, a daughter namely Jashanpreet Kaur was born. However, her husband died on 16.6.2007 and after the death of her husband her parents-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law started maltreating her and after some days, they threw her out of the matrimonial home and thereafter, a Biradri Panchayat was convened and the complainant demanded her share from her husband's property but father-in-law and brother-in-law of the complainant denied to give the same to her. However, maintenance amount was ordered by the court to be paid by Sukhdev Singh to the co