JUDGMENT :

1. Present appeal has been filed under Section 378 Cr.P.C. with an application for leave to appeal against the judgment and order dated 23.12.2020 passed by Special Judge, M.P./M.L.A., Additional Sessions Judge, Court No.19, Lucknow in Criminal Case No. 1818 of 2012: CNR No. U.P.L.K.O.10052862012 arising out of Case Crime No.131 of 2003 under Sections 353, 504, 506 IPC, Police Station Alambagh, Lucknow.

2. Learned Trial Court has acquitted respondent, Mukhtar Ansari of all charges.

3. This Court vide order dated 27.04.2021 had granted leave to appeal and admitted the appeal.

4. Prosecution case in brief is that the complainant, S.K. Awasthi was posted as Jailer in District Jail, Lucknow in the year 2003. On 23.04.2003 at around 10:30 A.M., when he was sitting in his office inside the jail, Gatekeeper, Prem Chandra Maurya told him that some persons had come to meet prisoner, Mukhtar Ansari, the respondent. Mukhtar Ansari, who was also an M.L.A., came to the office of the Jailer. The complainant ordered for his frisking, on which Mukhtar Ansari got highly annoyed. He said, "You Jailer think yourself very high. You create hurdles in coming persons to meet me." Mr. S.K. Awasthi