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2023 Supreme(All) 2455

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
RAM MANOHAR NARAYAN MISHRA, J.
Baby Tabassum - Revisionist
Versus
State of U.P. and 4 Others - Opposite Parties
CRIMINAL REVISION NO. 1990 OF 2020.
Decided On : 16-08-2023

Advocates appeared:
For the Revisionist : Ashutosh Tripathi, Shiv Prakash.
For the Opposite Party : G.A., Ajay Kumar Pandey, Sheshadri Trivedi.

Headnote:(A) Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - Section 319 - Application for summoning additional accused persons - Application dismissed by trial court for lack of cogent evidence - Revisionist alleged gang-rape and coercion by multiple parties - Court found trial court's dismissal without proper reasoning or analysis. (Paras 10, 11, 13)

(B) Standards for exercising discretion under Section 319 Cr.P.C. - Discretionary and extraordinary power to be exercised sparingly, requiring strong and cogent evidence against proposed accused - mere probability not sufficient. (Paras 8, 9)

Facts of the case:
The revisionist, the victim of a gang-rape, sought to summon additional accused under Section 319 after the trial court dismissed her initial application without proper reasoning.

Issues: The main issues were whether the trial court erred in rejecting the application under Section 319 Cr.P.C. and determining sufficiency of evidence against the additional accused.

Findings of Court:
The trial court failed to provide a detailed rationale for its dismissal.

Ratio Decidendi: The court emphasized that strong and cogent evidence is essential for summoning additional accused under Section 319, not mere suggestion of complicity, and criticized the trial court for not analyzing the facts thoroughly.

Result: Revision allowed; impugned order set aside and remanded for fresh consideration.

JUDGMENT

Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, J.

Instant criminal revision has been preferred by the revisionist against order dated 27.10.2020, passed by Additional District and Sessions Judge/F.T.C., Court No. 1, Moradabad in Sessions Trial No. 587 of 2019 (State v. Furkan Sir and others), under Sections 376-D, 313, 328, 120-B I.P.C., P.S.-Bhojpur, District- Moradabad arising out of case crime no. 160 of 2019, whereby the application 319 Cr.P.C. of the revisionist as paper no. 11 B has been rejected.

2. Heard Sri Shiv Prakash Tiwari, learned counsel for the revisionist, learned A.G.A. for the State as well as Sri Sheshadri Trivedi, learned counsel appearing for opposite party Nos. 2 to 5.

3. The factual matrix of the case relevant from present criminal revision are that the revisionist, who is informant in S.T. No. 587 of 2019 State v. Fukran and others under Section 373 , 313, 328, 120B I.P.C., P.S.- Bhojpur, District- Moradabad arising out of Case Crime No. 160 of 2019. She moved an application at the stage of trial of the case under Section 319 Cr.P.C. for summoning the accused persons named in F.I.R. Fukran s/o Ayyub, Shahnawaz @Shanu, Mohd. Gaus@ Guddu, Seema Bhatnagar, whose name was dropped in charge-sheet and I.O. filed charge-sheet only against two accused Fukran Sir and Shivanand Bhatanagar to face trial for prosecution for these charges. The informant/revisionist lodged F.I.R. at P.S. Bhojpur, District- Moradabad on 11.06.2019 on written report, which is addressed to S.P.(Rural Area), wherein she stated that applicant is resident of district Moradabad, her mother passed away and her father is suffering from paralysis. Accused Fukran Sir s/o Mukhtar Ahmad expressed sympathy to her and gave her an assurance that he will get her admitted in B.A. I and two years back he called her at the place of accused Shivanand Bhatnagar where she was made to consume an adulterated cold drink, she became intoxicated and 5 named accused persons and two unknown persons, who were present there committed gang-rape on her and they also prepared a video thereof. The accused-persons used to commit rape on her by keeping her in fear that if she would not concede to their demand, they will make the video viral. She got pregnant twice due to rape committed on her by these accused persons. They also got her abortion. On 25.05.2019, Fukran Sir even asked her to handover her younger sister to them otherwise her video will be made viral. She refused his demand and consequently, on 02.06.2019, she got a courier in which video film and C.D. was kept. She got the video played and found that in said video C.D., accused Furkan Sir was committing rape on her. The informant is continuously being sexually exploited by accused persons and now they want to ruin the life of her younger sister also. The police investigated the case and recorded statement of the informant of the prosecutrix and other witnesses and filed a report of investigation under Section 153(2) Cr.P.C., wherein he concluded that the charge under Section 376D, 313, 328, 120B I.P.C. is made out against accused Fukran Sir son of Mukhtar Ahmad and Shivanand Bhatnagar but complicity of other named accused persons for said offences is not made out. During sessions trial statement of P.W.1 was recorded on 14.01.2020 and at the stage of cross-examination, she moved an application under Section 319 Cr.P.C. for summoning the named accused persons to face trial whose name was dropped during investigation.

4. The learned trial court after hearing the counsel for complainant and the learned ADGC(Criminal) considered the expediency of summoning the other accused-persons to face trial along with present accused persons under Section 319 Cr.P.C. and after considering evidence on record dismissed the application 11 B moved by de-facto complainant under Section 319 Cr.P.C. Feeling aggrieved by the impugned order, the prosecutrix filed present revision petition before this Court under Section 397/401 Cr.P.C.

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