SHARAD KUMAR SHARMA
Lokesh – Appellant
Versus
State of Uttarakhand – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
The applicants herein are co-accused persons, who have been summoned for trial in Criminal Case No. 1138 of 2022, State Vs. Lokesh and Others, for the offence under sections 306 IPC, which was emanating, as a consequence of registration of the FIR being FIR No. 234 dated 30.07.2020, which has been registered by the complainant Praveen Kumar i.e. respondent no. 2 herein for the alleged involvement of the present applicants in commission of offence under section 306 of the Indian Penal Code.
2. As per the set of allegations which had been leveled in the FIR, there was a suicide note of the deceased which deciphers the act of abetment, as it has been averred in the complaint which was registered on 30.07.2020. The investigation was carried, the charge sheet has been submitted, being Charge Sheet no.1 dated 02.12.2021. The investigating officer, after examination of as many as 20 witnesses, had submitted the charge sheet before the Magistrate concerned, who has taken cognizance on the same for the purposes of trying the present applicants for the offence under section 306 IPC.
3. Learned counsel for the applicants submits, that if the simplicitor decipher of the set of allegati
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