V PADMAVATHI Date: 2026.02.07

2026:CGHC:5929-DB NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR CRA No. 221 of 2025 Nutan Kumar Kumar Sahu S/o Thansingh Sahu Aged About 25 Years R/o Charbhatha, P.S. Thelkadih, District- Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai, Chhattisgarh --- Appellant(s)

versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through Station House Officer, Police Station Bortalav District Rajnandgaon, C.G. --- Respondent(s)

CRA No. 560 of 2025 Labhini Sahu W/o Govind Sahu Aged About 27 Years R/o Near Gauthan, Sanjay Nagar, Lakholi Ward No. 36, P.S. Kotwali, District Rajnandgaon Chhattisgarh ---Appellant(s)

Versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through P.S. Bortalav, District Rajnandgaon Chhattisgarh ---Respondent(s)

(Cause-title taken from Case Information System)

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For respective Appellants : Shri Rajesh Kumar Jain, and Shri Ishwar Jaiswal, Advocates For Respondent/State : Shri SS Baghel, GA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hon'ble Shri Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Hon'ble Shri Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal

Order on Board

Per Ravindra Kumar Agrawal, J.

03.02.2026 Heard Shri Rajesh Kumar Jain, and Shri Ishwar Jaiswal, learned counsel for the respective appellants. Also heard Shri SS Baghel, learned Government Advocate appearing for the respondent/State.

1. CRA-221 of 2025 has been filed by the appellant- Nutan Kumar Sahu, and CRA-560 of 2025 has been filed by the appellant- Labhini Sahu.

2. Both these appeals are arising out of the same Session Trial, and a common judgment, therefore, they are being heard, and decided together.

3. Appellants have filed these appeals against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 31.12.2024 passed by the learned Additional Session Judge, Dongargarh, District-Rajnandgaon in Session case No.7 of 2023, whereby the appellants have been convicted and sentenced as under with default stipulation:

Appellant- Nutan Kumar Sahu:

Appellant- Nutan Kumar Sahu:

Appellant- Nutan Kumar Sahu:

Appellant- Nutan Kumar Sahu:

Appellant- Nutan Kumar Sahu:

Appellant- Nutan Kumar Sahu:

Appellant- Nutan Kumar Sahu:

Appellant- Labhini Sahu:

Appellant- Labhini Sahu:

Appellant- Labhini Sahu:

Appellant- Labhini Sahu:

Appellant- Labhini Sahu:

Appellant- Labhini Sahu:

Appellant- Labhini Sahu:

4. Brief facts of the case are that on 16.12.2022 at about 8 am, complainant- Dudheram, PW4 made a telephonic call to the Police Station- Boretalav informing that a half burnt dead-body is lying in the jungle near Garhmata Dongri Pahad, Village-Kotnapani. Police recorded Dehati merg intimation Ex.P6, and proceeded towards the spot. On the spot, Police found a naked half burnt dead-body of a male person, inquest Ex.P8 was prepared in presence of the witnesses, and the dead-body was sent for its postmortem to the Community Health Centre, Dongargarh, where PW5-Dr S Choudhary conducted the postmortem on it, and gave his report, Ex.P12. After the postmortem, he opined that cause of death is due to asphyxia due to throttling. However, visra was preserved and handed over to the Police for its FSL examination. Nature of death is homicidal, and time elapsed since death is 48-72n hours. Short postmortem report Ex.P30 was also prepared by the doctor. Dead-body of the deceased was identified by his family members PW10- Kamlesh Singh, and PW2-Gopal Singh, and dead- body identification Panchnama Ex.P3 was prepared. They identified the dead-body from its face, and identified it to be Chandra Bhushan Singh Rajput. Spot Map Ex.P10 was prepared by the Police, another Spot Map Ex.P10 was prepared by the Police, and Spot Map Ex.P1, and Ex.P5 were prepared by the Patwari. Blood stained and plain soil from the spot have been seized vide seizure memo ExP11. Maestro two wheeler vehicle of the deceased bearing registration No.CG08AB-5399 has been seized in front of the house of accused- Labhini Sahu vide seizure memo Ex.P2