2025:CGHC:59460 Digitally NAFR signed by RUKHSAR RUKHSARBANO BANO Date:

2025.12.17

16:53:23 +0530 HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR CRA No. 1817 of 2023

1 - Satrughan Yadav S/o Late Lachhiram Yadav Aged About 65 Years R/o Shiv Mandir, Sitamani, Korba, Tahsil And District Korba (C.G.)

... Appellant versus

1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through - District Magistrate, Korba, District Korba (C.G.)

... Respondent (Cause title taken from Case Information System)

For Appellant : Mr. Pushpendra Singh Baghel, Advocate For State / Respondent : Mr. Sanjeev Pandey, Dy. A.G.

Hon'ble Shri Justice Naresh Kumar Chandravanshi Judgment on Board

08/12/2025

1. This criminal appeal has been preferred by appellant under Section

374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for brevity ‘CrPC’) challenging the judgment dated 27.06.2023 passed by the learned Special Judge (Electricity Act), Korba, District Korba, (CG) (henceforth referred to as the “Special Court”) in Special Criminal (Electricity Act) Case No.23/2021, whereby the appellant has been convicted for the offence punishable under Section 135 of the Electricity Act, 2003 (henceforth referred to as “the Act, 2003”) and sentenced to pay fine of Rs.1,31,817