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05-12-2025 24-02-2026 - 24-02-2026 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR Judgment reserved on : 05-12-2025 Judgment delivered on : 24-02-2026 CRA No. 1098 of 2008 Jagmohan Kurre S/o Resham Lal Kurre, aged about 20 years, R/o Chhote Gumda, Police Station Gharghoda, District Raigarh (CG)

... Appellant versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through District Magistrate, Raigarh, Distt.-

Raigarh CG ... Respondent For Appellant : Mrs. Indira Tripathi, Advocate.

For Respondent : Ms. Nand Kumari Kashyap, Panel Lawyer Hon'ble Smt. Justice Rajani Dubey, J

CAV Judgment

The appellant in this appeal calls in question the legality and validity of the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 23.12.2008 passed by Sessions Judge, Raigarh in ST No.17/2008 whereby the appellant stands convicted and sentenced as under:

Both the sentences were directed to run concurrently.

02. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 30.11.2007 the prosecutrix (PW-1) was all alone in her house as her husband had gone out to the field for getting paddy an