GAHC010012302013

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THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT

(HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)

Case No. : Crl.A./338/2013

AMZAD ALI

S/O ASRAF ALI, A RESIDENT OF SADILAPUR, P.S. JALUKBARI, DIST.

KAMRUP, ASSAM.

VERSUS

THE STATE OF ASSAM,

Advocate for the Petitioner : MS.S K NARGIS, MR G KHANDELIA(AMICUS CURIAE),MS.B

W AKHTARA,MS.A NEOG

Advocate for the Respondent : , PP, ASSAM,

BEFORE

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE N. UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR

ORDER

03/11/2025

Heard Mr. G Khandelia, learned Amicus Curiae, appearing for the appellant and Ms. A

Begum, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Assam for the State respondent.

2. The present criminal appeal has been instituted assailing the judgment dated 12.09.2013 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge No. IV, Kamrup, Guwahati, in Sessions Case No. 541(K)/2012, convicting the appellant, herein, under Section 354 IPC and sentencing him to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for 2 (two) years and also to pay a fine of

Rs.5,000/-, in default, to undergo further Rigorous Imprisonment for 2 (two) months.

3. The prosecution case in brief is that one Babul Ali, on 17.07.2011, had lodged an FIR

before the Officer-in-Charge, Jalukbari Police Station, inter-alia, all