IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1755 of 2012 ==========================================================

STATE OF GUJARAT Versus CHETANKUMAR NARESHBHAI TARPADA KOLI PATEL & ORS.

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Appearance:

MS SHRUTI PATHAK, APP for the Appellant(s) No. 1 ABATED for the Opponent(s)/Respondent(s) No. 1 MR RAXIT J DHOLAKIA(3709) for the Opponent(s)/Respondent(s) No. 2,3,4 NOTICE SERVED for the Opponent(s)/Respondent(s) No. 5 ==========================================================

CORAM:HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE SANJEEV J.THAKER Date : 09/03/2026

JUDGMENT

1. Feeling aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the judgment and order of acquittal dated 07.08.2012, passed by the learned Special Judge, Bharuch, Camp at Ankleshwar, in Special (Atrocity) Case No.31 of 2011, for the offences punishable under Sections 323, 504 and 114 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the appellant – State of Gujarat has preferred this appeal under Section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, “the Code”).

2. The prosecution case, as unfolded du