IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA Cr. Appeal No. 646 of 2024 Reserved on: 17.6.2025 Date of Decision: 11.07.2025.

Het Ram Chauhan f...Appellant Versus Rajender Prasad Sonkar ...Respondent Coram Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ Yes.

For the Appellant : Mr. Kishore Pundeer, Advocate.

For the Respondent : Mr. Ajay Sipahiya, Advocate.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge The present appeal is directed against the judgment dated 29.3.2003, passed by learned Sessions Judge, Solan, District Solan, H.P. (learned Appellate Court), vide which the judgment of conviction dated 30.7.2022 and order of sentence dated 6.8.2022, passed by learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kasauli, District Solan, H.P. (learned Trial Court) were set-aside and the appeal filed by the respondent (accused before the learned Trial Court) was allowed. (Parties shall

1 Whether reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes.

hereinafter be referred to in the same manner as they were arrayed before the learned Trial Court for convenience.)

2. Briefly stated, the facts giving rHise to the present appeal are that the complainant filed a complaint before the learn