IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. Appeal No. 252 of 2014

Reserved on: 08.10.2025

Date of Decision: 04.12.2025

State of H.P. ...Appellant

Versus o

Anant Ram Negi ...Respondent

Coram

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ No

For the Appellant/State : Mr Lokender Kutlehria,

Additional Advocate General.

For the Respondent : Mr Y.P. Sood, Advocate.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

The present appeal is directed against the judgment

dated 08.07.2013, passed by learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Theog, District Shimla (learned Trial Court), vide which the respondent (accused before the learned Trial Court) was acquitted of the commission of offences punishable under Sections 451, 354 and 323 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). (Parties shall hereinafter be referred to in the same manner as they were

arrayed before the learned Trial Court for convenience.)

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

2. Briefly stated, the facts giving rise to the present appeal are that the police presented a challan before Pthe learned Trial Court for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 451, 354 and 323 of the IPC. It was asserte