IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. Revision No. 564 of 2025

Reserved on: 19.11.2025

Date of Decision: 12.11.2025

Rakesh Kumar …Petitioner

Versus

Ashok Kumar Bansal .... Respondent

Coram

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ No.

For the Petitioner : Mr. Gaurav Bhardwaj, Advocate.

For the Respondent/ State : Nemo.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

The present revision is directed against the judgment

dated 1.7.2025, passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Kinnaur at Rampur Bushahr, H.P. (learned Appellate Court) vide which the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 4.10.2024, passed by the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rampur Bushahr, District Shimla, HP (learned Trial

1. Whether reporters of the local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? Yes

Court) were upheld. (Parties shall 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 rise to the present revision are that the complainant filed a complaint before the learned Trial Court against the accused for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negoti