IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. Revision No. 734 of 2024

Reserved on: 21.11.2025

Date of Decision: 15.12.2025.

Suresh Kumar f ...Petitioner

Versus

Asha Ram ...Respondent

Coram

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ No

For the Petitioner : Mr Ravinder Singh,

Advocate.

For the Respondent : Mr Prakash Sharma,

Advocate.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

The present revision is directed against the judgment

dated 13.09.2024, passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge Paonta Sahib, District Sirmour, H.P. (learned Appellate Court), vide which the judgment of conviction dated 06.06.2023 and order of sentence dated 15.06.2023 passed by learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Shillai, District Sirmour, H.P. (learned Trial Court) were upheld. (Parties shall hereinafter be referred to in

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

the same manner as they were arrayed before the learned Trial Court for convenience.)

2. Briefly stated, the facts giving rHise to the present revision are that the complainant filed a complaint before the learned Trial Court for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Ins