IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. Appeal No. 106 of 2014

Reserved on: 24.11.2025

Date of Decision: 17.12.2025.

State of H.P. f ...Appellant.

Versus

Sandeep Kumar ...Respondent.

Coram u

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ No.

For the Appellant : Mr Prashant Sen, Deputy Advocate

General.

For the Respondent : Mr Amit Sharma, Advocate.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

i The present appeal is directed against the judgment

dated 13.11.2013, passed by learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Jawali, District Kangra (H.P) (learned Trial Court) vide which the respondent (accused before the learned Trial Court) was acquitted of the commission of an offence punishable under Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code (“in short 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 the learned Trial Court against the accused for the commission of an offence punishable under Section 324 of the IPC. It was as