IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. Appeal No. 287 of 2014

Reserved on: 4.12.2025

Date of Decision: 20.12.2025.

State of H.P. f ...Appellant

Versus

Gulshana Devi and others ...Respondents

Coram r

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ No.

For the Appellant : Mr Lokender Kutlehria, Additional

Advocate General.

For the Respondents : Mr Gurmeet Bhardwaj, Advocate.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

The present appeal is directed against the judgment

Hdated 22.2.2014, passed by learned Additional Chief Judicial

Magistrate, Palampur, District Kangra, HP (learned Trial Court), vide which the respondents (accused before the learned Trial Court) were acquitted of the commission of offences punishable under Sections 323, 325 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). (Parties shall hereinafter be referred to in the same

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

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 police presented a challan before the learned Trial Court for the commission of offences punishable under Sections 3