IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA

Cr. Appeal No. 427 of 2014

Reserved on: 9.12.2025

Date of Decision: 1.1.2026.

State of H.P. f ...Appellant

Versus

Ravi Prakash ...Respondent

Coram r

Hon’ble Mr Justice Rakesh Kainthla, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?¹ No.

For the Appellant : Mr Ajit Sharma, Deputy Advocate

General.

For the Respondent : M/s Shekhar Badola and Parav

Sharma, Advocates.

Rakesh Kainthla, Judge

i The present appeal is directed against the judgment

dated 12.6.2014, passed by learned Judicial Magistrate First Class-II, Dehra, District Kangra, HP (learned Trial Court), vide which the respondent (accused before the learned Trial Court) was acquitted of the commission of offences punishable under Sections 279, 337 and 338 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 187 of the Motor Vehicles Act (MV Act). (Parties shall

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

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 rHise to the present appeal are that the police presented a challan against the accused before the learned Trial Court for the commissi