CAV JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DR. ANSHUMAN)

Date : 16-12-2025

Heard Mr. Udit Nr. Singh, learned counsel assisted by Mr. Dhananjay Mishra and Mr. Nilesh Kumar Nirala, learned Advocate in Criminal Appeal (DB) No. 347 of 2017; Mr. Ajay Kumar Thakur, learned counsel assisted by Ms. Vaishnavi Singh, Mr. Ritwik Thakur, and Ms. Kiran Kumari, Advocates in Criminal Appeal (DB) No. 173 of 2017; Ms. Vaishnavi Singh, learned Amicus Curiae in Criminal Appeal (DB) No. 247 of 2017; Mr. Tribhuwan Narayan Singh, learned counsel in Criminal Appeal (DB) No. 312 of 2017; Mr. Dewendra Narayan Singh, learned counsel in Criminal Appeal (DB) No. 378 of 2017; Mr. Ajay Kumar Mishra, learned APP in Criminal Appeal (DB) Nos. 347 of 2017, 247 of 2017, and 312 of 2017; and Mr. Binod Bihari Sinha, learned APP in Criminal Appeal (DB) Nos. 173 of 2017 and 378 of 2017.

2. The aforementioned appeals have been filed under Section 374 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Cr. P.C.’), challenging the judgment of conviction dated 19.01.2017 and the order of sentence dated 25.01.2017 passed by the learned 1^st Additional Sessions Judge, Saran at Chapra in Sessions Trial No. 4