CAV JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SOURENDRA PANDEY)

Date : 08-12-2025

Heard Mr. Ashok Kumar Choudhary, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Baidya Nath Thakur and Mr. Anil Kumar Tiwary, learned Advocates for the appellant and Mr. Dilip Kumar Sinha, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The present appeal arises out of the judgment of conviction dated 01.02.2023 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘impugned judgment’) and the order of sentence dated 14.02.2023 (in short referred to as the ‘impugned order’) passed by the learned District & Sessions Judge, West Champaran in connection with Sessions Trial No. 09 of 2020, arising out of Majhauliya P.S. Case No. 231 of 2018.

3. By the impugned judgment the appellant namely Ajay Ram has been convicted for the offences under Sections 354 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code (in short referred to as the ‘IPC’) and has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year for the offence under Section 354 of the IPC, to pay a fine of Rs. 1000/- and in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for one month and also has been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for life for the offence unde