IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

219

CRA-S-1202-2025 (O&M)

Reserved on: 21.11.2025 Date of decision: 17.12.2025. Uploaded on: 17.12.2025.

ROHIT AND ANOTHER

... Appellant(s)

VERSUS

STATE OF HARYANA

...Respondent(s)

CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD S. BHARDWAJ

PRESENT Mr. Sunny Tyagi, Advocate,

for the appellants.

Mr. Vivek Chauhan, Addl. A.G. Haryana.

VINOD S. BHARDWAJ, J. (Oral)

The present appeal has been filed against the judgment dated

10.03.2025 and the order of sentence dated 12.03.2025 by which the appellants Rohit and Akshay have been convicted for offence under Section 379-A (2) read with Section 34 of the IPC and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 5 years each, along with a fine of Rs. 25,000/- each by the Sessions Judge, Panipat. The appellants were further directed to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year in default of payment

of the fine.

2 Briefly summarized, the facts of the present case are that on 06.09.2022, a written complaint was submitted by the complainant Satyawan (son of Rameshwar), alleging therein that he had been running a grocery shop in his house. His mother Santro Devi also used to sit with him in his shop. On