IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

277 CRM-A-722-2024 (O&M)

Date of decision: 03.11.2025 Pushpa ...Applicant Versus Tarsem Lal ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MANISHA BATRA Present:- Mr. Akhil Dadwal, Advocate for the applicant.

MANISHA BATRA, J. (Oral)

1. The instant application has been filed by the applicant under Section 378(4) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) seeking grant of leave to file appeal against the judgment of acquittal dated 19.01.2024, passed by the Court of learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Dasuya in Criminal complaint titled as Pushpa vs. Tarsem Lal and others filed under Sections 494, 498-A, 506 and 120-B of IPC, whereby the respondent/accused, who was summoned to face trial, had been acquitted of the aforementioned offences.

2. Today, learned counsel for the applicant, while relying upon a recent pronouncement of Hon’ble Supreme Court in M/s. Celestium Financial vs. A. Gnanasekaran Etc., 2025(3) RCR (Criminal) 208, has submitted that by directing the present application as an appeal, filed under Sections 372 of Cr.P.C. (which is pari materia with Section 413 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhi