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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT JODHPUR S.B. Criminal Appeal No. 72/1998 State Of Rajasthan ----Appellant Versus Jagdish S/o Umad Singh R/o Amliyawala Bera Mandoor District Jodhpur ----Respondent For Appellant(s) : Mr. Surendra Bishnoi, AGA For Respondent(s) : None present HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE FARJAND ALI

Judgment

15/04/2026

1. The present criminal appeal was initially instituted as an application seeking leave to appeal under Section 378(iii) Cr.P.C. against the judgment of acquittal. Since leave to appeal had already been granted at an earlier stage, the matter thereafter stood registered as a regular appeal and now survives for final adjudication under Section 378(1) Cr.P.C. The appellant-State has assailed the order and judgment dated 22.08.1997 passed by the learned Additional Civil Judge (Junior Division) & Judicial Magistrate No.3, Jodhpur in Criminal Case No.333/1993 (State Vs. Jagdish), whereby the accused- respondent Jagdish was acquitted of the offences under Sections 279 and 304-A IPC and Section 134/187 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988.

2. The prosecution case, in succinct compass, is that on 04.01.1993, complainant Moti Ram, then posted as a pol