STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

v.

PREM SINGH

(Criminal Appeal No. 44 of 2002)

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

[DR. ARIJIT PASAYAT AND DR. MUKUNDAKAM

SHARMA, JJ.]

The Judgment of the Court was delivered by

DR. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the

appellant- State and learned counsel for the respondent (hereinafter

referred as to as the `accused').

2. On the allegation that the respondent had sexually ravished

PW- 1 and had outraged the modesty of not only P W- 1, but of

several other girl students of the school where the respondent was a

teacher, law was set in motion. The respondent was further charged

for commission of offences relating to threatening the prosecutrix

with dire consequences in case she disclosed the incident to

somebody else. The accused faced trial for offences punishable

under Sections 37 6 , 35 4 and 50 6 of the Indian Pen al Code, 18 6

0 (in short 'the I PC').

3. The learned Addl. Sessions Judge, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh

found the accused guilty of all the offences, sentenced him to

undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years', six months' and six

months' respectively. In appeal, the High Court set aside the

judgment of