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REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.2401 OF 2014

(arising out of SLP (Crl.) No.5947 of 2013)

State of Madhya Pradesh

….Appellant(s)

Versus

Surendra Singh

…Respondent(s)

JUDGMENT

M.Y. EQBAL, J.

1.

Leave granted.

2.

State of Madhya Pradesh has preferred this appeal by

special leave against the judgment and order dated 22.8.2012

passed by learned Single Judge of High Court of Madhya

Pradesh, Bench at Gwalior, who allowed the appeal, preferred

by the respondent-accused, in part maintaining his conviction

but reducing the sentence awarded by the trial court to the

period already undergone subject to depositing further

compensation of Rs.2,000/- to the widow/mother of the

deceased.

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3.

The prosecution case, in brief, is that on 11.5.1998 a

ward boy of Sabalgarh Hospital lodged a written report at

Sabalgarh police station to the effect that one Vijay Singh of

village Mangroli died in accident caused by a jeep bearing

registration no.SP 7H 6045. Thereafter, case was investigated

and challan was filed against the respondent-accused, who

was driver of th