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JUDGMENT

REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1948 OF 2013

(@ SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (Crl.) No. 4531 of 2009)

GANESHA

..… APPELLANT

VERSUS

SHARANAPPA & ANR.

..... RESPONDENTS

J U D G M E N T

CHANDRAMAULI KR. PRASAD, J.

Petitioner, besides three other accused, was

put on trial for offence under Section 341, 323,

324 and 504 read with Section 34 of the Indian

Penal Code. Judicial Magistrate, First Class,

Yadgiri Taluk, Gulbarga District, Karnataka, by its

judgment and order dated 14^th of September, 2006

passed in CC No. 355 of 2006, acquitted them of all

the charges.

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JUDGMENT

Aggrieved by the aforesaid, the informant

preferred Criminal Revision Petition No. 147 of

2007 and the High Court, by the impugned judgment

and order dated 5^th of August, 2008 maintained the

order of acquittal of all accused persons,

excepting accused no. 3, Ganesha who has been held

guilty for the offence punishable under Section 324

of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to undergo

simple imprisonment for a period of six months and

also to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/-,