NIRANJAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) - The appellants were prosecuted on charges under Sections 231, 232, 233, 234 and 235 read with Section 34 IPC. Appellants earned acquittal under Sections 231, 233 and 234 IPC. However, both of them were convicted for the offences under Section 232 and 235 IPC.

(2.) THE prosecution allegation upheld, at the trial, was that the appellants were apprehended by the police party while they were in the process of preparing counterfeit coins and they were further found in possession of counterfeit coins worth Rs. 45/-. The police party which acted on the basis of a secret information, took the entire apparatus into possession.

(3.) PW -1 is Hans Raj Aggarwal, Assistant Director, F.S.L., Madhuban, who had examined the allegedly counterfeit coins and given report Ex. PA. It is in his examination-in-chief itself that