CHAMPA Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BEING aggrieved against the order framing charges under Section 379 -411 IPC, the petitioner Champa has filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to quash the said charges and further proceedings in criminal case No. 368/87 pending in the Court of learned Munsif and Judicial Magistrate, Aklera.

(2.) THE case was registered on the report of one Rati Ram which was lodged at P.S. Javar (Camp Mela Harnavda). The prosecution case, as per the report, is that a theft of his two Oxen was committed eight months ago. One Ox, lateron, was recovered from one Kajod Meena and for the second Ox, he was searching. It is further alleged that the informant had come to cattle fair at Harnavda in search of his second Ox and the same was found in the possesion of the co -accused Devi Ram.

(3.) THE learned Counsel for the petitioner argued that there is not iota of evidence to connect the petitioner with the crime. He further submits that there is no evidence that the co -accused Devi Ram informed the police that he had purchased the Ox, in question from the petitioner. He further submits that otherwise also the statement of a co -accused before a police is inadmissible, and a confessional statement of a co -accused implicating other persons is no evidence against other persons. He further submitted that under Section 30 of the Evidence Act, a confession made by a co accused affecting himself and some other person, is no evidence against the other person but it can also be taken into consideration in order to seek assurance, if there is other evidence to connect the accused with the crime. According to the learned Counsel for the petitioner, there is no evidence in the instant case that the co -accused Devi Ram made any such confession before the police and further the petitioner was also implicated in the said confession.