JUDGEMENT
JAYA ROY, J. -
(1.)THE appellants (three appellants) have preferred this appeal before this Court for setting aside the judgment dated 31.7.2000 passed by Dr. S.P. Thakur Additional Sessions Judge -ll Court,
Dhanbad in S.T. No. 287 of 1996 convicting the appellant No. 1, namely, Arjun Kewat under
Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code and convicting the other two appellants, namely, Ram
Chandra Kewat and Ramesh Kewat under Sections 323 and 341 of the Indian Penal Code and
also for setting aside the order dated 31.7.2009 whereby the appellant No. 1 namely, Arjun Kewat
had been sentenced to undergo R.I. for two years and other two appellants, namely, Ram
Chandra Kewat and Ramesh Kewat had been sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for six
months in both the aforesaid offences.
(2.)THE prosecution case, in brief, is that on 16.10.1995 at about 9 P.M. the aforesaid appellants trespassed into the house of the informant in Godhar Basti, near Balu Banker, P.S. -Kenduadih,
Dist. - Dhanbad with a criminal intention and they assaulted the informant Ram Khelawan Pandit
with fists and slaps and also with a sharp cutting weapon with intent to kill him. They also abused
him and wrongfully restrained him in his room. The informant lodged the FIR in support of the
aforesaid occurrence and after investigation, I.O. has submitted the charge -sheet against all the
three appellants under Sections 323, 341, 506, 452, 504 and 307/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
The prosecution to prove its case, examined six witnesses amongst them P.W. 4 is the informant, P.
W. 3 is the wife of the informant, P.W. 1 Yadu Pandit, P.W. 2 Raghu Pandit, P.W. 5 is Dr. Manjeet
Singh Sandhu and P.W. 6 Nisar Ahmad is the I.O. of the case. Defence is the totally denial of the
offences. The aforesaid appellants have also denied their guilt in their statement given under
Section 313 of the Cr.P.C. After considering the evidence of the witnesses and the exhibits, the
trial court convicted the aforesaid three appellants as stated above by the impugned judgment.
The learned Senior Counsel appearing for the appellants Dr. M.K. Laik has submitted that the prosecution has not come before the trial court with a clean hand. The case of the appellants is
that they have also lodged the FIR in support of the occurrence which was taken place on the
same day i.e. on 16.10.1995 at about 9.30 P. M. against the informant of the present case
namely, Ram Khelawan Pandit and Raghu Pandit (P.W. 2). After investigation, the Police have
submitted charge -sheet against the informant of the present case namely, Ram Khelawan Pandit
and Raghu Pandit under Sections 341, 448, 323, 506/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The aforesaid
FIR (lodged by the Arjun Kewat) and the charge -sheet submitted in the said case are marked as
Exhibits -A and B in the present case.
(3.)DR . Laik has further submitted that even under Section 315 of the Cr.P.C. the appellants, namely, Arjun Kewat has very specifically stated that on 16.10.1995 at about 9.30 P.M. the
informant, Ram Khelawan Pandit of the present case and Raghu Pandit alongwith few other
persons came to his shop and assaulted him on his head by Lathi on which he had received
serious injury on his head. Furthermore, all those persons assaulted him on his chest and face
also. But the trial court has neither discussed nor considered all these aspects in the judgment.
Thus, it is very clear that the prosecution has not described the actual manner of the occurrence.
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