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Chhattisgarh High Court: <\/strong>A Division Bench of Arvind Singh Chandel and Sanjay K. Agrawal, JJ. dismissed the acquittal appeal being devoid of merits.<\/p>\n

The facts of the case are such that marriage between the deceased and the son of the Respondent\/accused was solemnised in the month of April, 2018. In November the same year, Mahima Kaushik committed suicide by hanging herself. FIR was registered and charges were framed and the Trial Court acquitted the accused. Assailing this acquittal order, instant appeal was filed.<\/p>\n

Counsel for the Appellant\/State submits that the Sessions Judge has committed manifest illegality in acquitting the Respondent\/accused of the charge under Section 304B IPC as all the ingredients constituting the offence have been duly established by the prosecution and, therefore, the judgment of acquittal deserves to be set aside.<\/p>\n

The Court relied on judgment Anjanappa v. State of Karnataka,<\/em> (2014) 2 SCC 776<\/a>, it has been held by the Supreme Court as follows:<\/p>\n

\u201c9. It is well settled that an order of acquittal is not to be set aside lightly<\/strong>. If the view taken by the trial Court is a reasonably possible view, it is not to be disturbed. If two views are possible and if the view taken by the trial Court is a reasonably possible view, then the appellate Court should not disturb it just because it feels that another view of the matter is possible. <\/strong>However, an order of acquittal will have to be disturbed if it is perverse. We have examined the trial Court\u2019s order of acquittal in light of above principles. We are of the considered opinion that the High Court was justified in setting it aside as it is perverse.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The Court after perusing evidence and facts observed that the finding of the Trial Court that the prosecution has failed to prove that soon before the death of the deceased she was subjected to cruelty on account of demand of dowry is totally based on the evidence available on record. Furthermore, from perusal of the evidence, it also appears that the fact regarding demand of dowry itself is suspicious.<\/p>\n

The Court thus held \u201cthere is no manifest legal error in the judgment of acquittal recorded by the Learned Additional Sessions Judge and we do not consider it a fit case where this Court should re-appreciate the entire evidence on record or it is not a case where the view taken by the Additional Sessions Judge is so arbitrary or bears manifest error requiring interference.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

[State of Chhattisgarh v. Chameli Kaushik, 2022 SCC OnLine Chh 691<\/b><\/a>, decided on 11-04-2022]<\/p>\n

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Appearances<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Appellant\/State: Shri Kapil Maini<\/p>\n

\n

Arunima Bose, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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