{"id":156028,"date":"2010-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-vs-the-on-13-january-2010-2"},"modified":"2016-06-02T01:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T19:51:11","slug":"state-vs-the-on-13-january-2010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-vs-the-on-13-january-2010-2","title":{"rendered":"State vs The on 13 January, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">State vs The on 13 January, 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Z.K.Saiyed,&amp;Nbsp;<\/div>\n<pre>   Gujarat High Court Case Information System \n\n  \n  \n    \n\n \n \n    \t      \n         \n\t    \n\t\t   Print\n\t\t\t\t          \n\n  \n\n\n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t \n\t\n\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nCR.A\/690\/1993\t 7\/ 9\tJUDGMENT \n \n \n\n\t\n\n \n\nIN\nTHE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD\n \n\n \n\n\n \n\nCRIMINAL\nAPPEAL No. 690 of 1993\n \n\n \n \nFor\nApproval and Signature:  \n \nHONOURABLE\nMR.JUSTICE Z.K.SAIYED\n \n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n1\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nWhether\n\t\t\tReporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n2\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nTo be\n\t\t\treferred to the Reporter or not ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n3\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nWhether\n\t\t\ttheir Lordships wish to see the fair copy of the judgment ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n4\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nWhether\n\t\t\tthis case involves a substantial question of law as to the\n\t\t\tinterpretation of the constitution of India, 1950 or any order\n\t\t\tmade thereunder ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n5\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nWhether\n\t\t\tit is to be circulated to the civil judge ?\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n=========================================================\n\n \n\nSTATE\nOF GUJARAT - Appellant(s)\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nBHAVSAR\nRAJNIKANT KESHAVLAL] - Opponent(s)\n \n\n=========================================================\n \nAppearance\n: \nMR\nMG NANAVATI, LD. ADDL. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR\nfor\nAppellant(s) : 1, \nMR PADMRAJ K JADEJA for Opponent(s) :\n1, \n=========================================================\n\n\n \n\t  \n\t \n\t  \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nCORAM\n\t\t\t: \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE Z.K.SAIYED\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\nDate\n: 13\/01\/2010\n \n\nORAL\nJUDGMENT<\/pre>\n<p>The<br \/>\n\tappellant-State of Gujarat, has preferred this Appeal under Section<br \/>\n\t378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 against the judgment and<br \/>\n\torder of acquittal dated 31st March 1993 passed by the<br \/>\n\tlearned 2nd Joint Judicial Magistrate, First Class,<br \/>\n\tGandhinagar, in Criminal Case No. 3195 of 1984, whereby the learned<br \/>\n\tMagistrate has acquitted the respondent-accused of the charges<br \/>\n\tlevelled against him.\n<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\n\tshort facts of the prosecution case is that the respondent-accused<br \/>\n\twas compounder in a Government Hospital at Unava.  At the relevant<br \/>\n\ttime, he had misappropriated Rs.2251.15 Paisa from the Provident<br \/>\n\tFund amount, which are deducted from the salary of the employees,<br \/>\n\tduring the period 01st April 1981 to 31st<br \/>\n\tMarch 1982. This misappropriation is reflected in the Audit Report.<br \/>\n\tRelying upon the Audit Report, the District Health Officer had given<br \/>\n\tpermission to the complainant, who was serving as Administrative<br \/>\n\tOfficer in Health Department, District Panchayat, Gandhinagar.\n<\/p>\n<p>Therefore,<br \/>\n\ta complainant with respect to the aforesaid offence was filed<br \/>\n\tagainst the respondent on<br \/>\n\t02nd<br \/>\n\tMay 1984. Necessary investigation was carried out and statements of<br \/>\n\tseveral witnesses were recorded. During the courser of<br \/>\n\tinvestigation, respondent was arrested and charge-sheet was filed<br \/>\n\tagainst him before the Court of learned 2nd<br \/>\n\tJoint Judicial Magistrate, First Class, Gandhinagar. The<br \/>\n\trespondent-accused was presented before the<br \/>\n\tCourt and the Court was pleased to release the respondent-accused on<br \/>\n\tbail.\n<\/p>\n<p>To<br \/>\n\tprove the case of the prosecution, prosecution has produced oral as<br \/>\n\twell as documentary evidence. After considering the oral as well as<br \/>\n\tdocumentary evidence, the learned Magistrate has acquitted the<br \/>\n\trespondent-accused from the charges levelled against him by the<br \/>\n\tjudgment and order dated 31st March 1993.\n<\/p>\n<p>Being<br \/>\n\taggrieved and dissatisfied with the said judgment and order dated<br \/>\n\t31st March 1993 passed by the learned 2nd<br \/>\n\tJoint Judicial Magistrate First Class, Gandhinagar in Criminal Case<br \/>\n\tNo. 3195 of 1984, the appellant-State of Gujarat, has preferred the<br \/>\n\tabove mentioned Criminal Appeal.\n<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\n\thave heard Mr. M.G. Nanavati, learned Additional Public Prosecutor,<br \/>\n\tappearing on behalf of the appellant-State and learned advocate,<br \/>\n\tappearing on behalf of respondent-accused. I have also gone through<br \/>\n\tthe papers and the Judgment and order passed by the Trial Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tM.G. Nanavati, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the<br \/>\n\tappellant, has taken me through the evidence of prosecution<br \/>\n\twitnesses and the documentary evidence and submitted that from the<br \/>\n\tabove evidence it is established that the prosecution has<br \/>\n\tsuccessfully proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. He has<br \/>\n\tcontended that the witnesses have supported the case of the<br \/>\n\tprosecution and the learned Magistrate has committed grave error in<br \/>\n\tdisbelieving and discarding the evidence of witnesses. He,<br \/>\n\ttherefore, contended that the judgment and order passed by the<br \/>\n\tlearned Magistrate is without appreciating the facts and evidence on<br \/>\n\trecord.\n<\/p>\n<p>Learned<br \/>\n\tadvocate for the respondent-accused has supported the judgment and<br \/>\n\torder of the Trial Court and contended that the prosecution has<br \/>\n\tfailed to establish prima-facie case against the accused.\n<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\n\thave gone through the judgment of the Trial Court. I have also<br \/>\n\tperused the reasons assigned by the learned Magistrate.\n<\/p>\n<p>At<br \/>\n\tthe outset it is required to be noted that the principles which<br \/>\n\twould govern and regulate the hearing of appeal by this Court<br \/>\n\tagainst an order of acquittal passed by the Trial Court have been<br \/>\n\tvery succinctly explained by the Apex Court in a catena of<br \/>\n\tdecisions. In the case of<br \/>\n\tM.S. Narayana Menon @ Mani Vs. State of Kerala &amp; Anr, reported<br \/>\n\tin (2006)6 SCC, 39,<br \/>\n\tthe<br \/>\n\tApex Court has narrated about the powers of the High Court in appeal<br \/>\n\tagainst the order of acquittal. In para 54 of the decision, the Apex<br \/>\n\tCourt has observed as under:\n<\/p>\n<p> 54.<br \/>\n\tIn any event, the High Court entertained an appeal treating to be an<br \/>\n\tappeal against acquittal, it was in fact exercising the revisional<br \/>\n\tjurisdiction. Even while exercising an appellate power against a<br \/>\n\tjudgment of acquittal, the High Court should have borne in mind the<br \/>\n\twell-settled principles of law that where two  view are possible,<br \/>\n\tthe appellate  court should not interfere with the finding of<br \/>\n\tacquittal recorded by the court below.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thus,<br \/>\n\tit is a settled principle that while exercising appellate power,<br \/>\n\teven if two reasonable conclusions are possible on the basis of the<br \/>\n\tevidence on record, the appellate court should not disturb the<br \/>\n\tfinding of acquittal recorded by the Trial Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>Even<br \/>\n\tin a recent decision of the Apex Court in the case of State<br \/>\n\tof Goa Vs. Sanjay Thakran &amp; Anr. Reported in (2007)3 SCC 75,<br \/>\n\tthe Court has reiterated the powers of the High Court in such cases.<br \/>\n\tIn para 16 of the said decision the Court has observed as under:\n<\/p>\n<p> 16.\tFrom<br \/>\nthe aforesaid decisions, it is apparent \tthat while exercising the<br \/>\npowers in appeal against the order of acquittal, the Court of \tappeal<br \/>\nwould not ordinarily interfere with the order of acquittal unless the<br \/>\napproach of the lower Court is vitiated by some manifest illegality<br \/>\nand the conclusion arrived at would not be arrived at by any<br \/>\nreasonable person and, therefore, the decision is to be characterized<br \/>\nas perverse. Merely because two views are possible, the Court of<br \/>\nappeal would not take the view which would upset the judgment<br \/>\ndelivered by the Court below. However, the appellate court has a<br \/>\npower to \treview the evidence if it is of the view that the<br \/>\nconclusion arrived at by the Court below is perverse and the<br \/>\nCourt has committed a manifest error of law and ignored the material<br \/>\non record. A duty is cast upon the appellate court, in such<br \/>\ncircumstances, to re-appreciate the evidence to arrive to a just<br \/>\ndecision on the basis of material placed on record to find out<br \/>\nwhether any of the accused is connected with the commission of the<br \/>\ncrime he is charged with.\n<\/p>\n<p>Similar<br \/>\n\tprinciple has been laid down by the Apex Court in the cases of State<br \/>\n\tof Uttar Pradesh Vs. Ram Veer Singh &amp; Ors, reported in 2007 AIR<br \/>\n\tSCW 5553 and<br \/>\n\tin Girja<br \/>\n\tPrasad (Dead) by LRs Vs. state of MP, reported in 2007 AIR SCW 5589.<br \/>\n\tThus, the powers which this Court may exercise against an order of<br \/>\n\tacquittal are well settled.\n<\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\n\tis also a settled legal position that in acquittal appeal, the<br \/>\n\tappellate court is not required to re-write the judgment or to give<br \/>\n\tfresh reasoning, when the reasons assigned by the Court below are<br \/>\n\tfound to be just and proper. Such principle is laid down by the Apex<br \/>\n\tCourt in the case of State<br \/>\n\tof Karnataka Vs. Hemareddy, reported in AIR 1981 SC 1417.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thus,<br \/>\n\tin case the appellate court agrees with the reasons and the opinion<br \/>\n\tgiven by the lower court, then the discussion of evidence is not<br \/>\n\tnecessary.\n<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\n\thave gone through<br \/>\n\tthe judgment and order passed by the Trial Court. I have also<br \/>\n\tperused the<br \/>\n\toral as well as documentary evidence led before the Trial Court and<br \/>\n\talso considered the submissions made by learned Advocate for the<br \/>\n\tappellant.\n<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\n\tTrial Court has, after appreciating the oral as well as documentary<br \/>\n\tevidence, found that it is true that Rs.2251.15 was misappropriated.<br \/>\n\tIt is also observed by the learned<br \/>\n\tJudge that respondent-accused<br \/>\n\twas entrusted with the work of accounts, but who was keeping the<br \/>\n\tmoney, is not proved beyond reasonable doubt. Looking to the<br \/>\n\tprovision of Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code, when the main<br \/>\n\tingredient of provision of section is not proved beyond reasonable<br \/>\n\tdoubt, it cannot be assumed that the respondent-accused<br \/>\n\thas misappropriated the money.  The Trial Court has observed that<br \/>\n\tthere are serious lacuna in the oral as well as documentary evidence<br \/>\n\tof prosecution. Nothing is produced on record of this appeal to<br \/>\n\trebut the concrete findings of the Trial Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thus,<br \/>\n\tthe appellant could not bring home the charges against the<br \/>\n\trespondent-accused in the present appeal. The prosecution has<br \/>\n\tmiserably failed to prove the case against the respondent-accused.<br \/>\n\tThus, from the evidence itself it is established that the<br \/>\n\tprosecution has not proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.\n<\/p>\n<p>Learned<br \/>\n\tAdditional Public Prosecutor is not in a position to show any<br \/>\n\tevidence to take a contrary view in the matter or that the approach<br \/>\n\tof the Trial Court is vitiated by some manifest illegality or that<br \/>\n\tthe decision is perverse or that the trial Court has ignored the<br \/>\n\tmaterial evidence on record.\n<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\n\tabove view of the matter, I am of the considered opinion that the<br \/>\n\tTrial Court was completely justified in acquitting the<br \/>\n\trespondent-accused of the charges levelled against him. I find that<br \/>\n\tthe findings recorded by the Trial Court are absolutely just and<br \/>\n\tproper and in recording the said findings, no illegality or<br \/>\n\tinfirmity has been committed by it.\n<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\n\tam, therefore, in complete agreement with the findings, ultimate<br \/>\n\tconclusion and the resultant order of acquittal recorded by the<br \/>\n\tcourt below and hence find no reasons to interfere with the same.<br \/>\n\tHence the appeal is hereby dismissed. Record<br \/>\n\tand Proceedings to be sent back to the Trial Court, forthwith.  Bail<br \/>\n\tbonds, if any, shall stands cancelled.\n<\/p>\n<p>(Z.\n<\/p>\n<p>K. Saiyed, J)<\/p>\n<p>Anup<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court State vs The on 13 January, 2010 Author: Z.K.Saiyed,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print CR.A\/690\/1993 7\/ 9 JUDGMENT IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 690 of 1993 For Approval and Signature: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE Z.K.SAIYED ========================================================= 1 Whether Reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State vs The on 13 January, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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