{"id":37239,"date":"2008-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vs-the-on-15-july-2008"},"modified":"2015-12-26T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T11:29:43","slug":"vs-the-on-15-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/vs-the-on-15-july-2008","title":{"rendered":"====================================== vs The on 15 July, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Gujarat High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">====================================== vs The on 15 July, 2008<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: Bhagwati Prasad,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable S.R.Brahmbhatt,&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\n\n \n\n\n\t \n\nCR.A\/108219\/1985\t 6\/ 6\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. 1082 of 1985\n \n\n \n \nFor\nApproval and Signature:  \n \nHONOURABLE\nMR.JUSTICE BHAGWATI PRASAD  \nHONOURABLE\nMR.JUSTICE S.R.BRAHMBHATT\n \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\n\t\t\tbe referred 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\nSTATE\nOF GUJARAT \n\n \n\nVersus\n \n\nAHMADBHAI\nABUBHAI &amp; ANOTHER\n \n\n====================================== \nAppearance\n: \nMr Maulik Nanavati, Additional\nPublic Prosecutor for the appellant \nMR PR ABICHANDANI for the\nOpponents  \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 BHAGWATI PRASAD\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n \n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nand\n\t\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\n \n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t \n\t\t\t \n\nHONOURABLE\n\t\t\tMR.JUSTICE S.R.BRAHMBHATT\n\t\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\n \n\nDate\n: 15\/07\/2008 \n\n \n\nORAL\nJUDGMENT<\/pre>\n<p>(Per<br \/>\n: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE BHAGWATI PRASAD)<\/p>\n<p>\tThe<br \/>\npresent appeal has been preferred by the State of Gujarat challenging<br \/>\nthe judgment and order dated 19.08.1985 passed by the Additional<br \/>\nSessions Judge, Surat in Sessions Case No.14 of 1985 acquitting the<br \/>\npresent respondents   original accused of offences punishable under<br \/>\nSection 302, 364, 201 read with Section 34 and 114 of the Indian<br \/>\nPenal Code.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThe<br \/>\ncase of the prosecution is that deceased Nisar and the present<br \/>\nrespondents were engaged in business of sale of ice.    Earlier, they<br \/>\nwere partners in the business, but then separated.    Later on, for<br \/>\nbusiness reasons they again formed a syndicate and their business<br \/>\nrelations have ever since been cordial.     Sometime in the month of<br \/>\nSeptember 1983, Nisar had gone for Haj and returned in November 1983.<br \/>\n   On 14th November 1983, i.e. the date of the incident,<br \/>\nNisar came home in the afternoon for lunch and while leaving he<br \/>\ninformed his wife, Fareeda, that he was going along with accused<br \/>\npersons to Navapur for collecting money from buyers for the period<br \/>\nwhile he was out of country.      Nisar did not return home till late<br \/>\nat night and so his wife went to the house of the accused  next<br \/>\nmorning to enquire about Nisar.   At that time, she was informed that<br \/>\nthe collection programme had been cancelled and that the accused had<br \/>\nnot gone to Navapur.    Instead, Ahmed had gone to Vapi for some<br \/>\nwork.    As Nisar was not found, the complaint of his being missing<br \/>\nwas lodged with the police on 16th November 1983.    The<br \/>\npolice suspected the present respondents to have killed Nisar and<br \/>\ntherefore arrested them.    After the investigation was completed,<br \/>\nthe present respondents were charged for causing death of Nisar and<br \/>\nwere put on trial.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThe<br \/>\ntrial Court after appreciating the evidence, acquitted the accused on<br \/>\nthe ground that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove the<br \/>\ncircumstances relied upon by it to establish the guilt of the accused<br \/>\nbeyond reasonable doubt.    This being a case of circumstantial<br \/>\nevidence, the trial Judge found that the prosecution has not<br \/>\nestablished a complete chain of circumstances, which, when<br \/>\ncumulatively viewed, unerringly point towards the guilt of the<br \/>\naccused.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tWe<br \/>\nhave heard Mr Maulik Nanavati, learned Additional Public Prosecutor<br \/>\nfor the State and Mr P.R.Abichandani for the respondent-accused.<br \/>\nMr Adil Mehta, learned advocate appeared on behalf of the complainant<br \/>\nand he was also permitted to assist the learned Additional Public<br \/>\nProsecutor.    With the assistance of counsel for both the sides, we<br \/>\nhave perused the judgment impugned before us and have gone through<br \/>\nthe entire record of the case.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tUndisputedly,<br \/>\nthis is a case of circumstantial evidence and Mr Nanavati, learned<br \/>\nProsecutor has submitted that the prosecution has successfully proved<br \/>\nthe circumstances which point towards the guilt of the accused and<br \/>\nadmit of no other inference.     Mr Nanavati has submitted that the<br \/>\nfirst circumstance against the accused is that they were last seen<br \/>\ntogether with the deceased &#8211; Nisar.    He has argued that three<br \/>\nwitnesses have categorically stated that they saw the accused in the<br \/>\ncompany of the deceased in the evening of 14th November,<br \/>\ngoing in a blue coloured truck.   The circumstance of last seen<br \/>\ntogether does not by itself and necessarily lead to the inference<br \/>\nthat it was the accused who committed the crime.    There may be<br \/>\ncases where, on account of close proximity of place and time between<br \/>\nthe event of the accused having been last seen with the deceased and<br \/>\nthe factum of death, a rational mind may be persuaded to reach an<br \/>\nirresistible conclusion that either the accused should explain how<br \/>\nand in what circumstances the victim suffered the death or should own<br \/>\nthe liability for the homicide.    In the present case, there is no<br \/>\nsuch proximity of time and place.   The dead body had been recovered<br \/>\nabout 3 days after the date on which the deceased was last seen in<br \/>\nthe company of the accused.    The distance between the two places is<br \/>\nabout 20-30 kilometers.    The event of the two accused persons<br \/>\nhaving departed with the deceased and thus last seen together does<br \/>\nnot bear such close proximity with the death of the victim by<br \/>\nreference to time or place.   Merely because the accused were last<br \/>\nseen with the deceased a few days before his death, they cannot be<br \/>\nheld liable for the offence of having caused the death of the<br \/>\ndeceased.   Even otherwise, the evidence of  Jubeda Begum, PW 19 and<br \/>\nMuzaffar Khan, PW 28, who last see the deceased in the company of<br \/>\naccused is not free from doubt.   Though Jubeda Begum had identified<br \/>\nthe accused in the Test Identification Parade, it is of no<br \/>\nconsequence as the evidence shows that the pictures of accused were<br \/>\npublished in the newspapers prior to the date on which parade was<br \/>\nheld.  The statement of Muzaffar Khan and other witness of last seen<br \/>\nwas     recorded almost four months after the incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThe<br \/>\nother circumstance relied upon by the prosecution is the recovery of<br \/>\nthe dead body at the instance of the accused.   However, careful<br \/>\nexamination of the evidence shows that villagers of Kovali village<br \/>\nhad complained about a foul smell coming from top of the hill from<br \/>\nwhere the dead body was subsequently found.    This fact together<br \/>\nwith the evidence of panchas that the accused did not say anything to<br \/>\nthem and simply led them to the top of the hill  would not bring<br \/>\nSection 27 of the Evidence Act into play and therefore cannot be<br \/>\ntermed as recovery admissible in law.    Also, as observed by the<br \/>\ntrial Judge, possibility of police having prior knowledge of the<br \/>\nexistence of the dead body lying on top of the hill cannot be ruled<br \/>\nout.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tWe<br \/>\nmay also notice that the reason given by the prosecution for the<br \/>\ndeceased to accompany the accused persons was collection of money<br \/>\nfrom Navapar village.  It has come on record that recovery had<br \/>\nalready been made on 13th November and therefore when the<br \/>\nmoney had already been collected there was hardly any necessity for<br \/>\nthe deceased to have along with the accused for effecting recovery.<br \/>\n Therefore, the motive as suggested by the prosecution has not been<br \/>\nproved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tThe<br \/>\ncircumstance of recovery of truck used in the commission of crime and<br \/>\nthe scooter of the deceased is also suspect.    There is no evidence<br \/>\nto show as to who brought the tempo to the garage and as to who drove<br \/>\nfrom the garage to the police station.   Both the scooter and tempo<br \/>\nhave been seized by the police without drawing a panchnama.    Also,<br \/>\nboth the vehicles were brought to the police station prior to lodging<br \/>\nof the FIR or the arrest of the accused.   Further, it has come in<br \/>\nevidence that the truck was washed sometime in the month of February.<br \/>\n  Yet, stains were found on the seat of tempo when they were sent for<br \/>\nforensic examination in March.   It is also strange that bloodstains<br \/>\nwould be found on the seat of the tempo despite the fact that the<br \/>\ntempo  was kept in open at the police station and remained exposed to<br \/>\nnatural vagaries.    Therefore, this aspect of the prosecution case<br \/>\nis improbable and suspicious and therefore loses its significance.<br \/>\nLastly,  the recovery of bloodstained clothes worn by the accused at<br \/>\nthe time of incident is also not free from doubt.   The clothes are<br \/>\nsaid to be soaked in water in a bucket.   The   sequence of<br \/>\ncircumstances shows that there could be a contamination, but, in any<br \/>\ncase, such recovery in its isolation would not be sufficient to bring<br \/>\nhome the guilt of the accused.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tFor<br \/>\nthe foregoing reasons, we are of the considered opinion that the<br \/>\nfindings given by the trial Court are cogent, correct and sufficient.<br \/>\n There is no infirmity or perversity in the reasoning of the trial<br \/>\nCourt, which would call for interference at our hands.<br \/>\nConsequently, we are of the opinion that the acquittal deserves to be<br \/>\nupheld.\n<\/p>\n<p>\tAppeal<br \/>\nis dismissed.   Bail bonds stand cancelled.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Bhagwati<br \/>\nPrasad, J.)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(S.R.Brahmbhatt,<br \/>\nJ.)<\/p>\n<p>*mohd<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat High Court ====================================== vs The on 15 July, 2008 Author: Bhagwati Prasad,&amp;Nbsp;Honourable S.R.Brahmbhatt,&amp;Nbsp; Gujarat High Court Case Information System Print CR.A\/108219\/1985 6\/ 6 JUDGMENT IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1082 of 1985 For Approval and Signature: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE BHAGWATI PRASAD HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.R.BRAHMBHATT ====================================== 1 Whether Reporters of [&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-37239","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 v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>====================================== vs The on 15 July, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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