Court No. - 51
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. APPLICATION U/S 372 CR.P.C (LEAVE TO APPEAL) No. - 285 of 2018 Applicant :- Anju Devi Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. And Anr. Counsel for Applicant :- Vinod Kumar Tirpathi, Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Vipin Sinha,J. Hon'ble Ifaqat Ali Khan,J.
Heard Sri Vinod Tripathi, learned Advocate appearing for the State who is the first informant in the case.
As per office report no state appeal has been filed in this case. At the very outset it may be appreciated that with regard to the incident took place on 22.08.2015, the FIR has been registered on 23.08.2015 at about 09:30 in the morning. It is also be appreciated that first informant is not an eye witness to the incident who happens to be the real daughter of the deceased (from the first wife). The accused respondents in this case, Arvind Kumar Patel who happens to be the son of the deceased (from the third wife). The deceased is Ganga Prasad who is the father of the first informant as well as the Arvind Kumar Patel. The first informant went to wake of her father and he did not answer and when she looked further she found that he is dead. Thus it is apparent that nobody has seen the incident, it is a night incident. The first informant who has been examined as PW1 who has subsequently given different version of the incident. However the facts remains that PW2 Ashok Patel has been declared as hostile, PW3 Sambhu Nath Yadav has declared hostile, PW4 Shiv Kumar Patel has declared hostile as far as PW5 is concerned. PW-5 in his testimony says that lqcg gksus ij xkao ds lkFk mls Hkh tkudkjh gqbZ dh xaxk izlkn dh gR;k gks x;h gSA QnZ ij mldh nLr[kr njksxk th us djk fy;k FkkA U;k;ky; }kjk iz'u iwNs tkus ij fd ÞD;k vius njksxk th ls ugha iwNk fd mlls fdlh dkxt ij nLr[kr djk;s tk jgs gS] D;k fy[kk gS] rks xokg us dgk nLr[kr dj nks eqfYte NwV tk;sxkA lk{kh us vkxs c;ku esa dgk fd d{kk 12 rd i<+k gwW] U;k;ky; }kjk lk{kh ls ;g iwNs tkus ij fd D;k rqe fdlh ds dgus ij lkns dkxt ij fcuk i<s+ gLrk{kj djksxs] rks xokg us dgk og fcuk i<+s fdlh lkns dkxt ij gLrk{kj ugha djsxkA mlds vykok xkao ds tks Hkh yksx Fks] mu yksxksa us Hkh gLrk{kj fd;s FksAß With regard to the testimony of PW6 Santosh Kumar Patel, he also says with regard to the collection of blood stained soil that njksxk th us lkns dkxt ij eq>ls esjk gLrk{kj djk fy;k FkkA ckn esa D;k fy[kk i<h+ fd;k eq>s ugha ekyweA njksxk th us esjk c;ku ugha fy;k FkkA bl Lrj ij vfHk;kstu i{k ds vuqjks/k ij lk{kh dks i{knzksgh ?kksf"kr fd;k x;kA and thus at this stage he was declared hostile.
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"(1) the circumstances from which the conclusion of guilt is to be drawn should be fully established.
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(2) the facts so established should be consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused, that is to say, they should not be explainable on any other hypothesis except that the accused is guilty,
(3) the circumstances should be of a conclusive nature and tendency,
(4) they should exclude every possible hypothesis except the one to be proved, and
(5) there must be a chain of evidence so complete as not to leave any reasonable ground for the conclusion consistent with the innocence of the accused and must show that in all human probability the act must have been done by the accused.
154. These five golden principles, if we may say so, constitute the panchsheel of the proof of a case based on circumstantial evidence."
On a bare perusal of the judgment and order dated 20.03.2018, it cannot be said that the view taken by the trial court is not a possible view or a feasible view that could be taken by a reasonable person. Moreover as no illegality or perversity has been pointed out by learned A.G.A., this Court refuses to grant any indulgence in the impugned judgment.
In view of the aforesaid facts and circumstance of the case, application seeking leave to appeal is rejected. Consequently the appeal is dismissed.
Let a copy of this order be certified to the court concerned.
Order Date :- 26.7.2018 Swati