LAWS(SC)-2025-8-11

NARAYAN YADAV Vs. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH

Decided On August 05, 2025
NARAYAN YADAV Appellant
V/S
STATE OF CHHATTISGARH Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) This appeal arises from the judgment and order passed by the High Court of Chhattisgarh in Criminal Appeal No. 1538 of 2021 dtd. 16/1/2025 (hereinafter referred to as "Impugned Judgment") by which the appeal preferred by the appellant herein against the judgment and order of conviction passed by the Trial Court came to be partly allowed by altering the conviction of the appellant herein from Sec. 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, "the IPC") to Sec. 304 Part I of the IPC.

(3.) The appellant (original accused) himself lodged a First Information Report (FIR) dtd. 27/9/2019 with Korba Kotwali Police Station, District Korba, which came to be registered for the offence punishable under Sec. 302 of the IPC. The FIR reads thus: