KULDEEP SINGH Vs. STATE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Appellant faced trial for offences punishable under sections 279, 337, 338 and 304-A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short 'the IPC) and section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (in short 'the MV Act'). The appellant was acquitted by the learned Judicial Magistrate, Hamirpur. State of Himachal Pradesh preferred an appeal before the Himachal Pradesh High Court which by the impugned judgment set aside the judgment of acquittal passed by the trial court and directed conviction of the respondent for offences punishable under sections 279, 337, 338 and 304-A, IPC and imposed various sentences, which were directed to run concurrently. The maximum sentence imposed was one year.

(3.) Background facts in a nutshell are as follows: