LAWS(GJH)-2015-4-211

STATE OF GUJARAT Vs. VAKHATSINH MODAJI PARMAR

Decided On April 27, 2015
STATE OF GUJARAT Appellant
V/S
Vakhatsinh Modaji Parmar Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY way of this appeal, the appellant -State has challenged the judgment and order of the learned Special Judge and 5th (Adhoc) Additional Sessions Judge, Jamnagar, (for short, the trial Court), dated 16.9.2014, rendered in Special (GEB) Case No. 90 of 2013, whereby the learned trial Court acquitted the original accused the Respondent herein of the charge under Section 135 of the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 (the Act, for short).

(2.) THE brief facts of the case of the prosecution, as set out before the trial Court, are such that on 3.12.2011, the Jr. Engineer along with his staff of Khambhaliya Rural Sub Division were going to check the electric connection at Beraja village, where it was found that the accused had taken direct electric connection from L.T. Line pole illegally and unauthorizedly.

(3.) AT the time of trial, the prosecution, in support of its case, examined six witnesses.