DEVDUTT KISHORILAL PANDIT Vs. STATE OF GUJARAT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Criminal Appeal No. 522 of 1967 has been filed by the appellant who was original accused No. 1 in a Sessions Case No. 31 of 1967 in the Sessions Court of Kaira at Nadiad. He has been convicted of an offence punishable under sec. 420 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to suffer four years rigorous imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs. 5 0 and in default of payment of fine to undergo one years further rigorous imprisonment. He is also convicted of an offence punishable under sec. 420 read with sec. 511 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to suffer one years rigorous imprisonment. Substantive sentences are ordered to run concurrently. This order of sentences and convictions has been passed against him by the learned Additional Sessions Judge Nadiad Mr. J. B. Desai. He was charged with other offences. He has been acquitted of those offences. The State has not filed any appeal against that order of acquittal against this appellant.

(2.) The prosecution case is briefly stated as under:-

(3.) The learned Advocate Mr. B. K. Amin appearing on behalf of accused No. 1 made the following broad submissions:-