NASEEM AHMAD Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Ms. Somya Chaturvedi, learned counsel Amicus Curiae and Sri Tarkeshwar Yadav, learned A.G.A. for the State.

(2.) This is a jail appeal preferred by the accused. Briefly stated the facts of the case are that one Mohd. Haneef S/o Aivaz Khan lodged an FIR on 18.9.1999 at 6.15 a.m. alleging that he was sleeping in his house when at about 3' O clock in the morning, he heard knocking sound (Khat-Khat). He woke up and went to the terrace with a lighted torch in his hand and saw the accused Nasim Ahmad who belonged to the same mohalla. The informant asked him, who is there? and immediately thereafter, Nasim Ahmad fired upon him with a country made pistol. The informant raised alarm upon which Shakoor S/o Bashir Ahmad and Raees S/o Bashir residents of the same mohalla also reached there with lighted torches. They saw the accused Nasim running away alongwith two other persons in the torch light. The other two persons were not known to the informant and it is stated that he had seen them in the torch light and could recognize them, if they are produced before him. On the FIR the police registered a case under Sec. 307 Penal Code against the accused on the same day. On 18.9.1999 the torches of Mohd. Haneef, the informant and the witnesses Abdul Shakoor and Raees were checked and found to be in running condition. Mohd. Haneef, was examined by the Medical Officer, Primary Health Centre, Kanth, Moradabad at about 7.45 AM on 18.9.1999. The Medical Report is as under:-

(3.) The trial ensued and ultimately the trial court convicted the accused of the offence under Sec. 307 I.P.C. and sentenced him to undergo seven years R.I. with fine of Rs. 5,000.00 with default stipulation. Against the judgment of the trial court, the present jail appeal has been preferred. This court appointed Ms. Somya Chaturvedi as Amicus Curiae.