TARA Vs. THE STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is in appeal by Tara Singh son of Surta, aged IS years against his conviction under section 324, Indian Penal Code, and release under sections 4 and 6 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, on probation of good conduct for a period of two years on his furnishing a bond in the amount of Rs. 5000/ - with one surety for the like amount, and order to pay compensation of Rs. 300/ - out of which Rs. 200/ - were to be paid to Sube Ram, the complainant, and the rest to the State, under section 5 of the said Act. The order was passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Rohtak, on 23rd November, 1972.

(2.) THE broad facts of the Prosecution case are that during the night intervening 26th and 27th December, 1971 at about 11 P.M. the complainant, Sube Ram, was lying in his kiryana shop in village Uldepur Thdroo. At that time the appellant knocked at the door of the complainant and asked him to open the door because the appellant wanted to purchase a cigarette and a match box. The complainant lit the oil lamp and opened the door of his shop. The complainant then supplied him a cigarette arid a match box. On his demanding price for the same, the appellant took out a knife from his pocket and hit the complainant at his throat. It is further alleged that the complainant had kept his Kamri (undershirt) under the bed spread on his cot in which Rs. 56/ - and a chit containing the account of his shop for the day were kept. It is said chat the appellant took that kamri also alongwith the money etc. and disappeared from the shop. The complainant raised alarm on which Tara Chand and Maman, P.Ws. came. Both are the complainant. Both these P.Ws., it is alleged, saw the, appellant running away from the shop. After a little while, Gopal, Lambardar, also reached there to whom the complainant narrated the whole story. On the following morning at about 10 A.M., first information report, Exhibit PC, was lodged at the Police Station, Saddar Sonepat. On its basis a case was registered against the appellant. The complainant was medically examined in the Civil Hospital, Sonepat, by Dr. R.N. Narula, on the 27th December, 1971, at about 12 noon who found the following injuries on his person : - -

(3.) THE appellant denied all the allegations against him and said that he had been falsely implicated by the complainant in con -piracy with his nephews and Karan Singh, Lal Singh and Gopal Singh. In defence, he produced a certified copy of the order, Exhibit DC, passed on 27th April, 1972 by the Sub -Divisional Magistrate, Sonepat, in a case under sections 107/151 of the Criminal Procedure Code brought by Karan Singh against him and his father Surta alias Surta Singh. This order, Exhibit D C, is not of much help to the appellant as it has not been executed by the complainant Sube Ram.